How to migrate Wordpress to phpBB?

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How to migrate Wordpress to phpBB?

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Wordpress has been getting killed by its owner bit by bit and unfortunately I made the bad decision of choosing it for my website(blog + forum)

Would there be an easy way to migrate things to phpBB? At the very least the blog posts and forum posts, turn them all into forum posts in phpbb. Maybe a way to migrate user accounts from one to another? Everything else shouldn't be too hard.
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Re: How to migrate Wordpress to phpBB?

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Anything is possible but there is no out of the box solution for converting I'm aware of.

Wordpress is a CMS, phpBB is full featured forum software. They each have their own purpose. If you want both site content and a full featured forum the typical approach is to use a CMS like Wordpress for the main site content and then install phpBB in sub directory. The one downside to this is logins are not integrated.
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Re: How to migrate Wordpress to phpBB?

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I've done several WordPress to phpBB imports. For example, I'm currently wrapping up a migration from WordPress Posts, Pages, and wpForo forum to phpBB.

Which forum plug-in are you using? bbPress, wpForo, Buddy Press, etc?
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Re: How to migrate Wordpress to phpBB?

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thecoalman wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:09 pm Anything is possible but there is no out of the box solution for converting I'm aware of.

Wordpress is a CMS, phpBB is full featured forum software. They each have their own purpose. If you want both site content and a full featured forum the typical approach is to use a CMS like Wordpress for the main site content and then install phpBB in sub directory. The one downside to this is logins are not integrated.
I dont really want the full features, just move posts and users so I dont need to ask anyone to make a new account.
ftsservice wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:17 pm I've done several WordPress to phpBB imports. For example, I'm currently wrapping up a migration from WordPress Posts, Pages, and wpForo forum to phpBB.

Which forum plug-in are you using? bbPress, wpForo, Buddy Press, etc?
I'm using some for statistics, forms, newsletter, etc but none of them are really relevant. My forum one is bbpress
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Re: How to migrate Wordpress to phpBB?

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