[ricov4]

I originally was importing from v1.1.18 and had this problem. I then updated to 2.0.5 and down to 2.0.4, but both resulted in the same issue.

I accessed the information from the Server Settings page of the forum and believe I have the correct fields for all the values.

Could the database port have any effect?

[Halo Diehard]

I have followed WP-United author’s instructions for removal by disabling in WP, removing the code (by hand to be sure) from all phpBB3 files and deleting WP-United files from phpBB3, deleting the plugin in WP. I then purged the cache in phpBB3, resyncronized in phpBB3, imported to bbPress, and resynched there – – Still only get posts up to five months ago 🙁

Maybe it’s the Kiss Portal that’s causing the issue? Maybe it puts a difference in the database that the importer doesn’t recognize?

[wbuist]

I’ve installed BBPress plugin with WordPress on a brand new install of both. Everything worls fine, except that when the topic authors name or image is clicked the system directs to /forums/users/[username] and that gives a 404 error. Including for me as the administrator.

I’ve searched for a solution but can’t find one. I see lots of people with an issue that the users get 404 but admin doesn’t but I don’t even get that.

[j01anda]

I’m hoping someone can help me.

I have installed bbPress on a wordpress-website where there are several usergroups. All groups have their own forum, and there is an overall forum. The problem is that when a user has made a new topic on a forum, only the title shows, not the content. The content is there though. If you edit the topic (as user) you can see and edit the title ánd the content. But no user can see it in the normal way. All replies are visible, but not the original content of the topic. Only if logged in as admin you can see the first content of the topic.

WordPress version 3.5.2
bbPress version 2.2.4
theme Twenty Twelve Child

I think it is a conflict with User Access Manager 1.2.2 (which I use for making the usergroups) but I have read about people having the same issue with bbPress in combination with other user acces manager plugins. Unfortunately I cannot find a solution 😉

[Darcy Peal]

I have been receiving a steady stream of the following error message (using Deprecated Call plugin)

Incorrect Use of bbp_setup_current_user()

The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init().
This message was added in version 2.3.

bbPress – 2.4.1
WordPress – 3.7-beta2-25760

[Nick Ottens]

I have tried that — resetting and starting the conversion process again. But not with a lower row count and higher time interval, so I’ll give that a go.

Resetting the forums does not remove all the imported users, by the way. Is that a problem? Should I select “Start a fresh conversion from the beginning” or “Purge all information from a previously attempted import” or both?

Thanks for your help so far.

[Stephen Edgar]

My bad, it should be message, copy and paste error on my part.

I suggest you reset the forums codex.bbpress.org/reset-forums/ and give it another go, I would also suggest due to your web host limiting some of the changes we try to make is to drop some of the values eg. to 50 rows at a time rather than the default 100, set the time to 2 seconds delay.

If it appears that the importer stalls again, simply click ‘Stop’ wait a few seconds for your host to finish up any tasks its performing and click ‘Start’ and the import should resume from where it left off.

[Nick Ottens]

Hey Stephan, thanks for your reply.

I’m running punBB 1.4.2. I actually upgraded to the latest version before I started the conversion process.

There is a _posts table but not a “message text” field. It’s called just “message”. All the others look just the way you describe them.

[Stephen Edgar]

No, it doesnt do anything, just spinning. Maybe it needs to be start from beginning next time without “Purge Previous Import” checked. Seems as it try now to do all from very scratch.

Sometimes the ‘Purge previous import’ gets a little confused 😉

You can Reset Forums which will remove all forums, topics, topic tags & replies from the WordPress database giving you a ‘clean’ bbPress to start again.

Dont want to be rude, but make plugin little bit verbose, put some info around, dont be leasy.

As the converter is constantly being improved in bbPress we will get more verbose/debugging information in there in future versions. Generating this type of information supporting the ever growing ~35 different forum conversion scripts is no easy task and we are trying not to be vague yet at the same time not be to verbose either.

[Stephen Edgar]

@ricov4 What version of SMF are you trying to import from?

Make sure you have the correct fields for ALL of the values:

• Database Name: Name of the database with your old forum data
• Database User: User for your database connection
• Database Password: Password to access the database
• Table Prefix: (Possibly could be smf_)

[Stephen Edgar]

The error is due to a few settings we try to make with your web host to help the importer along with some time limits and memory limits. If you are getting forums and topics imported fine we can probably (for now) ignore the error.

What version of PunBB are you trying to import from?

Can you open up phpMyAdmin and confirm you have a _posts table, it may have a prefix eg punbb_posts and does it have the following fields in the table structure:

id, poster, poster_id, poster_ip, poster_email, message, hide_smilies, posted, edited, edited_by & topic_id

[ricov4]

Thanks for the awesome work, you guys!

I have tried running the importer a few times now, but it just states that there none of the forum items (users, topics, replies, etc.) to import. Any ideas why this could be happening? (My forum on SMF has many users and data)

Thanks for your help,
Ryan

[Nick Ottens]

Thanks Stephen! I’ve been waiting for this.

Unfortunately, the converter seems to get stuck at the point where it’s supposed to start importing Replies. It brings over Forums, Topics and Users just fine, though.

It also repeatedly gives me the following Warning, nor sure if it’s connected..

Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit due to system policy in /customers/e/e/2/[MY URL]/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 306

[Stagger Lee]

OK, one hour passed. I started with “Purge Previous Import” disabled and it doesnt work.

Stop => Start doesnt work.

Wish someone could test it locally.

[Stagger Lee]

No, it doesnt do anything, just spinning. Maybe it needs to be start from beginning next time without “Purge Previous Import” checked. Seems as it try now to do all from very scratch.

But then it is risk of database corruption and duplicates. Dont want to be rude, but make plugin little bit verbose, put some info around, dont be leasy. 🙂

[Stagger Lee]

“Starting Conversion” and spinning and spinning. I will wait 10-15 minutes.

[Stagger Lee]

Thank you, i am just trying that, and report comes.

Some other thing, converter stops with error because you have hard coded database prefix at line 365:

'join_expression' => 'ON kunena_messages_text.mesid = kunena_messages.id LEFT JOIN jos_kunena_topics AS kunena_topics ON kunena_messages.thread = kunena_topics.id WHERE kunena_messages.parent != 0',

That “jos_” i need to change to my Joomla prefix and all is OK.

[GamingTracks]

Thanks inspirationally

[inspirationally]

I thought, multisite is a bit too much when everything else (themes) is the same –
also, I wanted to use the “topics to posts” plugin, and this was (after some research) not possible with multisite – this was the main reason.

[Stephen Edgar]

@inspirationally Nice, I didn’t really think about doing things this way even though I’ve been debugging WordPress Multisite’s the past couple of days.

Your way uses a single WordPress site with multiple domains and it looks like that works quite well for your use case.

Another way would be to go WordPress Multisite using sub domains, your primary site would be http://example.com and with an extra site created using a sub-domain install at http://forums.example.com

So overall it looks like there is a few different ways to achieve the end goal and it’s just a matter of now working out which option is best for your use case.

[inspirationally]

I just installed my forum at http://mydomain.com/forums, which is the same as http://myseconddomain.com/forums – and used

1. the multidomain plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/multidomain/

2. templates and menus based on the domain you see – this includes a different index loop file and different custom menu.

This also works with subdomains.

Here the code of index.php:

<?php
/**
 * The main template file.
 *
 * This is the most generic template file in a WordPress theme
 * and one of the two required files for a theme (the other being style.css).
 * It is used to display a page when nothing more specific matches a query. 
 * E.g., it puts together the home page when no home.php file exists.
 * Learn more: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Ten
 * @since Twenty Ten 1.0
 */

get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mydomain.com' ) { ?>

			<?php
			/* Run the loop to output the posts.
			 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
			 * called loop-index.php and that will be used instead.
			 */

			 get_template_part( 'loop', 'index-mydomain' );
			?>
<?php } elseif ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'myseconddomain.com' || $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'sub.mydomain.com'  ) { ?>

			<?php
			/* Run the loop to output the posts.
			 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
			 * called loop-index.php and that will be used instead.
			 */

			 get_template_part( 'loop', 'index-myseconddomain' );
			?>			
<?php } ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Then there is loop for the main site, and one for the forum including the forum overview.

In the header I have

<?php if ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mydomain.com ) { ?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array('container_class' => 'menu','menu' => 'Mydomain.org' )); ?>
<?php } elseif ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'myseconddomain.com' || $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'sub.mydomain.com'  ) { ?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array('container_class' => 'menu','menu' => 'Myseconddomain.com' )); ?>
<?php } ?>

(the same for sidebar widgets etc.)

Of course you could work with special forum templates for the forum sites.

(real example see johnny-depp.org/deppheads.com)

I think, I will have to add some kind of rewrite to not have duplicate content in the future.

[Halo Diehard]

Yep, as mentioned, I tried it with WP-United disabled and recalculated in phpBB3 first then in WordPress bbPress after the import, each one. My next step is removing it altogether and trying it then. I’m not sure what changes WP-United might make on the database, but phpBB3 does have an Auto Mod package that is part of the process so I’ll have to remove it from phpBB3 too before I can try again. I’ll try to come back and report what I learn! 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

I think these are what your looking for…

[shdaniyal]

hello. Im using BBPress 2.4.1
1.Please tell me how can I customize the email sent to the user at the time of registration.

2. Also could you tell me how can i hide the admin toolbar when the user logs in. multiple users can regsiter, so I dont want to hide the admin tool bar manually for all of them. is there a way to do it once and for all ? ..

thank you

[Stephen Edgar]

This cannot be done at this stage…

The only way I can think of doing this would be to install WordPress as forums.gamingtracks.com and then you would have URL’s like this:

http://forums.gamingtracks.com/forums/topic/bbpress-forums-to-subdomain-included-with-domain/