[Stephen Edgar]

Did you try the Stop wait a few seconds and Start thing again?

It seems to work now when I set the number of rows very low (10) and give it plenty of delay (5 seconds).

Now the conversion process seems to have stopped when there’s about eight thousand Replies left to convert… I don’t see the spinning thing anymore indicating progress, but get the same time limit warning.

I suspect both these are related to your web host is limiting us trying to bump the memory and timeouts it might be a good idea to contact your web host to see if they can at least ‘temporarily’ bump these for you until you have got your forum imported.

Another option is to setup a local WAMP/MAMP/XAMMP install and try it locally on your PC.

Resetting the forums does not remove all the imported users, by the way. Is that a problem?

I’ll take a look at why this isn’t working as it should.

Should I select “Start a fresh conversion from the beginning” or “Purge all information from a previously attempted import” or both?

The ‘Start a fresh converesion’ will force the bbPress import to start from the beginning rather than resume from where it left off if it didn’t finish the import last time.

Also, as mentioned, posts/Replies are all assigned to me, instead of the users who made them.

Until the import is finished and the repair tools are run to ‘recount’ everything this can be the case until all the ‘metadata’ is sync’d up.

[John James Jacoby]

Within wp-admin their Forum Role is at the bottom of their profile (it’s the only place WordPress allows plugins to hook in and add anything.)

Theme-side, within a user’s profile, there is a “User Role” section that allows any Keymaster to modify any user’s roles.

[Theopt]

Well some editor reported me this, then I’ve checked the error log and I’ve found this:

[13-Oct-2013 21:22:03] WordPress database error Table ‘diytech1_wor5.zhb_bp_groups_groupmeta’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT group_id FROM zhb_bp_groups_groupmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘forum_id’ AND meta_value = ‘2874’; made by require_once(‘wp-admin/admin.php’), do_action(‘load-tools_page_bbp-repair’), call_user_func_array, bbp_admin_repair_handler, call_user_func, bbp_admin_repair_group_forum_relationship

Since the last update on bbpress editors cant login on wp-admin, they see a blank page.

How to fix it?

[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?

[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.

[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

[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]

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.

[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.

[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/

[Stephen Edgar]

@stagger-lee If the converter is stuck at Converting replies (10100 - 10199) click Stop wait a few seconds then click Start and the converter will continue on its merry way. 🙂

[ikidre]

I just migrated my legacy Buddypress forums to bbPress, and at first it seemed that everything was working great. Then I clicked on a topic and saw the notice info, and the reply form, but I presume that posts should be displaying in between. There’s nothing there in the code (so it’s not a CSS issue).

I created a brand new forum, a brand new topic, which you should be able to see here: http://atdp.berkeley.edu/forums/topic/test-topic-2/
There should be two posts (the topic post and a reply), but there’s nothing.

We use Buddypress groups, and the group forums have the same behavior. The forum and topic ULs look like they imported fine, but no posts appear when you click on a topic. So the symptoms persist for both pre- and post-migration forums, and for both group and site-wide forums.

I can see all topics and replies just fine in the backend and in the database, though it’s confused me that posts seem to be saved in the wp_posts table, not wp_bb_posts. I also can’t figure out where the new forum gets saved, because it’s not in wp_bb_forums, nor do new topics appear in wp_bb_topics. Anyway, they appear in Buddypress activity streams, and I can edit them in the backend, so it seems they’re just not making it to the page.

I’m using the theme Custom Community 1.17.3, and thought maybe that was the issue. Nope. Same exact behavior with Twenty Twelve and the default Buddypress theme.

I went through the standard toggling of plug-ins and saw no change.

WP version is 3.6.1, Buddypress 1.8.1, and bbPress 2.4. I updated to 2.4.1 in the hopes that that might fix something, but nope. I closely followed these instructions for migrating my data.

I’d love some troubleshooting ideas, because I’m about out!

[Noumaan Yaqoob]

In a default bbpress installation, I am seeing that the gravatar size is set to 80px. I learned that it can be changed in /templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php file. By adding the size parameter on line 45 like this:

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

to

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'size' => '44', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

I wanted to change it. Is it possible to do so without modifying any core template files?

[Nashwan D]

bbPress gets popular everyday.. with new users, new questions and new bugs! as you know bbPress is an open source project developed by a great volunteers from all over the world.

Which means many bbPress users can’t write in English and can’t ask support from the official forums, for this reason I suggest to add links in Codex(or any place), to all support forums that give a good support for bbPress in other language.

Maybe something like this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/L10n:Localization_Teams

for now bbPress start to gets popular in the Arabian Community, with a lot of questions from the new users, so we decided to give bbPress a special support, see:
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums/section/bbpress/

What you think?

[Stagger Lee]

Maybe some detailed clarification. It is about replies of some topic.

Converting replies (10100 - 10199)

[thecueball]

Hi all, I’m trying to set up BBPress to combine forums and comments on my website, and I’m stumped by an odd issue.

I can create a menu page with the short code [bbp-forum-index] that looks and works perfectly, but whenever you go deeper into the forums, everything defaults to the Post template – which means I get the standard blog sidebar (that I don’t want on the forum) and an author detail at the bottom of the page.

I’ve tried turning off comment integration (disabling the plugin) and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Can anyone help?

[sadhiya]

I thinks that short code [bbp-forum-index] not correct, So try with log-in option and then watch what short code you need to use. You can try: wp-login.php , i hope it will work for you.

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[joyceswiss]

Hi, when I click on the forum tab in my menu, the page that loads is “Opps, page not found”. I have tried pasting the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into my forum page. But Still doesnt work. Please advise. Thank you.

Wordpress version: 3.6.1
bb press version: 2.4.1
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[Nermoz]

It will be wonderful if you could do something. Unfortunately my code knowledge is too limited. Keep us updated, thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

You won’t need this text and/or value that you imported.

You will have to create your own templates by copying bbPress templates to your theme directory:

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

You would then use the_excerpt rather than the_content to output only ‘x’ words from each topic/reply

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

There are a few people who have played around using the_excerpt and bbPress, have a good look around the site to see how and what they did:

https://bbpress.org/forums/search/the_excerpt/

[John James Jacoby]

You could try:

bbp_forum_class( bbp_get_forum_id(), array( 'clearfix' ) );

[niuserre]

You can allow them to use images hosted elsewhere via HTML or BBCode. e.g.

Or there are plugins (GD bbPress Attachments) to add a way for them to upload an image on your site.

There isn’t currently a plugin, I think, that will let them upload an image and place it somewhere the way you do with a WordPress Post using the Media Library but it’s on the roadmap for the rtMedia plugin.

[Jgonl]

I use a fairly easy.
I think the issues but did not give a parent forum.
The call with shortcodes and thread id.

Also add this in the theme functions, which deletes the search path, so that it is more beautiful

function mycustom_breadcrumb_options() {
// Home – default = true
$args[‘include_home’] = false;
// Forum root – default = true
$args[‘include_root’] = false;
// Current – default = true
$args[‘include_current’] = true;

return $args;
}

add_filter(‘bbp_before_get_breadcrumb_parse_args’, ‘mycustom_breadcrumb_options’ );