[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.

[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.