Everything looks pretty good 🙂
I could only see the one issue
You have:
// Forum parent id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
$this->field_map[] = array(
'from_tablename' => 'forum_forums',
'from_fieldname' => 'ForumGroupID',
'to_type' => 'forum',
'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_forum_parent_id'
);
And this should be either 'from_fieldname' => 'ParentID', or 'from_fieldname' => 'GroupID'
I tried it again using my cpanel login which should be a sql login and now it’s got a growing line of dashes across the screen. It’s been running for over 30 minutes and there are less than 200 posts, so I’m not sure what it’s doing. Is there anything I can check to see what it’s doing? If anything?
This looks right in that using your cPanel login, I would double check your webhost help section to confirm what your MySQL user/pass are (You can also grab these typically from your WordPress wp-config.php file via FTP.
The ‘——–‘ is a horrible bug that happens more than I would like but debugging this has been a pain to say the least and I haven’t been able to find what causes it yet alone a fix for it. Typically logging out and logging back in ‘seems to fix it’ most of the time.
With all that said though if you can get past that ‘bug’ then it looks like you are good to go.
EDIT: With ~200 posts the whole process should be completed in under 5 minutes.
1. Users are not in sync with their topics and replies. Some topics with no replies downloaded yet are in ok, but many are not. Some topics are assigned to users who never posted anything, some are assigned to admin and the rest are assigned to their owners.
Until the repair tools are run after the import you will pretty much always see issues like this, the tools need to be run to get everything in sync.
2. At somewhere at 350,000 posts, the whole process slows down (10 posts per 20 seconds or worse) to turtle speed.
This can be your web host limiting the amount of SQL queries you can run per hour/day etc, contact your web host and ask them what limitations are on your hosting plan.
3. I repaired whatever I downloaded using the bbpress repair page and I don’t see anything fixed.
Odd, though it makes my first answer moot, but it is still important in that the execution order of the importer can significantly make these things look weird when it has imported a topic and expects there to be 12 replies but only sees 3.
So for now, kind of ignore my answers to 1 & 3 above and lets start on what version of vBulletin are you trying to import from? (and we can go from there)
Your issue has nothing to do with bbPress, bbPress does NOT contain the string ‘Hack tool’ anywhere in its source, I would take a look at any other plugins you may be running.
Where does it say that? 😉 I just changed it to MySQL 😉
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/custom-import/
Take a look at the following for some reading material to help get you going.
Importing from DotNetNuke Active Forum
The basis of what ended up being used is here.
Mix all that in with this on converting from Microsoft SQL to MySQL (This was Access but the same tools should do MSSQL fine)
Documented import from snitz access database
Let me know how that all goes for you and I will follow up with more 🙂
@unklee Thnaks for your feedback, all great ideas and it is just really a time issue, our 9-5 day jobs get in the way of spending more time with bbPress 😉
Anyone with a WordPress/bbPress/BuddyPress username & password can edit and update the codex so we may not mention this fact as often as we should and are extremely grateful when new contributions occur.
Just go to https://codex.bbpress.org/ and click ‘login’ and have at it 🙂
Onto the ‘other’ bits of your last post.
For the most part the standard /wp-admin/users.php user admin dashboard panel is ‘enough’ to get day to day tasks done for ‘most’ situations as it does have search (top right) to make this usable.
The delete users wp-admin/users.php?action=delete&user=123 is all WordPress and bbPress does not alter this behaviour though as you state it would be nice if this could be improved for sites with large user bases. To resolve this we will have to wait until WordPress implements some changes here.
None of the bbPress widgets do this Widgets – the list of users is loaded under one or more widgets
So yes, these things are not just under consideration they are actively thought about constantly and we have tried to keep from implementing this pain in bbPress, but for now until we can get some changes upstream in WordPress core some of this pain will remain.
As I mentioned above on the ‘clobber-spam-users’ plugin I mentioned this plugin as it is not very complex and could be modified to ‘help’ with your cleaning up of 17,000 users topics & replies.
Stephen, I don’t think I ever said I had a handful of users. The actual number is over 17,000
This snippet from your original post was the only context I was referring to for the ‘handful’ term so that even though the experience is painful it will get THIS part of your job done as long as you are not trying to do this for 17,000 users.
A way to delete users an reattribute their posts/topics/replies to another user (mainly for a handful of folks who already had accounts on the WordPress side before migrating vBulletin over)
I understand it is quite unusable but as I stated previously if you only have a handful of users this is required for will it suffice, how many is a ‘handful’ in this case?
In regard to removing spam posts I found this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/clobber-spam-users/
This looks like it could be easily forked and adjusting the search criteria to return the results that meet your criteria to then have it delete the topics & replies for you, then afterwards you will again have users with no posts/topics/replies etc and again masss delete those users.
via https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-protected-from-pw-protected-page-titles?replies=7#post-1658659
For ‘protected’
add_filter('protected_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_protected_title');
function ntwb_remove_protected_title($title) {
return '%s';
}
And for ‘private’
add_filter('private_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_private_title');
function ntwb_remove_private_title($title) {
return '%s';
}
[bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id] – Display the ‘New Topic Form’ for a specific forum ID
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
So if the forum you want has an ID of 341 use [bbp-topic-form forum_id=341]
Apologies, snow & under are a couple of terms that come to mind.
I just imported your data into a clean MySQL database and everything imported correctly.
(The one side note is a couple of BBCodes, [align & [flash weren’t converted to WordPress ‘safe’ HTML, but that is another issue.)
Where to from here I am not sure as ‘your’ content appears fine at my end and isn’t causing the importer to miss/fail etc.
I think the next step would be for you to try this on a local install:
MAMP if you use Mac http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp-pro/index.html
XAMPP if you use PC http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Setup and install WordPress & bbPress in this install.
Export your entire phpBB database and import it into your local setup and give that a go.
https://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/transferring-your-board-to-a-new-host-or-domain/
My theory here is there could be ‘something’ going on with your web hosts configuration and if the local import works we can then export this data from WordPress on your local host and then import this into your remote host.
I appreciate the reply, the reason I suggested that my settings were correct were that I used the settings out of that domain’s wp-config file.
Hmmmmm…. Probably need to ensure you have the correct table prefix…
However, let me ask you, how long does the converter script run before it starts feeding back responses on its activity? For example, if it is succeeding does it start listing the tables or posts successfully migrated?
Seconds…
My point is that I want to know whether I should walk away from it, if say, it hasn’t reported anything other than “started” within 5 minutes or so.
Your import ~200 posts should be done in under 2 minutes give or take.
Open up phpMyAdmin and check your table names for the Mingle forum
In my case above the table prefix I would use is wp_
The Mingle Forums Datbase Tables are: wp_forum_forums, wp_forum_group,s, wp_forum_posts, wp_forum_threads, wp_forum_usergroup2user & wp_forum_usergroups
Most likely you have an incorrect setting, see my post above and if needed contact your web host to get them.
Importing Mingle Forums into bbPress?
Your best bet here will be to create a ticket on Trac for this:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/
Keeping your ‘Auto Role’ issue in a single topic is much easier to track, closing this topic.
Auto Role not working
ps. This just sprang…
Decisions, not Options
When making decisions these are the users we consider first. A great example of this consideration is software options. Every time you give a user an option, you are asking them to make a decision. When a user doesn’t care or understand the option this ultimately leads to frustration. As developers we sometimes feel that providing options for everything is a good thing, you can never have too many choices, right? Ultimately these choices end up being technical ones, choices that the average end user has no interest in. It’s our duty as developers to make smart design decisions and avoid putting the weight of technical choices on our end users.
https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/
That plugin looks fine to use with bbPress 2.x, you just need to download either the bbpress-close-old-posts.php file and upload it to your plugins folder, or download the .zip, extract to a folder and upload that folder to your plugins folder.
But since it’s not listed at bbpress.org plugins list, I’m not sure if it’s safe or even compatible with my current install.
You will at times find many themes and plugins that are not hosted on WordPress.org, sometimes they are proprietary code, other times they are just quick snippets of code, it doesn’t mean they are unsafe and usually a quick note to the author will confirm if they work with the latest version of bbPress.
btw, searching for “lock” at bbpress.org plugins, at the bottom of the page you will see: ”Viewing 1 to 4 (4 total)” but there are only 3 plugins listed.”
Thanks, this is a known issue and will hopefully be fixed soon.
Thanks for the feedback and as time goes on more and more bits keep getting added 🙂
If you do decide to give bbPress another shot the phpBB importer is pretty awesome so it shouldn’t be too hard to have a play in a dev site now and then either 😉
Try reinstalling the bbPress plugin to ensure no files are missing or corrupted.
I can’t reproduce your issue using the Twenty Thirteen theme, can try with this theme and also make sure you have no plugin conflicts.
This will be because the settings in your database to match the old domain vs new domain.
You will be best of setting up a fresh/clean install of WordPress on your localhost XAMPP install, exporting your old data from your existing site eg. http://example.com and then importing it into your new WordPress install.
Sorry I thought you were meaning topic tags (this topic is tagged ‘output’, ‘results’ & ‘search’)
You will most likely find your issue is related to your theme, what happens if you switch to Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven?
It may also be a plugin conflict, try disabling all your other plugsins and see if the issue is resolved.
If you can export your Yahoo Groups data you should be able to import it into bbPress
If you can export it as CSV data then the following discussion should get you on the right track to get your data imported into WordPress/bbPress.
Import BB data from CSV file to bbPress forum
There are known issues using most WordPress cache plugins:
This is probably the best thread on the matter:
Getting WP Super Cache / W3 Total Cache to work with bbPress 2.0
