Easy Forum Migration: phpBB tobbPress Automated Import

Pre­Migration Steps

If you made the final decision on your switching, let’s start from the very beginning:

1. Install bbPress forum – it’s essential to install your new forum on bbPress in order                           to convert all your threads, posts, comments, and even users.

2. Analyze your users visits – it’s better to perform migration, when the number of                         your site/forum users is the lowest.

3. Inform your website visitors about the migration – so that they were ready for                         the site maintenance or totally new look.

You have started your web project path from the forum management? Perhaps, it will be                           interesting for you to try something more extended, something that will include website,                       blog, forum, or even online store – various web projects with one management tool. One of                             most user friendly forum platforms is bbPress. It includes multiple options, ease of use, and                           great design performance.

Just don’t think you have to stop running your forum or start it from scratch. Nowadays, you                               may easily move all your forum items to bbPress without any hassles. Thus, we would like                             to present you the ultimate solution on how to migrate all your forum content from phpBB to                               bbPress forum.

Migration Path1. Register an AccountIn order to start your quick switching from phpBB to bbPress,you have to create your                           account. You’ll need to provide name, email, and password. Otherwise, you may login via                         your Facebook or Google+ account.

2. Provide Current Site URL and The New OneThen, in the provided fields in the migration wizard, specify the URL of your current website                             and the one you want to migrate to, and select CMS with the modules – in this case, just                                   choose phpBB and bbPress.

If you haven’t installed your new forum yet, just check the box and choose type of forum you                                 want to convert your data to, and press ‘continue’ button.

 3. Connection Between Your ForumsAfter that, you should create the connection bridge between your web sites:

● Download the bridge to your local computer by clicking the button. It will be saved as                             ‘cms2cms. zip’.

● Extract the bridge file to the folder and remember its location.● Now, connect to your sites via FTP client software, you may use any type of them.                             

You’ll need to provide your FTP name username, and password, all of these you                         may find out from your hosting provider.

● Copy ‘cms2cms’ folder to the root directory of your phpBB and bbPress sites (root                         directory is the top folder with index.php file). Now, you are connected to your sites.

4. Migration WizardGo back to your migration wizard and press ‘Verify the connection’ button. You will be able                             

to choose the additional migration options there:

1. Migrate Media – it helps to move your forum images.2. Make URLs SEO Friendly – means that your new URLs on WordPress will be                         

made SEO­friendly.3. Clear Target Site Data ­in case you have some test content on your new site and                             

want to delete it, just check this box.

5. Free Demo PreviewNow, you may start your free Demo migration. The limited number of items will be                           converted from phpBB to bbPress, and you’ll be able to check the result in a few minutes.

6. Full MigrationIf you are satisfied with the result of Demo migration, you may proceed to the final step of                                 your phpBB migration. Just press the button and you’ll start the full data conversion of your                             forum.

 Items that are Migrated from phpBB tobbPress

If you are ready to migrate your forum content from phpBB to bbPress and face the new                               positive changes of your online community, just set up your free Demo Migration – it’s                           never been easier.