[Stephen Edgar]

Try bbp_get_forum_topic_count() instead, this ‘gets’ the value, without the ‘get’ using bbp_forum_topic_count() it tries to output the value.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, it is because you don’t have the table prefix xf_ set when doing the import.

So use the same settings you used previously and add xf_ in the importer field “Table prefix”.

[Stephen Edgar]

Two things, the plugin I thought would help actually makes things worse, didn’t expect that, though the second thing, running what I ‘thought’ should work that I have tested previously also now doesn’t work. 🙁

I’ll need to test both of these tomorrow, and I’ll update things then, depending on the solution we are talking a range of 50-90% improvement in performance, so why either of these options is failing for me at the moment I’m unsure.

[Stephen Edgar]

I saw this pop up on my phone whilst I was out and wasn’t even going to try to chime whilst mobile. Anyways, I’m just going to have some dinner but whilst I eat that I’m generating a test site with a few hundred thousand posts to test a plugin, this “might” help but I’ve never tested it before, so give me half an hour and I’ll let you know.

[Stephen Edgar]

Hahahaha, yes what @Robkk said 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

This is not a bbPress issue, please post your WordPress issues on the WordPress support forums:

Support Forums

[Stephen Edgar]

Another (most likely dumb) question I forgot to ask. This could be the answer to the missing(?) topics/replies. At the end of the conversion, the program shows in short intervals ‘-’ on the screen. This takes forever and lasted almost as long as the initial part of the conversion which grabbed the Rows. I thought the conversion was finished when the ‘-’ stopped appearing on screen ‘————’ etc. Was I supposed to wait for some kind of other message which indicates the conversion ended?

This is basically WordPress losing the connection with the MySQL database and is a right pain, once this occurs “nothing” is now happening, the import is essentially stopped.

So in answer to your question, most likely this is the result of the missing topic/replies.

So yes, at the end of the conversion, you’ll see “Conversion Complete” with a link to the repair tools.

With most of the databases I have had to test to get compatibility with the importers many of the sample databases I have been sent (I don’t have a license for most of the commercial forum packages) I make a copy of the database and then prune/delete all but ~10 topics, the topics replies, the topic and reply users. This makes testing a breeze as it completes in a couple of minutes, once I know all is good then I give it a whirl on the full database.

[Stephen Edgar]

Awesome, just one of those things then, glad it worked for you 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

No, do not apply any fixes in #2586, these are what was included in bbPress 2.5.4.

I’ll check out a couple of things and get back to you, in the meantime do you still have “Enable Threaded Replies” in bbPress settings?

[Stephen Edgar]

I cannot think of any, it’s just a bad user experience to make users search through pages of categories and/or forums to find the one they want to read or post in.

[Stephen Edgar]

As I said, you alot of forum software that has pagination for the categories/forums.

This is why the time has not been spent adding this into bbPress, most of the time it is not needed.

What you should do is organize more “top level” categories if that’s what it takes.

category A
– sub-category A1
— forum AA1
— forum AA2
category B
— sub-category B1
— forum BB1
— forum BB2

[Stephen Edgar]

No magic wand, as each topic or reply is imported it is matched to the old user ID.

Thus you really need to import the users and the forums, topics and replies at the same time.

The reason you can do this separate is because bbPress 1.x, BuddyPress Group Forums, SimplePress, Mingle to name a few are WordPress plugins and thus the users already exist in the WordPress database.

I also can’t see a reason as to why importing the users, then the forums as separate imports would work and a single import for everything would not work. Essentially the way the import works is in steps, it imports each section, once finished moves to the next step.

Up for trying again? If you do please post back here any errors you see and I’ll help work through those with you.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for that, I’ll go make a note to dig into why the tracbacks/pingbacks are enabled, they shouldn’t be.

I had a quick look at the theme your using, MineWP, if you make a copy of the page.php file and rename it bbpress.php then remove the ‘comments’ section of the template:

Remove this line of code and save it and you’ll no longer have the pingbacks or trackbacks shown, technically they will still be enabled but will not show until we get this fixed.

<?php comments_template('',true); ?>

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, glad it fixed it for you 🙂

I’ve been using IPv6 heaps lately for testing but my 127.0.0.1 equivalent in IPv6 is ::1, thus it wasn’t an issue locally 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

So you want “Page 1”, “Page 2” etc? Currently bbPress forums do not support any form of pagination like that.

Reorganizing your category and forums structure is a much better idea, you won’t find many forums on the internet with their forums setup with that much fragmentation and is one of the reasons bbPress has not spent the time adding pagination to forums.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry for the delay, life has been getting in the way.

Thanks for listing those tweaks you made, they make sense, we already bump the PHP timeout and up the memory limit to 256M but that is all we can really do safely before we cause grief in shared hosting environments.

I linked this post from our Import Troubleshooting docs so when I get the time we can expand that section (or a dedicated section) on tweaking ‘all the things’.

It doesn’t look I have asked this previously, what version of MyBB are you importing from?

All my tests have been with MyBB v1.6.10

Some topics are not combined correctly. All replies are separate topics. The ‘Recalculate the parent topic for each post’ does not fix this. I ran all repair queries btw. An option in the Topics interface to combine these, would be ace 😉 Is it possible to correct this with a query? My SQL skills are too limited unfortunately.

I just ran an MyBB import of my ‘standard’ MyBB database and without running any repair tools replies are correctly associated with their parent topics.

As to the possibility of correcting this with a MySQL query, it could be, it’s hard to say without knowing what data is mismatched.

Run the following query in phpMyAdmin:
– 83 is my topic ID
– 97,99,100 and 102 are the reply ID’s I know should be part of the topic ID 83
– A single topic and a couple of replies should be all I need to see what’s going on

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID IN (83,97,99,100,102)

Once you’ve executed the query, click ‘Print View’ and the results should open in a new browser tab, select all the text and paste them into a GitHub Gist and select SQL from the language dropdown (You don’t need an account for this)

https://gist.github.com/

It should look similar to this (this is based on my above screenshot)
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/04ed1cf9cf5f67528fcb

The Repair Forums option ‘Recalculate the position of each reply’ does not work. It creates a white screen. Load problem?

Yes, sadly, this is because of the size of the forums, kind of a know issue so that is good, sortof. Anyway the best thing is is that you do not need to run this tool. This is for only repairing ‘threaded replies’ which MyBB did not have so you can just skip running this tool. I’ll update the verbiage for this text in the next release and make some improvements when used with ‘large’ sites and some error handling.

myBB accepts spaces in the login name. Unfortunately WordPress does not. The conversion leaves the spaces in the login name. Is it possible to correct this with an SQL? Is there another workaround? Correcting them one by one is not my preference

I’ll work out a fix for that shortly, second time I’ve hit this issue today, @Halo-DieHard also did on BuddyPress.org.

Two forums are created double. The copies do not contain any topics or replies, so it is easy to remove them. Just thought you should know

That shouldn’t be the case, though as you point out easily fixed, most likely one of two things, either those forums were still there from a previous import OR there is something funky with the forum categories versus the forum forums though checking my import I just did, everything is fine for me 😉

The original myBB forum contained 1mlj+ messages and 36k+ discussions. The converted forum contains 109k subjects. That can be explained because of the first issue. But it only contains 830k replies. It could be that myBB adds subjects and replies to messages, but the difference is a bit too big. Is it possible to do an SQL checksum to check the expected output?

It does sound a little off, some forum software combine the total topics and replies to create a total post count.

On my MyBB I have:

Our members have made a total of 22 posts in 10 threads.
We currently have 6 members registered.

After importing using the [bbp-stats] shortcode I have
Topics 10, Replies 12

So that works out correct in my case, total of 22 posts = 10 topics + 12 replies 🙂

It’s hard to match up yours because the issue above as you state, ball park 109k + 830k = 93k which is a few short of the 1m, this will be due to those issues above and we can take another look after they’re fixed.

[Stephen Edgar]

This was fixed in bbPress 2.5.4, to repair any of affected replies run the “Recalculate the position of each reply” repair tool from Tools -> Forums

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you open up your Xenforum’s database in phpMyAdmin, open the forum table and take a screenshot and post it here please.

(Your Xenforum’s forum table may include a prefix, in the screenshot below mine is xf_forum)

It should look similar to mine here, I need to check that the table format matches what I am using.

https://i.cloudup.com/mnIqTR-W8m.png

[Stephen Edgar]

Add the following to your functions.php file

function custom_bbp_list_forums() {
  $args['separator'] = '<br />';
 
  return $args;
}
 
add_filter('bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_list_forums' );

That will result in something like this, depending on your themes styles:

[Stephen Edgar]

Add the following CSS to your custom CSS and you should be good to go:

#bbpress-forums span.bbp-author-ip {
word-wrap: break-word;
}

I have added word-wrap: break-word; to bbPress CSS in #2675

span.bbp-author-ip {
	font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-weight: bold;
	word-wrap: break-word;
	color: #aaa;
}

[Stephen Edgar]

Verify you have used the correct database values from your Xenforo config.php file, it should be in your Xenforo /library folder.

e.g.

$config['db']['host'] = 'localhost';

$config['db']['port'] = '3306';

$config['db']['username'] = 'my_db_user_name';

$config['db']['password'] = 'my_db_user_password';

$config['db']['dbname'] = 'my_db_name';

[Stephen Edgar]

If you have changed these things then it could be a caching issue, are you using any cache plugins?

[Stephen Edgar]

1- You would need a ‘membership’ plugin that supports bbPress, there are a few in the WordPress plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/
2- You can fully customize bbPress to match any theme or custom design you want, see the docs for more info. https://codex.bbpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

Upgrade your WordPress install from v3.5 to v3.9.2

bbPress minimum requirements are WordPress v3.6 (this will also be bumped very shortly to v3.7)

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress does not have pingbacks enabled for it’s post types, they are explicitly disabled.

Could you be more specific and post a link to some examples and I’ll take a look.

* Is it happening on all three bbPress custom post types?

* forum, topic and reply are the tree post types and a link to one of each that this is happening with will allow me to investigate why.

* I can’t think of a plugin for bbPress that changes the ping status of the custom post types but just in case can you disable all your plugins except bbPress and create a new forum, a topic in that forum and a reply to that topic and then create a WordPress post with a link to each of the three and see if you see any pingbacks.