[Lynq]

Hey muffin, the theme is kind of like a jump start to get people going, it’s not a fully complete theme. Descriptions currently are a little difficult but should be able to get them sorted.

[wisemonkey]

Thank you!

[muffinbomb]

Thanks for the template. I managed to get it integrated. The only issue I have so far is that the Forum description does not show up under the title of the Forum.  Was this deliberate or an overlooked item?

Eg: http://thedragonlords.com/

[Stephen Edgar]

@Lynq,

I just sent you a pull request over at GitHub and updated all the things.

• Update to latest bbPress r4754 code changes

• Added README.md
• Updated bbpress-functions.php
• Updated bbpress.css
• Added custom CSS changes to bbpress-rtl.css
• Removed unused templates

bbPress r4754 is at this stage bbPress 2.3 Beta 2 and I am pretty sure any other changes we make before releasing 2.3 won’t affect any of what I just updated.

There are no changes to your code, just the bbPress updates to the latest version available.

[Stephen Edgar]

The good thing though is that the majority of what is included in the 2.3 update can be used manually on your MySQL database to convert the BBCodes & Magic URL’s to WordPress friendly HTML.

I just haven’t written any docs on this yet, I also haven’t actually done it on a site I desperately need to do this with. Hopefully in the next couple of days I can get some time to get this started.

[wisemonkey]

Thanks Stephen…too bad I didn’t wait for bbPress 2.3! I’m hoping someone smarter than me can find a solution for this.

[Stephen Edgar]

All the BBCodes and Magic URL’s are fully converted to HTML in the upcoming bbPress 2.3

There is no current way to rerun it though to convert existing sites.

[wisemonkey]

Hi

I have done a search here, but nothing seems to come up.
I have installed BBpress/BuddyPress and migrated a small phpBB forum on my site http://www.wisemonkeysblog.com but the phpBB shortened URLs (and actually all the phpBB shortcodes) didn’t convert. I have tried to use a couple of plugins (eg bbPress2 BBCode ) to no avail.

I notice that the actual URL is still there in the markup, so I have converted a few of them manually…but there must be a better way. A plugin or a SQL fix perhaps.

Does anyone know of such fix?

TIA
fernando

[irydium]

Hello,

I have just migrated my phpbb3 to bbpress and I need to redirect all my forums and topics using the 301 protocol.

Can you help me?

[Stephen Edgar]

No, migrating bbPress forums to BuddyPress’ is not something we have looked at yet…

It has come up a couple of times now and might be something we can look at in the future.

[nadir]

I am going to grab the beta and give it a shot then! I’ll report back with the results .. it’s about 40k posts and 2k users.

I’ll try changing post_parent in the database and running the repair tools, too.

Thank you, Stephen!

[Angelheart29]

Thanks for your responses. Last Thing : Is this possible to migrate the forum bbpress (forums), to the buddypress’s system (group-forums) ? I like the presentation and plugins buddypress, so i wanted to manage forums with buddypress system.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can grab the 2.3 beta 1 now, see https://bbpress.org/blog/2013/01/bbpress-2-3-beta-1/

In theory changing `post_parent` should do the trick though you need to run the ‘Repair Tools’ after doing this to recount all the things.

[nadir]

Hi Stephan, that’s great to hear! Any idea when you plan to release? I’m just doing demo runs right now; I’ll be officially moving my phpbb3-based community over to this bbpress install next month.

I have already been doing a lot of user pruning and forum configuration on the live phpbb forum to make it as close to what I want the bbpress to look like.

I guess I will need to figure out how to mass move topics from a regular forum into a group designated forum. I tried mucking with the database by changing the “post_parent” field to match up with the new group forum, however it didn’t work… the front end looked a little wonky. Tips?

[Stephen Edgar]

Excellent, the BBCode cleanup bits are the main changes that will ship with bbPress 2.3, I think I have most of them sorted now.

Moving topics is a manual task at the moment, it is planned for a future release. (#1838 & #1721)

Are you able to configure your old phpBB forums (or a copy of them) and set these forums the way you want them to exist in bbPress and then do the import?
(Essentially use the phpBB mod tools to get the setup you want before importing into bbPress)

[nadir]

Stephan, I ended up with a fresh install again and did the import from scratch. This time, it looks like it worked!

Has there been any resources for cleaning up bbcode? it looks like a bunch of random characters are in place around the brackets where bbcode once was.

Also, I am using sitewide forums over the buddypress forums. However, I wanted to migrate topics from one of the imported forums into the group forum that was created … however, I see no option to mass move topics? I did some searching and found a reference to it if I were to “delete” a forum, however trashing it, simply just puts it in the trash bin! Can you please shed some light onthis?

Thank you so much for your continued support! I’ve been a hardcore phpbb user for a long time but the painful customization of it finally turned me!

[Stephen Edgar]

There are a couple of minor updates for the importer with bbPress 2.3 but these do not relate to mismatched topics and replies. How many are we talking? 1 or 2? 10 or 20? 5,000? What percentage?

Don’t worry about user passwords, they are stored in usermeta until the user logs in for the first time.

[nadir]

Thanks Stephan – I’m an idiot! That worked.

However, I’m noticing not all replies are matching up with their parent topic. Is this a known issue? User passwords are blank in the database too so they can’t log in… any help would be much appreciated!

[Stephen Edgar]

Make sure you check the option ‘Import Users’

[Stephen Edgar]

Your phpBB database is NOT erased, you can reset bbPress and import from phpBB as many times as you want.

It is still advisable to make backups of everything still.

[nadir]

okay, sorry! After mucking around, REPAIRING the counts worked!

Now, I just need to figure out this users issue…

[nadir]

Hi there,

I used the import tool to suck all the users, forums, and topics from a phpbb forum database. It seems to import fine. In the admin area, I am able to see all the forums and all the topics. However, when I look at the front end, I just see the entire list of forums that were imported in, but they show as 0 topics or 0 replies. Also, all users appear as “Anonymous” and there aren’t any users added in the user management area :/

Any ideas why this may be?

Thank you much!

[Angelheart29]

Last Thing :

When i import a forum, is there my database in phpbb3 is erased ? Or i can do the transfert many times i want ?

[Stephen Edgar]

You can also get the correct settings from your phpBB config file via FTP to your site or via your web host file manager for your phpBB install. /public_html/phpbbv3/config.php

`// phpBB 3.0.x auto-generated configuration file
// Do not change anything in this file!
$dbms = ‘mysqli’;
$dbhost = ”;
$dbport = ”;
$dbname = ‘my_phpbb_database_name’;
$dbuser = ‘my_database_user_name’;
$dbpasswd = ‘mypassword’;
$table_prefix = ‘phpbb_’;
$acm_type = ‘file’;
$load_extensions = ”;

@define(‘PHPBB_INSTALLED’, true);
// @define(‘DEBUG’, true);
// @define(‘DEBUG_EXTRA’, true);
`

Copy the $dbname, $dbuser, $dbpasswd & $table_prefix values from this file into the bbPress import settings

[Stephen Edgar]

From a Google cache of your phpBB site as your site is offline at the moment

Mensajes totales 34077 | Temas totales 6981

The 34077 is total posts and this includes topics AND replies so:
34077 – 6981 = 27093
Topics = 6981
Replies = 27093
(These numbers will be inaccurate as they are from Google cache)