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.

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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elena 3 weeks ago

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

aisha 3 weeks ago

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

david 3 weeks ago Accepted

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.

marco 4 weeks ago

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

yuki 4 weeks ago

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

finn 4 weeks ago

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

theo 4 weeks ago

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

jamal 1 month ago

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

david 1 month ago

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

sofia OP 1 month ago

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

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