Looking for help to migrate forums from Wordpress/bbpress to flarum

davehakkens

Hi everyone. We have a community forum running on Wordpress/bpress.
(We usually build machines to recycle plastic and share the drawings open-source online.)
However the platform cant really hold the amount of users (80K) and posts (37K) anymore.
https://davehakkens.nl/community/activity/
Slow, spammy and getting buggy.

I've been observing Flarum from the sideline for a while and it looks/works impressive. So we are seriously looking into switching to Flarum. But cant find very much about migration.
Anyone any tips/tools/expereince or is interested to help out(paid)?

Let me know!

luceos

I'm working on a migration of 100+ million posts, it works okay, but there is still opportunity for improvement, especially in relation to extensions. 80k users and 37k is not an issue at all though, I'd even be so blunt to say that's quite a small community 🙊

Migrating from bpress might be challenging, as wordpress has a very strange structure with data. Maybe @clarkwinkelmann is able to help you here, he has experience with Wordpress and with migrations.

PS davehakkens greets from Gelderland 👋

eddiewebb

There are some prior projects for migrations (https://docs.flarum.org/install.html#importing-data) and for bpress you might need to build from those, or install a transient instance of say mybb as an intermediate migration step.

I've seen users report sites with those numbers, but have a read at some of the Performance posts because flarum can get hungry, and more importantly you will need to make sure your database isn't an issue you'll just move to a new tool.

davehakkens

hey Thanks for the replies.
sorry for my slow reply! Forgot to turn notifications on.

@eddiewebb Nice overview! A bit scpetical this will work properly, but I will give it a try to migrate with another tool inbetween. Is there one you would reccomend out of these 4 platforms/importers? FluxBB, MyBB, phpBB, SMF2

@luceos Yeh I also don't think our numbers are super high, but I'm indeed a bit worried about the messy datatbase structure of Wordpress/Bbpress with all those plugins attached to it. Havent seen many tools or succesfull migrations from Bbpress to another platform. I've been in touch with @clarkwinkelmann but he wasn't up for any migration jobs right now.

Anyone interested in diving into this topic deeper?

Greetings from Eindhoven 👋

hrvoje_hr

@davehakkens you can use my migration script from wpForo to Flarum. You can easily migrate from bbpreas to wpForo, than use this script:

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/22127-migration-script-from-wordpress-wpforo-to-flarum

Backup everything before.