[Stephen Edgar]

More than likely it will be some character, troublesome and annoying but nothing much we can do at this stage.

That old BBConverter plugin is what is now included with bbPress, we merged that code into bbPress core, there are vast improvements in the converter and the phpBB import script in the current release of bbPress 2.5.4 (and more for the next release).

I’d love to know more details on why the built in converter does not work for you and if needed get that fixed. 🙂

[Robkk]

yeah i like that look too

only thing i could find is

Show only Super Sticky or Sticky posts Above forum list

but im not sure it does what your talking about and how to implement it

[mrcupe]

So basically it will be a post somewhere with a character that the converter can’t parse?

I should note that the bbpress built in converter has never worked.

I needed to installed BBConverter.

[Robkk]

it thinks your forum archive as a blog post , hence the read more

i think creating a bbpress.php template should fix it.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[Robin W]

ok, on the specific forum search, it is probably plugin or theme related

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.

but since you say you don’t really want that, you could disable the forum search

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

and to add forum searches to the main search use

function filter_search($query) {
    if ($query->is_search) {
	$query->set('post_type', array('post', 'pages', 'forum', 'topic', reply'));
    };
    return $query;
};
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'filter_search');

This is untested code, I copied it from another forum, but should work, come back if it does or doesn’t to help future readers of this thread!

[Robkk]

The above code does not seem to work

well i know for sure this works

input {
padding: 9px;
border: solid 1px #E5E5E5;
outline: 0;
font: normal 13px/100% Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;
width: auto;
background: #FFFFFF url('images/bg_form.png') left top repeat-x;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left 25, from(#FFFFFF), color-stop(4%, #EEEEEE), to(#FFFFFF));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #EEEEEE 1px, #FFFFFF 25px);
box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
-moz-box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
}

i just cant single out so it only works on the bbpress search button right now

is it possible to revert to the custom wp buttons

what custom wp buttons??

how do i get rid of the space?

for the space your trying to remove , does this help??

.entry-header {
margin-bottom: 24px;
margin-bottom: 0!important;
}

[Robkk]

ya didnt need to create a new topic for the same question

Topics Ordering in a forum

[agMedia34]

Hosting cpanel is located at … :2083
Not sure if that makes a difference.

My client actually decided now to just start fresh with bbpress and archive the old phpbb. However – Im still very interested in sorting this out.

Thanks again for your help.

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, we won’t be ‘squelching’ any error reporting in the importer, I wish we could have more, or at least improved error reporting. 😉

I haven’t see that user_pass error for a long time, are you using the latest 2.5.4 version of bbPress for the plugin side of things?

Onto the old bbPress standalone side, what version of bbPress standalone are you using?

For the import to work you need to import from bbPress Standalone 1.2 to bbPress plugin 2.5.x.

Details on upgrading and a general flow of what is required is outlined in the following topic, once you’ve read that post you’ll need to read the replies in that thread to follow along the steps.

[Stephen Edgar]

Please see the following page in the docs for this issue:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/import-troubleshooting/

[Robin W]

you could do, but since you’re into code, I’d just amend line 1157 on bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php, and make a note to change it again on upgrades

Not the recommended way, but practical !

[Robkk]

without css.

in the template it defines the image as 14px X 14px and making it bigger with css makes the image blurry.

Copy and create a new widget??

[Stephen Edgar]

There are two files attached here, vBulletin5.php and converter.php:
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/02aff28553ae63e6a614
You can also download both in a zip file via this link.

You need to place vBulletin5.php in the folder `/includes/admin/converters/
and converter.php in the folder /includes/admin/

A couple of notes, you’ll need to make sure your vB5 tables do NOT include a table prefix, if they do this will not work and you will need to rename all of your tables to remove the prefix.

You can confirm this by opening your vB5 database in phpMyAdmin
<img src=”https://i.cloudup.com/czW3RJAK-9.png&#8221; alt=”” />
If your node table name is the same as mine in the above screenshot your good to go, if it is a prefix it it would look similar to prefix_node (the prefix could be named anything)

One other important note, the main difference with this version of the importer is to support vBulletin 5 ‘comments’ which are like bbPress threaded replies, allowing users to reply to replies, these vBulletin replies will NOT work as expected unless you have enabled bbPress threaded replies setting before you import your forums. Also if you reset and delete your forums or uninstall the bbPress plugin this setting will be reset and you need to enable it again.

P.s. More my bad, I appeared to not hit submit on this post when I uploaded these yesterday 😉

Let me know how it goes 🙂

[rexall]

Sun 17 Aug 2014, 12:17 pm

Thanks, Robin.

Nope, it’s not a plugin problem. But I found the solution in another thread, and might as well pass it along here. This issue seems to come up for a lot of people, and it is v. perplexing.

The problem was a “permissions” issue. Somehow, I don’t know how, in my admin WP user account, my bbPress “role” was reset to “participant,” the default bbPress level for all new WP users. This may have happened because I deleted and reinstalled bbPress. Dunno, but participants do not see the forum links in the dashboard.

Fortunately, a stupid-but-effective solution: Create a new WP user, set as “admin.” Then set the bbPress role to “Keymaster.” As soon as I did that, the forum links in the dashboard reappeared.

[Stephen Edgar]

Excellent, glad your on track to getting your custom templates up and running 🙂

Your correct, we don’t have a donate button, but we’re always on the lookout for extra hands, we need more docs on doing what you doing currently, Robin has already written some introductory docs here.

Pretty much anything goes, we need lots of docs written for our codex and anyone can create new and/or edit existing docs, so if you feel the urge to contribute that way if that’s your thing, that would be great. 🙂 If not we’ll also be having some other initiatives in the new future. 🙂

Participate & Contribute

[gogitossj34]

So, this is how it’s currently look on my site http://www.mmo4teen.com. The layout is:
Title
number
title
number

And that is really taking my space. Can anyone help me make it like this :
Title: number
title: number

And if possible, hide some of the stats like tags and such.

[gogitossj34]

Did you mean the signature plugin ? I’m using it with gd bbpress tool.

[Stephen Edgar]

If you don’t switch you will constantly have the same issues you are asking us how to fix.

You should implement that same fix again and yes, it will cause issues with your sidebar but you should find that your other issues will be fixed.

What I meant by ‘Source Code’ is to include the contents of the bbpress.php in your new topic, copy and paste it into your topic and surround that ‘source code’ using the code toolbar button on the topic form..

[Stephen Edgar]

Closing this, duplicate of your other topic, also in the future please don’t bump old topics, let alone a 6 year old topic in this case 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m working on adding this to the next release of bbPress https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2589

[Stephen Edgar]

Hmmmm…. I’ve still got nothing new to add… The past few days everytime I glance past this in my browser I open up this link and I have not seen bbPress in there once in these past couple of days.

There has to be a common denominator somewhere, maybe a recent plugin or theme update, I’d start by disabling each plugin one by one you have activated and refresh that page after you disable each plugin.

[Stephen Edgar]

Remove the bbPress subscriptions plugin or contact the plugin authors on how to fix it.

[Stephen Edgar]

Closing this, this is essntially a duplicate of your other topic here.

[Stephen Edgar]

Indeed it would have helped and by switching back you have enabled the error to occur again, redo what you did and then create a new topic and include the source code of your bbpress.php file and the name and link of the theme you are using and we can help get your sidebar back.

[Stephen Edgar]

Ah… That’s the reason, bbPress only supports importing from SMF 2.x and your using 1.x.

It looks like significant database schema changes so I’d take a look at upgrading your database to SMF 2.x first and once done then import to bbPress 2.x 🙂

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Upgrading