[Stephen Edgar]

Right, clear as mud then 😉 But this does sound like this is the expected behaviour 🙂

Trivia: bbPress.org theme here shows both @username and “Display Name” because people used to try and ping me via @Stephen Edgar, rather than @netweb, hence we added both to the template loops 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

@ sziban Cool, 1st up, you should use the development version bbPress 2.6-alpha, it has some improvements for anonymous users, you can get it from https://bbpress.org/download/

Take a look at the phpBB and SMF importers for good examples:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php

In particular, the following was added to add support to import topics and replies from “anonymous” users.

So rather than trying to import each of your legacy anonymous users as WordPress users the changes above will assign each of them to the built in bbPress anonymous user, and assign the “legacy” “nickname” to the imported topic or reply, its kind of cool and I’m pretty sure it will do what you are after.

Let me know how it goes or any other questions you may have 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

@abiliocaetano, thanks for this, I added it to our codex article here.

[Stephen Edgar]

Did I get it backwards? I confused myself when testing this. :/

Can you test this with a new user please and create the appropriate ticket based on the results if needed 🙂

• When a new user is created they *only* have a username
• The user does *not* have a first and last name
• Once a user adds their first and last name the username is still used
• Now, if a user goes to their profile and *chooses* their display name to *use* their first and last name then that is that users *choice*

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress uses the users username by default, a user can change their own profile to use first/last name if they wish via the “Display name” on the users edit profile screen.

[Stephen Edgar]

The ———————- is typically due to WordPress losing its database connection 🙁

If you open up a second tab to your /wp-admin page and occasionally refresh that page (30-60mins) that should prevent that from happening again.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can also use the built in export WordPress WXR (which is just an XML file), and WordPress Importer plugin.

[Stephen Edgar]

If you want to customise your site to match any of these formats then creating a child theme with the template changes that you’ve already made is the way to go.

And just some FYI on on this stuff from a bbPress context, historically bbPress has supported Microformats as this is also what WordPress uses and most of the search engines also support, Google included.

There is a long standing ticket in bbPress to get its breadcrumbs to work better with search engines though the fact as noted in that ticket is that none of the proposed specifications have been finalised, as none of the HTML5 microdata, Google Microdata Breadcrumbs or Bing Microdata Breadcrumbs specs are complete so we’ll probably go with the accessibility proposal instead.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can also use bbp_create_initial_content() with some bbp_parse_args() to generate your content, bbPress uses this to crate some sample/initial content when installing on multisite installs.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/core/update.php#L174

[Stephen Edgar]

I just read that #1550 ticket, last time I read it I think it made little to no sense 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Awesome 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, awesome job at what you’ve done so far 🙂

I just sent through a pull request with some basic/minor changes

These are the things I noticed when comparing the DB schema to the importer:

Categories:
• This will be tricky as they are in a different table nuke_dizkus_categories, can you manually create these and add the forums to them later after import etc?

Forum subscriptions:
• Your schema suggests nuke_dizkus_subscription rather than this zk_dizkus_forum_subscription

Topic Author IP:
• With some juggling of the phpBB query this should be possible I think

Topic content:
• This doesn’t quite look right, have you had issues with multiple same topics imported when you run the import at the moment?

Topic favorites:
• It looks like there are no topic favorites, though I do see forum favorites in nuke_dizkus_forum_favorites, unless the value stored in user_favorites stored in the nuke_dizkus_users table is for user favorites maybe

Passwords:
• Passwords are hard 🙁

Password verify class:
• If password importing works this field should match the importer class name dizkusZK

[Stephen Edgar]

Awesome, I’ll take a look a bit later, should be all I need now to get most of it up and running for you

[Stephen Edgar]

I did spend several hours trying to modify the phpBB converter to work with the Dizkus database tables before coming here. Was able to get it partly working but was losing meta data like poster name, post time, and it seemed the posts (replies) weren’t always assigned to the right topic.

If you still have the code for what you did here could you also upload that please, will save me some time and help me out quite a bit if you could 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Actually it looks like it is Zikula v1.3 or v1.4 and Dizkus module v3.1 or v4.0

Let me know which version and I’ll take a look at the database schema to help match up the missing meta data you mentioned ( meta data like poster name, post time)

[Stephen Edgar]

Is the latest version of Dizkus v1.3?

Does this look like the source code? https://github.com/paustian/Dizkus

The partial work that you did could you post the source code to GitHub please and I’ll take a look https://gist.github.com/

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve never heard of Dizkus 🙁

You could try making some more changes to the phpBB importer yourself if it already partially works:

Custom Import

Also checkout both of these for SMF and phpBB for the upcoming bbPress 2.6 release.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool…

Looking into supporting importing avatars to at least support BuddyPress’ avatars out of the box is one of the many things on my todo list that I just haven’t got to yet, maybe I’ll take a look at it for bbPress 2.7, 2.6 is close to being out the door so fingers crossed for 2.7 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

On the avatars front, maybe this will help?
https://github.com/CybMeta/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress

[Stephen Edgar]

If you look at the phpBB importer it has the callback_html and parses a bunch or regular expressions to manipulate the previous BBCode or HTML strings, will that work for you?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php#L934

[Stephen Edgar]

I think so, I doubt you’d have to downgrade though 2.6 is pretty stable and hopefully be released really soon 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Awesome 🙂

Just to add that the standard Drupal forums module for Drupal 7 was included in bbPress 2.5, I’m not sure if there is anything in that that you may not have in your Drupal 6.

Also, two of the importers SMF and phpBB have some cool new things for the upcoming bbPress 2.6, importing favourites, subscriptions, anonymous topics/replies/posts, you may want to have a look there to see if they help in importing more data from Drupal
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, as its no biggie, I’ve added your site to our list here: https://bbpress.org/about/examples/ 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Oh, can’t seem to find it, not in the spam or moderation queue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Stephen Edgar]

p.s. I like what you’re doing where with your homepage and bbPress http://www.utehub.com 🙂