[DL]

Thanks! I appreciate your help, I’m desperate to update these sites on old versions of Zikula. I can’t even update the PHP on the server past 5.3 because because Zikula 1.2x won’t work on anything later.

The issues you noted.

Categories
aren’t used much, so yes, they can be ignored, it doesn’t seem like it’s difficult to assign forums to categories in bbPress if needed.

Subscriptions
The table prefix is causing me confusion as I switch between databases. Some of my forums have databases using nuke_ for prefix and some have zk_ , this is an artifact from many years of using Postnuke/Zikula and based on when the original database was created.

in the dizkus schema the (prefix)_dizkus_subscription table contains which forums a user is subscribed to.

The (prefix)_dizkus_topic_subscription table contains which topics a user is subscribed to.

Topic Author IP
This isn’t necessary to move to bbPress as far as I’m concerned. Only used when I’m investigating a possible spam post. Someone else might need to have it though, so put it on the “nice to have” list.

Topic Content
None of the conversion attempts have been successful enough to see yet. So far have always errored out because of failed sql statements.

I attempted to do a join because the title of a new topic is stored in (prefix)_dizkus_topics along with the topic post time, views, num. replies, last post ID, forum ID, and sticky status (0 or 1). But the content of the first post in a topic is stored in the (prefix)_dizkus_posts table.

There is no “first post in topic” post ID in either table, as it looks like phpBB had so I tried to adapt this.

// Topic content.
		// Note: We join the 'posts' table because 'topics' does not include topic content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'post_text',
			'join_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'join_type'       => 'INNER',
			'join_expression' => 'USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id = topics.topic_first_post_id',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
		);

Topic Favorites
Dizkus doesn’t have topic favorites, only forum.

Passwords
Since Dizkus doesn’t store passwords, they would have to taken from (prefix)_users table, but thinking about it I’m not sure that this script needs to deal with passwords at all. I will still need to migrate ALL the users from the Zikula installs, not just the ones that have posted in the forums. I’m planning on using WP All Import Pro for that job and migrating other data like converting news items to news and bringing over static pages.

Worst case, if the passwords get screwed up everyone would have to use the “lost password” system to set a new one.

Just tried the version of dizkusZK in Github after merging your changes and got this error.

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'zk_users.pn_uname' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(zk_dizkus_users.user_id USING "utf8mb4") AS user_id,convert(zk_users.pn_uname USING "utf8mb4") AS pn_uname,convert(zk_users.pn_email USING "utf8mb4") AS pn_email,convert(zk_users.pn_url USING "utf8mb4") AS pn_url,convert(zk_users.pn_user_regdate USING "utf8mb4") AS pn_user_regdate,convert(zk_users.pn_user_avatar USING "utf8mb4") AS pn_user_avatar FROM zk_dizkus_users AS zk_dizkus_users LIMIT 0, 100
No users to convertNo data to cleanStarting Conversion

[gleninjersey]

When I click on “Register” I receive the below error:

“Not Found

Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.”

I did a little googling and have already have turned on “Anyone can register” under settings (Membership).

I am also seeing an error message “The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activate, Register. Repair”

Any suggestions?

[Robin W]

If you’re a newbie, then install Pascal’s plugin – much easier !

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-toolkit/

[Manuel Fritsch]

Thanks a lot for your assistance, Pascal. This is the Slimstat support thread.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Using Chrome standard tools, I saw you run into a warning ‘Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user’s experience.’

I arrived on https://wordpress.org/support/topic/heatmap-xmlhttprequest-deprecated?replies=5 so as you confirmed you have WP Slimstat installed and switching it off, the URL clicks are working fine, you will have to check on their forum.

Pascal.

[Robin W]

Once you’ve installed bbpress if you use the plugin

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-private-groups

then you can create groups with access to different forums, or indeed groups of forums

[adam]

I am just now going to begin setting up my site. I’m recreating my site in WordPress because I was told therein lies the ability to create several password-protected forums on one website. I need confirmation of that before I continue. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

All I want to do is have my website show other users’ basic info when I click their name in a forum post.

That’s what it is supposed to do – click my name here and you’ll go to my profile !

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

it’s do-able but I don’t know of anything that already does this.

Suspect you need to pay someone to cut the code for you.

try http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Pascal Casier]

If you look for a coder concerning WP/bbPress, don’t forget to post on http://jobs.wordpress.net/

Pascal.

[pwonlineblog]

Still not working.

Before my first post I did try those two steps (I was paying attention and did read the “Before posting” post at the top of the page).

But I did try again. I deactivated all but bbpress. When I attempted to change the theme to twentyfifteen I discovered that I didn’t have the most up to date version of WordPress, so I updated it. I now have all but bbpress deactivated and the twentyfifteen theme installed, and still no luck with the forums.

I appreciate all your help. Any more ideas?

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve never heard of Dizkus 🙁

You could try making some more changes to the phpBB importer yourself if it already partially works:

Custom Import

Also checkout both of these for SMF and phpBB for the upcoming bbPress 2.6 release.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php

[Robin W]

before you do that, lets just eliminate theme and plugin.

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Stephen Edgar]

If you look at the phpBB importer it has the callback_html and parses a bunch or regular expressions to manipulate the previous BBCode or HTML strings, will that work for you?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php#L934

[Stephen Edgar]

Awesome 🙂

Just to add that the standard Drupal forums module for Drupal 7 was included in bbPress 2.5, I’m not sure if there is anything in that that you may not have in your Drupal 6.

Also, two of the importers SMF and phpBB have some cool new things for the upcoming bbPress 2.6, importing favourites, subscriptions, anonymous topics/replies/posts, you may want to have a look there to see if they help in importing more data from Drupal
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
So you have bbPress translated into CZ if I understand correctly ?
If so, would you mind helping with the translation for the whole CZ community ? https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/cs/default/wp-plugins/bbpress

If you are interested, I can guide you on becoming PTE for bbPress, let me know. Then you can import you .po file and everybody can have bbPress in CZ then !

Thanks,
Pascal.

[pwonlineblog]

I had looked at several videos and none of them talked about step 3 and setting up a page. I have now done that and I can view the page (called: forums). And the test forum I set up has “forums” in the forum root slug heading. But I still get page not found. This is the address of the forum I have set up:

http://portwennonline.com/wordpress/forums/forum/dmforum/

I’m now starting to wonder if the issue has to do with Aabaco. This is the company that recently took over the Yahoo web hosting. I followed the guide above step-by-step I’ve even tried deleting all of the created pages and forums I’ve set up, deleted bbpress from my plugins and then reinstalled it and tried again – I’ve actually done this several times. Do you think a call to Aabaco might solve the issue?

[wafflecloud]

Hiya,
I apologize if this is the wrong section but I have a quick inquiry for you all. Is there a bbpress plugin that creates a notifications widget.

So basically say a standard user is sent a private message from another user but I’ve removed my admin bar…. is there an existing plugin to create a widget that would display notifications which I could place on my page to show that private message is waiting to be read in a similar way to the admin bar?

Alternatively how would one go about editing the admin bar to remove the content to the left like the wordpress logo or “visit site” / dashboard tachometer icon?

Thanks in advance to all who respond!

[pwonlineblog]

I submitted a new post because I finally deleted the WordPress and started over – but I’m still getting the same “page not found”

Here is the blog site: http://www.portwennonline.com/wordpress/

And one of the test forums: http://portwennonline.com/wordpress/forums/forum/testforum1/

[matousch]

What files and what way am I supposed to modify if I wish to change the appearance of bbpress login form in this way? My forum: http://www.posuzujeme.cz

Original login form layout:

Bewished login form layout:

WordPress v. 4.4.2
bbPress v. 2.5.8.

[krbmedia]

I have searched the forum and can’t find anywhere to find the BBPRESS importer. I have an old PHPBB forum that I’d love to move over to my brand new BBPRESS one but eveyr post says the importer is under TOOLS>IMPORT and I don’t see that listed. Am I missing a plugin? Can I get the steps listed?

[mikehende]

No, but I am seeing the double forum in the url only when I click on the the topic I created titled “ask the tech”

http://newwordpresstheme.pcandnetservices.com/forums/forum/ask-the-tech/