[Stephen Edgar]

Make sure your using the correct database prefix, most phpBB tables will be named something like phpbb_posts, in that case the database prefix is phpbb_

If you are importing from phpBB 3.1 then you can test the new importer via our bbPress “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]

@excandesco The Xenforo import does NOT convert passwords

(I think its only bbPress 1.x, SMF, phpBB and vBulletin that convert passwords at this stage)

[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.

[jessicana]

Hello

I want to prevent user role with participant from creating new topics. By default, registered users are given the participant role. I want the forums to be organized and if I allow everyone in they will mess the forums.

I read this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/prevent-users-from-creating-topics/

But it’s no longer applicable to the current version.

I tried this fix:

.bbp-topic-form {
	display: none;
}

But it’s incorrect because users will not be able to edit their replies and it affects the functionality of forums.

Please help!

[Robin W]

link to your site please

and

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Naerean,
Start from this: https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/
Pascal.

[haans]

I have installed bbpress and user able to login and change a password via a “generator” button. It generates a random password and email to user. All this are done in the edit profile page.

However I’d like a user upon login to allow them to edit profile and change to a desired password. If possible also prompt them to enter old password before proceeding.

[woklet]

Trying to import a very large bbpress 1.2 forum to the latest. As I understand it, the converter essentially reads through all topics, replies and forums and creates a new post of type “forum” in the main WP database.

My issue is that this forum has approx. 520k topics and many, many more replies. The furthest the import process has managed to get has been 67k posts imported before timing out or dying in some unshown way. This is running on a dedicated server with 4GB RAM which runs nothing else.

Short of me rewriting the converter so it’s pure scripting and doesn’t run in WP, is there some way for me to speed this up and make sure it doesn’t die? To recap, it’s died in the following ways:

1) got to 67k, ended in ———- : AFAIK from reading, this is due to login timeout. I’ve solved that by auto refreshing the dashboard page

2) Says “starting conversion” hangs there indefinitely : logging that I’ve put in place indicates that inserts are happening but nothing is coming through on the WP log window. This eventually dies as well.

Any advice would be great – I’m not sure if @netweb is still around but if yes, please help 😀 I’ve read all your posts to other people on this sorta topic.

[krlgroupfl]

Hi everyone,

I was trying to read some topics on this, but couldn’t get it to work. I am working on:
http://independentflorida.com/forums/forum/presidential-election/

I am trying to get the bbPress sidebar (like on the main forum page) to apply inside each forum and each topic. I tried to go through #26 on the codex link without using a plug in. I’ve also tried WP Tweaks. I would like to fix it with as few active plugins as possible.

It seems to me like the problem is the page set to full width, but I’m not an expert. I’m hoping someone can help me go in the right direction. Thanks!

Greg

[Serchgdl]

Any ideas?

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

[Christian Freeman (codelion)]

You’re right.

I went through and deactivated all of my plugins again, but this time I activated bbPress first, and I discovered that the issue is being caused by a conflict with the WooRockets Pagebuilder plugin. All is well now that I’ve deactivated the page builder.

Thanks

[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!!

[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

[jezza101]

OK, so it looks like the request is for member views, which means logged in users. That is much easier to identify.

The problem is that this is a fairly niche case, it’s unlikely that many users of this plugin want a count of members only.

I could add it is an option but then the plugin isn’t really “simple” any more. Let me have a think about it 🙂

@devyncjohnson That’s a great idea by the way. I like the idea of a little panel on the main dashboard with a few stats. Let me have a think about this.

The plugin hasn’t been updated because it hasn’t really needed any changes, as far as I know it still works and the idea is to keep it simple. But some admin stats is a neat idea. I love the idea of core bbPress having view counts but bbPress development has ground to a halt, which is disappointing especially after a bunch of us stumped up some cash to support the further development of bbPress.

[Pascal Casier]

“bbPress doesn’t work”, but I see a lot of stuff on http://indonesianvillages.com/forums/ !
So you will have to detail more.
Pascal.

[monsieurbgs]

Hi Pascal..

i have another website using bbpress plugin with the same theme..and bbpress works fine..
But..bbpres doesn’t works on this website (www.indonesianvillages.com).

Have any suggestion?

Best Regards,

Bagus

[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

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Bob,

If you want it the easy way, install my bbP Toolkit where you can change the separator to new line.

If you don’t feel in adding extra plugins, check item 1 on https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/

Pascal.

[Doggins]

Hey there,
I’d like to import Mingle Forums in to BBPRESS
But there is no ‘Forums’ option under Tools.

Have tested a different server, different theme – same problem. Anyone else having the issue?

Any ideas?

[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?

[Pascal Casier]

Ah now it’s clear. You can check this topic that will help you out: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/tittle/
Pascal.