can you do a screenshot of a phpbb page to show what you’d like, and add a link to it?
Hi guys
I was wondering if we can have a link to the last post along with OP’s title for each forum in the home page, a bit like what we have in phpbb.
I searched a lot, but could not find a thing to get the last post of a forum, or a link to it. In another discussion someone suggested the use of get_topic_last_post_link, which when I tried, got undefined error.
Anyone has an idea ?
Thanks.
PS.
WP: 2.8.1
BBPress: 2.5.3
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Hi
i have WP 3.8.1 and bbpres 2.5.3 , i’m using phpBB3 but now i will work with wordpress an there own forum (bbpress)
i used in tools -> forums -> import forums
typed the database datas in and klick START
after that the import start but it import ONLY the user nothing else.
i have tryed this 3 times and it runs alway over one hour and only user are imported
no forums no topics no cats ……
NEED HELP PLEASE
Thanks. I would have done the install myself but bringing the phpBB db over and integrating it. I’ll try this week. I think I can upgrade WP to the newest version without upgrading to the last update but will check to be sure.
I backup daily, twice, just to be safe. It’s automatic no having to remember fortunately. I don’t think the kid I hired did coding in the site but was install, integrate, load old phpBB site in and go.
WordPress was just the vehicle to carry bbPress. I’d hire someone but don’t want to invest any more $$$ I can’t afford.
Thanks. I guess since you gave a standard response and not a warning about specific issues, there are no known issues between WP 3.81 and bbPress 2.3.2.
I backup daily, twice, just to be safe. It’s automatic no having to remember fortunately. I don’t think the kid I hired did coding in the site but was install, integrate, load old phpBB site in and go.
WordPress was just the vehicle to carry bbPress. I’d hire someone but don’t want to invest any more $$$ I can’t afford.
Thanks. I guess since you gave a standard response and not a warning about specific issues, there are no known issues between WP 3.81 and bbPress 2.3.2.
I don’t know what the designers were thinking when they designed bbPress, but it looks like crap, not the theme, just the way the stock design is where the forums are just all bundled up underneath the category.
Look at the forums for example:
https://linustechtips.com/main/
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/
The categories are nicely separated in a hierarchy, with the posts and replies being shown to the right.
I need my forums to look like this, cause I’d like to avoid using crap paid software or open software like phpBB, vBulletin, IP Board, etc.
Hi @avgmatt — Well, the category is kindda what I had in mind, but still wish there was a built in way in bbpress to structure a forum more like phpBB or vbullentin.
However, if you want the Categories to not be side by side..and List them under the main forum..check this link out. https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/
If you look at #1 – it gives you the exact line of code to put into your CSS to make it inline.
Hope that helps.
Hello,
Is there a mobile-friendly bbPress theme? If not, is it a good idea if I develop one?
I check this support forum with keyword “mobile theme”. Someone ask the same question, the answer is no. If I miss a solution, please let me know. I also Google “mobile bbPress theme” and read the first three pages carefully. There are some good discussion and even achievement, but these topics are not active anymore for three years.
My target is, for example, for the next three websites:
http://mophpbb3.flexplat.com/
http://mosmf2.flexplat.com/
http://momybb.flexplat.com/
When you visit from (1) desktop web browser or (2) mobile web browser, the result are completely different — I will make the same theme for bbPress.
If you need a mobile theme, please reply this thread, so I can make sure this work is necessary.
Any comments are welcome.
Rickey
I am going to close this topic as we should be really using the following topic 😉
(My bad, I may have pointed a few people to this one recently)
I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel
Thanks for your work on this @lynqoid … I was about 2 minutes from dumping bbPress and installing phpBB and trying to integrate it with WP-United. I’m trying to “start fresh” with an existing community, and since we’re coming from a forums-only site, the functionality, look, and feel of the forums is high priority. I’ve been struggling to learn WP for the past 3 days since I started, and it can be frustrating as heck. I dabbled in PHP about 15 years ago, and have quite a bit of .asp/vbs background… so the concepts are not new, but finding my way around feels a bit like a blind man groping his way through an unfamiliar house.
Our forums software hasn’t seen any new development in nearly 10 years, and it’s getting clunky with lots of chicken wire and duct tape holding things together with a lot of mods. So, we’ve decided to “start fresh” with a more social type environment, and we’re hoping that WP+BP+bbP can be that platform for us.
I installed your files into my theme, and *presto*, my forums looked SOOOO much better instantly. Nice! I’m still struggling with the overall theme/format/layout/whateverthehellyoucallit, because everything is so narrow down the center of the page. I’m still not sure why I’ve got a black bar down the left side of the screen, and a “no-color” bar down the right hand side. Grrrrrr.
Thanks for pointing out teamoverpowered.com…. I would like to aim for that look and feel. And thanks again for your work on the phpBB “look” for the bbPress forums.
Sign me,
“Lost and Helpless”…. so far
Jimmy
http://www.fseconomy.net:8080/
So…
I’ve been working on this today, and I successfully converted my phpbb3 forum into my local bbPress for an updated install, exported the bbPress database tables from my local, and imported them into my live site. For some reason my live site bbPress isn’t recognizing the freshly imported bbPress tables 🙁
Any ideas what I can do at this point? I ran the bbPress repair tool before doing the export on the local, and ran it again several times since importing it on my live site. I also did some visual comparisons of the bbPress tables in both databases, and they seem to be in order.
Signed,
AtMyWitsEnd ;D
Edit – PS: I also tried adding the tables both with bbPress activated and with it inactivated, deleted the tables each time before importing them again.
After just adding support for imported phpBB posts where the original author had been deleted I’m kind of thinking maybe this is something that should be in the core of bbPress. BuddyPress allows users to delete their own accounts (if enabled) and maybe we should also have this option for bbPress.
Thus if a user deletes their account rather than deleting their topics and replies we delete the actual account but assign a ‘legacy’ username to each topic and reply allowing the topics to retain the original context.
Does this sound like the type of way we should implement this in bbPress core?
I want a layout like PHPBB or SMF, that means forums list on the top not left side.
I haven’t come across this situation before as I have never used the WP United bridge.
I suspect it is because of the now shared users, presumably how the users are getting mapped presumably WordPress users.
If you are able to get all your users correctly mapped in the phpBB user table that should give you a workable import scenario.
Is there a way to have WP United readd all the WordPress users back into the phpBB table?
(Kind of like an uninstall of WP United it restores everything back to standard)
Hi,
At the moment i have a WP 3.8 site with a PHPbb3 forum which is bridged by WPunited but i want to convert my PHPbb3 to BBpress. I ran the converter of BBpress 2.5.2 and everything was converted nicely but there’s only 1 problem: the topics have the wrong authors.
It looks like the conversion of the Authors broke down 🙁 . I did Repair after conversion.
Someone recognize this? and is there a solution?
Grt Lantaarntje
Hi guys,
is there any solution to have same nicks in WordPress and phpBB, which you want to import into bbPress? For example, when I do this with my forum nick ‘LinDan94’, it’ll be overwrited with ‘imported_LinDan94’, because the same user exists in WordPress. How can I link this 2 accounts together?
Thanks in advance
With all due respect to the developers of bbPress and its plugins,
People, bbPress admins, should realize that bbPress is a plugin/add-on to WordPress and bbPress is ideal for adding a nice straight forward forum to your WP, what I am setting up now for myself for the first time next my WP.
I have extended experience with phpBB forum software.
Changes/addons like these is not what bbPress is intended for, in my humble opinion.
If you want all the extra’s and whistles, people should use phpBB, which also can be used next to WP. I believe WP has plugins for that and phpBB also supports it with MOD’s/plugins.
Sorry, hard to keep up with so many posts 😉
bbPress includes and importer for phpBB and with the size of your forum once you click ‘start’ it should be done in less than 30 seconds 🙂
You will lose very little, details of what is not converted is in the links below.
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/ & https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb
Hello, after importing from a phpBB forum where I had custom BBCodes I have the problem that they are not changed in actual html.
I would like to know how can I implement such custom bbcodes in my bbpress installation.
I did some tries making a custom plugin with something like this inside (this is just an example):
function bb_table_replace( $text ) {
$text = preg_replace('/\[tabella\](.*?)\[\/tabella\]/ie', "<table>$1</table>", $text);
return $text;
}
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_content', 'bb_table_replace');
But I had no luck. It seems however to find my regexp pattern but its replace is wrong, it’s made after the matched pattern (adding to it, instead of replacing).
Any help?
Removed, and sorry I missed your previous post and am just trying to come up with a good answer for you. I do it directly using export/import with MySQL, so looking for a plugin that will do this quickly and easily for you.
@netweb, would you do me the favor of deleting the download link I posted 10 posts up please? Thanks 🙂
It doesn’t look like it, but does bbPress have it’s own XML importer available? Again, I’ve successfully converted my phpBB3 forums onto my local bbPress, and now I’m unsure how to get those posts onto my live site. Would I just export the bbPress tables from my local database and import them into my live site’s database?
@manuxel Exactly 100% what you wrote there except my case was phpBB now look where we are at 🙂
You should see Starting conversion in seconds.
Next Converting users in another second if your converting your users.
Next ‘Converting forums` in seconds if not converting users.
By default everything is done in chunks of 100 records and this should never really take much longer than 5 seconds per chunk at which point you will see the converter message progress to Converting topics 300 - 399 then Converting topics 400 - 499 etc, you should never be far away from a new message informing you of the status of the import.
I’ll try to get some more docs into the ‘import screen’ for bbPress 2.5 to give people a heads up on what they should expect to see.
As you are on a dedicated server this topic might be worth checking out on ‘speeding it up’
phpBB Import speed
Firstly though lets get it started…
Via FTP grab a copy of your SMF Settings.php file and open it up in a text editor.
/public_html/mywebsite/smf/Settings.php
In that file something that looks like this:
########## Database Info ##########
$db_type = 'mysql';
$db_server = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'mydb_name';
$db_user = 'mydb_usernam';
$db_passwd = '123456789';
$ssi_db_user = '';
$ssi_db_passwd = '';
$db_prefix = 'smf_';
These are the settings you need to use on the bbPress importer.
ps. Thanks @manuxel for helping others out here with the SMF importer 🙂
