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WP forum to WP forum migrations - best process?

rippers2000 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:07:36 +0000

I have an existing forum site on running on Wordpress website. This whole site including the forum element and all user was cloned onto another domain. This new site is now live, but threads from the "Old" previous website now have been updated with new q & a's.

Can I migrate the "latest version" of that forum onto my new website - therefore capturing and overwriting the forum to show the latest post in threads etc..

And if so, how please. What's the best process to use, any plugins needed ?

Thanks in advance for any assistance..

wpForo Keeps Creating New Pages

PostmasterGS — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:18:58 +0000

I have a board setup on a page with a slug /forum/. For some reason, wpForo keeps creating a new page with the slug /community/. I delete it, and another one takes its place. I delete it, and another takes its place. Over and over.

The board is on a page built with Bricks, and is inserted by adding the shortcode in a Bricks shortcode module. I have verified that the pageid in the Board settings matches the ID of the page with the /forum/ slug.

I've tried deleting the /community/ page, switching it to draft, scheduling it for publication 100 years in the future, etc. Nothing seems to work. The moment it is anything other than published and active, a new takes its place – /community-2/, /community-3/, etc.

I'm not running a caching plugin, and I have wpForo caching disabled.

Any ideas as to what could be causing this and how to fix it?

Guests online

Justaguy76 — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:14:18 +0000

Hey there I just started using WPforo and I have a question. Is it possible to view guests, bots online as opposed to just registered members? If so how can I make that happen? Thank you

Register problem

Erhoo — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:41:38 +0000

Hello, If I want to register then I fill up the "nickname" then "email" and then check the box and then push the button for register. It shows on the right corner "is loading" or like something like that and the page is reloading and the nickname and email is filled but nothing other is happened. no text message, no email, no info. Whats my problem? thank you

Examples

zip94596 — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:22:28 +0000

I'd really like to see examples of wpForo in differing communities in the UK. I am so looking forward to, possibly, setting up a community as a home page on Wordpress 😎

First video thumbnail as featured image

subpopet — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:23:10 +0000

When I share a post on social media, I'd like the "featured" image to be the video's thumbnail I posted. Is there a way to do it?

view count

mapomapo1953 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:04:30 +0000

Hi, The view count for a topic increases every time a user logs in to the forum, which is normal; however, if the user refreshes the forum page, the view count increases every time, which is not normal. Is there a way to lock the view count for a set period of time, such as 1 hour or 24 hours, to resolve this issue?

Thanks for your help.

Subscriber/Registered Users cannot see forums

009Webmaster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:31:38 +0000

I am building a new forum using WPFora and it has been going OK until I try to view the forum as a Subscriber beucas ethey see nothing at all. As the admin I can see everything perfectly. Having checked various posts here I have not found anything that has been set incorrectly to enable the forum to work properly.

I have screenshot what I think are the pictures you ask for in the hope you can tell me what is wrong.

view as subscriber

view as admin

categories and forums created

example forum permission

Usergroups

Many Thanks

Unsubscribe from topics not working

gr33ngrl — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:39:14 +0000

We are having issues with users not being able to unsubscribe from the forums. We have 2 forum boards.

In the first forum board (SAOH Forum), the Subscription Manager has the following (also shown in attached photo):

Subscribe to all new topics and posts (unchecked by default)
Subscribe to all new topics (unchecked by default)
Categories and topics in a tree menu (unchecked by default)

In the second forum board (SEOH Forum), the Subscription Manager has the following (also shown in attached photo):

Subscribe to all new topics and posts (checked by default)
Subscribe to all new topics (checked by default)
No categories and topics displayed
Beneath where the tree menu would be displayed, it shows individual topic subscriptions

The first forum is behaving as we would expect. The second forum does not allow the user to unsubscribe at all and we're starting to get reports of users who are overwhelmed with the volume of emails. The unsubscribe link in the emails does not

1 2

work either.

Yoast and Wpforo clash?

hbk747 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:55:49 +0000

Hi wpForo Team,

I am reaching out regarding a compatibility issue between wpForo and the Yoast SEO plugin. While wpForo states that it is compatible with Yoast, I am seeing conflicting SEO data being generated on my forum topic pages, which is causing issues with duplicate meta tags and broken social media previews.

When I inspect the page source of a community forum post, both wpForo and Yoast are actively injecting data into the , rather than wpForo overriding Yoast.

Here is what is currently outputting on a single topic page:

wpForo's Output: wpForo correctly generates its SEO block (``), including the canonical URL, description, Open Graph tags (og:title, og:description, og:url, og:locale, etc.), and Twitter cards.
Yoast's Output: Immediately below that, Yoast tries to output its own data (). Because it cannot read the dynamic forum content, it outputs an admin warning (), but it still injects duplicate tags like og:locale, article:publisher, and Twitter tags.

The Impact: Because both plugins are outputting Open Graph and Twitter card data, social media platforms (Facebook, X, LinkedIn) are getting confused by the duplicate tags. This results in link previews pulling incorrect formatting or failing to pull the wpForo-generated data.

My Question: Is the built-in Yoast compatibility supposed to automatically disable Yoast's meta output on wpForo pages? If so, it appears to be failing. As a temporary workaround, I have to manually go into Yoast and disable it for the forum's custom post types.

Could your development team look into why Yoast is not cleanly yielding to wpForo's SEO data on topic pages?

Thank you for your time and help!

You can check for example this link: https://www.paradigmshift.com.pk/community-forum/external-internships-forum/un-international-law-fellowship-program-2026/