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

sofia 3 months 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.

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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marco 2 months ago

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

finn 2 months ago

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

david 2 months ago

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

aisha 2 months ago

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

maya 2 months ago

Adding a small note: the same idea applies on mobile, just with a bit more attention to tap targets.

sofia OP 2 months ago

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

grace 2 months ago

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

sofia OP 1 month ago

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