[Halo Diehard]

Yep, as mentioned, I tried it with WP-United disabled and recalculated in phpBB3 first then in WordPress bbPress after the import, each one. My next step is removing it altogether and trying it then. I’m not sure what changes WP-United might make on the database, but phpBB3 does have an Auto Mod package that is part of the process so I’ll have to remove it from phpBB3 too before I can try again. I’ll try to come back and report what I learn! 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you running the ‘Repair Tools’ after importing to recalculate the counts?

As the importer is running SQL queries grabbing ‘all the things’ directly from the phpBB MySQL database this should not be an issue.

It should not be missing anything, but, thinking about this for a moment, do you know if WP-United alters any phpBB or WordPress database tables? If so do you know what changes it makes?

What happens if you disable WP-United plugin before importing?

What happens if you delete WP-United plugin? Does it uninstall any changes it made?

(If you try deleting WP-United make sure you have website and database backups)

[Halo Diehard]

I’ve resychronized the phpbb3 forums and begun the conversion process by “Purge all information from a previously attempted import”. I then reimported also bringing the members this time and… still only up to five months ago 🙁 Wait, I wonder if that’s when I installed WP-United. I disabled the plugin, but maybe it’s somehow messing with the import process. Is there any way to import some phpbb3 tables into bbPress “by hand”?

[Halo Diehard]

You may be surprised to see my bbPress forum

“Internal Server Error” 😉

Yeah, another issue I was having is my phpBB3 private forums copied over public, and when I’d go into bbPress and choose “Hidden” and save it would refresh as “Open” again :/ so I deleted the forum. When I did that all hell broke loose for several hours. Server company said that phpBB3 was putting too much of a load on the shared server. I guess the import process put me close to the limit and the deletion process put me over.

I’ll try your suggestion, thanks.

Here’s a screenshot of the forums, Gyazo’s finally back up: http://gyazo.com/ef928ad4738251e1bd6ab1c39a0b710b.png

[Stephen Edgar]

First up, make sure you have run the phpBB recount tools which ‘should’ make sure phpB database is in good shape before you get started.

The importer is designed to import your users from phpBB and that is where your problems will now be as you already have some users in WordPress…

During the import the importer if it finds a username already exists eg ‘username’ it will create a new user with a prefix ‘imported_’ eg ‘imported_username’.

After the import is finished you can use WordPress’ user admin panel to delete (one by one) each ‘imported_’ user and as you do you are presented with the option to reassign all posts to another user, select the user you want from the dropdown list and your done.

This gets painful very quickly if you have 1,000 users to do this to one by one.

You may be surprised to see my bbPress forum

“Internal Server Error” 😉

[Halo Diehard]

Hello, I am once again seeing if I can switch over to bbPress, since WP-United does not play well with so many phpBB3 and WP social extras, and upon import I am only getting posts up to four months ago, with nothing for the last four months. Also, somehow the import process is switching some authors. I’m not sure if I should be importing the users or not (I think I’ve tried both), or what the best practice is since I already have a WP userbase of the same people who made the posts that I’m importing from phpBB3. In fact, because of WP-United, they are linked in some way.

Any help would be appreciated! I’ve been at it for a number of days. My WordPress version is 3.6.0 and my bbPress version is 2.4.

You may be surprised to see my bbPress forum: I’m currently altering the css to make it look like my phpBB3 one, using @Lynq’s bbPress starter theme and Daniel St. Jules’ CoDFaction phpBB3 theme.

Forums

[Holly]

About a week ago, I asked how to change the directory of the forum I’m setting up in dev. At the time, I had a bare install, and the response I received seemed to meet my needs.

However, this simply moved the index page. At this point, my database guy has started importing the data from my existing phpBB3 forum, and what seemed to be an elegant fix has left me with the same problem I had before. The index page looks great, but when you click through to ANY category or forum, the board immediately takes you from:

Home/Classrooms/Forums

Which is the setup I need, to…

Home/Forums

Which is going to dump my signed-in students outside of the classroom when they use the breadcrumbs.

Basically, I need to find a way to have my forum and topic posts and their hierarchy recognize the Classroom page as their parent. Or something that will give me the same result when my users try to navigate the breadcrumbs back to their classes.

[Xevo]

A hierarchy function like phpBB is not yet possible, without hacking your theme. You can find that hack here on the forums.

[corepowered]

I have been looking around & i do not know if it’s some thing I am doing wrong or if it just the Layout of the plugin.

I am trying to get a layout like…

{Forum Name}
Forum Objects “Forums”
{Topics}

It is hard to place an image into words.
But like PhpBB.

Sorry for the bad description.
Thanks.

[Daniel J. Lewis]

Is there any way to bulk-move topics?

I run a Once Upon a Time podcast and forums with bbPress. We have a spoiler section for each episode of the TV show. After that episode has aired, I like to move the spoiler topics into the main discussion for the TV show. This was easy with phpBB, but bbPress doesn’t seem to offer this feature.

When I go to Admin > Topics and filter the list by a forum parent, I have no options for changing that forum parent or moving the topics in any way.

How can I do this easily on a regular basis? Editing each topic individually is not practical.

[Newo1t]

Hi,

I’m currently installing a BBpress forum.

I’ve two problems :

-I can’t change the “visibility” of a forum or a category : It’s doesn’t save the change.
Have you any idea to fix this problem ?

And also, I want to know if is possible to “separate” the different category of my BBpress forum since a PHPBB forum ?

Thank’s !

[CC-Cailin]

Hi, I want to edit the way the subforums on the homepage is displayed, so that it looks sort of like an ipb/phpbb forum. I have been able to edit the css and move the code around. But I want to know, is there a way to get the subforum’s description & freshness displayed on the homepage?

I’ve googled A LOT and seems like everyone is looking for this. I found this post, but the solution on there doesn’t seem to be working anymore…
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customising-bbp_list_forums-last-poster-block/page/2/#post-137229

[jonpfarmer]

Hi there

I am importing a phpBB forum of 1180 posts / 179 topics. My browser has been displaying this now for over 11 hours:

Do I just sit and wait? Can I navigate away from this page? Or do I need to leave the browser as is?

Thanks
Jon

[Newo1t]

resolved

[Newo1t]

My host have disabled set time limit.

So I’d a lot of error ”
Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/www/fad9968d01a605ebf45b28d7b5238ea3/web/dev/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 306″.

I’ve try to comment this line ( with // before the ligne 306 ) and I’ve try to import forum again.

I’ve now the error ”

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘topics_table.the_topic_id = replies_table.the_topic_id WHERE topics_table.first_’ at line 1]
SELECT convert(replies_table.the_reply_id USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_id,convert(replies_table.the_reply_parent_forum_id USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_parent_forum_id,convert(replies_table.the_reply_parent_topic_id USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_parent_topic_id,convert(replies_table.the_reply_author_ip_address USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_author_ip_address,convert(replies_table.the_reply_author_id USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_author_id,convert(replies_table.the_reply_title USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_title,convert(replies_table.the_reply_slug USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_slug,convert(replies_table.the_reply_content USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_content,convert(replies_table.the_reply_order USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_order,convert(replies_table.the_reply_creation_date USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_creation_date,convert(replies_table.the_reply_modified_date USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_modified_date,convert(topics_table.the_topic_id USING “utf8″) AS the_topic_id FROM phpbb_replies_table AS replies_table INNER JOIN phpbb_topics_table AS topics_table USING topics_table.the_topic_id = replies_table.the_topic_id WHERE topics_table.first_post != 0 LIMIT 0, 100”

How to repair this ?

[Stephen Edgar]

As far as I know there are no issues importing from phpBB v3.0.11

This doc has any known issues when using the phpBB importer:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

Did your import fail at one point and you started the import again which would have caused duplicates?

To debug the issue further I would need some detailed information, particularly some SQL examples would be helpful.

If you still have issues after resting your forums and this constantly happpens please create a ticket on Trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ with some detailed steps to reproduce the issue and I will take a look.

[Stephen Edgar]

Joe,

Thanks for looking at this I uploaded a new version with the fix above for the ‘to_type’ you mentioned above.

I have not started with the passwords as of yet, this is next weeks job to look at all the importers passwords sections and begin writing custom callbacks for all of them. With my limited PHP skills this is going to be a challenge indeed. I will be calling heavily on the code found in the phpBB importer to base the code on and then changing any calculating/algorithms as needed.

If you beat me to it, I could live with that 😉

[Newo1t]

Hello,

I tried for several days to import my forum PHPBB 3.0.11 (the latest version) to bbPress, the latest version too, but the problem is that I end up with countless duplicate for each element of the forum.

How to remedy this?

Sincerely,

[inspirationally]

Hello,

after exactly 10 years and over 500.000 posts with our board deppheads.com running with Woltlab Burning Board (right now version 3.1.8), social networks have sort of won – instead of 150 new posts the day we have now maximum 5 posts. WBB4 will be coming out soon, so this is the right time to sell my WBB license and move it all to my site johnny-depp.org, powered by WordPress. This is where I seek help.

I already deleted inactive members, so that we now have “just” over 300, but I don’t want to delete all the written things like movie reviews and serious discussion, as this is still the home of many. So there are 500.000 posts and nearly 10.000 topics to be imported.

I edited the example.php and so far it worked with importing members and forums (just on a test WordPress installation for now).

However, there are some problems/questions I’ve come up with and I’m almost sure, there will be more following.

1. there is, equally to phpBB, the problem, that there are topics and posts, and the first post of the topic has to become “topic content” of WBB.
Here I used

// Topic content.
// Note: We join the posts table because topics do not have content.
$this->field_map[] = array(
'from_tablename' => 'wbb1_1_post',
'from_fieldname' => 'message',
'join_tablename' => 'topics',
'join_type' => 'INNER',
'join_expression' => 'USING (threadID) WHERE wbb1_1_post.postID = wbb1_1_thread.firstPostID',
'to_type' => 'topic',
'to_fieldname' => 'post_content',
'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
);

Unfortunately, I get the error, that wbb1_1_post.message does not exist:

WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'wbb1_1_post.message' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(wbb1_1_thread.threadID USING "utf8") AS threadID,convert(wbb1_1_thread.replies USING "utf8") AS replies,convert(wbb1_1_thread.boardID USING "utf8") AS boardID,convert(wbb1_1_thread.userID USING "utf8") AS userID,convert(wbb1_1_post.message USING "utf8") AS message,convert(wbb1_1_thread.topic USING "utf8") AS topic,convert(wbb1_1_thread.time USING "utf8") AS time,convert(wbb1_1_thread.lastPostTime USING "utf8") AS lastPostTime FROM wbb1_1_thread AS wbb1_1_thread LIMIT 0, 100

But it does!
I attached both, my wbb3.php import script and the database structure of the most important tables, here you go:
http://deppheads.com/uploads/wbb.txt
http://deppheads.com/uploads/database_structure.txt

2. I hope/guess, this is also the reason that all topics (once I remove that passage that produces an error) are started either by Anonymous or by ME (although I haven’t done it)?

3. some users are twice now (like myself..who have been admins of wordpress and users of the forum). Can I simply merge them with
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_author = ‘1’ WHERE post_author = ‘2’; and it will count for the forum, too?

4. the passwords – in WBB they are hashed by this:
$passwort = sha1($row->salt.sha1($row->salt.sha1($_POST[‘passwort’])));
so what do I write at the end of wbb3.php
public function authenticate_pass( $password, $serialized_pass ) {
$pass_array = unserialize( $serialized_pass );
return ( $pass_array[‘hash’] == md5( md5( $password ). $pass_array[‘salt’] ) );
}
or is this impossible and the users have to get the new password by mail?

5. the imported users have no “Forum Role”. Is is “normal”? Is there any chance to automatically give them the forum role “Participant”?

6. do I have to keep the wbb3.php “forever” because of the passwords or can I delete it one day, even if not all members have com back yet?

7. until now we have everything like private messages, profiles, friends and especially user groups (Moderators, crew members) with hidden forums. Do I see correct, that I can install both, import bbpress and afterwards attach for example our “Mods Only” to the group “Moderators” as group forum?

8. I see that every user gets a new User ID – old IDs are saved in table _bbp_converter_translator – will that table be kept? Maybe by this I have a chance to later import – somehow – private messages for buddy press!?

Alone if my first point is solved, I’d be thankful.

Kind regards, inspirationally.

[Kaliceos]

Hi,

I’m in the process of migrating a phpBB forum to WordPress with bbPress. I don’t know if the bbPress style is better but my users are used to the phpBB style for displaying Forums on the main page. So I tried to reproduce that layout in bbPress using categories. With the default theme, I was not happy with the way it looked. After a quick search in these forums, I saw some interesting topics from @lynq (here and there) but it didn’t work as intended in the last bbpress release and ticket #1958 has been moved to 2.6.

So after a few hours of searching codex, and a lot of tries, I managed to do what I wanted. As there is still some demand in Lynq’s topic, I thought I should share my little work.

I’m not a developper, so my code may be a little messy, but it works as intended. I’ve tried using the bbpress functions, and commented my code. If any PHP expert would like to review it and make it better, any feedback is welcome.

The only file to change is loop-forums.php with this code.
You just need to create it and paste the code. Then upload it to /wp-content/your-theme/bbpress/. Use a child-theme if you don’t want to loose it on next theme update.

The forums are not yet online, so here are some screenshots with descriptions. (In French, because, as you may have noticed, English is not my native language 🙂 )

I’ve tested many situations (even a category inside a forum, which bbpress doesn’t consider anymore as a category, probably normal behavior) and I think everything works as intended. Feel free to report any bug.

[Xevo]

Last update was 7 months ago, so no.

[akgt]

Has this been updated for 2.3 or 2.4??

[kimbo_king]

Hi

I’ve searched the web but nothing shouts out at me. The only thing I can see is to edit the PHP but I’d rather avoid that if possible

Currently my layout is as follows:

<strong>South Yorkshire</strong>
Sheffield & District Fair Play League (2, 6), Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior (2, 10), The Wragg League (1, 1),  Doncaster & District (1, 1)

<strong>East Yorkshire</strong>
Humber Premier League (0, 0), East Riding Amateur (0, 0), East Riding County (0, 0)

But I’d like it as below.

<strong>South Yorkshire</strong>
o	Sheffield & District Fair Play League (2, 6), 
o	Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior (2, 10),
o	The Wragg League (1, 1), 
o	Doncaster & District (1, 1)

<strong>East Yorkshire</strong>
o	Humber Premier League (0, 0), 
o	East Riding Amateur (0, 0), 
o	East Riding County (0, 0)

Essentially I want my forums in a nice list rather than in a clump. I’d like the same palyour as most forums (PHPBB etc). Is this possible?

Plugin/ easy setting I’m missing?

http://www.togganet.co.uk/blog/forums/

[Sam Rohn]

thanks stephen 🙂

might not be a bad idea to put the changelog info or link in top post too, the trac might be kind of confusing for the less experienced

i have updated to 2.4 from 2.3.2 on a few different test sites and have noticed that in some cases, the forums, topics and replies tabs in wp admin disappear, w gd tools and attachments plugins enabled only gd options in forum tab otherwise no forum tab at all, or the others

i tried disabling all other plugins etc but only disabling and reenabling bbpress restored the tabs

main site i updated went fine, admin tabs did not disappear, mostly same plugins, the sites that went odd also all had buddypress installed

for permissions and caps etc, i think it should be a basic feature to have a simple way to create multiple levels of private forums for logged in users – private forums for admins, mods, members, public forums for non-members, etc, basically some type of granular permissions allowing groups and forum access per group membership based on wp user role perhaps, similar to phpbb etc, this is standard w most other forums but currently this is still real tricky w bbpress…

any chance we might we see something along these lines in an upcoming release ?

[gcoz]

thanks for checking the queries. I believe it’s not your importer, actually…
I think there’s just an issue with my databases. I did the optimization for all tables, made another local copy (a brand new installation of Ubuntu with default settings for apache, php and the largest settings for mysql allowing it to use more resources).
However, after some more digging, I’m starting to think that my tables are the reason for this slow-down. Specifically them being a mix of MyISAM and InnoDB after many years of conversions, WP updates and one forum conversion from phpbb to vanilla.

I tried to get some out-of-memory errors but all it does is slow it down and it keeps going really slowly. Even setting it to 2000 rows at 1 second doesn’t seem to push it to run out of memory. The “top” command just shows me that it’s working away at 60% CPU and 11% memory for mysql and 50% CPU and 2% memory for apache.

MySQL workbench shows that I only have 6 connections active, which is probably another related issue. I don’t know how to change that but my current running test conversion is with all WP tables converted to InnoDB. It fluctuates at 50-200 writes per second according to MySQL workbench

This is total guesswork on my end (I’m no expert) and I thought it might be a helpful starting point for others with similar issues…