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.
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.
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 !
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??
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” 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 🙂
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.
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
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.
Did you mean the signature plugin ? I’m using it with gd bbpress tool.
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..
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 😉
I’m working on adding this to the next release of bbPress https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2589
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.
Remove the bbPress subscriptions plugin or contact the plugin authors on how to fix it.
Closing this, this is essntially a duplicate of your other topic here.
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.
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
Hi Stephen,
Could the member column be missing the _ ? between the member and name? Mine doesn’t look like yours.
The SMF version is 1.1.11.
you need to match the main bbPress converter.php file, this is not the ‘dropdown’>>>>So, I would have needed to find a previous version of a converter..okay getting lost.
Yes, so I did delete and reload bbpress, and tried without any patch, just fresh, still didn’t work.
Oh! The version included in bbPress 2.5.4 is the r5191 version, the smf3 you refer to is older than that, essentially there is no need to download any files from trac manually to replace the files that already exist in bbPress 2.5.x.
That said “if” you do download any versions of the importers from trac, you need to match the main bbPress converter.php file, this is not the ‘dropdown’ you refer to.
Looking closer at your original message, indeed you did use the smf_ prefix, my bad.
Can you open up phpMyAdmin and open the smf_members table and post a screenshot like mine below (if there is sensitive data there then just the column headers would be fine)
For some reason it appears your table is missing the member_name column and that is why the error occurs.
What version of SMF are you trying to import?
And lastly, no forum is to big for bbPress 😉
Do you know of any themes that are both bbpress & buddypress that you can use the license on multiple websites/domains ?
because when i looked at paid themes – you could only use them on one domain, and had to pay per domain for each license of the theme.
ive never seen this before with wordpress themes, usually you buy a theme – and you can use it on as many domains as you want.
does anyone know any different ?
I havent tested any of the siggestions below. But you can play around with changes as example and change parameters:
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-title h3,
font-size: 30px;
color: #CC00CC;
}
….ad this as as separate controls in the code above.
Find colors that you want at: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp
You dont need uch change. Just add controls on the text types you want to change woth an } to close the code.
Hi!
I finally managed to do it.
I added this code so the avatar is at the top of the text
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author {
float: none;
text-align: center;
}
Then when the text was below the avatar I inserted this code to the mobile part of the css:
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
margin-left: 20px;
padding: 0 0 0 0;
text-align: left;
}
Thanks for getting me on the right track.
It concerns a closed forum and I was already preparing an access for you but then I managed by myself.
Thanks again!
It has nothing to do with bbpress.
contact your theme developer
make a topic on wordpress support
or you can
create a folder called images in your theme if you dont have one already find a facebook icon and rename it fb.jpg
and use this
<a href="fbico"><img style="border:0;" src="fb.jpg" alt="Like Me" width="42" height="42"></a>
and just place it in the right template file
then position with css
links with images:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_imglink
I don’t know either of the two plugins, but essentially I don’t let anyone have access to the backend of my site – it jars with the front end.
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/
contains a list of the capabilities, and most restriction plugins should list these, and you hopefully should be able to find or see edit_topics as a capability that you can restrict.
It may well be that one plugin is conflicting with the other as they both sound like they are trying to do the same job.
