[Stephen Edgar]

The Importer runs smoothly until it gets to “Converting Replies”. It then just gets stuck somewhere in the middle of processing replies… I just see the rotating loading Symbol. At my last try to get this done, it already got stuck at “Converting Replies 0-99” …..

This is an awful error and wish I could replicate it so it can be fixed, sadly haven’t been able to achieve this yet. Its usually caused by character encoding in the database, more can be found on this issue in the codex here:
• https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/importing-data/import-forums/import-troubleshooting/

So where are replies 100-200 ???

The importer will, rather should continue on from where it left of when you stop then start it again, the way it currently works is it stores the current value and reads that when you start it again, I’ll take a closer look at the code to see if thats not doing what it is supposed to be doing.

You should also use the “development version” aka bbPress 2.6 alpha, theres some new import improvements, you can get this from the following page or direct link:
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/
• https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip

[Stephen Edgar]

1. You should be sorted by doing what your doing and refreshing (in another browser tab)

2. This is also usually an authentication issue, though this time with the MySQL database, you’ll usually only get this error though if you haven’t refreshed this page recently before starting of an import.

You should also use the “development version” aka bbPress 2.6 alpha, theres some new bbPress 1.x to 2.x import improvements, you can get this from the following page or direct link:
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/
• https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip

[bruce30]

hi @jezza101,
thank you for your response 🙂 i already posted a reply on your plugin support page, Link
Thanks @casiepa 🙂

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
First you could remove the bbPress search box : https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#5-remove-search-function-from-forums
Then for the global search, see if https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-snippet-hack-to-include-bbpress-topics-in-wordpress-search/ is useful

Pascal.

[Serchgdl]

Any ideas?

This is my site http://doggeando.com
Wordpress 4.4.1
bbPress 2.5.8

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
I have never tried, but if you are migrating to a new WordPress/bPress site, then I don’t see why this would not be possible. You just need some SQL skills to modify the DB after you inmport your users.
Pascal.

[rkastudio]

Hi, I am integrating bbPress and BuddyPress and want users to be able to update their public name in one place–the BuddyPress name field. It seems the simplest way would be to modify bbPress to show this BuddyPress field rather than one of the myriad WordPress profile fields.

I know it’s kinda possible to get this to work if you turn on BuddyPress->WordPress profile sync, but this feature of BP overwrites WP first_name and last_name, which is unacceptable in this site. Does anyone know how to accomplish what I’m trying to do?

Thanks!!

[invest0r7]

Hi All,

As the title says, I’m hoping there’s some way to preserve the same User IDs when importing forum users from vbulletin to WordPress. We’re starting a new site from scratch, but we have a ton of database info tied to specific user IDs.

Is this possible? Would be awesome to have this feature.

Thank you

[Christian Freeman (codelion)]

Guys, I’m having a major problem with bbPress on my site.

If I have bbPress activated, I can’t do ANYTHING in the wordpress admin (Create, Edit, or Delete Posts, Pages, etc). bbPress is slowing my site down to a crawl. It’s so slow, that the page eventually just times out.

This has to be a flaw in the bbPress code, because there’s no reason why bbPress should be running on every page of the wordpress admin. That’s incredibly ineffecient on your server resources.

Can someone please help me fix this problem?

Thanks,

[Serchgdl]

Good day, excuse my English. I am new to bbPress, and I’m looking for a way to make my forum posts appear in the search results box finder wordpress, this is that all the results of my site appear in one box. Is there any way?

Thanks in advance

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
I have been using the widgets from bbP Private Groups for that (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/) and of course the groups.

But there might be other plugins of course.
Pascal.

[mohi]

Hello,

I am newbie to use WordPress.
I implemented one website and used bbpress for forums.
But I want to do
When people could type a sentence in a search bar and it would pull up word phrases and such for past posted topics in search bar. In short I want auto search or auto suggest search bar functionality in bbpress forum’s search.

For auto topic suggestion I used ‘bbPress – Live Topic Suggestions’ this plugin Version 1.0.9. Its working when user is going to post new topic at that time existing topic’s list will display.

but I want auto suggestion in case of search of forum, when people start to type word that words related suggested topics or forum name should list come in dropdown.
is it possible ? Please, help me. Thanks

Wordpress Version 4.3.1
bbPress Version 2.5.8
Thanks

Please

[thelaw]

I’ve noticed that this topic is a year and change old but it concerns the phpbb importer. My brief review of the fields would seem to indicate that field names have changed and it’s why I have generated the errors below. There is no forum_topics field and the topics in phpbb3 have their own table and are assigned to a forum using topics.forum_id. I don’t know what the phpbb 2 database schema but apparently it is different.

Nick – were you ever able to get it to work or did you have to outsource the work? It would probably be a good idea for WordPress to let users know as to the compatibility of the converter with the version of phpBB currently able to be converted. Thanks for any insights.

Imported phpBB, where are the forums?

[thelaw]

Clicked: Purge all information from a previously attempted import
Use this if an import failed and you want to remove that incomplete data.

Tried to start again. That deleted all the replies. This seems to be the issue:

WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_topics,convert(forums.forum_posts USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_posts,convert(forums.forum_topics_real USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_topics_real,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100

If we’re talking about the phpbb database, this is because forum_topics doesn’t exist in the phpbb datatabase. Perhaps it did in version 2 but I don’t see that being the case in version 3. As a result, I’m wondering if anyone has successfully converted any phpbb 3 forums.

[thelaw]

Constant errors. No users to convert. No forums to convert. Kicks me into repair but nothing to repair. Ran it again and got:

WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘topics.topic_replies’ in ‘field list’]

SELECT convert(topics.topic_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_id,convert(topics.topic_replies USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_replies,convert(topics.topic_replies_real USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_replies_real,convert(topics.forum_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_id,convert(topics.topic_poster USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_poster,convert(posts.poster_ip USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_ip,convert(posts.post_text USING “utf8mb4”) AS post_text,convert(topics.topic_title USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_title,convert(topics.topic_status USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_status,convert(topics.topic_type USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_type,convert(topics.topic_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_time,convert(topics.topic_last_post_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_last_post_time FROM phpbb_topics AS topics INNER JOIN phpbb_posts AS posts USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id = topics.topic_first_post_id LIMIT 0, 100

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

[najuste]

Problem is the same, but design is from WordPress.. and the website now is on my local mashine.
Here is the php of created bbpress.php
Code is really simple:

<?php get_header(); ?>
	<div id="primary">
		<div id="content" role="main">

			<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
				<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
					<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php twentyeleven_content_nav( 'nav-below' ); ?>
			<?php endif; ?>
			
			</div><!-- #content -->
		</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

But the two pages look different..

Website crop

Looking at html I have noticed, that newly created page has a different body class assigned and so is not recognized as bbpress forum archive page, but rather as a page..
<body class="page page-id-902 page-template page-template-bbpress page-template-bbpress-php custom-background single-author singular two-column left-sidebar">

The breadcrubs issue I have noticed just when I read this..
As that I guess will get fixed after the the page will be understood as forum archive page..

[totosky]

Hey,

I applied the new release of wordpress and I still have the same issues. Some (all?) subforums can’t be browsed, some subjects can’t be read (I still have the same message: “only members could read this subject”, but I logged in with my correct password).
If I logged in as an administrator, everything is fine and I can browse every subjects and subforums.

I applied the correction : if ( ! empty( $parent ) ) {
but it’s still the same issues.

Thanks by advance

[lotusdakiny]

Ok, problem solved 🙂 I had deleted bbpress plugin, after (because of there are was still bbpress roles, and I think that was a problem cause) I had used https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-role-deleter/. After installed bbpress back, and now everything works fine 🙂 thank you!

[lotusdakiny]

Ok, problem solved 🙂 I had deleted bbpress plugin, after (because of there are was still bbpress roles, and I think that was a problem cause) I had used https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-role-deleter/. After installed bbpress back, and now everything works fine 🙂 thank you!

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m wondering if this is related to the WordPress 4.4 issue…

@jessicana can you update to WordPress 4.4.1 and let me know if it is still an issue or 4.4.1 fixes the issue please 🙂

WordPress 4.4.1 Security and Maintenance Release

[Stephen Edgar]

WordPress 4.4.1 has now been released, could you please test to make sure this issue is resolved. https://wordpress.org/news/2016/01/wordpress-4-4-1-security-and-maintenance-release/

Thanks for all your feedback and patience here in this topic, its greatly appreciated everyone 🙂

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
bbPress works with Categories and Forums for the main structure, could you maybe explain what you plan to obtain ? Because you could easily create a structure of Category>Category>Forums.
I did not check how easy it is to have implement it, but if you really want this, check how to add a WordPress custom type, that will be your starting point.
Pascal.

[Toni]

For my records: great theme for forums with photos Destin Basic

All of the elements of the forum are there, the breadcrumb nav is correct and works, the forum layouts are excellent. A bbPress ready theme that actually works out of the box.

[locdog99]

Thank you. That looks right. I build wordpress sites from themes, not custom, so I hope you find something that will work and be easy or detailed enough for me to implement.

I appreciate all the help!

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Naerean,

WP 4.4.1 Release Candidate is out. If you want to test it, you can find it here

Hopefully in 1 week it will be available for production, at least I hope.

Pascal.