Vanilla Porter and bbPress support
I've seen plenty of discussions pointing to the Vanilla Porter as the de facto tool for getting data out of one forum into Vanilla. In my case, the source is bbPress. But it's bbPress 2. Porter seems to only support 1.x, is that correct? Or is it able to handle bbPress 2 as well? Has anyone moved a bbPress 2 forum into Vanilla successfully with existing tools, or did you have to custom-script the conversion? I don't care too much about the users or anything, mostly just the content. The other option I'm thinking is to see if I can downsample bbPress 2 to 1, then do the Porter tool, but I get gunshy about Rube Goldberg processes like that.
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Bleistivt
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Yes, there is currently no official support, but someone already built a bbPress2 class for the porter, which seems to mostly work:
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Yes, there is currently no official support, but someone already built a bbPress2 class for the porter, which seems to mostly work:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/224682/#Comment_224682
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Fantastic, thanks. I'll throw this in and see how it does. If anything, that might at least give a starting point I can tweak rather than building it from scratch.
why don't they sumbit a pull request?
grep is your friend.
Just following up, I tested that code @Bleistivt linked, and can confirmed that it appeared to work real nicely for me.