[nodebb-plugin-import] Import your forum to NBB
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Basically NodeBB migration meeting you half way.
1-) export your forum into a file structure which the importer can read, if you're using UBB, i already wrote one that does that nodebb-plugin-import-ubb, if not, use it as an example to export your forum.
2-) import your files using nodebb-plugin-import
- it will generate URL redirect paths for you, you can either use the Nginx HttpMapModule or if you have 30k+ urls to redirect like i had, use a quick and dirty Node solution, called it RedirectBB.
- if you don't supply the passwords, new ones will be generated for you, then shared in the logs, either
jsonorcsvformat, so you can email-blast them to your users
don't be shy opening an issue if something goes wrong
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this is the most awesome thing anyone's ever contributed to nodebb. even more awesome than this:
and that's saying a lot.
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hahahahaha
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It works with vBulletin ?
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well, like I said, it meets you half way. If you export your vBulletin data in the right structrure, the importer will import it for you.
if you have a decent, database of vBullettin I can probably take a look and figure out a way to export it.
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hey @bentael, congrats! looks like somebody used your importer. just found it on google today, they managed to import 11k users and 320k posts
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I did that, that was the reason I started writing the migrator in the first place, don't laugh at my theme yet, still experimenting with LESS and the templates
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@julian nah not mine, a friend's - it would be cool if you can add it to your list of who's using NodeBB to push some traffic towards it, but wait not yet, gotta change those category boxes on the home page.
hehe, yea, I won't
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lol nice.
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@StuartH the blog is WordPress, notice the domain change, but the extra navigation items, yea, these were added via a plugin, still very experimental though, I don't have a readme for it yet, but if you install and view the admin page of it, you'll get an idea.
@bentael I did not click on the blog button so did not see it went to wordpress. I have blogs on my xenforo site and they are not generating very much content, but it's a different type of person going to our sites mines gaming your medical so I can see you will get people to blog more easily.
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Let me know when you're comfortable enough for me to list this site on nodebb.org, and the 'who is using nodebb' list. I'll also tweet and facebook the URL, when you're ready for it.
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@psychobunny I will thank you !
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Apologies for resurrecting this topic, but is this plugin available for v1.4 of NodeBB? I don't see it listed in the list of available plugins on the admin panel.
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@Tom-Wilson Unfortunately
LATEST VERSION ONLY SUPPORTS:
NodeBB v1.0.0via https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import
I install nodeBB v1.0.0 and update my forum to 1.2.0 after import information from my old forum (v 1.2.0 was actual when I import from phpbb3)
(IMHO it is most important plugin for commtity grow and I don't know why it is not support for actual versions) -
Ah that's a shame. I just tried to downgrade, but encountered all sorts of problems :(.
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@Tom-Wilson if you're importing an old forum, I'm assuming you'd be starting from scratch. Just reset your database and do
git checkout v1.0.0and then the regular setup steps from there.If you're trying to merge with existing data already in NBB, that's another thing entirely.
So this is your forum, eh? I am thoroughly impressed.
