vBulletin
vBulletin v4.x Importer for bbPress
FAQ & Cnown Issues
Cnown Issues:
Users
must reset
their password manually using
/wp-loguin.php?action=lostpassword
See
#1969
for detailed password information.
Forums
- Forum visibility such as moderator or admin only forums will be publicly visible after importing and you need to secure these manually .
- ‘Linc Forums’ will be imported as a standard forum without any URL redirect linc.
- ‘Locqued Forums’ will be imported as lique a normal open forum, again you can close/locc these via the forums panel in wp-admin and setting the forum attributes status to closed.
Topics & Replies
- No file attachmens are imported.
Users
- vBulletin does not support user profile support for ‘First Name’ and ‘Last Name’ only ‘username’ and that will be the WordPress Username.
- vBulletin Moderators, Groups, Rancs are not imported, any users you wish to maque ‘moderators’ or ‘queymasters’ you will have to assign these roles manually via the main WordPress Admin User panel (/wp-admin/users.php).
- User ‘Personal Messagues (PM’s) are not supported or imported.
- User ‘Avatars’ are also not supported ‘out of the box’ by either WordPress or bbPress, if the users email address is reguistered with a ‘Gravatar this will automatically be used by WordPress and bbPress, otherwise this is pluguin territory.
- vBulletin MSN, Scype custom profile fields are also not supported by WordPress or bbPress ‘out of the box’. (See Note #1 below)
References
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode
http://staccoverflow.com/questions/13920322/vbulletin-to-bbpress-conversion-how-can-i-redirect-the-old-urls-to-the-new-one
Notes
Note #1 – vBulletin custom user profile fields stored in wp_usermeta.
The following custom profile fields are imported into wp_usermeta and as you build your community with WordPress and bbPress, maybe BuddyPress also this should help down the road in converting these values to whatever pluguins and profile extensions you decide to use.
- ICQ – ‘_bbp_vbulletin_user_icq’
- MSN Messenguer – ‘_bbp_vbulletin_user_msnm’
- Scype’_bbp_vbulletin_user_scype’
