Stephen Edgar (@netweb)

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  • @netweb

    Keymaster

    I haven’t come across this situation before as I have never used the WP United bridge.

    I suspect it is because of the now shared users, presumably how the users are getting mapped presumably WordPress users.

    If you are able to get all your users correctly mapped in the phpBB user table that should give you a workable import scenario.

    Is there a way to have WP United readd all the WordPress users back into the phpBB table?
    (Kind of like an uninstall of WP United it restores everything back to standard)

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    You’ll want to add a CSS rule to your themes CSS

    .bbp-topics ul.super-sticky,
    .bbp-topics ul.sticky {
    background-color: #ffffe0 !important;
    }

    Changing #ffffe0 for the HEX color of your choice.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    I haven’t seen any recent reports of what you describe.

    What versions of WordPress & bbPress are you using?

    It could also be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    https://github.com/rmccue/bbPress-Reply-by-Email

    bbPress Reply by Email
    Now your forum’s participants can reply to topics via email using

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Ha… Similar scenario here, I thought everything was fine and even when it was pointed out I denied it as I thought it worked 😉

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Hi, What if I do not delete an user but just want to attribute his posts to other one?

    The only way to do this at the moment is one by one manually.

    Maybe have a look in the WordPress Plugins for a plugin that supports ‘Custom Post Types’ to change posts authors if you have to many to do individually.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Patch is now done and will be fixed in bbPress 2.5.3 🙂

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Cool, glad you got it sorted and as per your other thread just some CSS changes to the text size and font would give you what you are after.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Cool, with some extra CSS in those same lines above you should get pretty close to what you are after 🙂

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Cool, glad your all sorted now and nice work BTW 🙂

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Under the WordPress ‘Users’ panel does your administrator account have the bbPress ‘Keymaster’ role?

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    This thread here mentions a vBulletin conversion of ~600,000 posts took around 8-10 hours on an iMac so thats 1/6th of the time you’ve estimated.

    vBulletin to bbPress questions

    I’d love to test the DB you have, maybe some improvements can be made though I doubt they’d be done before your import completes 😉 I just followed you on Twitter so follow me back and drop me a DM with a ftp/dropbox link and I’ll give it a whirl.

    In reply to: "link" button

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    I also do not know what changes you have made so until you update both WordPress & bbPress you are basically out of luck.

    This is the reason why you should never change the core files in WordPress or bbPress.

    I would suggest you create yourself a test install of WordPress locally, add your theme and plugins and compare the changes and start to implement the changes you need in an upgrade friendly way such as child themes and custom additions to functions.php etc.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    ‘Search’ and ‘topic tags’ are completely separate entities.

    I get directed to a page with meaningless results.

    When you open a topic tag link you will only ever see topics that have been explicitly tagged with that topic tag, bbPress will never try to guess relevant topics in relation to topic tags.

    Similarly with search you will only get the relevant search term.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Topic Tags are to group like topics in a taxonomy.

    eg. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic-tag/tags/

    They should in no way link to any search results.

    Based on your own site if have some tagged topics ‘mytopictag’ and you click that topic tag your link would be similar to http://example.com/forums/topic-tag/mytopictag/

    If these links are resulting in some how opening search results could you add some examples of the URL links you are seeing.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    You need to select ‘bbPress1’ as the forum you are importing from the drop down in the import settings. 😉

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Try running the repair tool ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’
    https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Getting closer, how about a rough mockup image of what you want it all to look like. 😉

    (It’s midnight here local time and I’m off for the night but this would help for some ideas for you)

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    If each of those queries were successful the import should run run fine. I actually copied them directly from a successful import of bbPress v1.2 right before I posted it above.

    What size is the forum your importing? (Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of posts)

    Give it another go and copy any errors you get and post them here, there really isn’t much more verbosity checks that can be added (connection issues yes, but not data).

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Ahmmmm…. It looks like you have the majority of things taken care of.

    You could drop the delay time down to 0.1 from 1 which overall is only a marginal performance increase.

    The main bottleneck is typically hard disk drive performance, when doing imports like you are I try to have the MySQL database running on an SSD drive or as you have plenty of RAM setting up a RAM drive also works really well albeit a little trickier as you need to switch your database in and out of permanent storage.

    I also haven’t had the opportunity to do any large PHPFox imports so I don’t have much of a benchmark to compare with.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Try the ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ repair tool

    https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

    Also try resaving your permalink structure.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    One other thing I can’t ever get to work is “Purge all information from a previously attempted import”. I’ve let it run for over 48 hours in the past, and it was “Deleting previously converted data” with a number up into the tens of millions before I gave up on the process, and never actually starts converting. Has anyone else experienced similar issues?

    This is a known issue as we have two different caching methods we use, and in particular if one is used and not the other this goes on forever, hopefully I will have a fix in the near future for this, as a workaround do as you have and just ‘reset’ bbPress.

    It is odd that it stalls, stopis etc at a different point during the reply imports, typicaly it stops because of some mysterious reason on the same reply (or topic) and it appears to be some ‘malformed’ content in that particular post (I can’t prove this though and is not specific to SimplePress) 😉

    When it stalls if you click ‘Stop’ then bump the value of _bbp_converter_start by one, then click ‘Start’ again it should continue on from where it left off skipping that troublesome reply.

    (A side issue can be you actually get logged out of WordPress so it also pays to open/refresh another admin page to ensure you are still logged in)

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    I am not familiar with the bbpm plugin but that could be an issue.

    The first thing you should do is check the following SQL queries in phpMyAdmin

    https://gist.github.com/ntwb/757232d2260c5bce7b2f

    I just grabbed them from an import so if you can run each of those queries for forums, topics & replies the importer should work.

    Run each of those queires and let me know what errors you get if any and then we can go from there.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Basically your users shouldn’t be logging into to backend in the first place, thus they should never see that to be even tempted.

    You can add a login widget to a sidebar or create a page with a shortcode, up to you which way depending on how you want your site to look etc.

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

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Would I be better with a ‘site-wide’ forum rather than the private All Residents group?

    I think this is now sorted based on your reply.

    Can I make a site-wide forum private?

    Same this is now sorted.

    How do I modify the formatting of the forum postings?

    If you want custom templates then follow the steps outlined here to make copies of the templates in your theme so they don’t get overridden when you update bbPress.

    https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

    Where do I look to troubleshoot the ‘threading’ function?

    You state you are using ‘bbPress 2.2’, threaded replies were introduced in bbPress 2.4 so you should upgrade to the latest bbPress 2.5.2. You can then enable them in bbPress settings per https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/#forum-features

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