Pascal, thank you for responding! Downloaded 2.6 and uploaded it without problem.
Went to import, and got a new error–>
WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default ‘0’, meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key, meta_value) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci
Not sure if this is the right place.
On my normal pages in wordpress I have the option of using full width or having a sidebar.
Is there this option on bbpress or do you need to create a page, then post shortcode then modify that page to full width?
I’ve just pushed a new 2.6-alpha that includes a fix for deleting imported users, it wasn’t behaving as it should.
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip
I’ve just bumped 2.6-alpha with the above changes and also a fix for deleting imported users that wasn’t playing nice 😉
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip
I’ve just added support to the XenForo importer to support deleted users.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2922
If you update your 2.6-alpha via this zip file you’ll have that included for your import.
What this does is if a user has been deleted from XenForo their topics and replies are not actually deleted (they are kept to maintain context) but during import because that user no longer exists they cannot be imported and the topic/reply would then be attributed to the anonymous user. Now the topic/reply is still attributed to the anonymous user but includes the original author name, basically the same way XenForo handled this.
Edit: You can see the difference from when the Member Two user still existed and was imported per https://cloudup.com/c_epfx4Q4z8/f, I then deleted Member Two and the result looks like this https://cloudup.com/cNnYv-3eSyl https://cloudup.com/c5iQ-iIOoW4
Hi,
Activity streams and group forums are BuddyPress specific, not bbPress. So better ask on their forum.
Blogging is WordPress, not bbPress.
So I’m sure that for what you want to do, the WordPress platform seems what you need. But for sure to accomplish what you want, you will need to have different plugins and maybe coding help.
Pascal.
Hi Biorn,
Create a standard WordPress page and put the slug ‘forums’. Creating this page will override the standard page that comes out.
You can then add the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode on that page (see https://codex.bbpress.org/features/shortcodes/) and change the title of your page.
Pascal.
Late to the party on migrating, but I think it’s time. Installed bbPress via plugins on my WordPress instance. I’d played around with it in the past so I cleared all the old data with a board reset. Went to import and put in all the information – created a new MySQL user with full permissions to the database my phpBB forum is on.
Set rows limit to 75 and Delay time to 3 – I have a pretty big forum to move.
Checked all three boxes for Convert Users, Start Over, and Purge – I want a full, clean import.
It gets right to the start of the process and says:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘XXXX_forum.users’ doesn’t exist]
(the XXXX is the name of my database)
And it gives a long string in gray after that of info I don’t quite understand.
Tried deleting the plugin and reinstalling it. I’m on the latest version of WordPress and PhpBB.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance!
Well let’s see if the 3rd time’s a charm. My site is netballscoop.com. I’m running latest version of WordPress & BBPress. This is a sports site, w/content going back to 2007. I’d really like to make it such that only content for the current year is displayed & previous content archived to another site, but I’m having trouble. An export of only 2016 content & reimport does not work correctly (I suspect because the topic & reply numbers are messed up) & the WordPress Bulk Delete plugin simply can’t do this. Anyone got any suggestions? Please? Is this something that no one else wants to do or…?
I was looking for something like this as well for our “non-tech savy” audience and found that @Robkk answer works best: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/
Hello,
I make a new fourm role called facepainter. When I go into the user and set the fourm role as facepainter it works fine. However when they post somthing it still says member below their name, when it should say facepainter.
I am on the latest wordpress version
I am using Tesseract theme
My website is http://www.monsterbrand.co.uk
Hopefully that is clear enough
Thanks!
Hi Stephen, Cheers for the reply!
I’ve spoken with the host where the forum database I’ve been trying to import is located and they don’t anticipate being able to upgrade MySQL until the end of the year – It’s this kind of service that prompted me to move to a new host in the first place!
With this not being an option I’m wondering if there is a way I can manually export the database to my new server running MySQL 5.3.3, manually update the database to utf8mb4 and retry the import from there. I’ve found an article at https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4 which appears to be along the right lines but might be a bit of a stretch for me as I’m pretty new to WordPress and coding. Does this seem like a sensible next step?
Thanks for all the help and advice so far!
I reset the forum, then upgraded to bbpress 2.6 alpha, checked the “purge previous import” checkbox (just to be sure), then started the import process again and got this lovely error message:
“WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE blp_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default ‘0’, meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key, meta_value) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci”
So I unchecked the purge option and tried again. It’s currently importing the users.
I just clicked on users in wordpress @robin-w
I’m guessing the sync-all-reply-positions fails because of some incorrect meta for the replies, theres also a few known issues with this tool timing out when used on sites with lots of replies.
The user-role-map repair tool should work fine, no known issues with this one.
What happens if you create a new user, just a new WordPress user, can that user login, create topics and replies etc? What happens if you now remove all the imported users and run this repair tool again, theoretically it would only be running on “native” WordPress users and not any imported users, (i.e. “admin” and “test user” only), does the repair tool still fail?
@eoppegaard The database actually needs to be active in the same MySQL server your WordPress site is running on, not the same database, just available as a database in the MySQL server. Uploading the MySQL .sql dump file or phpBB files to yor site will have no effect and will not work.
Some of the docs here might also help you out.
@evildrome It might be easy for you, it’s not for me, if it was I’d have done it, if you’d be able to help out and help with some code for a solution to that that would be awesome.
Any chance you could talk to your webhost and have the MySQL version updated?
WordPress’ minimum requirements per https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ are WordPress also works with PHP 5.2.4+ and MySQL 5.0+ which you are using but I suspect the phpMyAdmin warning Your PHP MySQL library version 5.1.49 differs from your MySQL server version 5.0.51a. you see are probably related to this issue.
If your vBulletin database uses utf8_mb4 but your WordPress install is only using utf8 then you’ll run into issues. As Pascal pointed out with that link, you are using MySQL v5.0.x which doesn’t support utf8_mb4, only MySQL v5.5.3 and above does.
If the vBulletin database used utf8 rather than utf8mb4 then I’d expect the import to work just fine, but because of the different character sets and collation differences the only way around this I see is to resolve this by upgrading to at least MySQL v5.5.3.
For sure this would be related to the character set used.
Have you installed WordPress using the Greek language pack?
Any chance you could install WordPress using the same character set as the character set used by your Greek vBulletin install and try importing? Or maybe converting your vBulletin database to use a utf8 database?
New WordPress installs use the character set utf8_general_ci, previously WordPress would use utf8, the Greek locale your vBulletin install is using
Ok @tech55541 I’ve just added a short code option! See if you can get it to work!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tk-bbpress-stats/
I’m not on Apple, so won’t be able to help you, sorry.
PS. Nog niet op WordPress Belgium ?
Hello, how do you edit/create fourm roles.
I am not that good with coding so if it involves it please make it clear!
My website it: http://www.monsterbrand.co.uk
I am on the newest wordpress version
and I am using the Tesseract theme
Hello!
I am planing to install bbPress on my site running the latest version of WordPress.
However I have a rather “strange” requirement.
On the site we have a private part where the users logs in with username and password.
The problem is that all users use the same username. We have tried to give each member an individual username but without any success. They will not remember their username or password. The information on the protected part is not personalized so it is not accturally a problem that they use the same username.
My problem is that when they then post to bbPress all users will post as this generic user. Is it possible to force the anonymous posting layout even for logged in users? This will force them to enter their name and emailadress and we can figure out who has posted what.
/Erik
I use Avada fusion as theme i think. I have looked for avada footer fusion footer and footer of any kind, but noting 🙁 🙁
I do suck at this with wordpress and editing.
