[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

This could 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 13 years ago]

None of the forum importers are importing the ‘sticky status’ of any topics at this stage so after importing any topics you need to stick need to be done manually.

(I can’t see you site at the moment ‘Access Forbidden’ 😉

I am not sure exactly how WordPress embeds work as a whole…

Though this via https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

If WordPress fails to embed your URL you will get a hyperlink to the URL.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Nice… The last ‘big’ import I did I was only missing ~10 topics or replies in total from ~40,000 imported, though it should be zero missed 😉 … If you find you are getting a high rate of topics or replies not being imported we can take a closer look.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

It’s all in the ‘Eye of the beholder’ I presume, and I don’t think its lame at all.

There are loads of free & paid themes out there for WordPress that bbPress will work with out of the box and with some customizations you can do some amazing things with bbPress…

Examples

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

You would have to code this up yourself, a good starting point would be taking a look at this:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customising-bbp_list_forums-last-poster-block/

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Cool… After the import you must run the Repair Tools to get everything recounted…

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Cool… Done… Just download again via the link up there ^^^.

If there are any others hanging about let me know or any other text, paragraph, images etc BBCodes I will add them all in for bbPress 2.5

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

The full docs for bbp_list_forums is here https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_list_forums/

The quick and easy way is via this topic where you can add the code from that gist to your themes functions.php

how to display list of sub-forums on separate lines, instead of big blob?

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Ahhh, sorry, it is on our ‘to do’ list here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1958

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

Adjust your Forum attributes. These are:
Types: choose whether you are creating a Forum or category.
Forum – can contain topics and be the parent of other forums.
Category – can only contain forums (no topics). Use for organizing your forums.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Your using bbPress v0.9/v1.x you will need to update the site, enable akismet, disable registrations etc.

If you want to keep using bbPress on your site I suggest you upgrade it to the new v2.x

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Go give bbPress 2.4 RC1 a test run…

bbPress 2.4 – Release Candidate 1

Specifics in Trac ticket #1933

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Hmmm… Yep quotes are converted correctly, are you sure you uploaded the latest vBulletin.php file and uploaded to

http://themaraudershockeyclub.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

I just uploaded and tested it and it is working as it should for me (I added a few of your ‘[video=youtube_share…’ links to some vB posts.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Hmmm… It should work… http://regexr.com?3621e

Can you find a post with either a [QUOTE] or [MENTION] BBCode to see if these have been converted to <blockquote> which will help work out if any of the BBCodes are being converted to HTML.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

My bad, a typo, I was working with vBulletin5 and I left the vB5 reference in their…

Updating now and it should work if you download it and FTP it up again etc…

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Probably be easiest to grab the full file:
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/513187363f36b56ec77d/download

Unzip it and FTP it up to your site replacing the current vBulletin.php file in /plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Excellent 🙂

The vBulletin importer already includes some regex conversion expressions and should be actually converting those for you.

The actual code from Line #578 is (vBulletin.php)

// Replace '[video=youtube;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"

		$vbulletin5_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin5_markup );

What that is doing using regular expressions is converting anything in the format of
From: [video=youtube;$1]$2[/video]'
eg. [video=youtube;yF5sbwb4VTg]http://youtu.be/yF5sbwb4VTg[/video]

To: '$2"
eg. http://youtu.be/yF5sbwb4VTg

(If WordPress settings allow YouTube embeds then we only need to post the YouTube URL to the topic or reply)

In your case you have an extra string '_share' in your custom BBCode…

So with copy and paste magic… We end up with this as anxtra regex string conversion:

 		// Replace '[video=youtube;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
 		$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );
+		
+		// Replace '[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
+		$vbulletin5_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube_share;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin5_markup );
 

You can look at this gist which is a little clearer to read and also download the file.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/513187363f36b56ec77d/revisions

You can either add those two lines to your own file or download the gist complete there and it should work for you 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

You should be able via FTP or your webhost control panel open up your vBulletin ‘config.php’ file, you can find it in the /includes folder eg /public_html/vb/includes/config.php

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/editconfig

Now do the same and look at your WordPress ‘wp-config.php’ file

http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5111/why-is-wordpress-unable-to-connect-to-my-database-during-install

These should give you all the information you need…

One last thing… I have been presuming your importing from vBullen v4.x, are you using v4.x or v5.x?

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Try doing an import without importing the users, this will ensure you get past the error ‘WordPress database error: [Table ‘XXXXXXX.user’ doesn’t exist]’ in your original post.

What errors do you see this time?

Also some webhosts require you to use an IP Address for the database server rather than ‘localhost’ and you might want to check that with them.

And of course I/we would love some more error checking and/or notifications to help us debug these errors such as ‘Cannot find database’, ‘Username/Password’ does not match for the database xyz’ etc…

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Hmmm… I haven’t looked at vBulletin in a while and I just opened up my database and I do not have a table prefix at all (thus I’d leave the field blank in my case)

Looking at this screen shot of my vBulletin database in phpMyAdmin you can see I am in the database structure view (the default when you open the database) and you can see the ‘forum’, ‘forumpermission’ tables, if yours are the same as mine then you don’t need a table prefix for the import. If yours includes for example ‘vb_’ so yours are ‘vb_forum’, ‘vb_forompermissions’ etc then your table prefix for the importer would be ‘vb_’

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Hi 🙂

We are all just volunteers helping out where and when we can, that becomes more noticeable when a few of us have other stuff going on and we can’t dedicate as much time as we’d like to 🙂

Most definitely private group forum posts should not be showing up when using [bbp-topic-index].

bbPress 2.4 is just about out the door https://bbpress.org/blog/2013/08/bbpress-2-4-release-candidate-1/ but if you give that a try and see how well your BuddyPress Group Forums are being integrated and if your issue has been fixed, if not create a new ticket in trac and we can take a look https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/. I am pretty sure your issues should be covered in the fix from Ticket #2349

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

It should work just fine, that said if you change a couple of forums to say 1, 2 & 3 make sure none of other forums in the same category have 0 assigned to them.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Make sure you have the correct fields for ALL of the values:

• Database Name: Name of the database with your old forum data
• Database User: User for your database connection
• Database Password: Password to access the database
• Table Prefix: (If converting from BuddyPress Forums, use “wp_bb_” or your custom prefix)

I am 99% sure that your issue is the last item above, you need to make sure you have the correct database prefix, you can open up phpMyAdmin from your webhost control panel.

If you are unsure of any of these contact your webhost to confirm them.

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vbulletin

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Try accessing example.com/forums instead

Also to get the forums on your front page of WordPress setup a custom page and add a shortcode:

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