[Dale MacDonald]

I need to migrate a ~300 member listserv into CBox.

I’m guessing that I will want to do something along the lines of

<a href=”http://wordpress.org/support/topic/mass-user-creation-in-wordpress-30″>mass-user-creation-in-wordpress-30</a&gt;

but adding code to put the new users in the group and set their mail preferences (digest or not) as well as populating the forums with the archive.

Has anyone walked this path and know where all the potholes are?

Thanks,

Dale.

[Ray]

As a guide, you can check out the Ning conversion plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-from-ning/

Which converts Ning to BuddyPress, but you’ll also have to worry about two things:

1) Converting your listserv to forums – Check out the bbPress plugin, which comes bundled conversion scripts:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.3.2/includes/admin/converters

You’ll probably have to write your own conversion script to properly convert your listserv over to bbPress.

2) Setting mail preferences – Look into the Group Email Subscription plugin, which handles group email. In particular, check out the ass_group_subscription() function to set a user’s subscription level.

Hope that helps.

[Matthew K Gold]

I do want to say that I see the development of a plugin that would do this sort of thing to be a good possible feature for our roadmap — I can imagine that it would facilitate usage among many communities if there were an easy way to bring a listserv over to a CBOX group.

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