Migrate SMF to WP
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Hi,
We are group of users of Forum based on SMF. In the past we had nice community, but recent years our membership dropped to only few active users. However, we have large database of interesting posts and comments from the field that is not very well covered in our language (Croatian, Permaculture related posts).
We are considering into migrating from Forum to CMS, i.e. converting most popular posts or topics to articles. Idea is to build modern looking platform for sharing knowledge that we collected over the years and we are looking for most appropriate tools to do so.
One option was to install WP, configure it to our needs and then start copying content from our forum to CMS one by one, but this seems to be like a hell of a job. Other thought was to install plugin for WP forum and then import existing database into this new forum. If we understand correctly, in this case we would be able to “promote” each topic of our choice to article? Is it working that way?
Ideally, we would get homepage full of most popular or most recent articles. Each of them would be categorized according to it’s initial board/sub-forum, so users could continue to read similar stories. Also, each article would have dedicated topic in forum. Users could also find other articles from same author, etc.
Do you think this might work, has anyone already done some similar transition?
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