Moving Forum without user table
Quote from mexl on September 29, 2019, 11:09 amHi Thomas, @asgaros
I will have to move a forum with all its topics to an existing wp installation on a different domain. The problem is, that at the new location there are already user accounts present, which should not be overwritten.
Hence my question:
It is only important to keep the posts and the answers. Would it be possible to just copy a table containing the posts to the new location? Would those show as “deleted user” posts? This would be fine.
If I go the manual route I would also have to create one “anonymous” account and copy everything over.
Thank you for any guidance,
Matt
Hi Thomas, @asgaros
I will have to move a forum with all its topics to an existing wp installation on a different domain. The problem is, that at the new location there are already user accounts present, which should not be overwritten.
Hence my question:
It is only important to keep the posts and the answers. Would it be possible to just copy a table containing the posts to the new location? Would those show as “deleted user” posts? This would be fine.
If I go the manual route I would also have to create one “anonymous” account and copy everything over.
Thank you for any guidance,
Matt
Quote from Asgaros on October 3, 2019, 9:18 pmHello @mexl
Moving the tables is fine, however you have to create a placeholder-category in the structure-area afterwards and use this categories ID for the parent_id value for all forums.
Regarding the author: The best solution would be to set the author_id to 0 for all topics and posts (in both tables).
Hello @mexl
Moving the tables is fine, however you have to create a placeholder-category in the structure-area afterwards and use this categories ID for the parent_id value for all forums.
Regarding the author: The best solution would be to set the author_id to 0 for all topics and posts (in both tables).