vbulletin 4.2.0 to xenforo

[marcusmaciel]

Hello All,

I have small forum with 20k users, 700k posts, 10k topics and 10k CMS articles.

I could not find anything about CMS article conversion to xenforo. Do we have any way to convert CMS articles to Xenforo ?

I really want move to Xenforo from VB, however I need find something to import our VBCMS articles.

Thanks,

 

[Jeremy]

The built in importer does not bring articles over.

 

[Chris D]

There is an unofficial importer (we only support our own importer) that does bring over CMS articles as threads:

vB4 Importer

 

[marcusmaciel]

@Jake Bunce do you know if your importer works on latest xenforo version ? I really need import VBCMS articles

 

[Jake Bunce]

@Jake Bunce do you know if your importer works on latest xenforo version ? I really need import VBCMS articles

Probably.

It's not specifically tested, but there are no major schema changes in vB 4.2 that I am aware of. 4.x is usually taken as a whole for imports.

 

[jeffwidman]

There's also some Wordpress/Xenforo bridge addons, and you could possibly migrate the articles over to that while still making your forum users the owners of the articles... a lot easier long term IMO to manage articles in a CMS program and not a forum thread (like the unofficial importer does). Not sure if there's a VBCMS --> WP importer, although if you're a coder at all it shouldn't be difficult to migrate them using some SQL queries

 

[Sadik B]

I recently migrated from VB 4. You might find my steps useful

Migrated Club-Oracle to xenForo!

Basically to be on the safe side, import your board and cms using the unofficial importer to XenForo 1.1.3 and then upgrade your xenforo to latest version.

 

[Slavik]

I have a VBCMS > XenForo resources manager importer also

Specialist and vBulletin Big Board (1M Posts+) Import Services

 

[marcusmaciel]

ouch this is really really really nice.