Importers

[GautamGupta]

We should include importers in the core. We could start with bbPress standalone. Attaching a version of a very prototype thing I've done. I'll likely complete it till tomorrow if someone doesn't beat me to it. :)

[GautamGupta]

Please take a look at @todos

[GautamGupta]

Please take a look at @todos

[GautamGupta]

Added another patch. The only problem I'm facing is that $bbdb isn't getting set. It is not becoming a db object and hence the import can not be carried on. Didn't dig deep into it.

[cnorris23]

Try adding do_action( 'bbpress_init' ); to the functions that need the $bbdb global. You can see it done in BP if you need more help (​http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php#L268).

[GautamGupta]

The importer contains codes from BuddyPress and LiveJournal Importer. The only problem right now is that the recounts for topics & replies in forum are failing. I'd also like if someone could test out pingback import.

[Nightgunner5]

Tested, as requested:

[GautamGupta]

Added a safe guard if the user submits a directory as the path

[GautamGupta]

Replying to Nightgunner5:

Tested, as requested

You actually need to submit the path with bb-config.php. Added a safe-guard now. :)

[GautamGupta]

Ok, just noticed that we actually ask for the path of the install. Even though we've added a safe guard, we should change that message. :)

[Nightgunner5]

Replying to GautamGupta:

Replying to Nightgunner5:

Tested, as requested

You actually need to submit the path with bb-config.php. Added a safe-guard now. :)

I did. It gives exactly the same error message with or without a trailing slash.

[GautamGupta]

The line 517 in bbpress.php should be preventing from that to happen. Are you sure that you're using import.2.diff?

[Nightgunner5]

define( 'BB_PATH', trailingslashit( dirname( $this->bb_path ) ) ); will always take a directory above the one inputted.

[johnjamesjacoby]

(In [3194]) First pass at a stand-alone to plugin converter. Props GautamGupta and Nightgunner5. See #1523.

[GautamGupta]

On line ​144 in importers/bbpress.php, we're checking for BuddyPress. I think we should do that in bbPress_Importer::autolocate_bb_path() because the user might want to import a non-BuddyPress bbPress standalone install too.

[GautamGupta]

Attached a patch with improvements. I think it still doesn't address the freshness issue. That should be fixed by recount anyways - still, it doesn't.

[johnjamesjacoby]

(In [3225]) Second round of bbPress standalone importer updates. Props GautamGupta. See #1523.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Closing this as the importer is in core. Please open new tickets for specific importer issues.