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Transferring a forum from one website to another?


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I'm looking for opinions on how difficult/straightforward it might be to transfer a forum (smf) from one website to another.  :confused:

 

Will memberships and posts remain intact? Will there any negatives side effects?

 

I have a site that uses smf and wordpress though in about four to five months it will become part of a parent site that is yet to be created.

 

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As long as you backup your database it should be fine, you should try a few "test" transfers now to see how things go, just create a fake site and see if you can re-create your forums etc without much hassle.

 

plus if you do run into any problems (hopefully not) you can see how to fix them ahead of time.

 

The main things which will need changing are Database login info (to match the new site) and the paths to files.

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