Migrating from WP Pro Quiz to QuizMaster

The plan to build QuizMaster came after we built WP Pro Quiz Completed, an premium addon for WP Pro Quiz that allows students to view their quiz results. While working on that project we reached out to the WP Pro Quiz developers 9-times, via support tickets, via their own website, and even via the telephone. We received absolutely no reply whatsoever. And as more and more developers and site owners spoke to us about WP Pro Quiz, we started supporting many of them given the absence of support for WP Pro Quiz. We also recognized that the shortfall of WP Pro Quiz was it’s lack of extendability, for instance a lack of templates that could be overridden to change the quiz layout. In addition the reliance on custom tables, meant no native WP capabilities that could be leveraged. QuizMaster addresses these issues, and we look forward to making it a well-supported and continually updated project for years to come.

Currently it is NOT RECOMMENDED to migrate to QuizMaster in it’s current version which is a pre-production release (v0.4.4). We will only support the eventual v1.0.0, or full version 1 as a stable plugin suitable for migration for existing websites. The current version, if used at all in production would only suit a small/new website, not an active site with existing quizzes.

Support for import/migration of quizzes and questions will be provided by a secondary plugin QuizMaster Migrate, which was recently approved for the WordPress directory. Currently for testing purposes this plugin can be downloaded on GitHub at https://github.com/goldhat/quizmaster-migrate. It is still under active development, and is evolving and being refined along with the core QuizMaster.

QuizMaster Migrate provides an interface through which an XML export from WP Pro Quiz can be inserted and will be imported into QuizMaster. Note that QuizMaster quizzes and questions are custom post types, therefore existing WP Pro Quizzes will not automatically work until they are imported. QuizMaster Migrate parses the quizzes, and builds new quizmaster_quiz, quizmaster_question posts. QuizMaster Migrate does not support import of quiz statistics. We have no immediate plans to support importing quiz statistics, though other developers may choose to build this feature as a QuizMaster Extension. QuizMaster does utilize the original WP Pro Quiz stats engine (which was a source of numerous bug reports) instead we have build a new tracking system we call Quiz Scores, which is based on custom posts.