[Stephen Edgar]

No magic wand, as each topic or reply is imported it is matched to the old user ID.

Thus you really need to import the users and the forums, topics and replies at the same time.

The reason you can do this separate is because bbPress 1.x, BuddyPress Group Forums, SimplePress, Mingle to name a few are WordPress plugins and thus the users already exist in the WordPress database.

I also can’t see a reason as to why importing the users, then the forums as separate imports would work and a single import for everything would not work. Essentially the way the import works is in steps, it imports each section, once finished moves to the next step.

Up for trying again? If you do please post back here any errors you see and I’ll help work through those with you.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry for the delay, life has been getting in the way.

Thanks for listing those tweaks you made, they make sense, we already bump the PHP timeout and up the memory limit to 256M but that is all we can really do safely before we cause grief in shared hosting environments.

I linked this post from our Import Troubleshooting docs so when I get the time we can expand that section (or a dedicated section) on tweaking ‘all the things’.

It doesn’t look I have asked this previously, what version of MyBB are you importing from?

All my tests have been with MyBB v1.6.10

Some topics are not combined correctly. All replies are separate topics. The ‘Recalculate the parent topic for each post’ does not fix this. I ran all repair queries btw. An option in the Topics interface to combine these, would be ace 😉 Is it possible to correct this with a query? My SQL skills are too limited unfortunately.

I just ran an MyBB import of my ‘standard’ MyBB database and without running any repair tools replies are correctly associated with their parent topics.

As to the possibility of correcting this with a MySQL query, it could be, it’s hard to say without knowing what data is mismatched.

Run the following query in phpMyAdmin:
– 83 is my topic ID
– 97,99,100 and 102 are the reply ID’s I know should be part of the topic ID 83
– A single topic and a couple of replies should be all I need to see what’s going on

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID IN (83,97,99,100,102)

Once you’ve executed the query, click ‘Print View’ and the results should open in a new browser tab, select all the text and paste them into a GitHub Gist and select SQL from the language dropdown (You don’t need an account for this)

https://gist.github.com/

It should look similar to this (this is based on my above screenshot)
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/04ed1cf9cf5f67528fcb

The Repair Forums option ‘Recalculate the position of each reply’ does not work. It creates a white screen. Load problem?

Yes, sadly, this is because of the size of the forums, kind of a know issue so that is good, sortof. Anyway the best thing is is that you do not need to run this tool. This is for only repairing ‘threaded replies’ which MyBB did not have so you can just skip running this tool. I’ll update the verbiage for this text in the next release and make some improvements when used with ‘large’ sites and some error handling.

myBB accepts spaces in the login name. Unfortunately WordPress does not. The conversion leaves the spaces in the login name. Is it possible to correct this with an SQL? Is there another workaround? Correcting them one by one is not my preference

I’ll work out a fix for that shortly, second time I’ve hit this issue today, @Halo-DieHard also did on BuddyPress.org.

Two forums are created double. The copies do not contain any topics or replies, so it is easy to remove them. Just thought you should know

That shouldn’t be the case, though as you point out easily fixed, most likely one of two things, either those forums were still there from a previous import OR there is something funky with the forum categories versus the forum forums though checking my import I just did, everything is fine for me 😉

The original myBB forum contained 1mlj+ messages and 36k+ discussions. The converted forum contains 109k subjects. That can be explained because of the first issue. But it only contains 830k replies. It could be that myBB adds subjects and replies to messages, but the difference is a bit too big. Is it possible to do an SQL checksum to check the expected output?

It does sound a little off, some forum software combine the total topics and replies to create a total post count.

On my MyBB I have:

Our members have made a total of 22 posts in 10 threads.
We currently have 6 members registered.

After importing using the [bbp-stats] shortcode I have
Topics 10, Replies 12

So that works out correct in my case, total of 22 posts = 10 topics + 12 replies 🙂

It’s hard to match up yours because the issue above as you state, ball park 109k + 830k = 93k which is a few short of the 1m, this will be due to those issues above and we can take another look after they’re fixed.

[Stephen Edgar]

Add the following CSS to your custom CSS and you should be good to go:

#bbpress-forums span.bbp-author-ip {
word-wrap: break-word;
}

I have added word-wrap: break-word; to bbPress CSS in #2675

span.bbp-author-ip {
	font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-weight: bold;
	word-wrap: break-word;
	color: #aaa;
}

[theuniversitygal]

Hi,

I deleted all the widgets from my sidebar except for categories and added a search bar and email subscribe widget. All of this is showing up correctly in my sidebar, but isn’t reflecting on my website. I believe I have the latest version of wordpress. I don’t knowing any coding or html. I have tried multiple times to delete or add widgets, with no luck.

Thank You

[mouna84]

Hi there,

I’m using: wordpress version 3.9.2–de_DE
bbpress version 2.5.4

The site I need help with is: http://darjinan.com/forum/

I deleted the sidebar by copying page.php and renaming it to bbpress.php. But I can’t figure out how to center my forum. Here’s the code:

<?php 
/**
 * Theme Page Section for our theme.
 *
 * @package ThemeGrill
 * @subpackage Accelerate
 * @since Accelerate 1.0
 */
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'accelerate_before_body_content' ); ?>

	<div id="primary">
		<div id="content" class="clearfix">
			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

				<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>

				<?php

					do_action( 'accelerate_before_comments_template' );
					// If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template
					if ( comments_open() || '0' != get_comments_number() )
						comments_template();					
	      		do_action ( 'accelerate_after_comments_template' );
				?>
			<?php endwhile; ?>

		</div><!-- #content -->
	</div><!-- #primary -->
	
	<?php /*accelerate_sidebar_select();*/ ?>

	<?php do_action( 'accelerate_after_body_content' ); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Can someone please help me? I’m a complete newbie to html and css.
Thank you.

[cybarmitzvah]

So I just added the code from Robin W’s link,

however it does not work,

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

I get the edit profile button for logged in users, however, it does not link to their profile. Could it be that I am using social login.?

Plus, I would prefer it to stay all the way to the right. Plus, preferably, look more like this sites, with the username and photo of the person logged in, in the top right.

JB

[Robkk]

My goal is this: Attach BadgeOS rewards to users using specific words within forum posts;

I feel like that is going to be a paid project

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

#1 outsourcing service for WordPress

[Robkk]

My custom dropdown profile menu

inspiration to this are

wordpress profile dropdown in the admin bar
bbpress support admin bar

https://youtube.com

Homepage

Home

http://tamrielfoundry.com/

[sidelancer]

I downloaded and activated the plugin but I don’t see it anywhere – nothing new under the dashboard, settings, etc.

BBpress version: 2.5.4
Wordpress version: 3.9.2
theme: Parallex by Cyberchimps.

link to site: http://dragoninquisition.com/

[MeFirst]

Hello everyone,

I would like to know if and how I can assign a default role in bbpress for users who registered. I have my forums set up that people who are not registered at all cant see or access some forums, while registered users can see and access those forums. Right now I have to manually assign every new registered user to that specific group. Is there a option I can link the wordpress role of participant to a group in bbpress?

[GamingOrdinance]

yep, all the same information and still coming up with:

WordPress database error: [Table 'db502829828.node' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(node.node_id USING "utf8") AS node_id,convert(node.parent_node_id USING "utf8") AS parent_node_id,convert(forum.discussion_count USING "utf8") AS discussion_count,convert(forum.message_count USING "utf8") AS message_count,convert(node.title USING "utf8") AS title,convert(node.node_name USING "utf8") AS node_name,convert(node.description USING "utf8") AS description,convert(node.display_order USING "utf8") AS display_order,convert(node.node_type_id USING "utf8") AS node_type_id,convert(forum.allow_posting USING "utf8") AS allow_posting FROM node AS node LEFT JOIN forum AS forum USING (node_id) WHERE node.node_type_id = "Category" OR node.node_type_id = "Forum" LIMIT 0, 100

[luisc9]

Good night everyone!

I am new to bbpress, but not new to WordPress.

Could you please be so kind and explain clearly (for a newbie like me 🙂 ), what are the steps to fix this issue?

We have a website with wordpress and bbpress with responses whose order get’s altered… And this has direct impact in our visitors experience.

Thanks in advance for your patience.
Regards
Luis

[Stephen Edgar]

1- You would need a ‘membership’ plugin that supports bbPress, there are a few in the WordPress plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/
2- You can fully customize bbPress to match any theme or custom design you want, see the docs for more info. https://codex.bbpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

Upgrade your WordPress install from v3.5 to v3.9.2

bbPress minimum requirements are WordPress v3.6 (this will also be bumped very shortly to v3.7)

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress does not have pingbacks enabled for it’s post types, they are explicitly disabled.

Could you be more specific and post a link to some examples and I’ll take a look.

* Is it happening on all three bbPress custom post types?

* forum, topic and reply are the tree post types and a link to one of each that this is happening with will allow me to investigate why.

* I can’t think of a plugin for bbPress that changes the ping status of the custom post types but just in case can you disable all your plugins except bbPress and create a new forum, a topic in that forum and a reply to that topic and then create a WordPress post with a link to each of the three and see if you see any pingbacks.

[pezarro]

Hello,

I operate a WordPress Network on WordPress version 3.5

I have installed bbPress 2.5.4

When an user that is “admin” for the specific site goes to the dashboard, the forums, topics, and replies buttons in the leftcolum appear.

The forums, topics, and replies buttons in the leftcolum dashboard disappear if you double click on the top left dashboard icon unless I make the user a “Super Admin” for the entire WordPress network.

What do you suggest to fix this?

Thanks,

[Sam Rohn]

these 3 plugins are very effective in eliminating spambots and other spammers on wordpress/bbpress site

i use all 3 with no apparent problems, but read the notes for each plugin, all need to be properly configured and stop spammer reg can be very aggressive, stop spam reg and bad behavior will both check visitors against a blacklist of known spammers and will deny them access to reg and posting forms etc

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/

[EzYRiDaH]

Hi Stephen / @netweb

I was finally able to run a complete conversion without any restarts. The MyBB SQL of the database was 435,9 Mb big. We cleaned a lot of the old forum. It contained 1 million+ messages, close to 40k topics and a 400+ members.

The conversion ran for roughly 48 hours on a MacBook Air with i7, 8Gb memory and a 500Gb Solid State drive under MAMP.

For people who want to do such a big conversion, I also had to tweak a lot of the PHP ini files to import such a big query and get maximum throughput. Below a summary. It took me a while to find all the necessary settings.

Copy /applications/mamp/library/support-files/my-huge.cnf and rename to /Applications/MAMP/conf/my.cnf
Change in my.cnf setting [mysqld]max_allowed_packet = 1000M
Change in /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.10/conf/php.ini settings
max_execution_time = 259200,
max_input_time = 259200,
memory_limit = 6144M,
upload_max_filesize = 1000M,
post_max_size = 1000M,
mysql.connect_timeout = 1000.
Add or change in Applications/MAMP/bin/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php setting $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 0;
Don’t forget to restart MAMP.

I ran the conversion with the following settings: Rows Limit 10,000 and Delay Time 0. During the conversion my memory was around 50% and CPU was very low. Most likely it is possible to squeeze out more performance.

I did a lot of random checks and the outcome seems ok-ish. Not quite sure about some things and have some questions. Please bear with me 😉

Some topics are not combined correctly. All replies are separate topics. The ‘Recalculate the parent topic for each post’ does not fix this. I ran all repair queries btw. An option in the Topics interface to combine these, would be ace 😉 Is it possible to correct this with a query? My SQL skills are too limited unfortunately.

The Repair Forums option ‘Recalculate the position of each reply’ does not work. It creates a white screen. Load problem?

myBB accepts spaces in the login name. Unfortunately WordPress does not. The conversion leaves the spaces in the login name. Is it possible to correct this with an SQL? Is there another workaround? Correcting them one by one is not my preference 😉

Two forums are created double. The copies do not contain any topics or replies, so it is easy to remove them. Just thought you should know 😉

The original myBB forum contained 1mlj+ messages and 36k+ discussions. The converted forum contains 109k subjects. That can be explained because of the first issue. But it only contains 830k replies. It could be that myBB adds subjects and replies to messages, but the difference is a bit too big. Is it possible to do an SQL checksum to check the expected output?

Thanks in advance for your time!

[GamingOrdinance]

Hi

im trying to import my XenForo to my BBPress and im having trouble as this is coming up:

WordPress database error: [Table 'db502829828.user' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(user.user_id USING "utf8") AS user_id,convert(user.username USING "utf8") AS username,convert(user.email USING "utf8") AS email,convert(user_profile.homepage USING "utf8") AS homepage,convert(user.register_date USING "utf8") AS register_date,convert(user.custom_title USING "utf8") AS custom_title,convert(user_profile.status USING "utf8") AS status,convert(user_profile.signature USING "utf8") AS signature,convert(user_profile.location USING "utf8") AS location,convert(user_profile.occupation USING "utf8") AS occupation,convert(user_profile.about USING "utf8") AS about FROM user AS user LEFT JOIN user_profile AS user_profile USING (user_id) LIMIT 0, 100
No users to convert
Starting Conversion

My forum link: community.gamingordinance.com

[Stephen Edgar]

This really isn’t a bbPress issue, it is more of a WordPress issue.

Your web host should be able to do some things via firewall rules.

A good starter doc is https://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam , conceptually it is the same thing, you have some ‘content’ that spammers want to get in on, in this case rather than comments it’s your bbPress forums and/or topics.

bbPress uses WordPress user system for user authentication (login registration etc)

I know it’s probably ideally not what you were looking for but is the state of things.

A couple more thoughts would be to verify your Akismet API key is valid and Akismet is actually catching what spam it can. I’d also look to adding “capcha” plugin that supports the bbPress, there’s a few of these in WordPress plugin directory.

[Stephen Edgar]

Check out some of our docs, scroll down past the main headers on the following link and you’ll see some tutorials: https://codex.bbpress.org/

If you want a capcha for your site search the WordPress plugins for “bbPress Capcha”, there are a couple of these I think from memory.

[Dane Gould]

Hi there

We are experiencing a ‘mass spam attack’ that is overloading the database on our web host server. Our web hosts SGIS have looked into this and have deleted 75,000 spam attacks this week that have taken place from May to August 2014 (there were only a few hundred in the 14 months preceding this).

Investigation has seems to show that the spam attack is linked to the bbpress forum plugin in our website. We have the latest version of Akismet installed and the latest version of bbpress. We don’t allow guests to start topics or posts or to reply to posts. All users have to be registered to reply to posts and only a few users are allowed to start new topics and posts. We are also using the latest version of WordPress which is 3.9.2. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas about why this may be happening? Look forward to any reply.

Our website address is: http://www.tenantcentral.org.uk

Cheers – Dane

[icejerry]

I am going to create a widget that shows local events, which are sorted by the date of the events. So I need to sort the topics by topic names but not by when I publish it, for example
[8/22/2014]event1…
[8/25/2015]event2…
[8/26/2014]event3…

But right now there is no this kind of choice for BBPress recent topic widget.
This can be done in wordpress post widget, but I prefer to use BBPress to publish this kind of Events.

I don’t know how to get the wordpress version, but I have the version number for BBPress, which is Version 2.5.4
My website is http://www.ezthelife.com/
Please see the second column on the top, that is what I want, but it is wordpress post widget not BBPress topic widget .

Please help me, thanks a lot.

[jilleryfregan]

I have a weird bug going on with my Static Homepage.

We are using the plugin called Store Locator (http://wordpress.org/plugins/store-locator-le/) to show office locations. It’s a fairly simple plugin called by a shortcode in a page to display a map and list of offices.

When I installed bbPress in addition to this Store Locator plugin, my static homepage was no longer working and my homepage reverted to a generic list of recent posts. (The static page was set in all settings correctly).

This happens on every theme, including twentyfourteen, only when both plugins are activated at the same time.

Is there any hook or reason that these two plugins would affect the static homepage?

Thank you!
Wordpress Version: 3.9.2
bbPress Version: 2.5.4
Website: http://209.240.4.6/

[Robin W]

So basically on the forum, when someone clicks edit my profile at the top of the page, it goes to the backend. Even though, it would be preferable to go to the front end.

I would not let users see the toolbar, this is really just for admins.

You need to disable the toolbar – add this to your functions file

add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');

then put the profile into your menu

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use