[Stephen Edgar]

You kind of only have two options, the default bbPress behaviour like this:

• My Parent Category/Forum

• My 1st Child Forum (78, 425), My 2nd Child Forum (18, 107)

Or using the <br /> as the separator:

• My Parent Category/Forum

• My 1st Child Forum (78, 425)
• My 2nd Child Forum (18, 107)

Each element is returned as a whole so My 1st Child Forum (78, 425) and My 2nd Child Forum (18, 107) CANNOT be broken down further for multiple columns like this (which I think you are alluding to:

• My Parent Category/Forum

• My 1st Child Forum – 78 – 425
• My 2nd Child Forum – 18 – 107

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks 🙂 The latest v1.8 update is looking good 🙂

[Nitac]

I’d like to know if you have any success with this, i posted a similar issue here but i havent had any luck rectifying it.

The last time test i tried i got to >300k (forum has ~400k) posts after the convertor stalled and requiring a restart a couple of times, until the most recent time tried to restart I got this error in the output window:

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Table 'db_name.pbpbb_posts' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(posts.post_id USING "utf8") AS post_id,convert(topics.topic_id USING "utf8") AS topic_id,convert(posts.forum_id USING "utf8") AS forum_id,convert(posts.topic_id USING "utf8") AS topic_id,convert(posts.poster_ip USING "utf8") AS poster_ip,convert(posts.poster_id USING "utf8") AS poster_id,convert(posts.post_subject USING "utf8") AS post_subject,convert(posts.post_text USING "utf8") AS post_text,convert(posts.post_time USING "utf8") AS post_time FROM pbpbb_posts AS posts LEFT JOIN pbpbb_topics AS topics USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id != topics.topic_first_post_id LIMIT 304200, 100
Starting Conversion

Im currently running this on AWS (Amazon Servers) and had upgraded to the server to something with a bit more grunt but its not helping.

Ive also discovered, not sure if this is related, that none of the replies that are imported are assigned to a forum or a topic and when viewing a topic only the first post appears and none of the related replies.

looking forward to response.
mchl

[leahcar8]

yeah… I’ve ended up doing it locally too. I tried the Vanilla conversion from the migration I did previously and ended up getting tons of SQL errors. So I ended up just pulling out the tables from my vBulletin db that the bbPress converter actually uses and am using those to run the conversion locally.

So far so good on the local conversion. I’m up to about 225,000 on the replies with no stalls yet just using the default set of 100 and 1 sec delay.

Rachael

[casiotron]

I’m having similar issues. I actually had to convert an old ikonboard to vbulletin. Then vbulletin to bbpress. It’s a massive one too (180k users, 1.8mil posts). I’m doing this all locally with the memory set very high.

All the users managed to get converted but the posts died at 600k. I’m having difficulty continuing the conversion, it won’t start back up. It says it’s working but just sits there.

[John James Jacoby]

Not yet, but we’ll be open sourcing more and more pieces of the wordpress.org network in 2013.

[gphp]

What’s the name of bbPress.org’s theme?
Is it possible to download?

Thanks a lot!

[Oken]

Wordpress 3.6
BBPress 2.3.2
Buddypress 1.8.1

Is there anyway to custom implement a Freshness, Topic, and Post counter for subforums in the front page in the same styling that parent forums have? I know this is a common question.

I’ve been looking into this issue for a while and even found older forum post about it, but those were from 3-4 years ago and bbpress has very much changed since then. There seems to have been plugins in development to address this issue as well, but I couldn’t find anything on them.

Any advice on this issue would be greatly appreciated, At least to get me on my way!

Thanks in advance!

[stunna42]

bbPress Version 2.3.2 & WP 3.6

Hello! Sorry for the newbie question 🙂 I’d like to customize the registration experience for my instance of bbpress. Specifically, I’d like to specify the content:

1. In addition to the username and password fields on the sign-up page
2. In the “you are now registered email” users get
3. In the forgot your password page
4. In the forgot your password email

Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks again!

Note: I know we can specify custom URI’s…but using the registration short code creates a page with the following content…I’d like to change that text etc. “Your username must be unique, and cannot be changed later. We use your email address to email you a secure password and verify your account.”

[Chris Cash]

I had a larger vbulletin forum that I tried to import from and ended up having to migrate from vbulletin to phpbb and then from phpbb to bbpress.

[kimbo_king]

Anyone?

Serched high and low and cant see anything

[janhoos]

I’ve installed a plugin called Page Security by Contexture to add private functionality. It won’t use the roles by BBpress, but it makes it possible

[vogelsang]

I got this problem as well, but I move my reply to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2327

[leahcar8]

Thanks for your reply…

Last night after I posted, I ended up completely logging out and logging back in…and then restarted the import. That seemed to get rid of the dashes. So I’m not sure if I could reproduce them at this point.

The importer appears to have picked up where it left off before at 1600, but it has been very sporadic as far as how far it gets before it stalls. It did around 20,000 before I left it for the night, but then it only did about 100 more between that time and checking it this morning. It’s now going again and I’m up to about 31,000. I tried adjusting the limits lower on the rows and higher on the delay, but it doesn’t seem to matter.

And yes, I do realize that this is a large import…but even so, this is not an active, booming community anymore. I’m just trying to get the site into a more sustainable system to keep the content out there for people to find. So if it takes a long time to do the import and it doesn’t complete perfectly, I’m actually ok with that. As long as the bulk of it is there in some semblance of organization, I’m good. Maybe someday it will be active again…I can hope.

To answer your questions…yes, I’m comfortable using phpMyAdmin. As far as the LAMP goes, all I have is a mac here at home and from what I understand, it’s kinda complicated to get a LAMP running on a mac? If that’s not the case…or even if it’s a somewhat lengthy process, but not too hair-pulling…I’m willing to give it a shot.

Another thing I have not tried, but could… I actually did a conversion from vBulletin to Vanilla with no issues…and sorry, but it was fast! But I’ve decided not to use Vanilla. I could try importing from that db to see what it ends up looking like if I can’t get this one to work.

[bluesdetoi]

I have a question regarding an issue I can’t seem to figure out.

I have bbpress installed on our company intranet, and have been trying to make sure that the company employees can post without having to register, but also without being anonymous. Our intranet is accessible from the company server only, and I was hoping that it could be possible for employees to post from their name, and not having to create usernames. Is this an option currently?

[Stephen Edgar]

To be honest, I don’t know what the dashes mean, I have seen them myself and tried to duplicate the issue so we can ‘fix it’ but it happens so rarely to me I haven’t been able to find the ‘problem’ to create a ‘fix’.

I do think once ‘the dashes’ do appear there is no easy way to recover from it though without restarting everything…

With imports as big as yours they take a very long time and is frustrating to start an import and many hours later find it didn’t work, change one setting and start the waiting game again!

So before I go through a few options, a couple of questions:

• What is your skill level of MySQL?
1. Are you comfortable using phpMyAdmin?
2. You live in phpMyAdmin!
3. You dream MySQL queries in your sleep!
• What is your skill level of Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP?
1. Could you setup a local LAMP install on your ‘puter?
2. I already have a local LAMP install!
3. I have a LAMP install with a 4GB MySQL RAM Drive!

[leahcar8]

I am in the process of converting my vBulletin 4.x site over to WordPress/bbPress and it’s not going as smoothly as I’d hoped.

Using the built-in converter, it has stalled several times…although when I stop and restart it, it seemed to pick up where it left off.

It looks like it did the users, forums, and topics fine (approx 100,000 topics) but when it went through the replies, it only got up to the 1500 – 1599 range and now it’s putting dashes across the output box. If I stop it and restart it, it goes back to outputting dashes.

I’ve done a lot of searching here, but I can’t seem to find info on what exactly the output messages mean. Do the dashes mean it’s still doing something? or should I trash this import and start new? maybe with lower limits?

Background info:

There’s approximately 600,000 posts on my vBulletin installation.
Running Apache 2.2.17, MySQL 5.0.67, and PHP 5.2.17
WordPress 3.6
bbPress 2.3.2

Thanks,

Rachael

[kb0000]

Hi,

Is there a way or some plugin available to link wordpress posts and bbpress topics? So that a post in wordpress has a link to bbpress topic.

[kb0000]

Can I import/copy categories from wordpress installation (Same installation have bbpress installed) in bbpress as Forums/Category? Is there any plugin available for this?

Also, if posts can be imported as topics?

[MediaSVI]

I ran into to some server problems and it turned out to be my test site was opening up tons and tons of connections to the server, all php5, and the only way to stop it was to uninstall WordPress not even deactivating bbpress worked…very odd.

I will do some more tests this weekend and and get back to you… I am thinking the convert vb.php maybe did not close connection when it was done? Just a gut feeling plus I know nothing about coding.

[terungwa]

Thanks, My theme can now read my bbpress.css file based on the directory structure you advised.
One observation and question though:
I noticed that when i created a blank bbpress.css file in my child theme, it wiped off the default styles created by the parent!! So, do I copy the complete parent bbpress.css file or do I make a child bbpress.css file.

If i am to make a child bbpress.css file, then how do i reference the parent css file, as it is done in wordpress child theme design?

Regards

[Stephen Edgar]

WordPress should be able to automatically update your .htacess file which it looks like it is based on the last ~11 lines of your post above. Those first ~9 lines though could be the problem as it looks like they are from another WordPress plugin or added by your webhost.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Automatically_updating_.htaccess

If you don’t know what plugin is adding the extra bits to your .htaccess file try disabling all of your plugins except bbPress, go back to your WordPress permalinks settings and update the settings again which forces WordPress to update your .htaccess file and see how that goes.

[Stephen Edgar]

I ‘think’ from a quick look you should have the bbpress.css file you want to modify in the following location:
http://www.rubycore-ng.com/blog/wp-content/themes/rubycore-Blogger/css/bbpress.css

Give that a go and let me know if that does/doesn’t work 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Nice… The last ‘big’ import I did I was only missing ~10 topics or replies in total from ~40,000 imported, though it should be zero missed 😉 … If you find you are getting a high rate of topics or replies not being imported we can take a closer look.

[Stephen Edgar]

It’s all in the ‘Eye of the beholder’ I presume, and I don’t think its lame at all.

There are loads of free & paid themes out there for WordPress that bbPress will work with out of the box and with some customizations you can do some amazing things with bbPress…

Examples