[Stephen Edgar]

You can use the standard WordPress import and export tool, no need for a bbPress to bbPress importer

[Stephen Edgar]

@jkw217, You do not have the exact same problem, please add some more information to the post I’ve just made here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-parent-and-child-relationships/

p.s. Please create your own topics in future instead of replying to other topics, 99.9999% of the time your import issues will be different to that of someone else’s, if you need to you can link o other topics as a reference and say it is “similar to xyz”

[Stephen Edgar]

@jwk, I’ve moved this to its own topic as this does NOT affect all of bbPress.

This will be specific to whatever import process of importer you are using.

What are you importing and where from @jkw217? phpBB? a raw database?

[Stephen Edgar]

@korobochkin have you tried using AMP at all with your permalinks id plugin?

[Stephen Edgar]

To be honest I’ve only just started thinking about it.

We should probably start with a Trac ticket, then start discussing it in Slack

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the update, it was worth a try 😉

Are you getting the correct post_parent now with those changes you’ve made?

The notes I added in reply to @liderxlt above I’m pretty sure will get that sorted for @liderxlt

I’m happy to look at any raw data or datebase dumps you have Mike, maybe a forum and/or topic WXR dump like that of which @liderxlt posted.

[Stephen Edgar]

Awesome glad that worked (I removed the previous reply as it was spam)

[Stephen Edgar]

This plugin supports posting to bbPress by email https://github.com/rmccue/falcon

It’s out of date and needs some testing and reporting what does and doesn’t work

If anyone could help with the I could help get any code changes required added 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

I think it should still work, if there are any issues ping me here and I’ll take a look.

[Stephen Edgar]

If you want that functionality you will need to modify the plugin I linked to, you could set it so that it is only enabled on specific forums, or specific topics, that’s up to you.

It is not a bug in bbPress, it is by design, just as you can install plugins for WordPress, in this case, bbPress, you can install and customise bbPress by further installing bbPress plugins, it allows for the flexibility of each user to customise bbPress to their personal needs without imposing on others who do not want that functionality.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Hmmm, I think we should explore this a little closer, would you mind creating a ticket on our ticket tracker Trac?

bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

[Stephen Edgar]

This is by design if you install and activate the following plugin should do what you’re after

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/3815686

[Stephen Edgar]

Apologies for the late reply, there hasn’t been many requests to update the Vanilla importer, what I’ve done with most importers is when asked I’ll update it to the latest, in this case I’d checkout what the latest 2.x version is and add any updates as needed, for the most part there is usually not many changes as major database changes typically only occur in “major” releases, so if Vanilla 3.x is out, there would be a high change some SQL changes would be in that release.

Grab the latest bbPress RC-5 zip from the downloads page https://bbpress.org/download

The “Specified key was too long” error you mentioned has been fixed in this release along with loads of importer improvements.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d still prefer to see the database schema, not data that’s already been parsed.

From what I can see you’ve got various issues with that WXR data:

• <wp:post_type><![CDATA[topic]]></wp:post_type> <- topic shouldn’t be wrapped in ![CDATA[ / ]], I’m not sure if that or any other instances apart from content will be affected by this.

• _wp_page_template shouldn’t be included, if the post_type was page, then yes, but topic post type shouldn’t have a _wp_page_template meta key, again, I’ve no idea what the resultant behaviour of this would be, maybe ok, maybe not.

• You have the following, which is correct: 1327 is the “forum ID”

`
<wp:postmeta>
<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_bbp_forum_id]]></wp:meta_key>
<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[1327]]></wp:meta_value>
</wp:postmeta>
`

• Just above the above, you have the following which is *not* correct, post_parent is *not* “post meta”, this should be in the wp_posts table and *not wp_postmeta

`
<wp:postmeta>
<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[post_parent]]></wp:meta_key>
<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[1327]]></wp:meta_value>
</wp:postmeta>
`

• Closer to the top of your code you have <wp:post_parent>0</wp:post_parent>, this is where the post_parent should include that 1327 forum id.

I suspect if you can get 1327 into that last item above you’ll be all set, or at least progressed somewhat, I’m pretty sure the repair tools will be able to recalculate the topic meta once that is in, so that’s another option to repair any meta issues.

This might be a handy reference https://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description

Also checkout https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2516, the file attached to that ticket is a pretty comprehensive WXR XML file of forum, topics, and replies layed out per the description in that ticket, it might be worth importing into a test site to help visualise the data when looking at the source of the XML file 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you post the Rainmaker Database Schema somewhere? I’ll try and work it out for you

[Stephen Edgar]

The download issue was caused by wordpress.org migrated to new servers and a new data centre, and there were a few issues, they have switched back the affected servers I believe and this should be fixed.

If you continue to see errors please make a comment on this #meta ticket

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3383

I’ll look into the anonymous posting issue for you, are you using bbPress 2.5 or 2.6?

I think this was fixed for bbPress 2.6, can you try using 2.6-RC-5, the download link is available on https://bbpress.org/download/

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve removed Dropbox from that list at https://bbpress.org/about/examples/

A couple of my fav’s are:

This site has some great customisations:
* https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/forum/general-issues/

This, because Angry Birds 😉
* http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

Apologies @tesicg, I presumed you were using IIS because Windows 2008 Server R2 😉

Ignore the IIS suggestion I made, you’re using XAMPP so they would be useless.

For translations check your WordPress updates page for any available translation updates, both bbPress 2.5.x (the current release) and upcoming 2.6.x releases are 100% translated into Russian: https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/ru/default/wp-plugins/bbpress

There might have been a fix for “port conflicts” in the upcoming bbPress 2.6, could you try that and see if it is fixed please? https://bbpress.org/download/

If 2.6 doesn’t fix it could you add details on whats different between your 2008 Server and Windows 7 install, strange that XAMPP works on one and not the other

[Stephen Edgar]

As long as you have the IIS Rewrite Module it should work fine, it’s the equivalent of Apaches mod_rewrite module, it’s been a while since I’ve looked at IIS but that’s the only issue I’m aware of for for bbPress and IIS.

[Stephen Edgar]

Apologies, I missed that one, bbPress uses the same smileys as WordPress

The full list can be found here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies

[Stephen Edgar]

Try our docs, they are in English but cover most of what you are asking, I think 😉

Getting Started

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you looked at https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/ ?

[Stephen Edgar]

The source is available via browser at: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters

Or SVN: https://bbpress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk

Or Git: git://bbpress.git.wordpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

When someone says “this forum sucks” it’s pretty difficult to not take it personally, it does sting, and let’s not leave out the point that it’s incredibly disrespectful regardless of their open source knowledge this type of behaviour is not welcome here, and will not be tolerated either, @benjieblock is now banned from posting on these bbPress.org forums.

@rblackfox You question why Robin even does it, if you had read the reply and to which he has every right to reply, and I’ve no issue with his reply, and he has mine and bbPress’ full support, Robin spends countless hours here on bbPress.org helping others and he pointed out why he does it in his reply:

I’m just a guy who uses this software, and in turn spends some of my time in trying to help others.

You state you contribute to the larger community @rblackfox, yet your first interaction on any WordPress property is to criticise a others behaviour here, well you’re also no longer welcome here on bbPress.org, you’ll need to take your own advice from now on and use stackoverflow.