Hello,

I have imported a Vanilla forum to a new bbpress install. The Vanilla forum was using the Reply To plugin to nest the replies: http://vanillaforums.org/addon/replyto-plugin

The nested replies did not transfer to the new bbpress forum. Is there any way I can get these nested positions to transfer?

This is only affecting the imported posts, I have nested replies turned on and new replies nest properly. I did run the “recalculate position of each reply” repair tool.

Thanks!

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 6 months ago]

I just saw your message in #bbpress IRC chat room

The bbPress Vanilla2 importer does not support threaded replies out of the box, there are far too many plugins available for all the forum packages to try and support all the possible permutations and combinations these would cause.

So that said, you would have to modify the importer to support the ‘ReplyTo’ Vanilla plugin, I just took a quick peek at the plugin and here you go, add the snippet of code here to the reply section or use the full file and replace your current bbPress Vanilla2.php file I added here and I think will do the trick.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/b9b3404400a79ebd5913#file-vanilla2_replyto-php

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 6 months ago]

I just also added this to the docs https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vanilla/

[@cstef Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

Stephen,

Thanks a bunch, I will try this out first thing tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 6 months ago]

Cool, it might work, it might not 😉 Either way we can tweak it if needed 🙂

[@cstef Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

Stephen,

The import did save the _bbp_reply_to in the postmeta, but it does not seem to be affecting the nesting of the replies.

Since the data is there, maybe there is some way I can override the listing of replies to make them show in the nested list?

Thanks!

[@cstef Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

It looks like the ID of the parent is the old vanilla ID and not the new bbpress post ID, is there a way for me to make sure it saves the new ID as the parent?

thanks!

[@cstef Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

I am looking into how the “callback_method” value in the field_map array works. I see that when a reply is created, a post meta value is saved to store the old and new post IDs together. I wonder if I can use a callback_method to get the new post id for the replyto based on the _bbp_post_id meta value?

Is there any documentation I can look for to learn how to use the callback_method?

Thanks!

[@cstef Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

I figured it out for anyone else who may need the answer. I added a new callback method to converter.php that checks for the old vanilla ID of the reply_to and returns the new post ID.

https://gist.github.com/stefanich/4f8f7b436b87287f44bf

Tested it, it works 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 6 months ago]

Glad your working, sorry I didn’t get to suggest using a call back earlier 😉

Did try using the included callback_reply_to first?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converter.php#L1342

[@cstef Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

Heh, no I didn’t see that.

Thanks again for all of your help, it is impressive how quickly this was resolved 🙂