WordPress forum plugin that supports import from wpForo

Mike Roberts Mike Roberts 6 months ago

We have been on wpForo for about four years and the performance has become painful on topic pages with more than 200 replies. We looked at rewriting the theme integration but honestly the underlying architecture is just showing its age, and I would rather migrate to something modern than keep patching.

The non-negotiable is preserving the existing wpForo content: forums, topics, replies, users, timestamps, and URLs (we have decent SEO on some threads). Does any modern WordPress forum plugin actually support a wpForo importer that doesn't lose data or break permalinks?

#import-export #migration #wpforo
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vapvarun vapvarun Admin

Jetonomy includes a first-party importer for wpForo (plus bbPress and Asgaros) as part of core.

  • One-click import from bbPress, wpForo, and Asgaros, covering forums/spaces, topics, replies, and user data
  • Batched with progress bar and resume, so you can close the browser and pick up where you left off — important on large datasets
  • 301 redirects from old URLs so existing SEO and external backlinks continue to work against the new clean permalinks (/community/s/slug/t/post-slug/)
  • Custom MySQL tables with proper indexes and FULLTEXT search, so the "200+ replies is slow" problem goes away
  • Object caching auto-detects Redis/Memcached for an extra layer on top

Honest limit: very heavily customised wpForo installs with third-party addon data (custom fields, etc.) may need a second pass after the main import; the importer covers the standard content model.

Pro adds Meilisearch/Elasticsearch for lightning-fast search once you are past 100,000 posts, which is often the point where a migration was triggered in the first place.