[pixelnated]

I just wanted to chime in and say I was hitting the exact same issue with importing a very old forum in and this got me over the hump. Thank you VERY much! I was just about to start translating out the insert queries and attacking it through mysql alone.

This forums data has been for a ride over the years and manually about half the time (starting around 2000) ubb -> phpbb -> vbulletin -> smf -> phpbb -> vanilla -> bbpress

So loving how much processes like this have improved over the years! Much appreciated!

[golfer300]

I am having a few problems doing this. I downloaded the folder and uploaded it to my theme (catchbox) via Filezilla. However, I do not see any changes in my forum or dashboard. I have read through this forum but a lot of what has been mentioned has been beyond me. Any help is much appreciated.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is by design and is expected behaviour.

If you do an import and the username already exist or they were imported from a previous import the user will be given a username with the prefix `’imported_’` as you outlined above.

[Bryan Eggers]

I imported a phpBB database with about 2500 users and over 100,000 posts (it took about 90 minutes).  What I noticed is that there were two username created for each phpBB member, for example Chewy and imported_Chewy.  I thought about just deleting all the “imported_” names until I realized that all the references on the board are to those names and not the original names. What to do?

I also forgot to mention that the email associated with the account also has the imported_ prefix.

This is using the Buddypress 1.7 beta and BBpress 2.2.4. Thanks!

 

 

 

[Phill]

Hi Stephen, I just figured it out. There was a conflict with my there’s navigation CSS. Thanks for responding.

[Stephen Edgar]

For the first part of your question this is what bbPress does for ‘forum’ parents and should work fine, maybe some more tips from here will help.

The second part regarding ‘section titles’ this is planned for a future release but for now you can use @lynq’s solution here.

Lastly you would have to customize the \templates\default\bbpress\form-user-register.php template: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

Correct, your old phpBBB database will not be modified.

[Stephen Edgar]

@Phill I am not seeing that using Chrome 24

[Phill]

Great theme Lynq! This is exactly what I needed.

I have a little problem though, whenever I hover over my subforums everything disappears. My forum is at http://shadowedmare.com/forums

 

[Bryan Eggers]

I’m just getting started with BuddyPress and bbPress and wanted to confirm that importing a phpBB database will not change the original database.  Thanks!

[bdsweat]

The “half of the screen” problem is pretty bad 🙁

We’re just setting up bbPress (migrating an old phpBB forum) and the big avatar problem is annoying. We’re using the “Responsive” theme (themeid.com) and it’s really great on mobile, except for the bbPress pages.

One option might be to hide avatars on mobile. I think that would be a workaround if there’s not a simple way to make the avatars shrink. Of course, I’d rather have them shown at 50% or so 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

@Lynq Something went funky with the pull request I just submitted so I closed it, can you drop me an email stephen@netweb.com.au and I will discuss it with you privately.

[Lynq]

Just to let you know I have no updated the original link but I don’t think it has the changes you made. Good thing to know for anyone using Github, always sync before you make any changes that is what got me stuck.

I meant to say I HAVE updated the original link.

[Lynq]

Just to let you know I have no updated the original link but I don’t think it has the changes you made. Good thing to know for anyone using Github, always sync before you make any changes that is what got me stuck.

[Lynq]

Aww man git is doing my head in lol.

I currently have windows.github.com but it won’t let me commit anything because of conflicts, then it redirects me to the command line tool. I can probably just make a local backup, delete my repo, resync it and then add the new files back in so it allows me to commit (hopefully).

If not then I will do some reading up on github I guess.

I am using: Windows, Wamp, Notepad++

Thanks a lot for all the help netweb, I will be trying to sort this mess out over the next couple of days!

[Stephen Edgar]

I currently have a new version of my theme sitting locally but I am fairly certain the updates you did aren’t included. I am thinking it might be best to try and extend the bbpress-functions.php from yet another custom functions file so that this can almost sit on top of that and never need to be changed?

Any thoughts about it?

I am not sure what the best practice approach is as I am wrestling with the same issue myself for a project I am doing at the moment. I’ll ask @jjj his thoughts and get back to you.

Hey all, I am pretty bad with Github at the moment, I broke something so I made a new git repo.

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbpress-starter-theme-v2.0

Its all good, I took a look at the code and will submit another pull request against your original GitHub repo with all your updates and the bbPress 2.3 updates.

(I think it’s best to keep the original repo as people are following/starred/bookmarked it etc)

If anyone has any good git tutorials let me know lol.

What platform and devtools are you using to develop with?

Windows/Mac, MAMP/XAMP, Sublime Text 2/Notepad++/Netbeans etc etc

These tools below take some of the daunting command line horrors out of your learning Git.

If you are on Windows then use this http://windows.github.com/
(I use this for %90+ of anything to do with GitHub)

If on a Mac grab this http://mac.github.com/
(I don’t have a Mac but this looks from my quick look the equiv of the Windows features above)

If you want to get into Git via the command line check this out
http://try.github.com/

[Lynq]

Hey all, I am pretty bad with Github at the moment, I broke something so I made a new git repo.

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbpress-starter-theme-v2.0

If anyone has any good git tutorials let me know lol. 😉

[Lynq]

@netweb – I currently have a new version of my theme sitting locally but I am fairly certain the updates you did aren’t included. I am thinking it might be best to try and extend the bbpress-functions.php from yet another custom functions file so that this can almost sit on top of that and never need to be changed?

Any thoughts about it?

[Stephen Edgar]

This is the .zip file to download and extract on your PC to then upload with FTP to your webhost:

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs/archive/master.zip

[Halo Diehard]

Copy all the files to your themes root directory and it should look something like this:

/wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress-functions.php
/wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress
/wp-content/themes/my-theme/css

(Where ‘my-theme’ is the name of your theme, there is nothing you need to activate.)

Now I am *really* confused! Because the file I downloaded for this theme is called “default”, and none of those files are in it 😀

[nadir]

Very cool – I appreciate the continued help and support, Stephen.

I’m glad to hear I can simply hit stop and start when I want to resume – awesome UX there. I’ll give the import another go.

[Stephen Edgar]

Copy all the files to your themes root directory and it should look something like this:

• /wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress-functions.php
• /wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress
• /wp-content/themes/my-theme/css

(Where ‘my-theme’ is the name of your theme, there is nothing you need to activate.)

[Stephen Edgar]

Looks like the conversion hangs around 13,000 replies …. I have about 20,000 more to go. It definitely slows down near the end.

If it hangs and appears that nothing is progressing, click ‘stop’, wait a minute to give your webhost a moment to finish anything it might be doing, click ‘start’ and it should resume from where it left off. Take note of the step and count of where it was up to so after importing you can check that for example all replies between 13,400 & 13,499 have indeed been imported.

However, the posts that do end up getting converted look beautiful.

Cool, took a while to get to this point but quite satisfied with the results.

My only guess is the scrubbing process is taking a lot more resources than before this beta version? Any insights would be much appreciated

There have been no changes to the actual converter, only the importer. Granted that the import now imports more phpBB fields than it did previously but this should make only a small increase to the SQL query performance.

As each topic or reply is imported it is parsed with ~30 regex strings to convert the BBCodes, I haven’t done any benchmarks but presumably this has some impact.

My base phpBB database import I have used for the past 6 months to test with is around ~6000 topics and 30,000 replies and I haven’t really noticed much of an impact during what I would say has been ~100 imports.

Also, I’ve noticed that there seems to be only two levels of hiearchy that gets converted … Categories and 1 level of forums below that. Nested forums within forums in phpbb don’t get pulled in? It’s okay for me either way because i’ll modify my forum structure before importing them.

That should work fine, I tested things to a depth of 4 with a forums hierarchy based on the ‘‘nested set model’.

[Halo Diehard]

Hello, thank you for creating this theme! I am trying to install it and have copied the “default” file into my theme’s root. Was I supposed to only copy the files inside the default file? I don’t see any difference in my bbPress look.

Or is there somewhere on my dashboard I have to activate it?

Thanks 🙂

[nadir]

Hi Stephen,

Looks like the conversion hangs around 13,000 replies …. I have about 20,000 more to go. It definitely slows down near the end.

However, the posts that do end up getting converted look beautiful.

My only guess is the scrubbing process is taking a lot more resources than before this beta version? Any insights would be much appreciated 🙂

Also, I’ve noticed that there seems to be only two levels of hiearchy that gets converted … Categories and 1 level of forums below that. Nested forums within forums in phpbb don’t get pulled in? It’s okay for me either way because i’ll modify my forum structure before importing them.

nadir