Move your site from LonexCommunity

If your community has been running a LonexCommunity website, you don't have to build it again. Upload an export of its database and LonexOne brings across your branding, pages, news, menu, departments, application forms, team page and open suggestions.

You see exactly what will be added before anything is saved, and you can undo the whole import for 24 hours.

Before you start#

You need the Edit the community site: pages, navigation and branding permission.
To bring across departments and application forms, the Departments module needs to be installed, and you need permission to create departments and application forms.
Keep your old site online until the import has finished. Images are copied from it.
The export can be up to 20 MB.

Export your LonexCommunity database#

Open phpMyAdmin (or whatever you use to manage your database) and pick the LonexCommunity database.
Click Export, choose Quick and SQL, and download the file. You can also use mysqldump.

LonexOne only reads the rows in the file. Nothing in it is run. Any table prefix works, so it doesn't matter if you changed lc_ when you installed LonexCommunity.

Import it#

In your control panel, click Import site under Community Site.
Choose the .sql file.
In Old site address, enter the address of your LonexCommunity site, like https://yourcommunity.com. Leave it empty if you don't want your images.
Untick anything you don't want to bring across.
Click Check the export.
Look through What will happen. Anything that can't be imported is listed with the reason.
Click Import. The import runs in the background, and the page shows how far it's got. Copying images can take a few minutes.

What comes across#

From LonexCommunity	Becomes
Site name, colour, logo, banner image, description, footer, Discord invite and social links	Your community name and branding. Social links for sites LonexOne doesn't list, like Kick or Reddit, are left out.
About and Rules	Your About and Rules pages. If you've already written your own, they're left alone.
Custom pages	Pages in the page editor. Drafts stay drafts, and pages limited to Discord roles become members-only.
News and RP news	News posts in a News or RP News category, with their cover pictures. They aren't posted to Discord or sent as notifications again.
Site announcements still running	Site banners.
Your menu	Links added to your site's menu, up to 12.
Redirect links	Short links.
Departments	Departments with their ranks, colour and description. The first rank in the list is the highest.
Application forms	Application forms, with every question from every stage in one list.
Applications still waiting for a decision	Waiting applications, with staff notes and messages added as notes.
Team page groups	Team page groups. Groups tied to site roles follow the matching Discord roles; others list their people.
Open, planned and in progress suggestions	Suggestions with their votes.
Forum categories, threads and replies	Forums, with the Forums module installed for you. Pinned and locked threads stay that way. Categories limited to site roles are set to forum moderators only.

Applicants, voters and team members who haven't signed in to LonexOne yet are added as members by their Discord account. When they sign in with Discord, they pick up everything that's theirs.

Anything with the same name or address as something you already have is skipped, so running the import again doesn't add things twice.

What doesn't come across#

Site roles and permissions. In LonexOne, members get access from their Discord roles.
Decided applications, closed suggestions and suggestion comments.
Page builder layouts, custom CSS and scripts, embeds and iframes. The words, images and links on those pages do come across, as plain content you can restyle in the page editor.
Forum tags, reactions, reports and edit history, and the wiki, gallery, partners, changelog and the status page.
The store, support tickets, generic forms like ban appeals, and profile posts.
Discord channel and webhook settings, and the roles an application gives when it's accepted.

Undo an import#

Open the import from the list on the Import site page and click Undo import. This removes everything the import added, deletes the images it copied, and puts your branding, menu and any About or Rules page it filled in back as they were.

Members the import added are removed too, unless they've signed in since.

You can undo an import for 24 hours after it finishes.

Something not working?#

It says "No LonexCommunity data found." The file isn't a full LonexCommunity export. Export the whole database as SQL, not just one table, and make sure the export includes the data and not only the structure.

Images are missing. Images are copied from the address you gave while the import runs. If the old site was offline, slow or behind a login, those images are left out, and the import says how many. Images hosted somewhere else, like Imgur, are kept as links.

A page looks different. Pages made with the LonexCommunity page builder come across as plain content: headings, text, images, questions and links. Open the page in the page editor to tidy it up.

An application didn't come across. Only applications still waiting for a decision are brought across, and only if the applicant had a Discord account on the old site.