[jez101]

I found BJ’s post above the most useful. The trick seems to be not to put the bbpress files in your existing theme, this didn’t work for me. But as BJ suggests, put them in your WP theme folder.

This seemed to get me a step futher, as at least the forum “works” now in terms of functionality. Unfortunately the styling still needs some work.

Anyone any ideas regarding what else I need to do, or is now just a case of trying to apply my themes’s styling some how?

Forum currently looks like this:

http://www.jezza101.co.uk/forums

Oh, the other annoying thing is that the social bookmark function from WP’s Jetpack seems to be appearing! That’s one for another day!.

Cheers.

[varsitysmack]

I look forward to his help. I’ve since switched my theme over to the twentyten theme so that you can see the forums do not show with the new bbpress 2010 theme.

What’s weird is my old theme even says that I don’t have the bbpress files needed to view the forums, but it still lets me view them. The new theme included with bbpress does obviously have the bbpress files, and I can’t view the forums with that theme.

This is very weird – almost like the bbpress 2.0 plugin didn’t install correctly or something since the forums are still viewable with the old theme and not with the new bbpress theme.

[intimez]

I remember seeing mention of conversion from vanilla somewhere but now I do not see it on the list above. Was that dropped?

Also, what happens to urls from search engines after someone convert from another forum? Is there automatic match and redirect?

[Kasper Isager]

bbPress automatically adds the class “reply” to when editing a reply to a topic. Does this class do any anything? I’ve had to remove it using jQuery due to an incompatibility with my current theme. The theme is already using the class “reply” for the reply link on posts, which means that every on the edit reply page get styled like that class.

Kasper

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[Ed]

Hi Anointed, thanks for that. I really need to get my punBB moved to something else ASAP, and was hoping the bbpress might be the one.

Indeed, I just went from punbb > phpbb etc, as there is no direct conversion. It does seems that along the way, little things break – which in the end screw up the final conversion step.

Looking forward to a new release of your tool

[highexistence]

Bump

[Green Girl Mel]

I’m advancing! Have found php files in my file manager and have managed to change one and it worked! Unfortunately the changes were not re this bbtheme change. I have reread these posts but I’m afraid I’m still really not clear on what is the right changes to make to my php files so that weaver refers to the bbpress templates.

I’ve transferred the bbpress twenty ten file to my weaver theme file. Can someone from bbpress (or someone who has successfully done this) give instructions for the code changes that are needed?

Thanks heaps – can’t wait to get this baby working!

[amirsaam]

Yep, the counting is the problem. but first go and see is your way possible or not. Get the # a +1 will be awesome but how will stored in database? hum?

I have not a good knowledge about database but I know make a +1 to database is a very hard way!

My way is the way bbPress go, how? bbPress count it, store it into the database and you don’t need to store it again, jus’ get it and show it. Your way said bbPress counted it & stored it into db, ok I don’t need it. I’ll count & store it again then show it (I didn’t used bbPlugin, maybe I didn’t see what’s going on here!) but in this way countin’ will be lower but the problem is the +1 that is possible or not cause MySQLs I think have not this ability and everytime they overwrite themselves mean they recount and rewrite the metas, they are not mathmen

[Anointed]

I have not tried the 1x vs. of bbPress, so no experience there.

For the plugin, I actually roll my own themes from scratch, so I would not need to include a plugin for users. I would simply add the functions to my bbPress functions just like all the other custom functions I write.

I don’t count the number on each form submit, I was simply thinking about appending a +1 to the count already stored for the users topic/reply counts on form submit. (user-x topic_count = 200)

As to db size, yeah that is already a ‘problem’ as my db’s are huge. I really don’t know which tradeoff is better, storing the number in the db usermeta table, or doing the calculation on the fly.

Doing it this way would only store a single entry for each user, just like the username, first-name, etc. Printing it out on the screen then takes zero effort and only a single call with zero counts needed.

Scenario: site gets 100 new posts a day and 1000 topic page views a day

your way — Assuming 10 topics/replies per single topic page

10x per page X 1000 page views a day = 10,000 count calculations

my way — Assuming 10 topics/replies per single topic page

100 new topics/replies per day = 100 count calculations as it’s done on submit form.

I still end up showing the 10,000 user counts, but never have to calculate the count prior to display.

100 counts vs. 10,000 counts

mostly just brainstorming in case JJ finds the thread and jumps in. I would love to see more counts stored in bbPress in the future.

[amirsaam]

Yep But you must worry about the database mass, when we need to back it up for big forums you have a big volume to back up, nuh?

Till now my theme for Persian bbPress support site is about 25 query in homepage, it’s cause of the Ajax and jQuery I used in it I don’t think for big forums a query be something that they worry about it.

Another thing, your plugin need to count the post numbers after anypost, save it then give it out. I think it will be more heavier than this query that jus’ evoke the number

Any way I jus’ cause of that write this code to have the number without plugin, cause plugins that we have now make another method and etc. that not awesome.

But still have this mind for myself, we need to upgrade the StandAlone vr more than the bbPlugin cause anyone have not a WP installed! Someone are here that jus’ wanna a forum software! other way, bbPlugin is so awesome!

[Anointed]

The query is going to be run on each and every topic/reply. So a topic page with 20 authors showing would run this query 20 times on that page.

Multiply that by hundreds of concurrent users and you have a lot of queries to handle. That is why I brought up needing to cache the output.

I’m not saying that it is a bad query, actually I think that is exactly how to get it, just worried about performance for such little benefit is all.

I was actually contemplating a different approach:

1. run an initial query to count all users topics/replies and store that value in the usermeta table.

2. append the submit topic/reply form to add to the users topic count in the usermeta table.

3. simply call the value stored for the user and output that.

This means that bbpress never has to do the manual counts on page load, but just pulls the number just like any other data.

*would also need to modify system so if a topic/reply is deleted that the users count is also modified to lower their count.

good idea?

[amirsaam]

You would like to know bbPress.org jus’ have 52,283 post

** I forgot it: Yeah buddy I would like to learnin’ manything here and share what I know But I don’t know anything about bbPlugin bbPress 1.x is my game

[Anointed]

No idea why it would work on one theme and not twentyten. Might need to wait until JJ gets off the plane for help. I’d just be taking to many wild guesses

I did go to your-site/forums/ and saw the forums just fine on the old theme.

[varsitysmack]

No, I used the built in tool included with bbpress 2.0 (the importer).

There was no error provided (unless it’s logged in my server’s log files that I haven’t checked yet). After I clicked on recount and checked all of the boxes and clicked go, the browser just spun and came with a page saying there was an internal server error. Not other information was given. No error codes or anything.

[varsitysmack]

So, everything appeared to import successfully from my old bbpress version to the new 2.0 version, but when I went to recount everything I got an Internal Server Error. Any help would be appreciated.

[varsitysmack]

So I was able to import my old forums over from the old version of bbpress to the new 2.0 version successfully, and I can still see the forums using my old theme, but when I try to view the forums using the Twenty Ten theme, I cannot see the the bp forums or groups. There is no error message – the forums just don’t show up (or the groups that the forums were built under).

Assistance with this would be greatly appreciated. My site is http://varsitysmack.com.

[Anointed]

ED: Just talked to AWJunkies and he said this can happen when running multiple converters strung together.

From your post it looks like you need a way to go from punbb?

(guessing you are only going from punbb -> phpbb in order to get a roundabout way to bbpress)

We are going to add punbb and phpbb3 to the list of importers.

[Anointed]

There is no ‘easy’ way to remove the breadcrumbs as they are included in a number of templates. You would need to go through each of the bbPress templates and remove the following:

<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

[Anointed]

ED: I’ve sent a message to AWJunkies about the mismatched topic/replies. I hope to have a solution for you quickly. Thank you for such a detailed report. It will go a long way to troubleshooting any possible issues.

Varsitysmack: Any information you can provide will help a lot. If you can get the error that was kicked out then we can jump in and see what is happening.

[varsitysmack]

I can’t give details right now… I’m restoring my DB. Basically it appeared to convert the users appropriately but whene it got to converting the forums, topics and replies, the tool failed throwing an error message (which I didn’t jot down because of the need to immediately restore the db).

That’s as far as I am.

[Ed]

OK, I solved my mismatch problem by simply removing the top level forum category.

However, the blank posts still occur.

I’ve tracked it down to:

– at the BBpress1 stage, while the POSTs show the correct author, the actual TOPIC shows “Anonymous” for every entry.

– there is a duplicate entry in the DB, one which is the topic title, and then the actual contents.

things look fine with phpbb3, so I guess the error was with the “phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter_v2″….

not your converter.

Anyhow, thanks for your great work!!! I just need to get my data in a state where it can be pulled in. Thanks.

[Ed]

haha. i think you need to give some more details, if you hope for any help

[varsitysmack]

I tried this plugin – it didn’t work for me.

[varsitysmack]

After installing the new 2.0 plugin and trying to import my old forums, I get an error after I click ‘Proceed’ when during the part where I’m asked to ‘Enter the full path to your bbPress configuration file i.e. bb-config.php:’.

The specific error says this:

Warning: require_once(/home/content/40/6611140/html/varsitysmack/bb-includes/class.bb-query.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/40/6611140/html/varsitysmack/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/importers/bbpress.php on line 154

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/content/40/6611140/html/varsitysmack/bb-includes/class.bb-query.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php’) in /home/content/40/6611140/html/varsitysmack/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/importers/bbpress.php on line 154

I’m not sure what I need to do to fix this, but it is pretty important that I get the forums up and running as soon as possible. 99% of the content of my site is through the bbpress forums (I have a discussion forum site) and while I’m very excited about this upgrade (especially about the content now being custom post types), my site is essentially down until I get this resolved.

Any help that anyone will be able to provide is greatly appreciated.

[goldmember]

Hmmm… If I’m using the regular wordpress registration at http://www.InsertSiteNameHere.com/wp-login.php?action=register, will the registrants be able to use the bbPress forums on that site?