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In reply to: New Translation (Greek), where?
The instructions are here: https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
That said I cannot see any Greek (el) translations for bbPress in GlotPress for the 2.2 or 2.3(dev) branches of bbPress https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress
I suggest you try asking some of the Greek WordPress communities listed here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language#Greek_.28el.29In particular on their forum http://wpmania.gr/forum/
(You could also ask when they are planning on switching to bbPress ;))In reply to: problems w/ importing phpBB againGood idea re: resyncing the database. I don’t think this DB was maintained properly and upgrading from phpbb 2.x to 3.0.11 may have introduced some errors.
Does phpBB now have your “50K+” posts after the repair or still ~27K?
Unfortunately, the outcomes were all the same. the import seemed to hang, although it did get further this time (converting forums 100 – 199)
You only had ~10-15 phpBB forums when I looked earlier and it now looks like you have removed phpBB from your site so I can no longer confirm this.
The last message you should have seen during the import ‘forums’ step should have been `(converting forums 0 – 99)` before it moved onto the next step `Calculating forum hierarchy (0 – 99)`.
I used the stop/start suggestion, let it run for an hour, and it seemed that everything was imported.
Why do you presume that? Did you see your 50K+ posts somewhere?
Then when you go to view a forum or category or topic, and most of it is missing. Most recent posts were from 2004.
I stated in my previous post any counts you see before running the repair tools will be inaccurate.
This was before running any repairs. Running the repair functions depleted the counts further.
I’ll reiterate this again, any counts you see before running the repair tools after the import is finished are inaccurate and should not be relied upon.
The repair tools nor any part of bbPress will delete content from your WordPress database unless you explicitly do this via ‘forum reset’ or ‘purge previous import’.
I’m not sure I can troubleshoot this in time for my client’s deadline but if further suggestions or upgrades come up, I’m game for trying them out in the future.
At this stage yours is the ONLY phpBB forum that has NOT been successfully imported, there are virtually no future upgrades planned for the phpBB importer because they are not needed as it has thus far worked with every single phpBB import that I have been asked to test or help out with.
The output of the converter should be similar to this (They should match your phpBB stats to the nearest 100)
Did the import end up looking like this below? If not which step did it stop at?
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Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
Converting replies (2000 – 2099)
…
Converting replies (100 – 199)
Converting replies (0 – 99)
Converting topics (1200 – 1299)
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Converting topics (200 – 299)
Converting topics (100 – 199)
Converting topics (0 – 99)
Calculating forum hierarchy (0 – 99)
Converting forums (0 – 99)
No data to clean
Starting Conversion
`As I stated in the comments of the review you posted for the bbPress plugin at WordPress.org I am more than happy to take a look and help you get it imported.
If there is a bug with the importer and why your phpBB is not playing nice like all the other phpBB forum imports I can write a patch to fix it but I will need accurate detailed information from you to do this.
Cheers,
Stephen
In reply to: problems w/ importing phpBB againCool…. Lets start fresh and see what happens….
Firstly make sure phpBB is running smoothly…
You state that phpBB has ‘1400 users and at least 50K posts’ though the phpBB forum itself states ‘Total posts 26878, Total topics 3468 & Total members 1263’ so there could be some issues with your actual phpBB install and/or database.
Run these checks which should clear up any potential database issues with phpBB from the phpBB admin tools (ACP) /phpbbv3/adm/index.php
- Resynchronise statistics
- Resynchronise post counts
- Resynchronise dotted topics
Now resync all of the phpBB forums which again should clear up any phpBB issues and in particular any issues for when bbPress starts to ‘calculating board hierarchy’
- Click the ‘Forums’ tab in phpBB ACP
- You should now see a list of category/parent forums
- For each one of these over to the right is an option to ‘resynchronize’ the forum
- Do this for each of the category/parent forums then drill down through each of those to any child forums and do the same for each
That should take care of any phpBB database issues…
Now go and try the import again with the same settings you have used previously but also check the following two options.
- Start Over – Start a fresh conversion from the beginning
- Purge Previous Import – Purge all information from a previously attempted import
If you believe the importer starts to hang at any point and is not moving along simply click ‘stop’ to pause the import process and give your webhost a bit of time to catch up on any other tasks that might be running and click ‘start’ to resume the import.
Don’t run any of the repair tools whilst the importer is importing and wait until the import has completed before running each of the tools individually.
So how did it go?
In reply to: How to install custom translation?See this page in the docs for instructions https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
In reply to: Best URL Structure ?Darren,
I have a problem with the ‘spammy’ domain you keep linking to as it is a ‘web host’ ad farm, if you don’t own that domain please stop linking to it here on bbpress.org. I have removed these links from all of your posts.
You can find some hosting providers links here https://wordpress.org/hosting/ that are well and truly under $5 a month.
To your question the most common that suits most people is ‘Post Name’ as outlined here https://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure
Cheers,
Stephen
In reply to: URL StructureSee this thread https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-simplepress-5-importer/
This sounds like its related to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2085
There is a patch included with the upcoming bbPress 2.3
If you want to test this and make sure it is working for bbPress 2.3 go download bbPress 2.3 beta 2 and test it out with your setup. https://bbpress.org/blog/2013/02/bbpress-2-3-beta-2/
(Another discussion thread on the issue is here.)
In reply to: Problem to convert Simple Press to bbpressYou need to use the correct values from your wp-config.php file
eg.
$table_prefix = 'wp_';=wp_in the bbPressTable Prefix:field. (You usedMyDatabaseNamein ‘Table Prefix’Also if you are using the same WordPress install as your existing SimplePress install you don’t need to convert the users as they are already exist, so uncheck the convert users checkbox.
In reply to: Problem to convert Simple Press to bbpressHa…. Make sure to select ‘SimplePress’ from the menu and not ‘Example’ 😉
In reply to: Problem to convert Simple Press to bbpressYou should be able to find these values by using FTP to download a copy of /wp-config.php and open it with a text editor or use your web hosts file manager program to to view this file.
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** // /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define('DB_NAME', 'database_name'); /** MySQL database username */ define('DB_USER', 'database_username'); /** MySQL database password */ define('DB_PASSWORD', 'database_password'); /** MySQL hostname */ define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); .... /** * WordPress Database Table prefix. * * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique * prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please! */ $table_prefix = 'wp_';In reply to: Problem to convert Simple Press to bbpressIt is all in the docs (I hope)…
In reply to: Problem to convert Simple Press to bbpress@jasoncoffee My bad, I just updated the post above with a link to the bbPress 2.3 beta 2.
In reply to: Forums vs categoriesA ‘category’ cannot have topics, they are ‘parent’ objects for categorizing groups of forums in a container.
eg. ‘Software’ in this case would be a good choice for a ‘category’:
– Software (category)
— Apple (forum)
— Microsoft (forum)eg. You don’t have to use categories at all, you could just use a flat list of forums:
– Apple (forum)
– Microsoft (forum)In reply to: Can't get link to forum page from my wesite.Its your permalinks settings…. Check out how to set ‘pretty permalinks’ here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
In reply to: Blog and Forums marked activeThis is a known bug https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2204
In reply to: CachingI don’t see any problems there with the topic & reply I just created
http://www.big-data-forum.org/?topic=via-netweb-bbpress-orgA couple of things though… You may want to change your ‘permlink’ structure to use ‘pretty permalinks’ https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
When you are trying to find a problem with your site try disabling all your plugins except bbPress and see if the problem still occurs, if it is fixed reenable each plugin one by one and check for the problem again to isolate if it is a plugin causing the problem.
You should also test using the ‘Twenty Ten’ or ‘Twenty Twelve’ themes included with WordPress to make sure it is not an issue with the theme you are using.
In reply to: bbPress topic.js confict-/errorCan you download bbPress 2.3 beta 2 and see if this is fixed, there have been a few changes with topics.js that will be shipping with bbPress 2.3 and with some luck this is no longer an issue.
In reply to: Search page layout/design?Start of with the docs here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ and you should start looking at the files that contain ‘search’ in the filename.
In reply to: Can not see the forum on top menuHere are some step by step instructions to add an item to your menu.
And add http://example.com/forums as the link where you replace example.com with your domain name.https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen#Custom_Links
In reply to: Can't get link to forum page from my wesite.Here are some step by step instructions for what I mentioned above that hopefully will be a little clearer and the link you add would be http://example.com/forums where you replace example.com with your domain name.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen#Custom_Links
In reply to: Can't get link to forum page from my wesite.Open your WordPress admin dashboard and got to ‘Appearence’ -> ‘Menus’ (/wp-admin/nav-menus.php)
Add a link eg http://example.com/forums your menu and click save.
Indeed there has been some changes but this truly is way above my limited knowledge of PHP 😉
Hopefully some of these topics can help you out:
In reply to: Polish TranslationThanks for this 🙂
In reply to: phpBB import username issueThis is by design and is expected behaviour.
If you do an import and the username already exist or they were imported from a previous import the user will be given a username with the prefix `’imported_’` as you outlined above.
Most of what is mentioned above can now be found in the docs
