[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.

[mpesgt01]

I have tried importing my phpBB3 forum to bbPress, doesn’t work well. So far I have lost a week on this 🙁 I really want to use bbPress, and really want to keep my previous forum content. I’ve notice you have 14 importers so far…

So I want to know if there is another road I can take.
– first ; what importers goes very very well ?
– second ; i might then try importing phpBB3 > to that importer/forum XYZ > then import this new file into bbPress

( As a fake example, the answer could be this ; from my Phpbb3 > into temporary Vanilla > then into Bbpress )

[Zane]

Trying to run a conversion to fix the Anonymous posts. Ran it all day and came home and it was stuck again. I did the same thing I did before where I looked at the last row created in bbpress and found the same post in phpbb by comparing content, then deleted the next one. When I do this the import continues. I would think that since I did this and complete the import this second run of the conversion would run error free but that is not the case. It is near the end and appears to be hung again. I suspect it is no coincidence that it hung twice, just like before. Guess I am not deleting the corrupt posts. Not sure why it keeps going after I delete them. If I delete another random post it still hangs until I delete the right one.

If I wanted to have it print more debug information where would I need to edit? The only information I need is the bbpress post ID and wordpress post id about to be queried and a confirmation right after the query completes. This should let me find the corrupt post.

In the instructions on https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/import-troubleshooting/ I am not sure how to take the information printed on the screen now and map it to the database.

Now drop all the rows in the database that are not in the range of rows that failed during import

I am not sure how the “Range of rows” maps to the database tables.

I will include a request to include a debug option for conversions.

Thanks again for your help.

[mpesgt01]

Thanks. Waiting for the answer, I have stop and start it 🙁

Here’s what my old phpbb3 forum says ;
18,504 sujets • 52,637 messages • 1,272 membres

Here’s what my new bbpress import says ;
5,075 Topics / 30,100 Replies / 1,347 User

Also, when I visit my new forum on my site, no replies are shown. When I am in dashboard (admin, all replies are there. Tough, the import didnt get everything. This took me maybe 2 days. What I do from here ? Retry importing from scratch ?

[Zane]

I found it by comparing content of the last post in bbpress against the PHPBB posts and found the next one. Deleted it and restarted the migration and it continued. I should find out what was in post ID 67939 that stalled the migration.

[Stephen Edgar]

Presuming your doing this on a copy of your phpBB database, delete that row and continue on until your import completes, typically I haven’t had an import need more than 10 of these and depending on if it is a topic or reply and the context of the post I have either not worried about it or I have manually recreated in bbPress and assigned it to that user after the import has finished.

[Zane]

Sounds good, thanks! I will post what I can once I get my site moved.

So I have followed the steps on https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/import-troubleshooting/ and have isolated the first failure when moving reply 102607. I have no idea how to map 102607 to the phpbb post. Any ideas?

[bnovak]

I tried deactivating the other plugins but this did not help. It definitely seems to be related to the bbpress plugin. I’m using the latest version of WP. I’m trying to migrate an existing site http://colonclub.com over to a new host. The current site uses phpBB forum but we would like to switch to bbpress if possible. I can provide you with a login to check things out if that helps.

[Zane]

I took my host out of the equation and installed XAMPP, migrated both sites to my local PC and setup configs as shared in that post. Thank you for the forward!

Is there a place to submit phpbb feature requests? I have been working this migration for a bit now and have a few updates that may improved the migration experience for others. For example, a small alert when you attempt to close the import tab. I have accidentally closed an import in progress two or three times over the last 4 days. Also, a big red warning message on the screen that says “MIGRATION IN PROGRESS!”. My wife has shut down my PC twice during a migration!

[lantaarntje]

Hi

I try to convert a phpbb3 (3.0.11) to BBpress 2.5.4 but when i start the converter i got this error:

Repair any missing information: Continue
Error:

The username is already takenThe email address does not appear to exist (No MX record)Please go back and try again, or contact an administrator if you keep seeing this error.N

Any ideas?

[peter-hamilton]

I have read a few of the previous posts and saw lots of interesting topics come by.

First I have to make a statement and a thank you.

Statement: BBPress is exactly what I need in a forum, yes I think it is forum software and forum software only.

Also it is a wordpress plugin, not a standalone CMS so I can not expect it to have all functions I wish for, but then there are plugins for most of them.

As a non-professional developer I had my share of problems after the first install, and coming from phpBB (only for 5 months there) I missed a lot of funtions mentioned in earlier posts that come standard in stand-alone forum CMS like IPBoard and VBulletin.

Those two (IPB VBull) have been my inspiration and I wanted a forum with similar functions, after trying phpBB for a few months, which I really enjoyed as a learning curve, I decided to give wordpress/bbpress/buddypress a try.

I have now been experimenting and learning the wordpress syntax for about 1 year, and have only one thing to say:

BBPress is the better forum software for me.

I can now make a perfect profile page.

I can have forums with the right hierarchy.

I can have all the extras that make other forum CMS cool thanks to some lightweight plugins, even attachments/images in posts can be made to look better then many other forums I visit.

Of course all is not perfect, I am not alone in hoping to see better image management, private albums, better TinyMCE editor, moderator functions/pages and the all important “like” function, but all in all BBP is just as functional as many high profile forums.

being a wordpress plugin makes BBPress modular, user friendly enough and highly functional not to forget absolutely FREE, besides a few hundered hours of brain pain.

Anyway, back to my theme (BBFacelook) development.
Peter Hamilton

[mpesgt01]

I was installing bbPress on my website, using the Tools > Forums > Import forums. It was going okay until it reach converting replies. My forum have 52 600 messages in 18 000 subjects from 1200 users.
– I visited the url mysite.com/forums and I see it well, but at first sights it seems there is no replies at all in every message.
– Here is what I see in the yellow box.

Can you tell me what to do from here ? (as nothing keep going, but the little wheels keeps tuning)

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[Zane]

Hello,

I am having a heck of a time importing a PHPBB that I have been administering since 2004. It has over 100k replies and I am having trouble getting the replies to process over 24k before failing to a point where it stops processing for longer then 30 minutes and will not continue after hitting stop and start again. So far I have tried various combinations of query size and delay with no luck. 10 x 1sec, 100 x 1 sec, 1000 x 1 sec, 10 x 2 sec etc.

Any suggestions? Is there any way to make the migration continue even if you have to refresh the page?

I appreciate any feedback. Thanks.

[CardiffDesigns]

Hey guys,

I’m currently in the process of migrating from phpBB over to bbPress and I could use a little help.

I was wondering if you guys could help me out…

I would only like to have 1 Forum on my website instead of the 3 that I currently have and I would like people to be taken to this forum when they visit the root URL of http://www.mmabettingtips.com/forums/

For example I would like to just have “General Discussion” as the main root forum, instead of having the option to visit various different forums.

Right now I can’t work out how to do that and I can only show either a set number of the latest posts or the top level forums that are displayed at the moment:

http://www.mmabettingtips.com/forums/

Is there a way to set bbPress up, so that it is just one forum?

I doubt there will be a need to expand the forum in the future, so this won’t be a problem.

If you guys could let me know, I’d really appreciate it!

Thanks a lot!

[peter-hamilton]

Not bad, but perhaps a bit blend for a halo fan site, your site needs a stronger header or colorscheme, baby blue is a bit mild but that is personal.

Also would remove the HD from the menu links, people are already on your site so a link to HD Forum should just be Forum.

For the rest alright when looking for a basic phpbb look.

P.H.