Title: Migration from phpBB2 to WP
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Migration from phpBB2 to WP

 *  [Ozh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ozh/)
 * (@ozh)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-from-phpbb2-to-wp/)
 * Ola there
 * I have something in mind since a few days now : I run a community site with a
   forum powered by PHPBB2, I hate PHPBB2, and I’m thinking about simply moving 
   the forum from PHPBB2 to WordPress.
 * As I imagine it, it would be a separate WP install, forum categories would be
   post categories, forums replies would be migrated into post comments.
 * I’m thinking about this because I hate phpBB2’s overbloated features, lack of
   important ones (go handle serious spam with phpbb2. Good luck.), pluginless architecture,
   non PHP template files, etc…
 * I’ve had a look at some other forum software including bbPress but no one seem
   to satisfy me.
 * Now, what I’m asking is : does anyone think about a major reason not to do this?
   I don’t see any, but well, before migrating 30.000 threads (assuming I’ll be 
   able to) I’d rather be sure…

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 *  [schestowitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schestowitz/)
 * (@schestowitz)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-from-phpbb2-to-wp/#post-300800)
 * I, for one, would love to see that. I get plenty of spam on phpBB and it is laborious
   to eradicate. SEO-wise you will be better off with WordPress, assuming you you
   do this properly. Security in phpBB is now notorious (DoS attacks and hijacking).
   Extension-wise you’ll do better. phpBB have lost some valued team member whom
   I suspect was the lead developer.
 * More on the issues: scalability, threading of comments (although WP plug-ins 
   exist). Others can elaborate, I suppose…

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