# Questions About Migrating From Xenforo **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-migrating-from-xenforo/42966 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [April 22, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-migrating-from-xenforo/42966 "2016-04-22T03:49:37Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking) #### Post date: [April 22, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-migrating-from-xenforo/42966/7 "2016-04-22T16:42:07Z")
Basically, it’s hard to say until you try it. Imports are pretty weird, there’s no one-size-fits-all. Expect to wipe the Discourse database a few times in case you don’t get it quite right. This is required if you make changes to the import script to move data that got missed, as already-imported records are skipped. Pay special attention to data from plugins. Categories will definitely be transferred. User groups - probably not, but read the import script (if groups are important, you’ll want to add that to the script). > [@Overmind](#): > > Will their logins be the same or would they need to reset their passwords? The default behavior is for everyone to need a password reset, but you can use this plugin (will probably require import script changes): > [@Migrated password hashes support](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrated-password-hashes-support/19512): > > Here is the password migration support plugin: [https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-migratepassword/](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-migratepassword/)The original thread follows. We do regular forum conversions (yes, we’ll open source the converter once it’s stable enough) and one of the big quirks when migrating to Discourse is the fact that all users have to set a new password, because the password in the original forum is encrypted. So we thought of the following mechanism. when creating users in the conversion step, we store the … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-migrating-from-xenforo/42966)._