Title: Feature request… Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Feature request… * Resolved [crzyhrse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crzyhrse/) * (@crzyhrse) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/) * Hello, And thank you for all your work on some really nice bbPress plugins… * A request, something I and I believe many others have been looking for for a while… To be able to move WP comments into bbPress as topic and/or replies in some versatile ways as equally elegant as what you have accomplished is. If I could code considerably beyond the little css and html I’m comfortable with I’d maybe attempt it myself… But you seem to be already part way there with this plugin…? * There are a couple of still supported plugins that move comments between pages, posts and CPTs that I’ve found. One doesn’t do anything when attempting to move comments to bbPress, and the other can sort of move a comment but it winds up below everything, below even the “new reply” field, and titled as a Comment… In other words it is added to the bottom of the page apparently as a regular WP comment, both out of context and where no one is likely to see it, plus sort of ugly there.. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-move-topics/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-move-topics/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 19 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/page/2/?output_format=md) * Plugin Author [Pascal Casier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casiepa/) * (@casiepa) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691202) * Hi, I see what you mean, but I don’t see the use to find comments and have them become topics/replies. Would you have any practical examples ? Thanks, Pascal. * Thread Starter [crzyhrse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crzyhrse/) * (@crzyhrse) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691206) * For sure, as happened just recently, as well as in the past… All my pages are comment enabled, as well as posts, to inspire conversation in multiple and various ways… * A comment on a page had been made, and then a followup comment, and then a lively back and forth promising to go on for a while, and not leave any space or incentive for more and different conversation to come out of that page in the future… * By moving the comments to a related forum and leaving a link to where they were moved to, and with the initiating comment as the new topic and the following ones as replies, I was able to move the ongoing conversation to the forum, where it continues in an inviting and easy way for others to join…. * Thing is, to do that I had to manually copy and paste each individual comment in the right order to a new topic and replies in the forum, and then delete them from the page… * There is some strong indication on our site that this need to move comments to the forum is only going to grow over time… * Plugin Author [Pascal Casier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casiepa/) * (@casiepa) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691264) * OK, I will take it on board, but no timeframe for it. * I see 2 use cases: 1. A complete export of bbPress posts and comments and import in a forum because you want to switch towards a forum; 2. A keymaster/admin or moderator/editor sees that there are (too many) comments on a post and wants to continue the discussion on a forum. * For 1. : Let’s forget that one for now For 2. . That’s where I want to focus on. * The flow (just the headlines): – Mark a post (with comments) to become a topic– Duplicate the post into a topic – Transforms all comments into replies to the topic – Remove all comments and create 1 new comment with a link to the forum * Anything else ? Pascal. * Thread Starter [crzyhrse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crzyhrse/) * (@crzyhrse) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691266) * Pascal, Thank you so much for considering this… no time frame expected and I won’t be a nag… 🙂 * The flow headlines you describe for 2 is perfect… * If it wanted to be refined a bit more perhaps the option to choose between the first comment and the post itself as the topic with the rest as replies… And if the post as topic, then the option for it to be an excerpt or not… * And recognizing that that could be to much to try to include, Just what you describe would be soooooooo amazingly great… * Kind regards, * John. * Thread Starter [crzyhrse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crzyhrse/) * (@crzyhrse) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691267) * P.S… * Any sort of testing or other input you might want please feel free to call on me… * Plugin Author [Pascal Casier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casiepa/) * (@casiepa) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691268) * First comment will be first reply (for sure in first version) An option for the excerpt seems a good idea. I will also add a link back to the orginal post. * And for the testing … keep subscribed to this thread to be amongst the first testers 🙂 * [alex59](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alex59/) * (@alex59) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691269) * This plugin , I think will be a must for all those who would bind their articles and comments with the forum . * Extends a future news site video games , I’m really admirable and this feature will be the missing element for me to finalize my website. * Casiepa thank you . * Ps: if you wanted an example of functionality that we require , I think !! With a button to access the relevant topic , here are two examples: There on the site [http://www.gameblog.fr/news/54347-overwatch-la-beta-est-lancee-voici-les-configurations-requis](http://www.gameblog.fr/news/54347-overwatch-la-beta-est-lancee-voici-les-configurations-requis) * And here on the forum [http://www.gameblog.fr/forum/topic/183987-overwatch-la-beta-est-lancee-voici-les-configurations-requises/](http://www.gameblog.fr/forum/topic/183987-overwatch-la-beta-est-lancee-voici-les-configurations-requises/) * Thank you , thank you for your interest . * Plugin Author [Pascal Casier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casiepa/) * (@casiepa) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691270) * alex59, * Make sure to keep subscription to this thread. Je compte sur toi aussi pour tester alors ! * Pascal. * Thread Starter [crzyhrse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crzyhrse/) * (@crzyhrse) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691271) * Yes to the link for sure, and I’ll be like a fly on the wall… 🙂 * [alex59](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alex59/) * (@alex59) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691272) * Yes, I am starting to be tester and frankly, Thanks * My site will finally have the missing function , I think a lot of people making a video game website or news as I wish this feature. * You thank you Pascal . BbPress is so simple to use that I do not want to lose that. * [alex59](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alex59/) * (@alex59) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691273) * Also if you develop this with a file and .MO .PO , I ‘d be happy to do the total French translation for the plugin with poedit . What do you say? * [alex59](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alex59/) * (@alex59) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691398) * Hello how are you? * I come to you in order to have more information about the plugin, do you design? I do not know if you have already started testing phases ? * Actually , I’m just saying now on board the article. * Sincerely Vincent * Plugin Author [Pascal Casier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casiepa/) * (@casiepa) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691399) * Bonsoir alex59, * Pour la traduction, je suis preneur ! Et je n’ai pas du tout oublier ta demande, mais vu mon boulot, je crains ne pas pouvoir trouver le temps avant le 15-dec pour me pencher sur ce feature… * Pascal. * [ch33rs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ch33rs/) * (@ch33rs) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691457) * Dear Pascal, * This will be a great feature to use for me also! I hope you will find the time to develop this and I will be glad to help you by testing it or by any other way if I can 🙂 * Best regards, ch33rs * Thread Starter [crzyhrse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crzyhrse/) * (@crzyhrse) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/#post-6691480) * Wondering how this is coming along, if it might happen, not wanting to bug you or anything… With kind regards… Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 19 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Feature request…’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/bbp-move-topics.svg) * [bbPress Move Topics](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-move-topics/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-move-topics/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-move-topics/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-move-topics/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-move-topics/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-move-topics/reviews/) * 19 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Pascal Casier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casiepa/) * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385/page/2/#post-6691484) * Status: resolved