# Planning a Migration to Discourse, looking for planning advice
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/planning-a-migration-to-discourse-looking-for-planning-advice/104367
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [December 15, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/planning-a-migration-to-discourse-looking-for-planning-advice/104367 "2018-12-15T19:39:33Z")
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### Author:  [@LotusJeff](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LotusJeff)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/planning-a-migration-to-discourse-looking-for-planning-advice/104367/1 "2018-12-15T19:39:33Z")
I run a medium sized forum in phpBB. Currently has about 5500 members, 33k topics and 290K posts. It is has a integrated wiki (mediawiki ~ 400 pages) and has blog front end (Wordpress - 40 pages). I am looking at a possible platform change.
I would like to replicate the functionality with Wordpress and Discourse.
I am interested in your thoughts on the following:
1. Using wp-discourse plugin to allow wordpress to manage userids and passwords (SSO) for discourse. Any issues, gotchas, for a discourse board of this size?
2. Implementation. Do you recommend migrating the users/passwords from phpBB to Wordpress and the forum data from phpBB to Discourse? Is there a better way?
I will be setting up a test environment to test, but am interested in lessons learned, best practices or plain, “That is stupid, do it this way…”
thank you
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/planning-a-migration-to-discourse-looking-for-planning-advice/104367/2 "2018-12-15T21:33:50Z")
Unless you have a compelling reason for wordpress be in charge of passwords, I’d recommend having discourse be the SSO master. You can see my notes on migrations see [Redirecting…](https://www.literatecomputing.com/discourse-migration/)
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### Author:  [@LotusJeff](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LotusJeff)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/planning-a-migration-to-discourse-looking-for-planning-advice/104367/3 "2018-12-15T21:48:05Z")
SSO is required between the two systems. It is why I asked the question. Is there a way for Discourse to be the SSO master and wordpress be the slave.
I was hoping the article you posted was something of value. It only turned out to be a sales circular for your services.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/planning-a-migration-to-discourse-looking-for-planning-advice/104367/4 "2018-12-15T22:16:43Z")
Sorry I wasn’t clear. Yes, Discourse can be the SSO master. It generally has a better user experience for logins than does WordPress, but I’m clearly biased.
Yes, my migration page is largely about my doing the work for money (it’s how I make my living), but most of the questions there also inform doing the migration yourself. For example, it describes some details about importing passwords.