Information on moving from IP boards to Vanilla Forums

JeffHoogland

Howdy Folks,

Where is the best/most current information on transitioning from IP boards (older version, 3.1.x) to Vanilla forums? I have a moderate sized forum with about 80k posts and a few thousand user accounts I do not want to lose.

As an unrelated question - where is the best place to find themes for Vanilla/documentation on creating a custom theme?

Thanks for your time,
~Jeff

Bleistivt

Where is the best/most current information on transitioning from IP boards (older version, 3.1.x) to Vanilla forums? I have a moderate sized forum with about 80k posts and a few thousand user accounts I do not want to lose.

It should be as simple as downloading the and running the porter:
http://vanillaforums.org/addon/porter-core

documentation:
http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/importing/porter/

Looks like there is also an avatarpath setting for IP boards, so to process avatars you will have to append ?avatarpath=/path/to/avatars to the url.

As an unrelated question - where is the best place to find themes for Vanilla/documentation on creating a custom theme?

This forum / the tutorial section
http://vanillaforums.org/categories/tutorials

Bleistivt

Where is the best/most current information on transitioning from IP boards (older version, 3.1.x) to Vanilla forums? I have a moderate sized forum with about 80k posts and a few thousand user accounts I do not want to lose.

It should be as simple as downloading the and running the porter:
http://vanillaforums.org/addon/porter-core

documentation:
http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/importing/porter/

Looks like there is also an avatarpath setting for IP boards, so to process avatars you will have to append ?avatarpath=/path/to/avatars to the url.

As an unrelated question - where is the best place to find themes for Vanilla/documentation on creating a custom theme?

This forum / the tutorial section
http://vanillaforums.org/categories/tutorials

JeffHoogland

Thanks for the quick response. Will dig into this come morning.