Check out the presentation on vBulletin to bbPress converter. You’ll discover the step-by-step instruction on the forum conversion and learn that it is a really simple process to move a vBulletin forum board to bbPress.
More info here: https://cms2cms.com/cms/supported-cms/vbulletin-to-bb-press-migration/
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5. vBulletin vs bbPress
× bbPress is free to use
× https://bbpress.org/
× Forum software that
runs within a
WordPress blog.
× vBulletin costs money
× http://www.vbulletin.com
× vBulletin is a professional,
affordable community
forum solution.
7. To start your vBulletin to bbPress migration,
the first thing you have to do is to
sign up with CMS2CMS.
Provide your name, email, phone number and
choose a password.
You can also sign in via your Facebook or
Google+ account. For this, choose the
appropriate option.
Create Your CMS2CMS Account
8. Choose vBulletin as your Existing Forum
platform and enter its URL into the provided
field and set up the connection to your
vBulletin forum. For doing this, download
and install the Connection Bridge to your
computer.
Here is the video tutorial, where the process
of installation is shown in details.
When you’ve done with that, press “Verify
Connection” button.
Establish the Connection to Your vBulletin Forum
9. Now, choose bbPress as your Target
forum platform and provide its URL.
In case, you don’t have your bbPress
forum platform installed yet, you can
try Migration to CMS2CMS Test Site.
Provide Your New WordPress Website Details
10. CMS2CMS offers two ways to establish
the connection to your New
bbPress-powered forum. Let’s go the
more automated one.
Download and install a Connector
Plugin to your bbPress forum.
Press “Download” button, as shown in
picture, and you will be redirected to
WordPress directory, where you can
download the plugin.
Set up the Connection to Your New bbPress Forum
11. × Download the plugin
× Upload the plugin to your
WordPress
× Activate the plugin
× Log into CMS2CMS
Set up the Connection to Your New bbPress Forum
12. Set up the Connection to Your New bbPress Forum
13. Before migrating vBulletin to bbPress,
CMS2CMS service offers you to
preview the future look of your forum
and run Free Demo migration.
Choose the Entities and needed
additional options you are going to
migrate.
In case you want to migrate all your
data without Demo, you may skip this
step.
Run Free Demo Migration
14. Before starting a complete migration to
bbPress, you can check the Free Demo
result. Press the button “Details” and you
will see how your migrated posts look like
on the new forum platform.
If you are satisfied with the result, you
may complete the migration.
Start a Complete Transfer from vBulletin to bbPress
15. That’s it! Now you are a
happy owner of
bbPress-powered forum
with all your vBulletin
content on it.