[Stephen Edgar]

Ahhh… Now I’m looking at the theme…. <- That part of your previous post I inferred you were ‘looking’ at your theme and had found ‘something’ that a change you made had reverted the bad behaviour.

I’m still seeing the page so that makes two times more than the past few days, it ‘could’ be just one of those things that by deactivating one of those plugins and then reactivating it again has fixed whatever, rare, but has been known to happen in the WordPress plugin world!

[Stephen Edgar]

Ok, I CAN see the content at http://updraftplus.com/forums/topic/updraft-migration-issue/

So this IS progress 🙂 Any recent theme updates or tweaks you made?

[Stephen Edgar]

When I click on the link in your menu “Discussion Forums” here http://www.aceachievers.in/#try

I see This content is for Pro and Revision Series with forum members only.

Though I see your forums here http://www.aceachievers.in/forums/

But I cannot read your topic here: http://www.aceachievers.in/forums/topic/test-1/

I can see the topic and replies here: http://www.aceachievers.in/forums/topic/biochem-doubts/

Most likely this is an issue with a plugin that is restricting the viewing of topics and replies, a look at your source shows you are using “Paid Memberships Pro” and this is most likely the cause of your issues.

Can you update or configure it’s settings for any permission changes that differ between the links I added above?

It could also be generally more of an issue with bbPress and “Paid Memberships Pro” as I have seen a few recent issue pop up with this plugin, I’d check their support forum for any related topics and make sure you are using the latest version of their plugin.

[Stephen Edgar]

Yeah, that’s typically the first response here on bbpress.org, try disabling plugins, switch themes etc

Thus once that’s out of the way and out of the way that we haven’t missed something obvious… 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

As a suggestion I’d also change your permalink settings to:

Post name http://example.com/sample-post/

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress is a WordPress plugin thus bbPress uses WordPress for it’s users.

You can use bbPress shortcodes or widgets depending on your site structure so uses do not need to go near or even see the backend of WordPress:

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

[Stephen Edgar]

More than likely it will be some character, troublesome and annoying but nothing much we can do at this stage.

That old BBConverter plugin is what is now included with bbPress, we merged that code into bbPress core, there are vast improvements in the converter and the phpBB import script in the current release of bbPress 2.5.4 (and more for the next release).

I’d love to know more details on why the built in converter does not work for you and if needed get that fixed. 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, the CPanel port won’t matter.

I expect this is something idiosyncratic with your hosting setup, the best way to confirm this would be to try the import on either a different hosting provider or locally using XAMPP/MAMP.

[Stephen Edgar]

@mrcupe I replied to the topic you started and is a completely different issue to this one so please reply in that topic only thanks 🙂

@agmedia34 That is really weird, I haven’t seen anything like that and your settings seem correct.

Could outline the software you are using please, e.g. XAMPP, MAMP or is this on a web hosting provider etc, primarily I’m wondering if your site is using a non-standard HTTP port, e.g. http://examplec.com5:8080

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, we won’t be ‘squelching’ any error reporting in the importer, I wish we could have more, or at least improved error reporting. 😉

I haven’t see that user_pass error for a long time, are you using the latest 2.5.4 version of bbPress for the plugin side of things?

Onto the old bbPress standalone side, what version of bbPress standalone are you using?

For the import to work you need to import from bbPress Standalone 1.2 to bbPress plugin 2.5.x.

Details on upgrading and a general flow of what is required is outlined in the following topic, once you’ve read that post you’ll need to read the replies in that thread to follow along the steps.

[Stephen Edgar]

Please see the following page in the docs for this issue:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/import-troubleshooting/

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, you are correct, if you just click restore you will see that message, it’s a bug, there is a ticket somewhere for this, just can’t find it right this instant.

Also, you are correct, the workaround is to select the topic or topics and use the ‘bulk action’ to select restore to restore the topics.

[Stephen Edgar]

There are two files attached here, vBulletin5.php and converter.php:
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/02aff28553ae63e6a614
You can also download both in a zip file via this link.

You need to place vBulletin5.php in the folder `/includes/admin/converters/
and converter.php in the folder /includes/admin/

A couple of notes, you’ll need to make sure your vB5 tables do NOT include a table prefix, if they do this will not work and you will need to rename all of your tables to remove the prefix.

You can confirm this by opening your vB5 database in phpMyAdmin
<img src=”https://i.cloudup.com/czW3RJAK-9.png&#8221; alt=”” />
If your node table name is the same as mine in the above screenshot your good to go, if it is a prefix it it would look similar to prefix_node (the prefix could be named anything)

One other important note, the main difference with this version of the importer is to support vBulletin 5 ‘comments’ which are like bbPress threaded replies, allowing users to reply to replies, these vBulletin replies will NOT work as expected unless you have enabled bbPress threaded replies setting before you import your forums. Also if you reset and delete your forums or uninstall the bbPress plugin this setting will be reset and you need to enable it again.

P.s. More my bad, I appeared to not hit submit on this post when I uploaded these yesterday 😉

Let me know how it goes 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Excellent, glad your on track to getting your custom templates up and running 🙂

Your correct, we don’t have a donate button, but we’re always on the lookout for extra hands, we need more docs on doing what you doing currently, Robin has already written some introductory docs here.

Pretty much anything goes, we need lots of docs written for our codex and anyone can create new and/or edit existing docs, so if you feel the urge to contribute that way if that’s your thing, that would be great. 🙂 If not we’ll also be having some other initiatives in the new future. 🙂

Participate & Contribute

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, whatever plugin is handling your signatures either needs it’s settings updated for font name and size updated to match the rest of your forums or if there is no setting to then contact the author of that plugin to either get that feature added to the plugin or the feature fixed so it matches the rest of your forum.

[Stephen Edgar]

If you don’t switch you will constantly have the same issues you are asking us how to fix.

You should implement that same fix again and yes, it will cause issues with your sidebar but you should find that your other issues will be fixed.

What I meant by ‘Source Code’ is to include the contents of the bbpress.php in your new topic, copy and paste it into your topic and surround that ‘source code’ using the code toolbar button on the topic form..

[Stephen Edgar]

Closing this, duplicate of your other topic, also in the future please don’t bump old topics, let alone a 6 year old topic in this case 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m working on adding this to the next release of bbPress https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2589

[Stephen Edgar]

Hmmmm…. I’ve still got nothing new to add… The past few days everytime I glance past this in my browser I open up this link and I have not seen bbPress in there once in these past couple of days.

There has to be a common denominator somewhere, maybe a recent plugin or theme update, I’d start by disabling each plugin one by one you have activated and refresh that page after you disable each plugin.

[Stephen Edgar]

Remove the bbPress subscriptions plugin or contact the plugin authors on how to fix it.

[Stephen Edgar]

When restore a topic it should also restore the replies.

[Stephen Edgar]

Closing this, this is essntially a duplicate of your other topic here.

[Stephen Edgar]

I am not sure what you are asking here…

Also I moved this to it’s own topic as it has nothing to do with the topic you added the replies to.

[Stephen Edgar]

Ha! Cool 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Indeed it would have helped and by switching back you have enabled the error to occur again, redo what you did and then create a new topic and include the source code of your bbpress.php file and the name and link of the theme you are using and we can help get your sidebar back.