#bbPress or #vBulletin? Plugin-made forum or standalone project? Migrate your forum board in the right direction to reach the success!

1. bbPress vs. vBulletin:
The Migration Way to
the Successful Forum Board

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3. CMS2CMS is the online tool that can handle your site content migration
from bbPress over to vBulletin with accuracy and ease.
You don’t have to be a programmer to set up the migration. Just a few
quick steps - and your forums, posts, topics, users, images and forum
attachments are moved to the forum board on vBulletin.
We do everything to keep your data safe, and you can check our Privacy
Policy for details on how we deal with our clients' info.
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Are you about to change your current Forum Board
from bbPress to vBulletin?

4. Create Your CMS2CMS
Account
To start your bbPress to vBulletin
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.

5. Choose bbPress as your
Existing Platform and
enter WordPress
website URL into the
provided field.
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6. CMS2CMS offers two ways to
establish the connection to your
WordPress-powered website. Let’s
go the more automated one.
Download and install a Connector
Plugin to your WordPress website.
Press “Download” button, as
shown in picture, and you will be
redirected to WordPress directory,
where you can download the
plugin.
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Set Up the Connection to
Your WordPress website

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Download the
Plugin
Upload the plugin to
your WordPress

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Activate the plugin
Log into
CMS2CMS

9. Provide Your New
vBulletin Website Details
Now, choose vBulletin
as your Target Forum
Board and provide its
URL.
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10. Set Up the Connection to
Your New vBulletin Forum
To establish the connection to your
new vBulletin forum you have to
download and install the Connection
Bridge. First, download the bridge by
pressing the corresponding button.
After that, you have to install the
bridge. Here is a video tutorial which
shows the process of installation in
details.
When you’ve finished with that, press
“Verify Connection” button.
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Run Free Demo Migration
Before moving bbPress to
vBulletin, CMS2CMS service
offers you to preview the
future look of your website
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.

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Start a Complete Transfer
from bbPress to vBulletin
Before starting a complete migration to
vBulletin, you can check the Free Demo
result.
If you are satisfied with the result, you
may complete the migration.

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That’s it!
Now you are a happy owner of
vBulletin-powered website
with all your bbPress content
on it.
Congratulations!

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