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Attachments Not Migrated

pgt000 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 04:10:26 +0000

Hi,

I used Go2wpForo to migrate from Simple Press.

Forums and posts seem to have migrated but the file attachments haven't.

In the pre-migration dialog (see attached file) it only asks for the attachments folder, but Simple Press has separate folders for images and media, these aren't included in the migration, how come??

So, I'm wondering why the attachments haven't migrated, and why other files types aren't included in the migration too.

I have the Advanced Attachments add-on installed and it was installed before migrating.

Regards

Phil

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What happens to the SP topic description on import?

Christine — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:18:47 +0000

I don't see a topic description here, or is that optional?

Thanks!

Remove SimplePress extensions and plugin?

Sapere Aude — Sun, 13 May 2018 09:03:26 +0000

Hello,

Before I make a mistake. After a migration from SimplePress is it ok to deactivate and delete the SimplePress plugin and Go2wpForo plugin??

On migration from SP my Admin has lost all her posts

GraemeT — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:20:35 +0000

Hi Team

We have had Simple:Press installed for over 7 years and it's time to freshen it up! So we migrated to WPForo, which looks stunning.

However there a few problems:

1. My main forum moderator/admin is an expert in her field and has made over 6,000 post replies to topic questions. But these posts seem to have been assigned to other people. I am an admin too, and I seem to have inherited over 3,000 posts, which I did not make. I need her to look like the authority she is, and have all her posts assigned to her, especially all the replies she made (she has replied to 99% of the topics created.)

2. My second expert moderator cannot even be found when I search Members. He has made over 3,300 posts, but none are credited to him.

3. My highest posting member is nowhere to be found.

3. There are no views on any of the 12,000+ topics. Why are there no views?

4. The last reply my expert moderator made was just a few days ago, but I can't find any posts from her that are newer than "2 years ago".

So I followed this advice of yours:

Please try to delete User cache, navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Dashboard admin page, click on button then button

But it didn't change anything.

We have no caching plugins.

Please advise.

Thanks, Graeme

Simple:Press to wpForo Problem

cmw14 — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:52:36 +0000

Hi I've been running a simple:press forum on my WP site and decided that wpForo was the way to go.

Installed wpforo, ran the migration and it worked fine, all forums/posts etc imported. I checked the wpForo dashboard and can see wpForo has 10.7K posts and everything looks fine structural wise. However when I try to view the wpForo forum I get the following error

Fatal error: Unknown: Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in Unknown on line 0

If I try to view the old simple:press forum I get the following error

Fatal error: Unknown: Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in Unknown on line 0

At this point I panicked thinking I had corrupted the old simple:press forum I deactivated the wpForo installation and the simple:press forum loaded OK. Phew!

So the question is why does the wpForo forum fail to load despite appearing to migrate OK. Why does it stop the simple:press forum form working. Is there a way around this, do I have to deactivate the simple:press installation to allow wpForo to work. I'm loathed to do that in case it causes trouble.

Not technical enough to know what's going on.

Disable admin e-mails during migration

nonamez — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:02:56 +0000

You probably want to disable "new topic" admin e-mails during migration, I tried migrating with this option selected and I got hundreds and hundreds of e-mails sent to my gmail, hope they don't shut my account off or block my domain. With admin e-mails ON and cycle set to 200, the migration resulted in half of the posts transferred but then I got a 505 server error.

I uninstalled and started over, turned off Admin e-mails and set the cycle to 500 and everything went fast and smooth, except post "views" did not transfer over.

SimplePress Migration

Alias79 — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 10:06:06 +0000

For almost four years I was using SimplePress years until it was completely unstable. A year ago I turn off it, and installed phpBB with a premium bridge, but still have not activated because it has some big problems with user management, integration with my WordPress theme, etc.

And then, the miracle happened and you have launched this fantastic plugin forums :) I want to get to migration, but I have a couple of questions.

Will it work well with tens of thousands of imported from SimplePress messages? I've seen that sometimes goes a little slower these support forums, especially I want to offer my users speed.

I have seen that a user had a problem update, we recommended erase everything and reinstall. Do you think I should wait for a more stable serves or advanced version?

I use W3 Total Cache, any special configuration must be performed?

Crossposting be activated in the future as addon? I'm very interested.

Thanks!!!