[highexistence]

I saw @johnjamesjacoby mention twice how larger BBpress sites should avoid hidden/private forums to avoid a JOIN that checks if each topic/reply is from a hidden forum.

I had two private forums, and my site was so slow that I could not delete them from wp-admin. So I used phpMyAdmin to delete both forms as well as all the topics beneath them.

Is there anything else I need to do to ensure I get that performance increase?

Thanks!

[Daniele]

Hey guys,
I’m successfully importing old Kunena1 forums and users.
But I don’t understand what’s the expected behavior with the imported user passwords.
I see this message on the Forum Import page:
“Non-bbPress passwords cannot be automatically converted. They will be converted as each user logs in.”

I tested and old users just can’t login as the password is not recognized.
They have to follow the password forgot procedure.

Is this the expected behavior?

Thanks!

[kvr28]

we use this

http://www.dev4press.com/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/

[kvr28]

copy loop-forums.php from plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress into your theme directory, overwrite whats in the file with this code. bbpress will look for the file first in your theme before it looks in the bbpress directory, that way if bbpress updates, you won’t lose the file update. Should get the look you want

    <?php
     
    /**
     * Forums Loop
     *
     * @package bbPress
     * @subpackage Theme
     */
     
    ?>
     
    <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_loop' ); ?>
     
    <?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum();
                   
                    /* We print the header only if we want to show a category or if it's the first item of a no-parent forum list */
                    if (bbp_is_forum_category() OR !$bbp_forums_noheader)
                            { ?>
     
                            <ul id="forums-list-<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>" class="bbp-forums">
     
                                    <li class="bbp-header">
     
                                            <ul class="forum-titles">
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-info"><?php if(bbp_is_forum_category()) { ?><a>"><?php bbp_forum_title(bbp_get_forum_parent_id()); ?></a><?php } else { _e( 'Forum', 'bbpress' ); } ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-topic-count"><?php _e( 'Topics', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-freshness"><?php _e( 'Freshness', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                            
     
                                    <!-- .bbp-header -->
    <?php           } ?>
     
                            <li class="bbp-body">
           
    <?php           /* If the forum is a category, we're gonna make another loop to show its subforums and sub-subforums as if those were forums */
                            if(bbp_is_forum_category())
                                    {
     
                                    $temp_query = clone bbpress()->forum_query;
                                    bbp_has_forums('post_parent='.bbp_get_forum_id());
                                    while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum();
                                    bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' );
                                    endwhile;
                                    bbpress()->forum_query = clone $temp_query;
     
                                    }
                                            else /* Otherwise, we print the forums the normal way */
                                    {      
     
                                    bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' );
                                    $bbp_forums_noheader = 1; /* This prevents the header part to be printed again on next post in the loop */
     
                                    } ?>
     
                            <!-- .bbp-body -->
     
    <?php           /* Prints the footer only if :
                                    - it's a category
                                    - or if it's the last forum of a no-parent forum list
                                    - or if the next forum in the loop is a category */
     
                            if(     bbp_is_forum_category()
                            OR      (bbpress()->forum_query->current_post+1) == bbpress()->forum_query->post_count
                            OR      bbp_is_forum_category(bbpress()->forum_query->posts[ bbpress()->forum_query->current_post + 1 ]->ID))
                            { ?>
     
                            <li class="bbp-footer">
     
                                    <div class="tr">
                                            <p class="td colspan4">&nbsp;</p>
                                    </div><!-- .tr -->
     
                            <!-- .bbp-footer -->
     
                    <!-- .forums-directory -->
     
    <?php   unset($bbp_forums_noheader); /* Needed if we have 2+ no-parent forums with at least 1 category between them */
                    }  ?>
     
    <?php endwhile; ?>
     
     
    <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_forums_loop' ); ?>

[Matoca]

I run my bbPress forum so that users do not need to register. Moderators log in to post and are the only required registered users. So far Akismet has been fabulous catching spam.

Today Akismet marked a legitimate reply as spam and I quickly unchecked that so it would post properly. No problem there.

Later, a spam reply was missed by Akismet because it appears to have relatively normal text. But I recognized the text to be spam and the username confirmed that. I added the IP to a blacklist and checked it as spam. No problem there.

The problem I have is that the topic the reply was posted under is now appearing at the top of the topic order in the forum indicating that I have just posted a reply recently. The spam is removed so the last date of a reply would have been mine, in December.

Is there anyway to get this topic to appear where it should on the forum page, well below more recent topics?
Thank you, Matoca

WordPress 3.8.1
bbPress 2.5.3-5249
http://www.secondchanceaihadogs.com/forums/forum/aiha-dog/

[John James Jacoby]

This is likely bbPress core, unfortunately. When you post a new reply, we check the topics for freshness so we can update the tree accordingly. We’re working on a fix for the next version, but it involves moving some metadata into the posts table to improve query performance, and we want to make sure to get it right.

[Robin W]

ok, you need to eliminate whether it is a plugin or theme issue

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

and come back and let us know

[Robin W]

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[adressler]

Thanks for the reply Robin,

Ideally, it would be really nice not to have to manually register the 600 or so active members, but it’s doable if that is the only logical route.

Long story short, the old site was built by a senior Lotus Notes dev, and he wrote so much custom code to get the site to do what it did. Whats worse is this guy passed away a couple years ago, and there is no commenting in the db. There is likely no way I can export all of the data, I consider myself lucky to have exported what I have now, which is just barely enough to get things converted to WP. This should be okay though, I can generate unique UserIDs and FKs with PHP and MySQL before importing into BBPress.

My crazy idea that I had was to import these “old” authors as, effectively, name placeholders. Bogus/null values for user_pass and user_email, a php-generated user_login (something like “judygarland-old”, “abcdef12345-old” or similar), user_id (unique Auto Increment #), display_name (“Judy Garland”), and maybe user_nicename. These would only be used to show the Authors first + last name next to all of the old topics and replies I just imported from Lotus (they will not be logging in). When users re-register, they would create a completely new WP user (I’m using s2member to handle subscription info). I realize that “new” users will not be able to see their “old” user’s topic / reply counts, and total user counts will not be completely accurate, but that’s okay and manageable. At least they could create their new user accounts themselves, and I wouldn’t be responsible for making s2member link up properly with these old users.

I guess I will try a few approaches and see which works best, and for anybody else doing something similar I will post my results. Thanks Robin for the ideas.

Aaron

[kvr28]

check threads where you posted videos, if you used the embed codes, it will just show up blank, I noticed on some threads the original post was wrong, I’m getting some errors in my log whenever someone makes a post, I’m trying to work through that now

you can see my forum here

Forums

you can keep the same tiered set up you you have now, just go under forums for bbpress, create a forum say cannabis cultivation and set it as a category under types in forum attributes, then take your soils, outdoor grows etc and set category as a parent, enter your orders for the forums to have the correct order displayed,

that’s the biggest things I can think of right now

[yoshimitsu1234]

I am using latest versions of all softwares and Plugins. Theme is wpzoom Gazeti.
Example of error is http://www.desimedicos.com/forum
Getting this 404 errors on all pages with any kind of bbpress shortcode irrespective of whether i am logged in or out.

[Robin W]

what shortcodes?
what software versions of bbpress, buddypress and wordpress are you running?
what theme?
what plugins are you running?
url of your site?
when do you get 404 – logged in, not logged in?

etc.

We would love to help you, but give us a fighting chance of working out what is wrong by giving us some details 🙂

Come back and we’ll do our best to hep you !

[Robin W]

and this on their site seems to suggest issues

http://help.olegnax.com/discussion/2099/retro-with-buddypressbbpress/p1

[Robin W]

this just posted in wordpress

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-own-post-with-bbpress?replies=1

is that the same website?

[danromanchik]

This is really driving me crazy.

I purged the data using the “reset forums” function, then restarted the conversion. This time, it converted the users, all of the topics, and about 220,00 replies, then started just outputting dashes again. What does it mean when it starts outputting dashes? What is the program doing?

I clicked “stop” and then “start” again, but it just kept outputting dashes.

I opened a new window and re-started the conversion from that window, but instead of picking up where it left off, it started converting topics again. Am I going to have two copies of each topic in the BBPress forums now? Should I reset the forums again?

Thanks, Dan

[Xn2]

im using retro theme from olegnax.

They have nothing about issue with bbpress on their support pages.

[Robin W]

I imported from an access database (ditto conversion to sql) so know what you’re going through! see https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/documented-import-from-snitz-access-database/ for a blow by blow of how I did this and presume you’re already well into using custom importer https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/custom-import/

Now given that you’re going to re-register users, then we only need the topics to be assigned to a user which exists, which then when they re-register you can set up properly.

So for instance if you have a topic with the author name of “fred” – then you need a user fred to exist. This needs to be at ID level.

So in essence you’ll need to import

topic with author ID
User with same ID

Minimum info to create a user is (in theory – it may be less) ID, username, email and password.

In my case they mapped from a snitz access forum (via sql) as follows

MEMBER_ID _bbp_user_id
M_NAME user_login
M_PASSWORD _bbp_password
M_EMAIL user_email

So I would go about it this way.

What we need to end up with is a topics/replies table that has a author ID (number) against each topic/reply.
In a user table, we then need that same ID, together with name, password and email.

So first I’d go back to my lotus notes and see if topics has an author ID. If not we’ll need to create one (we’ll do that in a minute).

Then from the topics and replies lists create a set of autor names and (if it has them) ID’s

Create a user table (in my case in excel, but presume you’re familiar with creating in lotus notes) with the following headings

ID NAME PASSWORD EMAIL

If your topics/replies doesn’t have user ID’s then you just need to populate this table with unique ones, I’m pretty sure that you can just start with 1 and increment them – wordpress will assign new ID numbers as they come across starting with the next number that wordpress is not using.

For password, just put anything – and they can all be the same

Emails must be unique in theory, but don’t need to exist so abc@def.com is fine (you’ll be fixing these as they register, so doesn’t matter). But as you’re importing directly into the database, I reckon you could get away with them all being a single fictitious one. But if you have the skills, I’d create them as increments eg abc1@def.com, abc2@def.com just in case

so now you have a user table to import.

If you topics and replies don’t have author ID’s, then now go back to the topics and replies tables and run macro to populate a new column using name against the user table you’ve just created to populate with id.

Now we have topics with ID’s an da user table to import. Just check that column names match the importer, convert it all to sql, and off you go !

[Juan]

Finally I’ve written a small script to migrate kunena attachments to GD bbPress attachments. It is in a very early stage, any help are really wellcome. You must run the script as standalone and only after the kunena migration has been performend using the importer distributed with bbPress.

Now I’d like to write a script to convert kunena BBCode into bbPress HTML because there are some bbcodes not converted.

[yoshimitsu1234]

I have added shortcodes to few pages on my site wit both bbpress and buddypress installed but i am getting 404 error on those pages. Is there any way to resolve this issue?

[SandyRig]

Here this plugin does exactly what you all looking for
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-sort-topic-replies/

[remymedranda]

Hello,

I’m trying to import our Mingle forum into BBpress, but have so far had no luck.

The website is http://www.kylekushman.com

The forum is located at http://kylekushman.com/community/message-board/

I have entered “kushman_wrdp1” as my database name, and for prefix “wp_”

Everytime I hit start it returns with

“Repair any missing information: Continue

Conversion Complete

No reply_to parents to convert

No replies to convert

No tags to convert

No super stickies to stick

No stickies to stick

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

No forums to convert

No data to clean

Starting Conversion”

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

[photoboothowners]

I am trying to migrate from our current phpBB3 forums to a bbPress and BuddyPress instance. I have the plugins installed and configured. My issue is when I try to run the importer under Tools > Forums > Import

I am receiving the following:

Repair any missing information:
Conversion Complete
No reply_to parents to convert
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
No stickies to stick
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
No passwords to clear
No users to convert
Starting Conversion

The problem is that there is 18 forums, 14,000+ posts and 1,900+ users.

Has anyone experienced this? If so and your succeeded in getting phpBB3 to import could you share any tricks you had to perform?

Thanks really looking forward to leaving phpBB3 behind if possible!

[Robin W]

This comes from your theme’s main style, in my case

a:link { 
color : #EEEEEE !important ; 
}

if you want to change this throughout your site, then drop this into your style.css (or amend the current setting)

If you just want it in bbpress

#bbpress-forums .bbp-author-name a:link { 
color : #EEEEEE !important ; 
}

should work

[Juan]

Any plan to add attachments migration from kunena to bbPress? Maybe using GD bbPress Attachments?

[adressler]

I’m importing a large subscription forum from a custom-coded Lotus Notes / Domino database (*sigh*) which I converted to MySQL. The posts exported from Lotus include User’s first and last names, but no passwords, or email addresses. These old users won’t be able sign in, but their names should be displayed next to the posts they authored that were imported to the new WP site. I would like all users to re-register for the new site in order to post new topics, etc.

So, is this even possible? Are email addresses/passwords required when importing Users based on the converter /plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/Example.php? I’m really trying to avoid creating an Admin user named “Archived Author” to assign all 35,000 of these old topics/replies to.

Thanks in advance.