Jump back in time to bbPress 2.1 Twenty Ten templates, they specifically used tables for forums, topics & replies. You want to have a close look at the loop-*.php templates.
http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.1/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress
I don’t know of any bbPress specific plugin that can do this but there might be one that does something similar for standard WordPress Users/Subscribers/Authors etc.
I suggest having a search of WordPress Extend and if your in luck such a plugin may exist and may even work with bbPress.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
How about I close this topic and we can keep it all in this single topic 
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/moving-to-a-new-wordpress-site/
I presume you are meaning the built in WordPress Export tool /wp-admin/export.php
I presume you are you exporting ‘All Content’ rather than forums, topics, replies individually?
After you have performed the import do you run the bbPress’ repair tools?
Presuming you are going to take ‘Approach 1′ then that links you to this doc:
http://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/
That looks good to me but I would not start that without both a site & SQL backup.
I was playing about with this earlier related to a different issue ttrying to recreate another bug but could not recreate the issue and have no problems using a custom `archive-topic.php` file in eg. `/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/bbpress/`.
@earthman100 If you just want to map them manually you can do this from the WordPress ‘Users’ admin panel though you need to be using bbPress 2.3.
The new shortcode is actually [bbp-stats] http://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
I moved your topic to a new thread as it isn’t related to the one you replied to.
I presume you are meaning the built in WordPress Export tool /wp-admin/export.php
I presume you are you exporting ‘All Content’ rather than forums, topics, replies individually?
After you have performed the import do you run the bbPress’ repair tools?
I have only had access to test vBulletin 4.x to test importing into bbPress.
Does vBulletin 3.8.x support topic tags at all?
Also this doc has any other known issues http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vBulletin/
@realhood I still cannot reproduce your issue using the same settings you have above or with ‘Forum Prefix’ unchecked.
This works perfectly http://127.0.0.1/search?bbp_search=test
Most are using a plugin for this and there are a few that offer similar functions so check out some of the plugins listed http://bbpress.org/plugins/
@realhood What do you have set for each of these ‘Single Slugs’?
There are many different issues that have been posted here in this thread, please add your specific details of your issues when you post a message, we cannot read minds 
@jezza101 “Can I control which stats are shown? For example “empty tags” isn’t something I really want to boast about on my forum!”
‘Empty Tags’ are ONLY shown if you actually have empty topic tags… Essentially that is giving you a hint that you have topic tags with no associated topics so you can delete those empty topic tags.
You should see an ‘IMG’ link or Picture icon on your editor toolbar for adding links to images with bbPress 2.3.
Improved mobile support is planned for bbPress 2.4 http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1933
Do you use the bbPress Moderation plugin ?
Edit: I am quite sure you are using this plugin now, please disable it for now and everything should be fine. I asked the author about bbPress 2.3 compat ~2 months ago but we have not heard back from the plugin author.
Can you give us a link to your forum so we can have a closer look please.
@probablynot & @jezza101 Will hunt around and see what we can do about having a simple way to turn ‘search’ off.
@docchewbacca There is no fixed timeline for ‘individual access rights’ forum permissions and all that goes with that feature and what is planned for bbPress 2.4 is still yet to be 100% decided.
@sadr I get what you are saying regarding search results as excerpts though I think then that if the search term was not in the first ‘x’ words of the excerpt of the topic/reply that would then cause confusion as to how that result is relevant. Maybe create a ticket on trac and discuss it further their might be best option.
@premitheme I think, from memory @JohnJamesJacoby uses MAMP Pro so I find this one rather odd
@alexiousrahl Search is enabled by default, you should be able to see the search form at the top of your forums list eg. http://example.com/forums/
I have also updated the Shortcodes and Widgets codex pages.
