[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.

[Joukku]

no.. frustrating. Any clue?

Repair any missing information: Continue
Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/int2000/d/xxxxx/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 306

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_3forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100

No forums to convert
Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/int2000/d/xxxxx/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 306 Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/int2000/d/xxxxx/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 306 Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/int2000/d/xxxxx/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 306 

No data to clean

Starting Conversion

[Joukku]

Hi all,

I’ve been trying to import my forum from phpbb 3.1.1 (no mod or themes) to bbpress 2.5.4.

I used row limits 50 and delay time 2. Database settings looks to be ok.

Problem is following code that appears on every line:
‘Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/int2000/d/xxxxx/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 306 Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/int2000/d/xxxxx/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 306’

Conversion goes till end and following message will appear:
‘Repair any missing information: Continue’
‘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_3forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100’

What am I doing wrong?

[digiblogger]

Hello Everybody.

I hope you understand my “german Englisch”.

I tried many many membership and capability plugins to empower bbpress. But with no success.
This is because bbpress has capabilities, but don´t used them the right way.

I am not a developer, so I don´t know, if everything I suggest is possible or not. But I know, for some of these features, that it worked for former versions of bbpress with plugins that are outdated for years.

What bbpress really needs are capabilities in this way (marking new capabilites with (*)):
When talking about forums, I mean forums and categories.

Forums/Categories

can_see_forum
can_see_thread

Threads

can_create_topic_in_forum (*)
can_edit_owntopic_in_forum (*)
can_edit_anytopic_in_forum (*)
can_delete_owntopic_in_forum (*)
can_delete_anytopic_in_forum (*)

Replies

can_create_reply_in_forum (*)
can_edit_ownreply_in_forum (*)
can_edit_anyreply_in_forum (*)
can_delete_ownreply_in_forum (*)
can_delete_anyreply_in_forum (*)

Moderators/Admins

Capabilites to create, edit, delete, move or split forums, threads and replies.

With these capabilites, bbpres itself or every capability addon could add members or groups to forums and categories.

This would make bbpress more like full featured forum software (vbulletin, burning board, phpbb and other) than it ever was.

I asked a developer a long time ago, how long it would take to build an extension or add this to the bbpress core features.

He said something like: BBPress is well coded. I think, adding these capabilities and rules to forums, adding some metaboxes for assigning groups, members or capabilites to forums post types.. I think a good developer could do this in no time.

Well… he is specialized in another section of wordpress plugins and not interested in creating for bbpress. But I think, every wordpress user and forum lover would love these features.

And I think, this is also a great way to prevent spam in forums. on non-english websites, most spam plugins block users that are definetly no spammers, because they search for things, that are not present in non english languages.

Hoping for feedback and… hope this can be realized.

Plugins I tried:
– press permit
– advanced access manager
– advanced capabilites manager
– s3members
– members
– and many many more (used keyword in wp repo: bbpress, member, access, restrict, capability, capablites, read, write, permission and more)

Hope for positive feedback

Digi

[bcrider]

Thank you both for the help!

I’m sorry it took a few days for me to check back in.

Robin W, you’re correct. Technically long usernames like splitboard.com are not truncated, they’re just not fitting nicely in the author box.

Robk, widening the box could help but since my current theme is non-responsive I don’t want to make the body of the forum posts any narrower.

I think the best option may be to decrease the font size in this box. Can anyone advise how I can accomplish this?

Looking at my current phpbb3 forum, it seems that is how they handle it.
http://splitboard.com/talk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16976

I really want to convert my forum of 6,0000 members and 125,000 posts to bbpress. I just need to work a few of these things out..

Thank you!

Chris

[allanlud]

Hi all,

I have just installed bbpress here – forum.I’ve been looking through the forums here and found a few posts relating to the style of PHPBB.

What I am trying to do is have something like the this:

Forum#1
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

Forum#2
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

Forum#3
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

And have topics for each sub forum displayed – hope that makes sense. I’m not too sure about forums & categories so feel free to comment.

I have read about editing the plugin files in a child theme but not too sure how to go about that. I have worked with child themes in WordPress before (and am currently), but is there a ‘plugin child theme’?

Thanks,
Al.

[priom]

Thanks for the response!

Unfortunately I did try that and it didn’t work 🙁

Ah well, guess I’ll just have to live without it. Basically was trying to make it a bit more nicer and similar to phpbb3’s feature in a way. It’s mainly for a gaming guild website but so far everything else looks good enough 🙂

Loving the forums.

[priom]

Hi,

I’ve recently just switched my site over to bbpress from phpbb3. Currently love how i can style it alot better than phpbb3.

The only option I would really like at this moment is to have each roles name’s be in different color.

I know of the bbp-author-name in css but that changes all the author’s name colors. I would basically like a Keymaster to have lets say Green, Moderator to have Yellow, and Participant to have White.

Something similar to that. Is this possible at this stage?

[FrancescoR]

Wordpress and phpBB (> v3.0) are separated, no bridge, nothing: two differents things. The only account imported was my phpbb account and now are working with the wordpress one.

In wordpress are not exist any phpBB account.

Anonymous users, in real, are not accounts.. anyway there is a way to assign them manually to new accounts? I prefer to don’t import forum again

[Stephen Edgar]

Same thing, that was what I meant 😉

Also after resetting the forums check that any previous or duplicated users do not exist, this is an issue that sometimes results in having to manually delete previously imported users, it is fixed in the next release of bbPress.

Extra Notes: Make sure you are importing from phpBB v3, if you have been previously using a bridge plugin between phpBB and WordPress you will also have issues.

[FrancescoR]

I’ve imported my old phpBB forum and now all users names are setted to Anonymous and they can’t access to the bbpres forum.

How can i solve this? Please.

[Sam Rohn]

not really fair to blame the bbpress developers (free software made by volunteers) for not having every possible feature built into core, all forum apps (phpbb, etc) that i am aware of require separate anti-spam plugins

bbpress itself is just a plugin for wordpress, so anti-spam is more a wordpress problem than only a bbpress problem, and there are many anti-spam wordpress plugins out there, and dealing with spammers & bots etc is a BIG topic, and a continually evolving battle for anyone running any sort of website…

otherwise, i think it would help keep this forum orderly if there were a sticky or somesuch with a maintained list of commonly requested bbpress plugins like anti-spam, polls, custom avatars, granular membership permissions, etc

here are the wordpress anti-spam plugins i mentioned in the other topic, all work well with bbpress, start with wangguard which is the easiest to use, all require careful config and monitoring to make sure they are functioning properly

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

sam

[freeshark123]

Hello Jason,
I have the same problem. I would like to migrate from DNN active forum to phpBB3 (not bbPress).
Have you solved?
May you give me some suggestions?

thank you

Marco

[ShMk]

Hello,
I’m trying to convert a phpBB 3.0.x to bbPress using the default import tool by bbPress, but it looks that user avatars are not imported.
Anyone know how to import theme? (my phpBB has over 5000 users so I cannot import them 1 by 1 :P)

[Stephen Edgar]

Stephen my rant was no way a slight against you and your work, assuming you’re the lead programmer? I know it’s been a hard road, I’ve been using bbpress since version .9, and seen a few leads over the years.

I didn’t take it that way at all 🙂

@JohnJamesJacoby is the lead developer, I’ve just hitched along for the ride since trying to migrate from phpBB to bbPress didn’t work, I do far more than just the import side of things now, I’m still learning PHP and constantly finding more and more ways to improve bbPress.

Much to my delight, the posts in the wp category were not deleted, just the category itself. So I just recreated the category and put those posts in it again.

Excellent

But the tags in the wordpress site were definitely overwritten in the migration, including any custom taxonomies using the same slugs.

Ok, that’s a problem, it is also a scenario I haven’t tried and or thought of even though bbPress does register its own custom taxonomy. I’ll take a look at doing some imports with existing taxonomies in WordPress (tags/categories) and see what happens.

I also hope for a bright bbPress future and I have a pretty big wish list for it also, some documented around the place, some not 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

The top two importers included with bbPress are phpBB and SMF, primarily because these are the two most popular importers and where most feature requests come from.

I’d love to know some detailed information on what/why/where you think the phpBB import is broken and/or why you don’t think it works so well.

I haven’t seen any reports for quite a while on issues with the phpBB importer.

[Stephen Edgar]

I had a quick look around to see if I could find if it was a port or fork of another forum project but very little info was around.

I’d suggest taking a look at either the phpBB or SMF importers, they are pretty much the top two importers that are included with bbPress and have the best “import” feature support for bbPress.

The ‘Example.php” importer also tries (I know it can/could/should be better) to explain some of the field mappings.

I made a start on guessing the field mappings for the forum section based on the phpBB importer:

Using a table prefix deluxebb_ should work fine with the field map 'from_tablename' => 'forums',, as the converter joins these staements together giving you deluxebb_forums 🙂

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/da6466dc2b057942f0fa

I’ll let you have a crack at the topics, replies and users and then I’m more than happy to tweak it with some of the newest updates that will be included in the next release of bbPress.

[Jamie]

Hi there,

I have been reading through the forums, and can’t find anything for more recent versions so was wondering if I could request some help.

I am working on a project called GameDevelopers.ie, a 12 year old site. We recently ported over their old, bespoke CMS into WordPress, and the our forums which were on phpbb after paying cms2cms which did a great job.

The forum has 60,000 posts among several thousand threads and two thousand users. Our server is woefully underresourced, and the site is crashing when bbpress is enabled. So we have it disabled, and are just organising to get a better server with more cpu’s, tons of ram and space.

I was wondering what else we can do to help reduce the load? Is there some way that we can mass archive parts of the forum, or other tactics to help make things run a little better?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Cheers

Jamie

[ttmt]

Hi all

I have a WP site with bbPress installed and bbPress Like Button (a like button plugin).

I was trying to import a phpBB forum to bbPress.

I’m having problems doing this and in the process must have decactivted bbPress.

Now when I try to log in at wp-admin or view the site I get a page saying.

‘bbPress Like Button needs bbPress installed and activated in order to work.’

This is on QA server and so I can’t get access to the files.

Is there any way to fix this – Is there any way to access the dashboard to re-activate the plugin

[Robkk]

i know

I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

[arno8]

Im not using phpbb, im using bbpress

[Robkk]

i think that is the easiest way.

it might be as easy as just replacing loop-forums.php in lynqs phpbb theme, but i havent tested it.

i suggest you test it out on localhost by using wamp (windows), lamp (linux), mamp (mac), or xamp (all).

or just make sure you download your original with ftp or your hosts file manager, then put it back if it doesnt work.

[mpesgt01]

Thanks. It worked great for Settings > Forum > uncheck Forum Prefix

For the other possible /forum/ url slug prefix, Sumon1068, try going into Admin > Forums and make sure your previous forum are not CHILD of another forum. I was this for me, importing from phpbb3.