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i’m in the same situation – and i’ve yet to find a post that explains how to remove the sidebar correctly.

JJJ, could you write a post that explains how to do that – in an idiot proof format?

Thanks!

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I see that the password hashes which cause issues have a ” in them, which must cause an issue I guess.

Any ideas how to fix?

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so, no news then?

anyone have some tips for other forums to try that work well with WP then?

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ok, very sad though.

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

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Hi guys, any update please re:punbb.

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

Thanks.

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any news on the punbb eta? thanks

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thanks a lot Anointed Let’s hope he has good news, as I have no money for custom work i’m afraid

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I hate to nag, but I would really like to know if this will work with punBB anytime in the near future?

If not, I will just move to a different system – my current setup is just spam infested – no punBB plugin can stop it. I really need to jump ship soon

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any ETA on the updated tool? thanks.

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AW, as i’ve jumped from punbb>phpbb2>phpbb3>bbpress1>bbpress2, I don’t think it’s worth sharing my setup – just too many variables to account for.

However, look forward to testing a punbb or phpbb version for you.

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any eta for phpbb or punbb? thanks!

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Hi Anointed, thanks for that. I really need to get my punBB moved to something else ASAP, and was hoping the bbpress might be the one.

Indeed, I just went from punbb > phpbb etc, as there is no direct conversion. It does seems that along the way, little things break – which in the end screw up the final conversion step.

Looking forward to a new release of your tool

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OK, I solved my mismatch problem by simply removing the top level forum category.

However, the blank posts still occur.

I’ve tracked it down to:

– at the BBpress1 stage, while the POSTs show the correct author, the actual TOPIC shows “Anonymous” for every entry.

– there is a duplicate entry in the DB, one which is the topic title, and then the actual contents.

things look fine with phpbb3, so I guess the error was with the “phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter_v2″….

not your converter.

Anyhow, thanks for your great work!!! I just need to get my data in a state where it can be pulled in. Thanks.

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haha. i think you need to give some more details, if you hope for any help

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Hi,

to help test this, I’ve moved my punBB forum over, and for the most part things work. However there is one major issue.

I’ve done the conversion by going from:

punbb > phpbb2 > phpbb3 > bbpress1 (standalone) > this converter > bbpress2

at the bbpress1 stage, I checked the data, forums, users etc and all looked good.

after conversion, when going through the ADMIN page/REPLIES, you see that each reply is linked to:

‘top level forum container’ (Mismatch)

and each thead that I look at, has an empty post at the start (i guess because of this issue?).

Topics are allocated correctly as they should be though.

My forum is setup as so:

– Top Level Forum Container

– forum 1

– forum 2

– forum 3

Any ideas how to fix this issue?

Thanks!!

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any ETA on the PHPbb 3x option, and would you add punBB to the consideration list?

Thanks

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thanks

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this is brilliant news. THanks!

any chance of having punBB part of that tool?

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thanks for the reply. I’ve been messing with the one i’ve found here:

ForumConverter

but I’ve not been able to get it working yet. it imports most of the data, but some fields are broken.

I hope either the owner of that, or someone else will come out with a full release soon. BBv2 looks great – but without data to import, I can’t play

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I’m also interested in this.

Surely an importer is in the works, right? Cannot be that everyone starts from scratch???