[Robkk]

@boscagoo

Since this is exporting from bbPress/WordPress to phpBB, I say contact the phpBB community in their support forums.

[reedy]

I recently imported phpbb 3.0 into bbpress 2.5.8.

The converter seemed to run without issue. I then went down the repair forums list and repaired each relationship on the list.

However, there seems to be no pagination when viewing a topic.

Pagination is working fine when viewing the list of topics in a forum, but when you click on a topic there is no pagination. This is a big issue since some topics have over 1,000 replies.

I have double checked the settings in Settings>Forums>Topics and Replies Per Page.

Any ideas?

[Boscagoo]

Hello, I would like to transfer my BBPress forum to PHPBB3 forum on mySQL Database. I don’t found any converter to do this (only wit pay options). Is this possible? I have the SQL file of all wordpress and the XML export from BBPress. Thanks for the help

M.

[NeoID]

Found this. Might be useful:
https://github.com/xquiet/drupal7-to-phpbb3/blob/master/drupal7-to-phpbb3.php

Since advanced forum is based on the drupal core forum there might not be too much we need to change i order to support it. I’ll try to take a look at this later today.

[OscarGuy]

While I’m waiting for 2.6 to release so I can import my phpBB 3.1.x (unless someone can point to an easy-to-understand explanation of how to force an import), I have a couple of questions about possibly starting the forum and later importing.

If I were to create a forum with BBPress, set it up and start running it. Could I later import everything from phpBB and have them merge successfully? Or is there a way to merge two existing versions of BBPress so that if I imported phpBB later into a separate installation I could then just combine them?

In these cases, or even in a regular import, is it possible to successfully merge to IDs (say they’ve registered with WordPress already and also the forum separately, can these two accounts be merged).

[Robkk]

2.6 has been pushed back multiple times in the past 2 years. The phpbb issue was added in the past year though. Hopefully it releases before the new year.

[OscarGuy]

Have they fixed it so you can import from phpBB version 3.1.x yet? I’ve been waiting awhile to convert to get this updated, but I don’t have any way to know if it supports it yet or not (at least that I could find).

[Robkk]

What version of phpbb are you trying to import from??

[Robkk]

@hdcms

Yeah the release of 2.6 has been pushed back a couple times because of new bugs found, and further performance enhancements discovered.

Its a good and bad thing. Better software for you, but it might take awhile before it is released.

Anything that you might think should be released earlier(like a bug fix) in bbPress could released in a 2.5.9 security release.

The phpbb thing has to be in the 2.6 though, since it requires some major changes.

[barbarabax]

Hello, I need your help desperately! It’s one month now that i try to import my old forum into bbpress. Before, it was on vbulletin and i had no success. So i migrated vbulletin on a fresh phpbb installation and from there i’ve tryied again to migrate on bbpress. But this time is even worse!
I have the following problems:
forum repair recalculate the position of each reply gives me a blank page
on front page replies are not present, there’s just the first topic
on backend, if i try to access to replies, i have internal server error (when i’ve imported vbulletin i had the same 2 problems but at least i could access replies from backend)
I’m almost giving up as i lost so much time on it and i’m still stucked with the same problems.
Please help me!
Wordpress 4.3.1
BBPRESS 2.5.8
Theme: Hueman (issues are the same also on theme twenty twelve ecc)
noimamme.it/forums
Thanks
Barbara

[Robkk]

Where do I add those lines of code?

It is CSS put it in your child themes style.css file, a custom css plugin, or anywhere you can put custom css.

I assume you want me to edit one of the PHP files

No, never edit the plugin core files, unless you are 100% sure you know what you are doing. Since you are a novice, just do not do it.

I don’t know what “multisite” is.

Since you do not know what it is, I am going to assume you do not have it. You do not need it to solve this issue so no need to install any plugins, just curious if you have it. I see it is probably that you have a test enviroment of WordPress because you are planning on migrating to a WordPress/bbPress install from phpBB.

Yes, your deleteme user does appear in the Users list.

Does it have the Participant forum role too?

Alright, so I assume you’re talking about Peter’s Login Redirect plugin, and I assume I’ll need to edit the settings under Settings -> Login/logout redirects, correct?

You seem to be getting that together. Not sure why you are redirecting to the forums especially a specific forum, but yeah you got it.

I created a test Subscriber user, which in fact is redirected upon logging in, but isn’t logged in (of course that code you recommended still needs added in).

The code I gave you helped remove the bullet list displaying in your forums.

Again thank you for trying to help Robkk, but I would definitely like it if you could be a bit more descriptive in what I need to do to fix this login problem

We still have to troubleshoot what is causing the user to not seem to be have access to the forums.

Try some of these troubleshooting steps listed in this guide to see if it could be theme/custom theme related like if you copied the bbPress customizable templates into your child theme and edited them and messed something up on accident, check to see if a plugin could be causing an issue, you can check to see if caching could be an issue by flushing cache from your site, if you edited the bbPress and ever do not remember what you edited you can reinstall a fresh version of the plugin to see if it fixes the issue also.

Troubleshooting

Do not just go deleting cache files from WordPress or code in bbPress.

[stevieg]

Hi
I’m trying to convert a large PHPBB forum to bbpress using the built-in importer. It fails and I’ve been investigating why and looking for a solution. I keep coming up against “it will be fixed in 2.6” but I can’t see any eta for the next version being rolled out. Any update available?

[Woutermesker]

Stuck @ 80%

Hi all,

I’am converting a phpbb forum. I tweaked my php.ini apache settings allready but it keeps getting stuck.

Is there a way to start over where it’s left. Or to speed up the proces….

I importing the forum into a clean wordpress website,

[Robkk]

The custom profile fields, what exactly do they do? I get that I can now add my Twitter handle from profile settings, but it’s not displayed anywhere on the site.

Yeah you have to manually place the any extra fields you want on the frontend of the user profile and and place the code in the template user-profile.php, that should be in your child theme for easy customization.

in user-profile.php you will already see an example of the user’s description field being displayed, and you would need to do some of the same procedure.

<?php if ( bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ) ) : ?>

    <p class="bbp-user-twitter">
        <a href="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ); ?>" title="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ); ?>'s Twitter" rel="nofollow">
             <?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ); ?>
        </a>
    </p>

<?php endif; ?>

I will probably put an example for user’s to place the links on their profile templates later on that guide.

I would love for it to be displayed beneath my avatar and username phpBB-style in topics, or at least on my visible forum profile.

Yep, there is a way to that too. I can’t remember much but I think it just involves a hook to place the data. There is a plugin Robin made that can basically do that. There is also a different plugin for displaying BuddyPress profile fields. You can dig around the plugins code if you want to see how he did it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/

This doable? Obviously I can’t use the_author_meta() in bbpress, so…

I think it is possible to just use the WordPress code with bbPress. bbPress is just a plugin of WordPress now.

Also, instead of adding labels to certain topics. Can I add classes so I can do changes in CSS?

Yeah you do not have to leave the [status] and just leave the classes there so you can style with just CSS.

[tkse]

This works nicely. Sorry to bug you so much.

The custom profile fields, what exactly do they do? I get that I can now add my Twitter handle from profile settings, but it’s not displayed anywhere on the site. I would love for it to be displayed beneath my avatar and username phpBB-style in topics, or at least on my visible forum profile. This doable? Obviously I can’t use the_author_meta() in bbpress, so…

Also, instead of adding labels to certain topics. Can I add classes so I can do changes in CSS?

Thanks! 🙂

[NickUdd]

Hi,

I did a testinstall and imported my phpbb forum. I have since made some theme modifications.

Now I want to go live but need to re import all the topics. How do I clean up my current installation?

[Robkk]

@richardwil

You may need to hire a developer to do the import for you. Devs seem busy working on other aspects of bbPress and importing in general. And for me importing is a huge learning curve.

I guess you can also wait it out with phpBB still until we fix the importer in 2.6.

[richard.wil]

Ive finally had some progress!!!! Finally getting something in the status box other than the ‘starting conversion’ lol

I ended up installing another instance of wordpress in an old version: 3.9 and then installed bbpress plugin old version: 2.5.4

Then when I did the import from the phpbb3 forums I had the import actually start! I think it must have been some compatibility issues on newer versions.

However I did run into a fair few errors. I got a few errors where I had to click start conversion again and then it would get another error and have to click start again.

It finally finishes but seems to have only imported replies and there are no forums or topics and the user accounts don’t import either.

Wondering if anyone might know why and if anyone can decipher the output I get below?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

———————————————————————-

Repair any missing information: Continue

Conversion Complete

No reply_to parents to convert

Converting replies (1200 – 1299)
Converting replies (1100 – 1199)
Converting replies (1000 – 1099)
Converting replies (900 – 999)
Converting replies (800 – 899)
Converting replies (700 – 799)
Converting replies (600 – 699)
Converting replies (500 – 599)
Converting replies (400 – 499)
Converting replies (300 – 399)
Converting replies (200 – 299)
Converting replies (100 – 199)
Converting replies (0 – 99)

No tags to convert

No super stickies to stick

No stickies to stick

Starting Conversion

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘topics.topic_replies’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(topics.topic_id USING “utf8”) AS topic_id,convert(topics.topic_replies USING “utf8”) AS topic_replies,convert(topics.topic_replies_real USING “utf8”) AS topic_replies_real,convert(topics.forum_id USING “utf8”) AS forum_id,convert(topics.topic_poster USING “utf8”) AS topic_poster,convert(posts.poster_ip USING “utf8”) AS poster_ip,convert(posts.post_text USING “utf8”) AS post_text,convert(topics.topic_title USING “utf8”) AS topic_title,convert(topics.topic_status USING “utf8”) AS topic_status,convert(topics.topic_type USING “utf8”) AS topic_type,convert(topics.topic_time USING “utf8”) AS topic_time,convert(topics.topic_last_post_time USING “utf8”) AS topic_last_post_time FROM phpbb_topics AS topics INNER JOIN phpbb_posts AS posts USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id = topics.topic_first_post_id LIMIT 0, 100

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

Starting Conversion

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics USING “utf8”) AS forum_topics,convert(forums.forum_posts USING “utf8”) AS forum_posts,convert(forums.forum_topics_real USING “utf8”) AS forum_topics_real,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100

No forums to convert

No passwords to clear

Starting Conversion

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘users.user_website’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(users.user_id USING “utf8”) AS user_id,convert(users.user_password USING “utf8”) AS user_password,convert(users.user_form_salt USING “utf8”) AS user_form_salt,convert(users.username USING “utf8”) AS username,convert(users.user_email USING “utf8”) AS user_email,convert(users.user_website USING “utf8”) AS user_website,convert(users.user_regdate USING “utf8”) AS user_regdate,convert(users.user_aim USING “utf8”) AS user_aim,convert(users.user_yim USING “utf8”) AS user_yim,convert(users.user_icq USING “utf8”) AS user_icq,convert(users.user_msnm USING “utf8”) AS user_msnm,convert(users.user_jabber USING “utf8”) AS user_jabber,convert(users.user_occ USING “utf8”) AS user_occ,convert(users.user_interests USING “utf8”) AS user_interests,convert(users.user_sig USING “utf8”) AS user_sig,convert(users.user_from USING “utf8”) AS user_from,convert(users.user_avatar USING “utf8”) AS user_avatar FROM phpbb_users AS users LIMIT 0, 100

No users to convert

Starting Conversion

[Robkk]

I haven’t seen someone tackle importing attachments from phpBB yet.

[Robkk]

No file attachments are imported.

phpBB

If the image was part of the original post with using the BBCode [img] then that IS imported as part of the post, if the image was an attachment to the post then it is not imported.

There are scripts that handles importing images from other forum software to GD bbPress Attachments that you can take a look at though. This might be custom development and you may need to hire a developer to create an importer for file attachments from phpBB though.

[Israel Pimentel]

friends,

I did read many topics on the conversion of PHPBB to BBPress, although I like the forum, need to know if the conversion of the images is possible, even through a different plugin or scrip.

I know that own plugin bbPress can not do so.

[richard.wil]

Thanks for your reply.
Yes, definitely selecting phpBB from the drop-down at the top of the page.
Both the wordpress and phpbb3 databases are on the same web server. I enter in ‘localhost’ to connect to them both

[Robkk]

Since you still need help on this. First do not import SMF to phpbb, just try leaving it in SMF and import from there. users have had problems importing from phpBB lately but not SMF.

You have to make sure you are not using a remote database.

Make sure to always check the import troubleshooting.

Import Troubleshooting

Run through this topic to see if you have any similar issues others may of have, and Stephen may have answered already.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/smf-import-to-bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

The database *must* be located on the same database server as your target WordPress installation, you can import from a remote database server.

Make sure you select “phpBB” from the dropdown at the top of the importer page.

[Robkk]

Users have been posting similar data in topics from trying to import from phpBB 3.1. You guys may need to wait til 2.6 to import successfully. I do not know how well downgrading phpBB will do exactly.