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Importing to Vanilla
Already have a community on another platform? Great! We have a tool called Vanilla Porter that can help you migrate from many other popular platforms. Overview Download Vanilla Porter Vanilla Porter is a tool that you can upload to your current web server to run in your web browser. It exports any platform to a generic…
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Supported platforms
Migration tools are available for the following platforms. All migration tools minimally support users, categories, discussions, and comments. For a current per-platform, per-feature support list, see the Vanilla Porter. PHP forums Vanilla 1 phpBB 2-3 vBulletin 3-5 bbPress 1 SimplePress 1 Simple Machines 1-2 PunBB 1…
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Vanilla Porter Guide
Migrating a forum to Vanilla Vanilla Porter is the export tool for converting your legacy forum to Vanilla. The process is four steps: Export your old forum data to a special “Porter file”. Create a new Vanilla forum. Import the Porter file in Vanilla’s Dashboard. Verify & finalize your new forum. Vanilla Porter requires a…
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Redirector Plugin for Forum Migrations
When to Use Redirector Redirector is a plug-in that translates URLs from many popular forum platforms into Vanilla-friendly URLs. If you’re moving from one of the supported platforms, installing and enabling this plug-in will magically handle maintaining the previous platform’s links, which can be of tremendous SEO value.…