[andrew55]

I’m happy to be new to this community. I’ve been using phpBB for forums for years, and recently decided to migrate over to bbPress. I recently installed all newest versions of WordPress and bbPress.

I have a medium sized phpBB forum with thousands of topics, so I need to preserve the users and topics.

My setup is a bit strange though – I am using aMember, and this membership program creates an integration between WordPress and phpBB. The result is the same users exist in phpBB as in WordPress.

So, when I attempted to import users and topics from phpBB into bbPress (using import tool that came with bbPress), the forums and topics did import but the users all had “imported_” before their user names. My guess is this was an attempt to prevent duplicate users.

Is there a method to import my forums and topics from phpBB into bbPress, and have the authors of topics and replies synced to the already existing users in WordPress? Thanks for any suggestions.

[Robkk]

I’m using a different forum structure (a forum index, subforums, etc. – a traditional phpBB layout

what are you using exactly??

[Ziga Sancin]

I’m seeing some weird freshness bugs on a bbpress installation (version 2.5.5). I’m using a different forum structure (a forum index, subforums, etc. – a traditional phpBB layout), so the bug is even more visible to the general public, but it’s certainly not the cause of these bugs, because I can easily reproduce the bug just by clicking on the trash link in the frontend or WordPress Admin and looking at the postmeta database.

I’ve tried using the admin tool to recalculate freshness, but it makes the whole situation worse. So, I have to manually change the freshness postmetas of all forums and subforums. 🙁

I’ve encountered at least three different bugs:
– wrong freshness set for parent forum and subforums after trashing a post
– wrong freshness set for forums and subforums after using freshness recalculation via admin tools
– no updated freshness set for parent forum and subforums after untrashing a post

This seems like a blocker to me. How can I help? Are those bugs covered inside bug #2414 or bug #1925?

[booknerds]

Hey there,

well, I’m not sure if this is the right subforum, so please feel free to

I am running a site where we have admins, authors and editors (which can review editors’ posts before putting them on-air). So, since now, we protected our WP backend with .htpasswd and .htaccess so no one could register/login without knowing the credentials for this extra anti-brute-foce gate.

Now I decided to stop using phpBB and switching to bbPress for my website, and as it seems, I need to remove the htaccess/htpasswd thingy to open up WP for all users to make it possible for people to register for the forums.

This makes me become concerned about the security of my site because anyone can register then – spammers as well as those brute-forcing id***s.

So, what can you recommend to have a WP website running bbPress while keeping the security level as high as possible?

Using: bbpress 2.5.5 | WP 4.1.1 | SmartMag Theme | http://www.booknerds.de (forum not on-air yet)

[pimark]

Tom,

I’ve the same problem which has stopped by porting over from phpbb to bbpress.
The freshness url is always correct per forum but the short-text is always wrong…

Cheers
M.

[MattConway]

Hello,

My name is Matt Conway, just joined the site. I would like to know how easy it is to run a bbPress forum. The only thing I’ve ever used before is iWeb; I enjoyed it’s simplicity but I’m not stupid and I know there will be a learning curve.

Our local council here are planning to redevelop the town centre with high rise apartments. There is a lot of local anger about this and I think a forum is the best way to get people talking. I’d like to know: Is it within the bounds of someone with no programming knowledge, but a desire to learn, to set up and moderate a bbPress forum?

I would start as simply as possible, but over the course of time would like to do the following things:

1 – Run the forum from a name I have just registered: http://www.walthamforestforum.org

2 – Make users register before being able to post – add someway to deter spammers

3 – Make it possible for users to add photos

4 – Make it possible for users to vote on issues

5 – Make it possible for users to sign a petition (could be just a link to another petition site)

6 – Make it possible for users to “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” other people’s comments

6 – Start a diary of upcoming local events (maybe best in another part of the site?)

7 – Start a sub-forum that lists local tradesmen, shops etc; where users can add to an accumulated star rating and add comments on the tradesmen’s individual thread

How much of this is possible on bbPress? Should I instead be looking at phpBB?

Thanks, Matt.

[remi31]

Hello,

J’ai un site sur la martinique avec un forum martinique avec pleins de questions et réponses sur l’ile. Une communauté de plus de 1 000membres.

I have a forum martinique on phpbb and i would like to transfert to bbpress, is possible ?
I have 1 000members.

[jdhancock]

Wordpress version: 4.1.1
bbPress version: 2.5.4
phpBB forum version: 3.1.3

I’m running into an issue trying to import a phpBB forum into bbPress. I’ve checked and rechecked my database information/login. I have the correct table prefix for what the old database is using. I’m getting the following error when I press start:

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

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[pimark]

Pretty strange one imho. I’ve been working on porting an existing site from phpbb
over to wordpress/bbpress. While going through a final test of the port I’ve come across the following problem. Namely when in forums where you can see the latest post (along side the forum name), the name of the latest post plus its time/date are totally incorrect, however the url actually links to the correct latest post.

See: wp.photographyireland.net/forums to see.

I’ve retried all the usual recalculates etc… I have tested the port in the past and didn’t have this issue. Can anyone advise or at worst provide me with a sql updates statement to correct?

I don’t want to do the port for real if I’m going to run into this again. Tbh I do find that the import from phpbb can be a tad bit flaky at time…

Cheers

[Zoker]

Ok just to be sure, compare these two images:

Thats the way it looks in phpBB, when you want to create a new “Forum”

Thats the way it looks in bbpress, when you want to create a new “Forum”

Notice the “Link” dropdown item?

Thats what Im taking about 😉

[Zoker]

Hi Robin,

did you view the link I posted above in the first post?

Here is an explanation of the phpBB docs:

LINK
The forum list displays a forum link like a normal forum. But instead of linking to a forum, you can point it to a URL of your choice. It can display a hit counter, which shows how many times the link was clicked.

(source: https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.0/ug/adminguide/forums_types/ )

So its just a additional “type” next to category and forum.

I hope now its a bit clearer, what Im trying to archive 🙂

[Zoker]

Hi there,

In phpBB there is a option to create a link, which looks like a forum.

E.g. On this page https://www.phpbb.com/community/index.php the second “forum” called “Area 51 Development Board” is a link.

Is there a plugin or option to create such a link in bbpress?

Thank you

[bharasthsunny]

I would like to shift from BBpress to Phpbb . So I would like to remove the bbpress forum that I have created for my Blog. Can anyone tell me how to do that ?

[jarrod1975]

Stephen, I too am getting errors while trying to import my phpbb forum into bbpress. I updated phpbb this morning to most recent version, no mods (v. 3.1.2). I just installed bbpress today in my WordPress site.

When I use the import tab under Tools > Forums, I enter my info, and here’s what I get:

*******************
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
*******************

Please help, thanks!

[Stagger Lee]

I am not saying all this because of me. I have now so many (tested) snippets and tweaks i can make bbPress more advanced than phpBB3 forum. I am thankfull to core guys, and I am not complaining.

Integration (affinity better to say) with WP core is so amazing it just blow minds.

I am saying this because of core coders guys. It is pitty lose hours, days, weeks and last nobody or very few people use bbPress.

[Novadrake1111]

I am using a wordpress skin that integrates BBPress very nicely. One thing I am looking to do, however is make the bbpress forums have a hierarchy like any other software out there currently. I am not that amazing at coding and would appreciate if someone could explain in an easy to understand way. If it’s something that I would have to code completely over, i’d be willing to pay someone to help me code that.

Thank You

[Deleyna]

Okay, I broke it.

I imported a phpbb forum into bbpress. Nice. We had a number of older threads with a post at the beginning and a bunch of replies. I used a conversion tool to convert the topics to posts — so the initial topic of each thread is now converted to a post.

For this site, this was powerful good. Magic. Yay…

Except that now the users wonder what happened to all of those replies. We’re using a plugin that uses bbpress to integrate the comments on the posts…so, now having their cake, they want to eat it, too.

I can see in the back end that the replies are still all there. I’ve picked at a couple and moved and merged and fiddled and got them where I wanted them. Generated a mismatch warning at one point, but it all connected back up.

But the process is insanely slow.

I used the auto-create to create new topics in the forum for each of the posts (converted topics). So each of the ones I converted to a post now HAS a master topic in the forum, but the replies aren’t attached.

They aren’t visible on the front end, either.

In retrospect, this was pretty stupid. Looking at about 800 replies. My current workflow takes me around 15 minutes to reattach one. Not going to happen.

Thoughts?

[booknerds]

Hi there,

I am highly interested to shut down my old phpBB forum that is installed next to my WP install. Right now I want to switch over to bbPress, but what keeps me from doing so is the fact that bbPress uses the same database as WP does.

Is there a way to make bbPress work with its own database?

Best regards
Chris

[MorpheusWP]

I’m having a bit of trouble with the phpBB importer in bbPress 2.5.4.

I’ve been through about 15 imports in a cloned staging area with varying results.

My phpBB forum contains 260,000 posts, 20,000 topics and about 13,000 users. The forum has been “cleaned up” in phpBB first meaning that I’ve used phpBB’s tools to resync the forums

On each import, it works ok to a point where it successfully importing the users, forum structure and the topics. Once it begins importing and converting to replies, it gets to about 158,000 and hangs.

Clicking Stop and allowing a few minutes of rest and start again does work but the converter slows to a crawl, sometimes to 1/50th of the original speed.

Another issue is that many thousands of the replies seem to be mismatched and they’re not in their correct forums.

Usually bbPress’s repair tools fail to correct the mismatch.

Does anyone here have any guidance for me?

[Robkk]

why didnt you use the phpbb to bbPress importer in the bbPress plugin.

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

[shaik7]

Hello,

I have imported the users from phpbb into wordpress(bbpress) using Importing Tools. But the users are not able to login to system. are there any setup required to allow imported users to login?

I have checked the wp_usermeta table and many rows filled for imported users along with this column ‘_bbp_password’.

In wp_users table password is empty for imported users. I have read some where this password will update after the first login. But in my case the imported users are not able to login in WP.

can you guys help regarding this?

thanks
rehan

[BlizzardWolf]

Hi there!

I apologize if someone else has already posted about this, but I did a search and didn’t find someone with my exact error. But I have been using bbPress version 2.5.4 with WordPress version 4.0.1, and it was working great for the past few days until I tried to use CMS2CMS to transfer over my forum from phpBB to WordPress. It now has “Page Not Found” errors, even after removing all traces of the CMS2CMS plugin. I can not access any portion of my forum, but everything looks fine on the back end. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all of my plugins and still continue to get the error. What am I missing?

Here is the link to my site:
http://www.derbycityminis.com/new/

Thanks in advance! 🙂

[papete100]

The last posting on this topic is very old. I wonder this is still a matter of concern. I try to move my http://www.phpages.org/phpBB3/ forum to bbPress. I used the build in tool and get the error

WordPress database error: [Table ‘u53000db1.phpbbusers’ doesn’t exist]

u53000db1 is my phppp sql base and I made a test with the plugin cms2cms and I got a nice output, but the produced bbPress forum was somwhere else not in my application, so I wonder what that means?

Anyone there can get me started in the right direction. Best regards
Peter

[bcrider]

Thanks again Robkk

I was able to successfully replace the loop-single-topic.php file in my theme with the stock bbpress version and voila, large avatars are removed as I desired and they’ve been replaced with the stock smaller ones. Awesome!

Searching the support forums here I was also able to find this code and add it to my Custom Code section which allowed be to play with the size of the avatar too. Awesome again!

.bbp-body .bbp-topic-title img.avatar,
.bbp-body .bbp-topic-freshness img.avatar,
.bbp-template-notice img.avatar,
.bpp-author-avatar img.avatar {
width: 24px;
}

I think one of the last pieces I need to fix before converting my phpbb3 forum to bbpress is adjusting the padding on the Forum list and Topic list pages.

http://splitboard.com/talk2/

The padding is much larger than I desire, I’d like the padding to be as minimal as possible which will allow for more content on the screen without scrolling.

Can you please help me adjust the padding to be closer to the stock bbpress styling, like here?

As you can see, the topics are much narrower.

Thanks!

Let me know if there’s already a topic on adjusting the padding or if I should start a new thread.

[kimstuart]

WP – 4.0.1 – multisite bbPress 2.5.4

Forgive me if I’m asking a repeat question but I’m struggling to find an answer and I’ve searched every combination here I can think of…

I’ve imported from phpBB into a new bbPress install on a new MU install.

The user names on the previous phpBB are not the same (emails, user names or display names) for the accounts they need to be attributed to on the bbPress.

I saw a reference in one of Stephens posts last week about deleting users and changing their posts to a different user, but I’ve not been able to find the directions.

Any help would be appreciated, it’s the last thing I need to do so that I can kill the old phpBB and move forward with the bbPress.