Maybe try going back a step or two further…
Start with WordPress, add bbPress, does it work?
From there then incrementally add your customisations.
You’d need to first get the Discourse database converted to MySQL (I think it’s Postgres?)
Once that’s taken care of a custom importer script could be created
Custom Import
I don’t know of anyone that has tried the above, but that method should work
Ideally you should be using a child theme for your custom bbPress templates. That way you don’t have to worry about this issue 🙂
Take a look on the docs codex for some help with getting started with custom templates:
https://codex.bbpress.org/?s=child+theme
With that said though, here is a link showing the changes from 2.5.9 to 2.5.10, it’s a single change to includes/users/template.php, and is quite important you upgrade your templates with this change.
Hopefully some of the links on our codex docs page will help get you started:
Codex
Does that solve the issue for you @venutius ?
Click “Screen options” on the top right of the page and change 20 to 50 🙂
Check out the docs in the codex, this I think should help you get started:
Functions files and child themes – explained !
bbPress shares WordPress’ users settings, you an see an example of it for your own bbPress.org and WordPress.org profiles here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/darrenbergman93/
https://profiles.wordpress.org/darrenbergman93/
When logging into bbPress it is just logging into WordPress with the same username and password so you should be good to go there also 🙂
Hi if you’re still around would like to know how you changed Freshness to Last Post?
bbPress 2.6 will no longer use “Freshness”, the default is now “Last Post”
You can do this by creating a child theme and editing the form-anonymous template, you can find details on doing this here https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/
No, you should not be using phpBB Converter file 5795, you should be using the version that is included with 2.6-alpha.
That will fix the problem in your screenshot.
It does give stats as it imports, you should be something similar to:
If you also view the source of the page, right click and “inspect” will also bring this up, you should see some debug code showing the SQL queries being performed during the import:
The forums, if imported will be in the wp_posts table of your WordPress database, if you filter the posts and search the post_type column for forum, topic, or reply you should see any imported posts.
Cool, hopefully that will fix any issues, and we switched wordpress.org/support to bbPress 2.6-alpha a couple of weeks ago 🙂
Are you using bbPress 2.5.10 or 2.6 alpha from https://bbpress.org/download?
If you’re not using 2.6 alpha that “could” be the issue, it’s updated for the latest phpBB 3.1.x branches, the 2.5.x only supports phpBB 3.0.x branches
(Plus 2.6 alpha has lots of extra improvements)
On the importer screen there is an option to select what forum you are importing from, I presume you selected phpBB from that dropdown?
This chugs along, with no obvious errors, (but no real report of what it did) – although the “No forums to convert” error no longer appears.
I think this is a good sign 🙂
Did you run the “Repair Tools” after the import finished? (you should have been prompted to do that)
It looks like you have not imported the phpBB database into the same MySQL instance WordPress is using.
You cannot use a “remote” database to import from.
See the menus used here on both bbPress.org/forums and BuddyPress.org/support:
These are both menus, both use said “parent” menu items to arrange the items, both these menus are open source and pretty good examples and slightly different of how you can add bbPress and BuddyPress functionality to menus
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-org/toolbar.php
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-org/toolbar.php
Take a look around and look out for “parent” and see what you find…
If you’re using any phpBB mods this might cause issues.
You also need to make sure you use bbPress 2.6 alpha, which includes all the changes required , you cannot simply copy the changed phpBB.php file to a different bbPress version.
To use the most up to date phpBB importer use bbPress 2.6-alpha as I pointed out, if you have to use the old phpBB version use bbPress 2.5.10.
But as I’ve said, there are huge improvements to the phpBB importer in 2.6-alpha so updating phpBB to the latest version is my recommendation.
You shouldn’t need to edit any of bbPress functions.
You can achieve what you are after by adding your own custom templates:
This is a guide to getting started with these: https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/amending-bbpress-templates/
This is a helpful reference for bbPress’ templates: https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/template-hierarchy-in-detail/
What I think you’d be looking to do is make changes to your child themes loop-single-reply.php template so that only the links to replies are there by removing bbp_reply_content() .
