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How to migrate from bbPress without losing data

SO Sofia Romano 1 month ago Resolved

Reference guide. The bbPress importer preserves original dates, maps forums to spaces and forum categories to Jetonomy categories, and supports a dry run.

  1. Back up your database.
  2. Run wp jetonomy import bbpress --dry-run to preview.
  3. Run the import; it batches large datasets to avoid timeouts.
#api #billing #migration
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AI Aisha Khan

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

EL Elena Petrova

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

JA Jamal Reed

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

AI Aisha Khan

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

BO Bob Martinez

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

TH Theo Lindqvist

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

EL Elena Petrova

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

OM Omar Haddad

Following this thread closely. We are about to face the exact same decision and the replies here are gold.

GR Grace Adeyemi

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

GR Grace Adeyemi

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

FI Finn O'Brien

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

YU Yuki Tanaka

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

MA Maya Okafor

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

EL Elena Petrova

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

YU Yuki Tanaka

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

MA Maya Okafor

For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.

EL Elena Petrova

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

YU Yuki Tanaka

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

OM Omar Haddad

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

HA Hana Park

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

LE Lena Fischer

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

MA Maya Okafor

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

SO Sofia Romano OP

Following this thread closely. We are about to face the exact same decision and the replies here are gold.

TH Theo Lindqvist

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

SO Sofia Romano OP

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.

AL Alice Chen Accepted

This is expected behavior, not a bug. The guard you are hitting is intentional — it protects against a class of mistakes that used to cause data loss.

If you need the other behavior, there is a documented filter you can hook to override it per site.

BO Bob Martinez

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

EL Elena Petrova

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

NO Noah Bennett

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

NO Noah Bennett

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

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