[EzYRiDaH]

Hi Stephen / @netweb,
Many thanks for your replies! I am trying to convert MyBB 1.6.11. It is a very old forum which (unfortunately) was customized improperly by the previous owner. It was lagging many many versions. I paid a student to do an upgrade about a year ago, but there is some funky **** still in the PHP. With my limited knowledge of MyBB I even tried to a fresh install of MyBB and imported the complete forum in it. Pulled all my hairs out when I found out MyBB stores code in the database…

I’ve stressed my dear wife to start cleaning the old forum, which she’s (finally) diligently doing now.

Don’t worry too much about making any updates on the code 🙂 I also have some kind of life and job next to trying to convert a MyBB forum 😉 After all the cleaning of the old forum, I will do another test run to see if I can find any other issues. It is very likely that some errors are just because it is an ancient forum (10 years old). Read up on the conversion of @Halo-DieHard. Will make sure I do a repair/optimization of the old forum. To be honest, I am not sure if I did that with the last conversion, sorry.

I will report back on the forum on what I was able to squeeze out on performance with MAMP, with what settings and the results.

Another (most likely dumb) question I forgot to ask. This could be the answer to the missing(?) topics/replies. At the end of the conversion, the program shows in short intervals ‘-‘ on the screen. This takes forever and lasted almost as long as the initial part of the conversion which grabbed the Rows. I thought the conversion was finished when the ‘-‘ stopped appearing on screen ‘————‘ etc. Was I supposed to wait for some kind of other message which indicates the conversion ended?

In the meantime I am busy integrating the plugin USERPRO and GD bbPress Toolbox. Never coded in PHP and already hate the syntax 😉 I will get there and report back on the results!

Thanks again for your time!

[Robkk]

remove the #bbpress-forums code you added

and also the code i gave you before

use this

.bbpress #primary {
float:left;
width:100%;
}

[Lisa Cerezo]

Has anybody had the issue where a search of the forums takes you back to the homepage? As in, I get a supposedly good link (mysite/forum/search/topic), but the page itself is the homepage of the site instead. I’m using bbPress 2.5.4-5380 and I have WP 3.9.2. The site is built on the Thesis framework (v. 2.1.9) and I’m really hoping that’s not what’s causing the conflict. Everything else on bbPress is working fine. I just can’t use the Search function for some reason.

Thanks in advance!

[akyboy]

well looks like i solved it,..

created bbpress.php in theme dir , and inserted all from page.php from default theme.
all looks fine so far.

[Stephen Edgar]

As I said, you alot of forum software that has pagination for the categories/forums.

This is why the time has not been spent adding this into bbPress, most of the time it is not needed.

What you should do is organize more “top level” categories if that’s what it takes.

category A
– sub-category A1
— forum AA1
— forum AA2
category B
— sub-category B1
— forum BB1
— forum BB2

[divyesh25]

hi Stephen,

thanks for reply. yes i want this kind of pagination (“Page 1″, “Page 2″ etc). there is no other custom code for pagination or ajax based loading data. This kind of pagination required on my site because lots of data so i am separate out using categorywise. bbpress have great features so i used it on my site. but i am little disappointed just becusee of forum pagination.

thanks.

[mouna84]

this code worked to center the forums, but not the bottom of the page:

#bbpress-forums {
width: 900px;
margin-left: 100px
}

[kaminoda]

Hi,

I just activated bbpress and I’d like to add a “return to forum” tab to user profil.

I understood that i must put a code like this:

<li c lass="">
<a title="Return forum">Return forums</a>
</l i> 

But i don’t know where to find the file where i should put this code ?

Thank you for your help

[Stephen Edgar]

No magic wand, as each topic or reply is imported it is matched to the old user ID.

Thus you really need to import the users and the forums, topics and replies at the same time.

The reason you can do this separate is because bbPress 1.x, BuddyPress Group Forums, SimplePress, Mingle to name a few are WordPress plugins and thus the users already exist in the WordPress database.

I also can’t see a reason as to why importing the users, then the forums as separate imports would work and a single import for everything would not work. Essentially the way the import works is in steps, it imports each section, once finished moves to the next step.

Up for trying again? If you do please post back here any errors you see and I’ll help work through those with you.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for that, I’ll go make a note to dig into why the tracbacks/pingbacks are enabled, they shouldn’t be.

I had a quick look at the theme your using, MineWP, if you make a copy of the page.php file and rename it bbpress.php then remove the ‘comments’ section of the template:

Remove this line of code and save it and you’ll no longer have the pingbacks or trackbacks shown, technically they will still be enabled but will not show until we get this fixed.

<?php comments_template('',true); ?>

[Stephen Edgar]

So you want “Page 1”, “Page 2” etc? Currently bbPress forums do not support any form of pagination like that.

Reorganizing your category and forums structure is a much better idea, you won’t find many forums on the internet with their forums setup with that much fragmentation and is one of the reasons bbPress has not spent the time adding pagination to forums.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry for the delay, life has been getting in the way.

Thanks for listing those tweaks you made, they make sense, we already bump the PHP timeout and up the memory limit to 256M but that is all we can really do safely before we cause grief in shared hosting environments.

I linked this post from our Import Troubleshooting docs so when I get the time we can expand that section (or a dedicated section) on tweaking ‘all the things’.

It doesn’t look I have asked this previously, what version of MyBB are you importing from?

All my tests have been with MyBB v1.6.10

Some topics are not combined correctly. All replies are separate topics. The ‘Recalculate the parent topic for each post’ does not fix this. I ran all repair queries btw. An option in the Topics interface to combine these, would be ace 😉 Is it possible to correct this with a query? My SQL skills are too limited unfortunately.

I just ran an MyBB import of my ‘standard’ MyBB database and without running any repair tools replies are correctly associated with their parent topics.

As to the possibility of correcting this with a MySQL query, it could be, it’s hard to say without knowing what data is mismatched.

Run the following query in phpMyAdmin:
– 83 is my topic ID
– 97,99,100 and 102 are the reply ID’s I know should be part of the topic ID 83
– A single topic and a couple of replies should be all I need to see what’s going on

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID IN (83,97,99,100,102)

Once you’ve executed the query, click ‘Print View’ and the results should open in a new browser tab, select all the text and paste them into a GitHub Gist and select SQL from the language dropdown (You don’t need an account for this)

https://gist.github.com/

It should look similar to this (this is based on my above screenshot)
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/04ed1cf9cf5f67528fcb

The Repair Forums option ‘Recalculate the position of each reply’ does not work. It creates a white screen. Load problem?

Yes, sadly, this is because of the size of the forums, kind of a know issue so that is good, sortof. Anyway the best thing is is that you do not need to run this tool. This is for only repairing ‘threaded replies’ which MyBB did not have so you can just skip running this tool. I’ll update the verbiage for this text in the next release and make some improvements when used with ‘large’ sites and some error handling.

myBB accepts spaces in the login name. Unfortunately WordPress does not. The conversion leaves the spaces in the login name. Is it possible to correct this with an SQL? Is there another workaround? Correcting them one by one is not my preference

I’ll work out a fix for that shortly, second time I’ve hit this issue today, @Halo-DieHard also did on BuddyPress.org.

Two forums are created double. The copies do not contain any topics or replies, so it is easy to remove them. Just thought you should know

That shouldn’t be the case, though as you point out easily fixed, most likely one of two things, either those forums were still there from a previous import OR there is something funky with the forum categories versus the forum forums though checking my import I just did, everything is fine for me 😉

The original myBB forum contained 1mlj+ messages and 36k+ discussions. The converted forum contains 109k subjects. That can be explained because of the first issue. But it only contains 830k replies. It could be that myBB adds subjects and replies to messages, but the difference is a bit too big. Is it possible to do an SQL checksum to check the expected output?

It does sound a little off, some forum software combine the total topics and replies to create a total post count.

On my MyBB I have:

Our members have made a total of 22 posts in 10 threads.
We currently have 6 members registered.

After importing using the [bbp-stats] shortcode I have
Topics 10, Replies 12

So that works out correct in my case, total of 22 posts = 10 topics + 12 replies 🙂

It’s hard to match up yours because the issue above as you state, ball park 109k + 830k = 93k which is a few short of the 1m, this will be due to those issues above and we can take another look after they’re fixed.

[Stephen Edgar]

This was fixed in bbPress 2.5.4, to repair any of affected replies run the “Recalculate the position of each reply” repair tool from Tools -> Forums

[Stephen Edgar]

Add the following CSS to your custom CSS and you should be good to go:

#bbpress-forums span.bbp-author-ip {
word-wrap: break-word;
}

I have added word-wrap: break-word; to bbPress CSS in #2675

span.bbp-author-ip {
	font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-weight: bold;
	word-wrap: break-word;
	color: #aaa;
}

[trevan]

Had to run the import 15 or 20 times, restoring the database each time (because the options on the reset forums page didn’t see to work for me). Each time, the conversion hung, and at a different spot every time.

I tried adjusting “rows to process at a time” to 50, and “second(s) delay between each group of rows” – to no avail.

Finally, I decided to import all of the users (~3700) first, and then do a second conversion of everything else – omitting the users.

That finally allowed the conversions to take place and finish “successfully”.

The problem I’m seeing now, is that the posts don’t line up with the correct user.

Anybody have an idea on how to fix this? Do I need to do it all again, or is there some magic wand I can wave, or script I can run to pair the correct users to their posts/replies?

[Robkk]

try

.bbpress #content {
width:100%
} 

else try

.bbpress #content .clearfix {
width:100%
}

[Admin-Scottie340]

Found the issue,bbpress had changed me to a participant not keyholder of the forum.
Fix:
1. Go to your admin dashboard and click users on the left hand side
2. Click new user and create a new user and set that user to admin
3. Login to the user you just createdthen go back into the user panel on the left hand side
4. Click on your main user (the one that should be keyholder) and go down and change the forum role tokeyholder.
5.Now log back into your main user and the issue should be fixed!

Thanks
Scottie_340
http://www.scottie340.co.uk

[Robkk]

okay heres how to get full width

this should be your bbpress.php in your child themes root directory wp-content/awesome/bbpress.php

you can also remove the css that i gave you from this topic

Hide author/admin

since i removed the post author info in the template.

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php do_action( 'bp_before_content' ); ?>
<!-- CONTENT START -->
<div class="content">
<div class="content-inner">

<?php do_action( 'bp_before_blog_home' ); ?>

<!-- POST ENTRY END -->
<div id="post-entry">
<section class="post-entry-inner">

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<!-- POST START -->
<article <?php post_class('post-single page-single'); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<h1 class="post-title entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

<?php do_action( 'bp_before_page_content' ); ?>
<div class="post-content">
<div class="entry-content"><?php the_content( __('...more &raquo;',TEMPLATE_DOMAIN) ); ?></div>
<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div id="page-links">&after=</div>'); ?>
</div>
<?php do_action( 'bp_after_page_content' ); ?>

</article>
<!-- POST END -->

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php else : ?>

<?php get_template_part( 'lib/templates/result' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

</section>
</div>
<!-- POST ENTRY END -->

<?php do_action( 'bp_after_blog_home' ); ?>

</div><!-- CONTENT INNER END -->
</div><!-- CONTENT END -->

<?php do_action( 'bp_after_content' ); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

and heres some css

.bbpress .content {
	width: 100%;
}

this should get you full width

[Anonymous User]

bbpress/includes/topics/template.php

[mouna84]

Hi there,

I’m using: wordpress version 3.9.2–de_DE
bbpress version 2.5.4

The site I need help with is: http://darjinan.com/forum/

I deleted the sidebar by copying page.php and renaming it to bbpress.php. But I can’t figure out how to center my forum. Here’s the code:

<?php 
/**
 * Theme Page Section for our theme.
 *
 * @package ThemeGrill
 * @subpackage Accelerate
 * @since Accelerate 1.0
 */
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'accelerate_before_body_content' ); ?>

	<div id="primary">
		<div id="content" class="clearfix">
			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

				<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>

				<?php

					do_action( 'accelerate_before_comments_template' );
					// If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template
					if ( comments_open() || '0' != get_comments_number() )
						comments_template();					
	      		do_action ( 'accelerate_after_comments_template' );
				?>
			<?php endwhile; ?>

		</div><!-- #content -->
	</div><!-- #primary -->
	
	<?php /*accelerate_sidebar_select();*/ ?>

	<?php do_action( 'accelerate_after_body_content' ); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Can someone please help me? I’m a complete newbie to html and css.
Thank you.

[sidelancer]

I got everything up and working I just have one last annoying problem. The “username” , “password”, and “remember me” lines in the BBpress login widget are broken up into 2 lines. How can I change the font size specifically for this text so it stays on one line each?

[cybarmitzvah]

So I just added the code from Robin W’s link,

however it does not work,

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

I get the edit profile button for logged in users, however, it does not link to their profile. Could it be that I am using social login.?

Plus, I would prefer it to stay all the way to the right. Plus, preferably, look more like this sites, with the username and photo of the person logged in, in the top right.

JB

[sidelancer]

Thanks a lot! Worked for me. I couldn’t find the code in bbpress to change the forum headings but your code worked right away.

[Robkk]

deactivate plugins one at a time, and see if that helps.

else then deactivate and reactivate bbpress

else then uninstall and reinstall bbpress

[Kamfret Crew]

Hi guys.

I has an issue about which does not appear in the bbPress admin page after install?

Initially, everything went well but after I reset in the settings bbPress, bbPress does not appear in the admin page?

I’ve tried to unistall and try to reinstall but same result. the following picture:

bbPress settings because the display does not appear, then I think to make index pages and managed through the forum but can not seem to make a topic?
the following picture:

Please help. Thanks