[manuxel]

Sweet, I tried to make an importer based on the example and the phpbb but I couldn’t make it work, thanks a lot for the effort, I’m going to try it right now…

[SickSquirrelTwo]

Using bbPress (not current version, one back), WordPress 3.5.1. Need 2 plugins:

1. Want to receive eMail on every post, whether new topic or reply.

2. Want a “See New Posts” link in the header. I had this with phpBB and am used to it as are users.

If I don’t need a plugin, and the script(s) can be edited, that’s ok. Just quote me a very reasonable price to do it or provide all the coding and details for me to do.

[watracing]

I changed things and removed the page with the short code and just linked to a higher catagory called “forum”
It still shows the sub forums on seperate pages and with the (0,0) on the main page
I would really like the forum to look similar to a phpbb style forum
Watracing.com

[SickSquirrelTwo]

… or words to that effect. I had it and another error.I panicked but could not log in here to post (the “lost password” link never showed up) so Googled the error; it brought me back here! But I read the first thread in the search results and it ed me to a plugin conflict with Spam Destroyer. Deactivated it and viola! People have been telling me for weeks that they posted but I could not find anything.

I’m used to phpBB and the “new posts” button. I had to go through more than two dozen topics in the sidebar to look for new posts. This feature would be nice for those using bbPress and WordPress.

This is a thank you for the help and a suggestion

[mpesgt01]

I have a phpBB (3.0.11) forum since many years. After a good clean up, I am down at these stats
1 200 members
18 000 subjects
52 000 answers

My urls looks like this
http://www.mysite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27944

In Google i get 280 000 results if I type this
“mysite.com/forum/viewtopic.php”

I am feeling this forum software (thanks for all these nice years!) gets behind the actual social life these years so I am looking to change for another forum (hopefully with Facebook login!)

What will happen if I decide to switch to installing bbPress into my actual WordPress ? I have read the codex, but doest my urls and so my results in google would all be lost (as I can’t see how a rewrite redirect url could work here anyway) ?

[SickSquirrelTwo]

I run WordPress 3.5.2 with bbPress and the Members plugin. I need a plugin that sends me email on every post, not just comments

I previously ran phpBB which had this feature, and I need it.

I just had to click 15 separate categories to find a new post, which I didn’t find, even though the author emailed me to say he posted.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbConverter is out of date and no longer updated.

bbPress includes a phpBB importer and details on how to use it and any phpBB import issues can be found in these links:

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb

[PinkishHue]

Is there a converter from myBB to phpBB? You may be able to convert it to phpBB and then convert that to bbpress

(I’m quite new to bbpress so apologies if this is the wrong answer, this is just what I have seen recommended in similar circumstances)

[MartinS87]

Hey there!

I used PHPbb3 the last 4 years now. The Foums is grown.
But now I created a new Website with WordPress and want something what is
integrated in there. I found bbPress and bbConverter. I installed both in my
WordPress but I cant run the bbConverter. Is there anyone who could give me some Detail
Information?

Thanks.

[Nitac]

Firstly i’d like to say great work on the plugin (well, from what i can see so far) really appreciate all the time and effort you guys must put into something like this.

Ok… I’ve been running some migration tests from a phpbb forum and I seem to running into issues with the migration stalling with no indication as to where or why it might have failed.

The migration has successfully brought across user, forums and topics but has stalled on replies, last test I ran i think it got through ~90k rows, I’ve tried stopping and restarting the migration, but eventually it stalls again, plus I had an issue where it started duplicating all the content and another where console was just outputting just dashes (——) instead processing info.

The forum is about ~150mb which doesnt seem all that big. Is there anything i could be doing to improve performance or potentially something I could be doing wrong?

WP: 3.5.1
BBP: 2.3.2

Looking forward to response. Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly this thread is about an old plugin that is no longer being updated, the core of this code is actually now in bbPress core.

@jooda Yes phpBB import is fixed 100% in bbPress’ built in import tool

@LevyImage You can take a stab at modifying the included ‘Example.php’ included with bbPress to try importing your MyBB forums just as @vogelsang did here for importing from Drupal. There are some basic instructions here on creating your own custom imports for bbPress.

Further information on importing existing forums into be bbPress can be found here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums

(I’m going to close this topic now, if you have any questions regarding importing please create a new topic)

[jooda]

is the phpbb3 fixed?

[jooda]

Can someone convert my phpbb3 forum for me to bbPress? Im having trouble doing it, and could really use some help!

If you can my skype is zubzstep

[jooda]

Can someone convert my phpbb3 forum for me to bbPress? Im having trouble doing it, and could really use some help!

If you can my skype is zubzstep

[Daniel J. Lewis]

I’m also interested in this, especially with allowing my forum members to use some BBcodes, like spoiler, b, i, and others. (I transitioned from a phpBB board, so I want to make a smooth transition for my users.)

I’ve been looking for a plugin to do this, but haven’t found anything. I’m thinking of making a simple plugin to do this by popping up a window (via jQuery) that will take the content of their post editor and display it with my CSS and processing the shortcodes. It sounds easy to me, but I could be really wrong.

[Daniel J. Lewis]

Where is the URL, or how can I make a page that will contain the latest replies? I don’t want just the latest topics, but chronological list of every topic that has recently been replied to. For example, a topic from a year ago that received a reply 3 seconds ago should show up on the top of this list.

In phpBB, I had a “new posts” link that would do this.

Essentially, something like “[ bbp-topic-index ] – Display the most recent 15 topics across all your forums with pagination” would be perfect, but for all posts—topics and replies, not just new topics.

[SickSquirrelTwo]

I Installed the latest WP then next-to-the-latest bbPress.

I imported my db from phpBB. There should be a Private forum available only to those I allow, and a Hidden forum with the same setup.

I can’t figure out how to hide these from all except those who have permission (Roles set via Members plugin).

Or, if they must show, can you recommend a password protection plugin? This way they need credetnials to get in.

[ZachMatthews]

Here’s my bbPress integration:

http://www.itinerantangler.com/blog/board/forums/

Only problem is the queries are running a bit slow right now. I posted about that in Troubleshooting.

I successfully transferred a 75k post board from Yabb 2.3 –> YaBB 2.4 –> SMF 1.4 –> phpBB3 –> bbPress. I’m kinda proud of that. It took a LOT of work.

[dananourie]

Hi,

I’ve just imported from phpbb to bbpress. That went well. But I noticed something odd about the hierarchy of the forums. If you go to a parent forum, you get the message at the top: This forum is empty. But the child forums are listed below that message as they should be. Why am I getting that message and is there a way to fix it?

http://sanjoseatheists.com/forum/science-technology/

Please note above the Science & Technology is the title that the child forums should go under. I don’t want people posting directly to Science & Technology. Posts need to go into the child forums.

Also, if you scroll down to create a new topic, there is the message Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content. Is this a security concern, and what should I do about it.

Thank you so much!!!!

[Stephen Edgar]

I moved your reply in this topic to a new topic as they are separate issues.

You shouldn’t have a problem with your setup if you follow the docs:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

Currently the phpBB import script only supports phpBB v3

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

You could upgrade phpBB v2 to phpBB v3 and then import to bbPress.

You will still have issues with user passwords though and each user would need there password manually changed. This is due to different password algorithms between phpBB v2 & v3.

[Stephen Edgar]

1. can more than 110 000 users be imported

This should not be a problem.

2. My website runs a specific version of phpbb SEO for allowing permalinks for every forum – will this be imported ? (so that there is not a lot of redirect)

No, these will NOT be imported and you will need to manually set your permalinks and make some redirects using .htaccess

3. My website stores custom profile fields for every user (more than just ICQ, but also custom ones). How could I have the same kind of functionalities using bbpress ?

Currently when importing from phpBB we are importing and storing the default phpBB user fields as outlined here. You could modify the import script to include any of your custom user profile fields so they also get stored in wp_usermeta.

After that you would need to find a WordPress plugin that supports extended user profile fields to utilize that data. I am not sure of any specific plugin that can really do that out of the box with bbPress at the moment but at least you ‘would’ have all of your users advanced profile data stored.

4. What about performance – will it be better than phpbb. I know bbpress is very powerful for small forums, but I have no idea regarding huge ones. Can wp caching plugins work for bbpress as well ?

There are some large sites running bbPress and I would suggest you setup a test site to see how it works for yourself personally.

As to caching it appears that ‘WP Super Cache’and ‘W3 Total Cache’ do not work well with bbPress as discussed in this topic though there is ‘Lite Cache’ which appears to work with bbPress as per this topic.

5. Is the entire UI translated in French – it doesn’t seem to me, but maybe I’m wrong.

The current status of the French translation is at 11% translated with 879 strings untranslated though 734 of those strings have been translated and are waiting for the fr_FR translation validator to validate the translations.

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

6. Can I use any plugins writter for wp for bbpress ?

I am not sure what you mean for this question

Any more questions please ask away…

[Dan Knauss]

It’s definitely WAMP, most likely the ‘W’ part. (I tried this on Windows 7) XAMPP has even more trouble. Apache is being disrupted and crashed at times, probably because of Windows User Account Control (UAC) security settings and/or IIS. You should get a warning about this when you install XAMPP on Windows. I haven’t test to see if that’s the cause, but it seems likely.

See: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_programs/i-am-trying-to-install-xampp-win32-177-i-get-a/0b44bd10-2fff-49ac-bb48-30dfc4ae9c44?msgId=0c558024-e8e2-47b2-a9f7-ee102b62aec9

What does work is LAMP, so just do the migration on your webserver or localhost. I’ve had no problem doing it all on Nexcess.net’s WordPress hosting with over 61,000 posts and 1100 users converted with the default settings of 100 rows at a time with a 1s delay.

[Dan Knauss]

Did anyone ever get to the bottom of this? I have the same problem. I think it may have to do with WAMP.

[ZachMatthews]

More info:

my host requires a jitinera_ prefex before the database name (JaguarPC and itinerantangler.com = jitinera).

So my database is jitinera, and the actual phpbb database is _phpbb, etc.

Here’s how I have filled out the blanks to produce the error:

Select Platform is the previous forum software: phpBB
Database Server IP or hostname: localhost
Database Port Use default 3306 if unsure: 3306
Database Name Name of the database with your old forum data: jitinera_phpbb
Database User User for your database connection: jitinera_[user name witheld]
Database Password Password to access the database: [password withheld]
Table Prefix (If converting from BuddyPress Forums, use “wp_bb_” or your custom prefix): bb_

Anyone see anything wrong with that?