Reference guide. The bbPress importer preserves original dates, maps forums to spaces and forum categories to Jetonomy categories, and supports a dry run.Back up your database.Run wp jetonomy import bbpress --dry-run to preview.Run the import; it batches large datasets to avoid timeouts.

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.

How to migrate from bbPress without losing data

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

Back up your database.
Run wp jetonomy import bbpress --dry-run to preview.
Run the import; it batches large datasets to avoid timeouts.

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[deleted] OP 2 weeks ago

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

[deleted] OP 2 weeks ago

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

[deleted] OP 2 weeks ago

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

How to migrate from bbPress without losing data

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