Seems only spammers are responding ;)

Looks like this thread and plugin has been abandoned :(

I had high hopes for this plugin and forum but looks like I'll have to look elsewhere. I've wasted enough time and effort on this!

http://www.tabloal.com

Right now, I'm stuck in no-man's land and would love to get a resolution of sorts.

If there is no further support or development into this plugin, then please let us know so that users like me can look at other solutions for our forum boards.

I appreciate all the work that has gone into this, but as it is, its not complete and not usable to anyone.

If anyone has successfully converted their phpBB board to bbPress using this converter, I'd like to hear from them.

Thank you in advance for any replies and help!

This is important info and should really also be included in description
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/
where it still says "We are working on phpBB"

What does this in the description mean:
"This plugin runs in the background and converts passwords for your users when they log in, so the process is seamless even if your old forum uses different encryption methods."
Does this mean that I should not uninstall the plugin after the conversion is complete?

I was hoping that community support would be ramping up by now, with people releasing such converters etc. But it seems not to be the case.

I will just have to look to an alternative (vanilla?), as I can't afford to pay for a conversion. Additionally, its not a good 'entry' into a new system - having to pay your way in. Doesn't give the impression of a thriving support system.

Maybe I don't fully understand the technical aspects, but if you guys can do a punbb>bbpress manual conversion, how difficult is it to convert those steps into a script for your future users?

Cheers,
Ed

Can you confirm whether bbconverter can import from phpbb 3.0.10

@ED
No idea. Frankly the interest in converting things has been much less than we anticipated. I have no idea what AWJunkies plans are at this point. I do know he does provide custom import services if you need it.

I changed a user's username (and user nicename -- I hope that was right) in the SQL database because they used an email address by mistake (and regretted it).

However, while the new username has populated their posts, the little notation "thread started by" has not changed and still lists the original username.

Can you please help me fix this? (In case it is obvious, I am not that experienced with databases or php for that matter.)

Thanks!

If it won't happen - or will be months out, that's OK. But an ETA would be good to know.

Thanks.

I'm quite surprised that you started off with platforms (vbulletin and invision) that are jointly less popular than phpbb. But I suppose one of the plugin developers had forums that used those platforms and I'm glad to be able to benefit from your hard work.

You have mentioned in the plugin description that conversion for phpbb is coming *soon*, and I was wondering if you might be able to provide some updates on that.

Finally, am I correct in assuming that bbconverter
i) imports topics and forum hierarchies into bbpress
ii) including the relations between topics and forums
iii) and slugs for topics and forums
iv) generates an .htaccess to place in the old forum directory so that old URLs are 301 redirected to new ones.
v) imports users including profiles, passwords, signatures and roles

transposition is too complicated, it's been five months is expected.
still no doc, no follow-up or help on the forum.
Worse this forum does not even seem built on bbPress 2.0.

I know it's voluntary but it does not start on an adventure as important without resources and time.

bbPress seems still in beta.

http://www.onlineedudirectory.com

I'm afraid I cannot help with the smf conversion until I can get some answers regarding use of the converter's internal query mechanisms.

and... you just pointed out an error in my profile... should be bigtreestech.com.
joe

If you mean me, I never received it and would LOVE LOVE LOVE to contact you about how you converted your SMF forum. I'll email you now to touch base with you. I originally have an SMF forum and had converted it to phpBB and waited on this phpBB converter. But I'm just having no luck and not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've thought of going back to the SMF forum and looking your instruction over again.

I hope you don't if I contact you and try it again. Thx!

IF AWJunkies/Alex did make the SMF converter next, that might very well solve my problems so I'm not double converting to get it to bbpress.

ETA: djoep, your profile doesn't have an email in it. I tried your site link but it doesn't seem to be a working website anymore. My email is dianna@diannamangus.com if you would or want to contact to help me with the my SMF conversion. I did get pretty close with it, so I'm sure it's just something stupid that I'm not doing correctly.

I have a problem that I haven't seen anyone mention yet so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to run my conversion and I'm getting the "exceeded 75000 questions" and so I was going to have to keep trying to run it every hour to finally get it all converted.

HOWEVER, I keep getting an odd end result after I get the screen with the error messages that it will then take me to my login page but it's the 5 minutes wordpress installation option and it asks me for my login info and then it says page not found.

My forum is at http://www.mywebsite/forum
My wordpress site is at http://www.mywebsite/blog

After converstion it will send me to http://www.mywebsite/blog/wp-admin/install.php

If I put in my old info to the wordpress login it will kick out another list of the conversion errors.

I'm not sure if I'm having root directory problems or something going on with the conversion. I'll keep looking but does anyone know immediately off hand what I've got going wrong or what it could be?

It's weird.

ETA: I just found that the conversion has changed my wp-config file settings for the database name, dbase username and password. It looks like it puts in some generic settings that you guys have. Here's what my config says...

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wrd_kk3k2nhle4');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'tsupport');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '123456');

Should I try to find a certain converter file and change this default setting within that file? The converter must not have taken my settings that I put into the form provided to do the conversion.

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Hadn't thought about any of that actually. I suppose a person could choose what existing forum to put the posts in, make replies anonymous temporarily on bbpress when doing the conversion, so that you could post comments as replies without having to register anyone.

Mostly I think the most important thing to transfer over would be to have the topic itself.

Not sure how much a demand for this there would be though, I know I'm not the only one who is looking for a way to do this though. I'm hoping to use bbpress in such a way that it replaces the blogging function entirely, so hopefully i can figure this out.

I think there might be a way to do it actually. I thought I saw something once upon a time that converted wordpress posts into bbpress topics for the standalone version. I guess once you convert to the standalone you could then convert it yet again to the plugin version.

I'll give it a shot and see what happens.

Thanks

Jon

No, the converter is not currently setup to convert posts to forum topics.

Thinking about it, it would actually be a rather large undertaking.

1. Do you create a new forum for each post category to put the post into the right forum?

2. If so, what about posts with more than one category, do you put the post into multiple forums?

3. what do you do with the comments? Do they become replies?

4. What do you do with threaded comments? They would be way out of order in the scheme.

5. What do you do for comment authors as most people who comment are not members? Do you create accounts for them and simply not let them know it? Do you send them password to access a site they never signed up for?

Bottom line is it is possible, but really should/would remain in the realm of a custom job as everyone would want a different setup.

I look forward to your help here with our respective issues with bbconverter.