I would check out the “Example.php” file for info on how to create a converter. It is pretty self explanatory to any developer. We made it extremely easy to create conversion files. All you have to do is create the mapping and the system does everything else for you.
In bbPress, after I set the time zone to UTC-5 in “Settings” ->”General Settings”, it gave me the following error
and now whenever I go to “Settings” it only shows this error and won’t show my settings to make changes.
How do I fix this?
I don’t know if it matters, but my bbPress is integrated with WP.
This is the error:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘DateTimeZone::__construct() [datetimezone.–construct]: Unknown or bad timezone (UTC-5)’ in /data/16/1/21/63/1836226/user/1992360/htdocs/wordpress1/bbpress/bb-admin/options-general.php:180 Stack trace: #0 /data/16/1/21/63/1836226/user/1992360/htdocs/wordpress1/bbpress/bb-admin/options-general.php(180): DateTimeZone->__construct(‘UTC-5’) #1 {main} thrown in /data/16/1/21/63/1836226/user/1992360/htdocs/wordpress1/bbpress/bb-admin/options-general.php on line 180
Is there a schematic for the bbpress forum/post/userlog/etc databases? I have a custom forum with a lot of posts that I’d like to import into bbpress but I’m going to be doing it myself. Is the code in your importer script clear enough so that I could do something?
It would be cool if there was a simple universal xml file one could create with all the data for bbpress and import it that way.
Thanks.
Anybody can answer this? I got a list of users in my db, password is md5 encrypted, can this be used as the user database for bbpress as well, so my users dont have to signup for the forum as well as the main site?
Thanks
Anybody can answer this? I got a list of users in my db, password is md5 encrypted, can this be used as the user database for bbpress as well, so my users dont have to signup for the forum as well as the main site?
Thanks
Woohoo! Thank you, Adam! I’m going to now convert my phpBB3 forum to bbpress2.
I’ll report back on how it went.
Thanks again, Adam 
Hmmm, can I do that into another WP / bbPress site or does it have to be into the same installation that my current WP installation with the posts is running in?
And can it only convert a particular category as well I.e I’ve already set a ‘Forum’ category for the posts I’d like to convert.
Thanks for your help thus far too
If we were having this discussion 2 years ago we would have been talking about MySpace, before that possibly MSN messenger signings, and definitely before that AoL signing. No-one has made a point about why we should develop something into the core of BBpress that is dependent on the popularity and propriety software of another company.
Version 1.3 Released:
phpBB3 now supported
punBB is started and should be early next week.
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Thanx
Hello, I’ve been trying to install bbpress and I keep getting this message.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/assoc786/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 122
What should I do to fix this? I promised client he could have a forum with his BuddyPress site.
Thankt you.
Danielle
Goal: Add BuddyPress with GROUP forums using bbPress.
Situation: Current WordPress has bbPress installed as a SINGLE forum. BuddyPress is not installed yet.
Problem: (on a test WordPress site) When I add BuddyPress, bbPress uses existing files and shows up as a SINGLE forum and will NOT show up as a GROUP forum.
Q1. How do I remove/restructure bbPress so I can add BuddyPress with bbPress as a GROUP forum? (I am ok with losing current bbPress data, but would prefer to backup for a different use.)
Q2. WHERE is current bbPress forum DATABASE so I can copy (then remove) it before I install BuddyPress with Group Forums using bbPress?
Thank you for help!
@johnjamesjacoby
Thanks for info!
Actually as WordPress allows it, I installed files in physical folder domain.com/wp, while users access the blog via domain.com/blog.
In such setup, is it possible to separate the forum from blog and access it via domain.com/forum?
@johnjamesjacoby
Thanks for info!
Actually as WordPress allows it, I installed files in physical folder domain.com/wp, while users access the blog via domain.com/blog.
In such setup, is it possible to separate the forum from blog and access it via domain.com/forum?
Hey
I got a site with a simple php login system, is it possible to integrate bbpress with this, so my users dont have to register again for the forum, can these be connected with simple php?
Thanks
Rastarr, you may try converting your WordPress blog into bbPress standalone forums via http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-to-bbpress-converter/ and then use the bbPress plugin importer to import from the bbPress standalone. Please have a backup, cheers!
Well, it’s 7 months since the last comment and I’m wondering whether anything official did actually ‘come down the pipe’?
I’ve just converted my Drupal site over to a locally running WordPress / bbPress installation however all previous forums from my Drupal site are currently WP Posts since they’ve retained the comment structure.
I’m able to convert the Posts to Topics however the comments remain elusive, presumably since Replies are a custom content type and, for whatever reason, comments aren’t a content type. At least nothing that’s recognised by the converting plugin that I found.
Being able to convert a WP Post with comments to a Topic with Replies is about the only thing now that’s stopping the converted site from going live.
Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks
Martin
@monoman – If WordPress is installed in a physical folder named ‘blog’ you won’t be able to easily put bbPress in any other folder. There are advanced ways of making this work, but you’d want to hire a pro to make it go (or do some digging into moving your WP install and/or sharing user tables between installs.)
@monoman – If WordPress is installed in a physical folder named ‘blog’ you won’t be able to easily put bbPress in any other folder. There are advanced ways of making this work, but you’d want to hire a pro to make it go (or do some digging into moving your WP install and/or sharing user tables between installs.)
Something in your theme’s CSS is coded for comment replies and bbPress is picking it up. This has happened to a few others, and I’ll be tweaking the default theme to prevent this in 2.1.
Hi, checked around and didn’t see anything about this so I thought I’d ask. I’m trying to use Google custom search as a one-stop search engine for my buddypress/bbpress site but for some reason topics don’t show up as results, only the forums.
Anyone else experienced this/know what may be up?
Thanks, any help is greatly appreciated!
Chris
Thank you so much I received it from both of you so I have databases so please don’t send anymore. I should be able to work on these tomorrow and will give an update.
I just sent a phpBB3 DB. It was originally phpBB2 and migrated to official way.
I have the Chameleon theme from ElegentThemes. And i am trying to find out what to do to make bbpress work. I have it installed and works great on my mobile device. So i know it’s something to do with the theme i have. But i’m not sure where to start to make it work. This is really all i need so if there is a better way of doing it I am all ears! This site is for a small staffing company (365worx.com). They post a lot of things on Craigs List. But, they want to start posting things on there site. They don’t do a lot of it. So i don’t need anything special like phpBB. But i have thought about it and just don’t care for it much. Since i am so new to this it’s a little frustrating lol. Anyway, they will only post things to one forum, and no one will reply to it. it’s just to let people know it’s there.
Thank you all for your help! Sorry if it’s a dumb question!
I received it and ran some tests the issue is: “I have firstly migrated the punbb to bbpress 1.1 so all the tables reflect that migration”. Well the data in the table is wrong compared to a fresh bbpress and posts in it. The “post_position” column is always 1 on your site this is not accurate and causing part of your issues. I see “topic_poster” and “topic_last_poster” all 0 as well.
If you can send me your punbb database I can make a conversion file for it and will solve everything.
Anyone who is doing a two step process this to that to this please refrain from using my script and ask for the direct conversion file. Everything I have tested is fresh copies of each forum platform without ever being converted into and I haven’t been able to get any issues.
Right now I have requests for phpbb3 and punbb. I need databases for these if you want to help speed up the process. I just need to test the phpbb3 and I can go live with it so if anyone has test data would be appreciated.
