shaks

First thing i did was to click on “Select All Not Sinc” (that’s a typo error. Surely, you mean Sync and not Sinc). Just a small thing, but i want to help you to make this plugin perfect. I will also help you to write documentation on it, if you want. 🙂

When i clicked on “Select All Not Sinc”, this action selected all the unsynchronized posts in red color. Then i scrolled down to the bottom of the page and i clicked on “Synchronize” button.
This made new topics inside the SMF forum. All the unsynchronized topics were transferred inside the SMF forum and the order in which the original blog posts were made, are the same for the SMF topics. So the date problem has been fixed. 🙂

Now, when the “synchronize” menu reloaded, all the posts were in black color and none were in red color, so that means all posts were now synchronized.
At the bottom of the page, i now see this (in a row):

Total Posts
4050
Total Posts Synchronized
4050
Total Posts Not Synchronized
0
Posts Synchronized Now
687
Posts Not Synchronized Now
0

So, now i click on “Select All” link at the top of the page and i click on “Synchronize” button at the bottom of the page.
Now, i wait until all the posts are being transferred to the SMF forum.

The page reloads, but the number of topics in the SMF forum is unchanged and is still 687.

At the bottom of the synchronize page, i now see this (in a row):

Total Posts
4050
Total Posts Synchronized
4050
Total Posts Not Synchronized
0
Posts Synchronized Now
999
Posts Not Synchronized Now
0

Now, the “Posts Synchronized Now” value has changed, but i don’t understand why and nothing else has changed on the SMF forum.

Now, i refresh the WordPress synchronize menu. I click on “Select All” and click “synchronize” button. But there are no new topics added to the SMF forum.

I think something was broken along the way. Only the unsynchronized posts selected at the very beginning was converted. After that, no posts can be converted to SMF, as the page just reloads and nothing is added to the forum. I have used a new forum for this new conversion, and now only 687 topics can be converted. How to convert the rest?

I renamed the forum2 folder, and my WordPress blog is now back online and your plugin appears to still be working. Thank you.

You are right, i should be more careful when testing new plugins on my actual sites. 🙂

But you are doing a really great job with this new plugin, so i will be watching the development very closely. I am sure that many many more people will use your plugin to convert their WordPress blog, as you fix and improve it further.

Let me know if you need any help to do any testing, in order to accelerate the development process. I can create a backup of my blog and SMF forums and work with these safely, without affecting my actual blog.

I can’t wait to launch my final converted WordPress to SMF forum! 😀

Hi SchattenMann

First, thank you very much for your reply and for making this fantastic plugin! Though you might not be fully aware, your plugin’s functionality is actually a highly requested utility that you have created. In my long research, your plugin is the only one in the whole world that allows converting a WordPress blog into a SMF forum. So, well done with your plugin’s synchronize option! It’s a life saver for those who would otherwise have to post each WordPress post one by one in their SMF forum.

About the date problem, i mean, the date/time that the topics are created in the SMF forum. Let me explain further – on my blog, i have close to 4000 posts, since my blog has been online for a long time, with many contributors. So, when i use your plugin’s synchronize option, it converts these blog posts into forum topics but the problem is that the plugin creates all the SMF topics starting from the newest blog post and the conversion ends with the oldest blog post. Now, when i go the SMF forum, i see that the oldest posts from my blog appear on the first page of the forum, as the newest topics. This should have been the other way round. Meaning, that your plugin’s synchronize option should create new topics in the forum, starting with the oldest blog posts, instead of the newest blog posts. Anyone would prefer to have their newest blog posts to show on the first page of a forum’s board, rather than having to browse the last pages of the forum for the latest blog posts. I think this should be easy to fix.

Also, in your plugin’s synchronize menu, could you please add more information, like the total number of blog posts listed. That way, i can know if the list shown comprises of all of the blog posts. I ask this, because after i converted all my blog posts (by selecting only about 200 posts at a time, to prevent my server from getting timeout problems) i checked in my SMF forum and it is missing about 600 topics. My total blog posts is about 4000. But the converted number of topics in the SMF forum only shows about 3400.

Also, could you make it so that your plugin (or another version of it) works with SMF 1.1.11? SMF 2.0 is still not finalized, so it’s not stable to be used on big sites.