There are a couple of routes you could go down depending on how you plan on running WordPress:
- WIMP (Windows, IIS, MySQL/MS SQL & PHP)
- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP)
Once you have either of the above up and running and my suggestion is most definitely the second option to convert your database to MySQL then it would involve writing a custom import script based on the included example `Example.php` included with bbPress.
(I have been updating all the import scripts lately so hopefully a new version of `Example.php` will not be far away, if not `bbPress1.php` and `phpBB.php` would be better to use as a basis for a custom DNN import script.)
This is bbPress here, you want BuddyPress over here http://buddypress.org/ 
This support forum is specific to bbPress plugin for WordPress.
I suggest you have a search of the WordPress Supports forums here and put a post up there if you do not find an answer. http://wordpress.org/support/
Stop using bbConverter, it does not work and is no longer supported by the developer.
Use the import tool that comes with bbPress 2.x, you can find this in your WordPress Admin Dashboard under ‘Tools’ -> ‘Forums’ -> ‘Import Forums’
Something like this should get you going:
`if ( bbp_has_topics( array( ‘author’ => 0, ‘show_stickies’ => ‘false’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘post_parent’ => ‘any’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5 ) ) )
bbp_get_template_part( ‘bbpress/loop’, ‘topics’ );`
You need to select ‘phpBB’ at the top of forum import screen and you need to specify the database prefix of your phpBB database tables, typically this is ‘phpbb_’ though you should confirm this for your database using phpMyAdmin on your web host.
Ahmmmm… That was the theory…
I just tested this and if I create new parent categories and forums and move the topics to them that also trips this bug….
I will get back to you shortly 
@shrewdies
Huge thanks for this (and your life story, it puts things in a much clearer context.)
I have also split this topic starting from your first post as a new thread as I am quite sure this will be referenced by quite a few who do migrate from Simple Press.
I will also link to it from the FAQ I am doing that will link from this page:
http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/simplepress/
Cheers,
Stephen
Thanks for letting us know and confirmed as a bug, we were partially there with trac ticket #2085
You can use the following workaround for now until we get the bug patched.
- Create a new forum with forum attributes ‘category’ and ‘private’
- Create two new forums using the above forum as the ‘parent’ and visibility ‘private’
Now as long as you don’t move or edit the forum or category descriptions things should work as expected, if you do move the forums or edit the descriptions you will encounter the same issue.
So close… Indeed you use bbp_has_replies to reverse order the replies
`function custom_bbp_has_replies() {
$args['order'] = ‘DESC’; // ‘ASC’ (Ascending, Default), ‘DESC’ (Descending)
return $args;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_before_has_replies_parse_args’, ‘custom_bbp_has_replies’ );`
And use bbp_show_lead_topic to always show the ‘lead topic’ (More details here.
`function custom_bbp_show_lead_topic( $show_lead ) {
$show_lead[] = ‘true’;
return $show_lead;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_show_lead_topic’, ‘custom_bbp_show_lead_topic’ );`
@shrewdies
Thanks for the feedback, glad it worked for you.
What custom rewrite rules did you use in .htaccess for redirects, care to share these for other users migrating from SimplePress?
Cheers,
Stephen
Thanks for this, it would be great if these could be added here:
http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress
If you are interested in doing this post a message on the Polyglots blog here:
http://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/
Each user can manage their own email subscriptions to topics via their user profile eg.
http://bbpress.org/forums/profile/sixf00t4/subscriptions/
If a user wants to subscribe to an RSS feed simply add /feed/ to the end of any URL.
I think having a look at the following trac ticket that has some changes in the upcoming bbPress 2.3 might give you some pointers or it might be enough for you to just use as is when 2.3 is released.
http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1799
There is this comment via @JJJ
Try bumping the converter start (_bbp_converter_start) up 1 or 2, and see if it continues on.
I am trying to wrap my head around this and this may or may not help
Once the import stops at that magic ~31000 number open up your WordPress `wp_options` table in phpMyAdmin and find the following three entries (or values similar):
- `_bbp_converter_step | 6`
- `_bbp_converter_start | 31100`
- `_bbp_converter_query | SELECT convert(topics.topic_id USING “utf8…`
These translate to ‘step’ is the step the conversion was up to (Importing forums, forum hierarchy, topics etc), ‘start’ is the last set of rows the converter was importing when it stopped from the current ‘step’ and ‘query’ was the last SQL query executed.
I think from some calculated guesswork yours will be around step=6 & start=31000
What you can now try is to change this ‘start’ value directly in the `wp_options` table and increase the value to hopefully allow the importer to skip the problem and finish importing the remaining topics and onto importing the replies.
The default setting for the importer is to import 100 rows at a time as defined by ‘Rows Limit’ on the import options main import tool. Thus the importer could be failing on any of those 100 rows so if it was row 31000 that it stops on changing this to 31001 would continue on and finish the import. The reality is though that it could be any number from 31000 to 31099.
I would suggest on the forum import settings change ‘Rows Limit’ to ’1′ and in `wp_options` change `_bbp_converter_start` to 31001 and click start. This will resume the last import starting at the same ‘step’ it left off with and starting at row 31001 and then proceed 1 row at a time.
If the import stops again you can look up the values in `wp_options` and increase by 1 again and resume the import again.
Now with that said the import will continue to only import 1 row at a time for the remainder of the import process which with 30,000+ topics I expect you will have quite a few tens or hundreds of thousands of replies to also import and this will be much slower than importing 100 rows at a time.
You didn’t state the full plugin name
bbPress tries to be as compatible as it can with as many WordPress plugins as possible and I suggest you post in the Mingle Support Forum to see if any others have had the same issue and/or know of a work around. http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mingle
You just need to run the Repair Tools for ‘Count topics for each user’ and ‘Count replies for each user’.
Are you referring to Mingle Forums?
If so I could not repro this with bbPress 2.2.3 and Mingle Forums 1.0.33.3
- WordPress Role = Administrator | bbPress Role = Keymaster
- WordPress Role = Subscriber | bbPress Role = Moderator
- WordPress Role = Subscriber | bbPress Role = Participant
- WordPress Role = Subscriber | bbPress Role = Spectator
The above was all I tested but each works as expected:
http://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/
bbPress 2.x includes its own phpBB converter (It was based on bbConverter)
http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/
The next release of bbPress will also include further improvements of the phpBB importer (I am working on these right now)
It appears that bbPress Sweedish translations are a bit all over the place:
bbPress Dev – 87% Complete http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/sv/default
bbPress 2.2x – 0% Complete http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.2.x/sv/default
Also WP Sweeden had previously operated there own translations here
bbPress 2.1 http://wpsv.se/oversattning/projects/bbpress/21
bbPress 2.0 http://wpsv.se/oversattning/projects/bbpress/20
I think the best idea would be to contact WP Sweeden and ask about bbPress translations
http://wpsv.se/kontakta-oss/
Did you run the bbPress 1.1 admin recount tools /bb-admin/tools-recount.php before importing?
You can try importing again now and if that fixed it, good, if not onto phpMyAdmin:
To check the integrity of the bbPress 1.1 database and repair/optimize any tables if needed. The instructions in following are written for WordPress but are the same for any database so follow the two steps ‘Optimization using phpMyAdmin’ and ‘How to Repair WordPress Tables’ here:
http://wpmu.org/wordpress-maintenance-101-how-to-optimize-and-repair-database-tables/
