[ZachMatthews]

I am having this exact same problem, but my phpbb database is in the same place as my wordpress database. (_phpbb and _wordpress on my MySQL server).

Anyone figure this out?

[ZachMatthews]

Guys –

I have been through the mother of all forum migrations in the last few days, from YaBB 2.3.1 -> YaBB 2.4 -> SMF 1.1.11 -> phpBB3.

All to get into a format that would let me import into bbPress.

Now that I finally have a nice clean copy of my 75k post forum in phpBB, I am getting the following when I run the bbPress converter:

No passwords to clear
No users to convert
No data to clean
Starting Conversion

I stopped it at that point because I have read trying to re-run the converter is problematic.

I would be SO GRATEFUL for any help. At this point I just want to get through with this…

Zach

[John James Jacoby]

When you delete a user, WordPress will prompt you and ask you what to do with all of their existing posts.

[garfy]

And now I have double admin users, same user names, can I delete the old one and resign forum posts to the default admin?

Will deleting old user and resigning all posts to admin work for forum posts, or just for regular blog posts?

[athalas]

I’m attempting to convert a phpBB2 forum to bbPress version 2.3.2.

I’ve selected the option to convert users, but it’s failing with the following error:

WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'users.user_form_salt' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(users.user_id USING "utf8") AS user_id,convert(users.user_password USING "utf8") AS user_password,convert(users.user_form_salt USING "utf8") AS user_form_salt,convert(users.username USING "utf8") AS username,convert(users.user_email USING "utf8") AS user_email,convert(users.user_website USING "utf8") AS user_website,convert(users.user_regdate USING "utf8") AS user_regdate,convert(users.user_aim USING "utf8") AS user_aim,convert(users.user_yim USING "utf8") AS user_yim,convert(users.user_icq USING "utf8") AS user_icq,convert(users.user_msnm USING "utf8") AS user_msnm,convert(users.user_jabber USING "utf8") AS user_jabber,convert(users.user_occ USING "utf8") AS user_occ,convert(users.user_interests USING "utf8") AS user_interests,convert(users.user_sig USING "utf8") AS user_sig,convert(users.user_from USING "utf8") AS user_from,convert(users.user_avatar USING "utf8") AS user_avatar FROM users AS users LIMIT 0, 100

Is there anything I can do the resolve the issue?

Thank you

[enseignement]

Would someone have an idea of some of these questions ?
Thanks for your help,
Benjamin

[JayFoster]

Can someone answer my question above? Thanks!

[Lynq]

I like bbPress it’s awesome. Like most open source software I like to get stuck in and break stuff then fix it, you learn a loads from doing that.

I agree phpbb and some others are easier options in certain areas, but the integration with wordpress is amazing.

Good luck with your forums 🙂

[jason102178]

@Sambora5150 yeah i use phpbb for my standalone forum but wanted somthin i could integrate in my blog and thought bbpress would be the best, wrong, lol theirs no support here, at phpbb they always answer within like 6 hrs.

[WayneM1]

I’m setting up a new site running bbpress with buddypress. I’ve managed to import over 5000 users and about 100,000 topics/replies (e107 > SMF > phpBB > bbpress … whew!)

Working on cleaning up some details and I’m wondering if there is a consensus on what is the optimal permalink structure for a site like this that will have a lot of user posts.

I’m leaning toward the “Day and name” setting:
`http://www mywebsite com/2013/04/21/sample-post/`
Just because it’s a forum based website and it might make sense to help with chronology.

It doesn’t seem to me like this setting would be all that important… but, you never know… so that’s why I’m asking 🙂

[enseignement]

Anyone ?
Thanks for your help !
Benjamin

[nadir]

I have a fresh install of bbpress/buddypress setup. I have created groups and group forums with buddypress.

I then took an existing phpbb3 install, flattened out the structure so all the forums are on one level, and imported them successfully into my new bbpress/buddypress setup.

Now, I’d like start mass moving some of those imported forums into existing group forums. I was looking at the “postmeta” table and I see the post_id, meta_key, and meta_value … where I see bbp_forum_id, I identified the appropriate IDs of each forum and did a mass update on the table to swap out IDs. However, that didn’t work … any idea what else I’m missing here?

[enseignement]

Hi,

I have many questions before migrating from phpbb to bbpress.
My forum for educators is very popular, and I need to have information before trying to move from phpbb to bbpress.

1. can more than 110 000 users be imported
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)
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 ?
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 ?
5. Is the entire UI translated in French – it doesn’t seem to me, but maybe I’m wrong.
6. Can I use any plugins writter for wp for bbpress ?

Thanks for your help,
Benjamin

[akgt]

I know view your post and threads is available in IP, VB. PHPBB

but i was wondering if this Is possible in bbPress ?

if so how to view all your posts / topics  in bbpress

 

[JayFoster]

Does bbpress do everything now except private messaging? If so, I’m switching.

[Shane Gowland]

bbPress plugins work identically to WordPress’

Everything you’ve listed is entirely possible with bbPress, but as several of those features aren’t yet available for bbPress. You will need to do a lot of custom work, especially if you want to get a private messaging system working. That work will, obviously, require some coding expertise.

[JayFoster]

I’m not a website developer. I’m just a user of WP for two sites. I have a third site that I had a developer set up which is a forum and it is run with phpbb (he said this is what I should use).

What frustrates me is the huge DIFFICULTY in installing a “mod.” I don’t want to have to contact my web developer to install a mod every time I need one. That’s why ALL my websites (except this forum one) are run on wordpress – I can install/change just about anything on it myself within seconds.

What I’m wondering is, if I switch to bbpress is the installation of plugins just like wordpress? I don’t have any problem with that because it’s just click on a couple of buttons. Phpbb on the other hand, requires me to edit files and write code for a “mod” installation. It’s time-consuming and drives me nuts.

My forum is http://www.ForumJudo.com if that matters to your recommendations. I just basically want a site where users can send/receive private messages, vote on posts, post video/audio files, start topics, mods can delete posts & ban users, etc., and possibly a chat feature in the future.

I just know that phpbb is too difficult to install “mods.” I don’t want to learn code.

Thanks for any advice on this!

[Stephen Edgar]

I would suggest you have a search at here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/phpbb

There are some great mod_rewrite FAQ’s and phpBB examples.

Note: Apologies, your post had been marked as spam for the past couple of weeks :/

[Kaenim]

Ohhh! Thanks, Daniel. I didn’t even notice there were two similarly named files. Little by little, I’m getting a grip on the newness of everything. 😛

And as a follow-up regarding the phpBB-inspired theme, that definitely is helping me do what I wanted. So far, it’s turning out great. Thanks again, Stephen!

[Stephen Edgar]

You want to check this out I think 🙂

I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

[Kaenim]

Hi everyone. I’m in the process of migrating my website from phpBB to bbPress. In modifying the template, I feel like I’m pretty limited to what I can change without getting into modifying core files.

Basically, this is what my phpBB forum looks like –

And this is how my bbPress looks like right now –

I want to retain the look of the former, but in the archive-forum.php template file, the only code that is being called in that area is “bbp_get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘archive-forum’ );”

It looks like bbp_get_template_part() is calling the entire thing, whereas I’m used to phpBB giving me individual tags – I guess their equivalent to what you’d call shortcodes? – for the category name, the forum name, number of posts etc to place them precisely where I want them in the template.

So what am I missing? What file can I modify, or what functions could I call, that would allow me that same level of control?

Hopefully this is coherent. I’m pretty new to using bbPress – and BuddyPress, and WordPress… – so I feel a bit mentally fatigued from learning these systems, lol. Any help would most certainly be appreciated. Let me know if anything needs clarification, and thanks in advance to anyone who reads this wall of text. Cheers.

[ben66]

Hi there, I used to be using phpbb message boards, and found that many spammers would get round captcha. The best solution for me was an option to have a simple question for people registering like about the sport the forum was based on.

I am now starting out with bbpress, and being totally hailed with spam even using the captcha plugin for posters. Is there a simple question plugin, or one that has worked for others? Am sure this must be a common problem as registration is so simple!

Thanks

[Anonsetowarzyskie]

I switched from phpBB to bbPress recently thanks very much in part to a script found in these forums.

Now, many of the existing posts contain links to each other in the old phpBB format /topic.php?t=123. Since the topic IDs have stayed the same in the conversion process, I’d like to use ModRewrite to automatically redirect to the new /topic/123 URL scheme. I’ve tried the following in my .htaccess, but it doesn’t appear to work. (Admittedly, my knowledge of ModRewrite is shaky at best.)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/forums/viewtopic.php?t=([0-9]+)$
/forums/topic/$1 [R]

(In the real code there isn’t a linebreak on the second line.)

Does anyone have any advice?

[Sam Rohn]

you could try buddypress, it has more control over groups and such

with the plugins i listed, you should be able to create 1 level of private forums, just use hidden forums for clan members or site mods group, assign access to hidden forums via user role editor

have a look a this plugin too

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/groups/

you could also try a plugin called s2member which allows protection of individual forums via “URI Level Access Restrictions” this (free) plugin is intended for pay sites but you could make all levels $0 i guess

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic-tag/bbpress/

but in the end, proper per forum group permissions as in phpbb etc are something i would really like to see in bbpress

for reference, from the bbpress docs –

Visibility: decide whether your forum is public, private or hidden.
Public – Anyone can see these forums
Private – Only logged in registered users can see these forums
Hidden: Only Moderators/Admins can see these forums

[Sam Rohn]

i have a bit of background w phpbb and have recently been working w bbpress, while permissions are not quite as advanced you get close with one of the plugins listed below

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-access-manager/

specifically, you can create a new role called something like “site mods” and give that role access to hidden or private groups and assign that role to your users as needed