[artharrison]

I wanted the same thing, so I built it…

Have fun —

[theninjaramen]

Apologies, just testing reply functionality

[manuxel]

@netweb now that you mention it I don’t remember SMF having a hidden forum option, just with user permissions.

@infostrides don’t give up, I’m pretty sure if you find the conflicting topics and delete them the import WILL work just fine, I know it’s not perfect, but I think it is worth it.

[Stephen Edgar]

@infostrides

I just have to suspend it. It was not working for my forum.

Is there anything I can do to help?

[Stephen Edgar]

@glossyone wrote

3 – The hidden/private forum appear as normal forum – not hidden (it’s ok since I can set it later I think)

@manuxel wrote

3- That’s right, it will not import the hidden state but you can set that later on each forum you need to

Where do set the hidden state for a forum in SMF?

If I could find that setting I should be able to add support for that 🙂

Are there any other forum settings besides hidden & private?

I can map to ‘public’, ‘hidden’ & ‘private’ which are the three standard bbPress forum types.

[Stephen Edgar]

1 – The import process seems stuck at 5K++ post or topic something. No moving and no error reported.

one or two topics were causing the interruption of the import. Why? I do not know

This does happen and I have no idea why, I have had it happen a few times and have tried debugging what is happening and editing the database directly changing the text and it still happens. This is a truly mysterious and at this stage can only wish it didn’t happen 🙁

In your wp_options table, there should be an entry with the key ‘_bbp_converter_query’. It will indicate what the last attempted converter query is, which will narrow down the scope of your search to figure out what may have gone wrong.

SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = "_bbp_converter_query"

[infostrides]

I just have to suspend it. It was not working for my forum.

[Guillaume]

I would like to give the possibility to start new topics only the the Admin. So regular user can reply to those topics, but cannot start a new one by themself…

It is probably nothing complicated…. anybody can please help me ?

BBpress: 2.4.1

[blg002]

Can anyone show me how to create a custom list of a forums topic for a section on my homepage? Essentially I’m looking for the bbpress equivalent of this:

<?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
  <li>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">
     <?php the_title(); ?> - <?php the_time('M Y'); ?>
    </a>      
  </li>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

It would also want to filter by forum and sort by “Latest” and “Hot” (Hot being most “Voices”). Basically mimicking the “(bbPress) Recent Topics” Widget.

[Anonymous User 8097816]

English version follows…

Bonjour,

J’ai terminé de mettre à jour les chaînes traduites pour bbPress 2.4.x.

Reste à valider tout ça.
***********************************************************************
Hello,

I just finished entering translated strings for bbPress 2.4.x.

Validation is next.

[manuxel]

I’m guessing that your making tests with a copy of your forum, right?

1- Check in your DB for the last topic imported and then check in your SMF DB for the following topic and delete it from the SMF admin, then restart the import. I kinda had the same problem with my first attempts and it seemed that one or two topics were causing the interruption of the import. Why? I do not know 🙂 I didn’t take the time to sort it out, I was just testing.

2- That’s normal, after you import you have to go to TOOLS -> FORUMS and then repair forums. For a large forum like yours do 1 checkbox at a time. Here your replies will be attached to their corresponding topics and it also fixes another couple things, I think when you see the page it explains itself.

3- That’s right, it will not import the hidden state but you can set that later on each forum you need to.

Cheers.

[Robin W]

first name & Last name are included in my bbpress profile, can you post a link to yours so we can see?

[Ehegwer]

I had exactly the same problem as you did.

I wanted an easy way to update the email that new users receive.

After learning that the emails are not sent through bbPress, and instead through wordpress, it was easy to find a better mail plugin that would do exactly what I wanted. I found WP Better Emails.

It is an HTML (or text) based email plugin that looks much more professional than the usual text based message that WordPress sends out.

Now, my new users receive a nice little message with links to specific forums:
Introduce yourself, Popular Posts, and Forum Rules.

You can see how I use it by visiting my forums and signing up. I’ll delete you after a few days if you let me know.

[Nizam]

Hi, have a nice day all.

I might got the same problem as @infostrides , mine also a very large forum database as I do mentioned earlier. I do host on my own dedicated rack server with xeon & 8gb ram (supposed to be no memory limit like shared hosted)

At first I thought it was conflicted with existing wp database, so I do test on the new fresh wp installation > import the smf database , then planned to import post / pages (from existing wp) later. Somehow it gave me the same problem.

1 – The import process seems stuck at 5K++ post or topic something. No moving and no error reported.
2 – I’ve checked, in many of forums topic, seem to have reply count, but when browsing the topics page, none post listed except the first post – I think it occur due to fail import process.
3 – The hidden/private forum appear as normal forum – not hidden (it’s ok since I can set it later I think).

I still trying working on it until now. 🙂

Regards

[manuxel]

So nice to know I wasn’t alone 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

@manuxel Exactly 100% what you wrote there except my case was phpBB now look where we are at 🙂

[manuxel]

Nothing to thank me for, after a couple years wanting this import script, I’m more than glad to help, I just want to see it work for as much people as possible. I tried everything this past 4 or 5 years I think to combine my forum with my wordpress, I didn’t want a blog nor I wanted just a forum, and thanks to you and bbPress I’m so close to finally have what I wanted.

And thank you for that link, I was testing with 100 rows per second, I’m not on a dedi, but in my little VPS I think I could at least try 500 every 0.2 or something close.

Cheers and good night 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

You should see Starting conversion in seconds.
Next Converting users in another second if your converting your users.
Next ‘Converting forums` in seconds if not converting users.

By default everything is done in chunks of 100 records and this should never really take much longer than 5 seconds per chunk at which point you will see the converter message progress to Converting topics 300 - 399 then Converting topics 400 - 499 etc, you should never be far away from a new message informing you of the status of the import.

I’ll try to get some more docs into the ‘import screen’ for bbPress 2.5 to give people a heads up on what they should expect to see.

As you are on a dedicated server this topic might be worth checking out on ‘speeding it up’

phpBB Import speed

Firstly though lets get it started…

Via FTP grab a copy of your SMF Settings.php file and open it up in a text editor.
/public_html/mywebsite/smf/Settings.php

In that file something that looks like this:

########## Database Info ##########
$db_type = 'mysql';
$db_server = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'mydb_name';
$db_user = 'mydb_usernam';
$db_passwd = '123456789';
$ssi_db_user = '';
$ssi_db_passwd = '';
$db_prefix = 'smf_';

These are the settings you need to use on the bbPress importer.

ps. Thanks @manuxel for helping others out here with the SMF importer 🙂

[manuxel]

Sorry to hear that, but glad you checked, it is awful to be waiting for hours to found out the wait was in vain, good luck with your next try 🙂

[infostrides]

You’re right! Nothing was happening!

[shearamariz]

Hi,

I just want to ask if there’s a php code or bbpress codex or hooks that can help me in adding an upload media or attached image in the bbp_the_content?
I really don’t want to use plugin for this feature.

Thanks. I am hoping for your kind response soon.

[manuxel]

That’s weird, on every test I did I always saw some progress even if it was slow.

I always check on phpmyadmin to see if the DB is growing while the conversion is in process, maybe you should take a look, if the script is doing nothing checking your DB could save you some hours.

Cheers.

[infostrides]

I am dedicated server. But still on “Starting Conversion” for the past 4hrs. I don’t know if it is running silently.

[manuxel]

Those are some big numbers, hope you have a fast server because if not it will take a loooong time.

Good luck @infostrides may the force be with you and the cpu throttle not 🙂

[infostrides]

OK.. Thanks. I am importing now. Could not figure out how long it will take. I have more than 220K posts, 160K topics and 13K members.