Premise: when I try to search on Google using terms like “migrate from discourse”, 99% of the results are about how to migrate from whateverforum to discourse. I really can’t believe that no human on earth has ever tried to do the opposite. Is it so hard? Am I unable to find a proper answer looking …

[image] MaxDL: the discourse user id don’t match the user in wordpress The Discourse user’s external_id will match the WP user_id.

well, that helps, even if in the json file exported there isn’t any external_id. Probably I should be able to get that from the users export json. Still a pain to figure how to import topics and replies into BBPress.

[image] MaxDL: I really can’t believe that no human on earth has ever tried to do the opposite. For the most part, anyone who did move to bbPress wouldn’t be on this forum, now would they? :wink: [image] MaxDL: Is it so hard? We don’t know. We only know Discourse. You could look at th…

We, the discourse team, have nothing to do with Google search results. If you’re not finding results you may want to try different search terms, or it’s possible that what you’re looking for isn’t indexed by Google. As others have already mentioned, a forum about Discourse is not the place to look …

This appears to be your first thread here - so I’m wondering whether your forum is quite new/small? If so why not just import the users and start from scratch? I nearly did that for an old vB forum but managed to find a workaround (via importing vB to a different forum platform first then to Discour…

Actually the forum has been onlime for a year now. There are less than 200 topics over there. And to be honest there is only one category that I would like to export to bbpress, with less than 100 topics. I even considered to, litterally, copy and paste the msgs manually by posting them on frontend …

[image] MaxDL: I find so strange that (apparently) there isn’t an easy way to export dara from discourse in a way that is “easy” to import in any other platform. Again, there very likely is, but you’re not asking in the right place. Here on meta.discourse.org we discuss Discourse, development…

[image] MaxDL: when I try to search on Google using terms like “migrate from discourse”, 99% of the results are about how to migrate from whateverforum to discourse For “export discourse to bbpress” DuckDuckGo gives Topic: moving from Discourse to BBpress · bbPress.org - I’ve not read it so d…

[image] jomaxro: like walking into Honda car dealership and asking them to sell you a Nissan Or to sell you an Edsel. Or to convert your Honda into a Nissan because you like the way that it’s windshield wipers work. :wink:

[image] omarfilip: The Discourse user’s external_id will match the WP user_id . I’m not interested in migrating from Discourse, but I am interested in this. Can you elaborate where this field is found? Using Data Explorer , I don’t see it under the users table or any other table.

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The Discourse user’s external_id will match the WP user_id.

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