Combine Users from 2 diff WP Forums

[gmrtech]

Hi guys! Any help would be appreciated.

I have BBpress 1.0 running on MySQL 4.1 PHP 5
Both websites use WordPress 2.8 on shared hosting plan.

Basically I have an old WP site that had a Forum. It had about 200 users.

I recently started another website with another WP Forum that now has 50 users.

Is there any way I can easily import the users data into the most recent Forum so all users are combined. The result would be that I would close out the old Forum, and grow the current one.

I can’t even seem to find a way to manually enter in the users information in BBPress Admin panel. I even went into MySQL and couldn’t figure out if I could manually enter and type in the information, or import any data files.

Please help me! Thanks so much in advance 😉

[Mark / t31os]

Current db > Export users table..

New db > Import user table..

The only problem you’ll likely have is relating to the ID’s for each entry, for example the old user with an ID of 50 will now need to be something else because that’s taken.

Create the export, modify the ID parts (the first part of each insert – example replace ‘1’ with ”), and then mysql should just increment and apply the correct numeric value to the new entries…

This should be done in phpmyadmin..

I’d suggest doing this on a local install first as a test ground….you can then retry as many times as you like without fear of mucking something up…