2. Switching content from one forum board to
another became painless and fully automated
thanks to CMS2CMS, website and forum
migration service.
In just a few clicks all your forum topics,
forum posts, users, images, and even polls, are
moved from SMF to Kunena without a slight
hint of coding.
Once chosen platform, doesn’t have to be your forum
board’s home forever!
There’s no need to fasten a seat belt, as far as the SMF to Kunena
migration will be smooth and successful 😉
3. Prefer watching to reading? Watch a short video to see how
CMS2CMS works!
4. Create Your CMS2CMS Account
To start your SMF to
Kunena 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. Specify Your SMF forum Details
Choose Simple Machines
Forum as your Existing
forum type and enter its
URL into the provided
field.
6. Establish the Connection to Your SMF Board
Now you are to set up the
connection to your Simple
Machines Forum. For doing
this, download and install
the Connection Bridge to
your computer.
Here is the video tutorial,
where the process of
installation is shown in
details.
When you’ve done with
that, press “Verify
Connection” button.
7. Provide Your Kunena forum Details
Next step would be
to specify your new
forum board type.
In this case, choose
Kunena.
Then provide its
URL in the
corresponding field.
8. Connect to Your Kunena Board
On this step, you have to
establish the connection
to your Kunena forum.
Click the “Download
Connector Extension”
button and the file
containing cms2cms-
connector-extension
folder will be saved to
your local computer in a
zip format.
9. Upload the CMS2CMS Connector Extension to your Joomla site
Right now you have to upload
the Connector Extension to
your website. As far as
Kunena is a forum board
based on Joomla CMS, you
need to go to the Control
Panel of your Joomla
website.
Follow the next instructions
to upload the extension:
Select Control Panel -> Extensions -> Manage -> Install -> Choose the file
from your computer -> Upload and Install
10. Click on the CMS2CMS Connector Extension and log into CMS2CMS
11. Start Free Demo Migration
Using CMS2CMS service
for your SMF to Kunena
migration, you may preview
the future look of your
migrated forum and run
Free Demo migration.
Choose the Entities and
needed additional options
you are going to move.
In case you want to
migrate all your data
without Demo, you may skip
this step.
12. Start a Final Transfer from SMF to Kunena Forum
Before starting a complete
migration to Kunena forum board,
you can check the Free Demo
result and see how your migrated
forum topics and posts look like
on the new platform.
Just go to your New forum, and
check how SMF to Kunena
migration works.
If you are satisfied with the
result, you may complete the
migration.