[limitx3m]

I know someone is currently working improving the stock convertor for vbulletin, but is it possible to convert the database into a phpBB database and then convert that to bbpress/buddypress?

Does anyone have any recent experience with this and if everything is retained?

Also, what are some suggestions on converting the blogs from my members?

Thanks!

[Kilomoana]

Thank you very much for your theme, it’s very nice and a good start to work with bbPress.

I have two issues, I try to solve, maybe someone could help me.

So, in the Forums-Listing, if there is an empty forum under a category, he displays the category name as the last post instead of “No Posts”.

The second one is, that he don’t stick, sticky posts. Superstickys work very well, but the sticky ones not.

Greetings

[Stephen Edgar]

There are a couple of routes you could go down depending on how you plan on running WordPress:

• WIMP (Windows, IIS, MySQL/MS SQL & PHP)

• http://blog.rajenki.com/2012/12/wordpress-on-windows-server-2012-with-iis-8-and-sql-server-2012/
• http://wordpress.visitmix.com/
• (I have no idea how or even if the current logic of the MS SQL WP DB Abstraction plugin would allow us to connect to the DNN database to perform the import)

• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP)

• Convert your database to MySQL
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6315582/how-do-i-convert-files-mdf-ldf-to-mysql-format

Once you have either of the above up and running and my suggestion is most definitely the second option to convert your database to MySQL then it would involve writing a custom import script based on the included example `Example.php` included with bbPress.
(I have been updating all the import scripts lately so hopefully a new version of `Example.php` will not be far away, if not `bbPress1.php` and `phpBB.php` would be better to use as a basis for a custom DNN import script.)

[Lynq]

Well it depends on what your theme uses as it’s sidebar container.

.bbPress is a class which is applied to the body tag so you can tell if it is on a bbPress page.
.sidebar is a guess at what the sidebar container is on your theme.
stack them together and then use display:none to hide the sidebar on all bbPRess pages.
You can add this into your bbPress stylesheet or your wordpress stylesheet (it is usually nicer to add it into your bbPress stylesheet so that all bbPress styles are contained in one place).

Good luck!

[Sunidaze]

“something like”, hehe… okay…

I don’t know which file(s) to put it in… I’ll figure it out one day by trial and error… 🙂

thanks again…

[Lynq]

For future reference, if you want to remove the sidebar just from bbPress files you can use something like…

.bbPress .sidebar { display:none; }  // depending on your theme.

Good luck!

[Stephen Edgar]

You need to select ‘phpBB’ at the top of forum import screen and you need to specify the database prefix of your phpBB database tables, typically this is ‘phpbb_’ though you should confirm this for your database using phpMyAdmin on your web host.

[Sunidaze]

I don’t need help removing the sidebar now, I decided to use the Elbee Elgee theme with the built in BBPress sidebar removal… thanks for the help… 🙂

[Sunidaze]

Or you can go through all of the theme files and remove get_sidebar.
and
The best way to remove a sidebar is probably to just use CSS to .sidebar { display:none }

Will that remove the sidebar from the entire blog? I only want to remove the sidebar from the forum page, not the other pages…

[freax]

I did the ‘display:none’ in catch-box theme but didn’t work for me. I need to remove the’get_sidebar’ from your template, BBpress, or catch-box theme ? Thanks.

[Lynq]

The best way to remove a sidebar is probably to just use CSS to .sidebar { display:none } (depending on your themes markup) – it is quick and allows you to quickly add the sidebar back in should you need it later on.

Or you can go through all of the theme files and remove get_sidebar.

Good luck!

[freax]

I have the same problem too. I tried to find get_sidebar function to delete it from the code but I only find them in ‘extra’ directory and it is showing again. Any help ?
Thanks in advance.

[Sunidaze]

Nice theme, thank you… this is the first BBPress theme I’ve installed… 🙂

How do I make it into one column? (no sidebar)

[wisemonkey]

Aha! This totally worked. Thank you.

[Mal]

How about forum-only WordPress theme? This sounds like easily doable.

Or a theme that theme developers can integrate with their own theme if they copy things like register_sidebar() etc. to their functions.php? No need for child themes and things like that in this case.

I can think of many acceptable and convenient solutions 🙂

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It is very easy to modify BBPress 1 if you have theme in /bb-templates/ or /my-templates/ folder. You have to spend hours on going through BBPress files (because there is no documentation like in case of WordPress) but that’s fine with me.

I would like to move to BBPress2 because of a bit better documentation, more functions that I’m often missing, custom fields and if it’s made as custom post type then it’s actually easy to integrate with any theme in any way – very cool.

BBPress beats any solutions like PHPBB thanks to your simple, clever and therefore highly customizable project structure. Too bad that it’s evolving slowly because it’s a great thing 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Here is the answer you are looking for https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/assign-topics-to-another-user/#post-118793

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.x includes its own phpBB converter (It was based on bbConverter)

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

The next release of bbPress will also include further improvements of the phpBB importer (I am working on these right now)

[wisemonkey]

Here is a related post (no solution stated)

Topic author names prefixed with "imported_"

[wisemonkey]

Hello…

(I have searched the forums here for a solution for this, apologies in advance if I missed a relevant post).

I just installed the most current bbPress and imported a phpBB forums (3.0.10). I now have users with “imported_” prepended to their names. I am guessing that these are the names of users with pre-existing WP accounts who had the same phpBB username. (eg johndoe and imported_johndoe).

How can I merge these two accounts into one. (ie imported_johndoe -> johndoe)?

TIA,
fernando

[beervanger]

Hi everyone,
I need your help. I wanna migrate from phpbb to bbpress.
I use bbConverter. I got this error :

[…again and again…]

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 ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

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 ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

Convert forums (0 – 99)-
Not clearing default passwords-

Not Converting users Selected-

Not Cleaning Data-

Conversion Complete-

Starting Conversion…

Could you help me?
Thank you.

[Lynq]

@anointed This uses the same functions that teamoverpowered.com uses, plus it only creates a couple of custom functions, these custom functions all use built in bbPress functions to retrieve any data, no custom queries.

@dramaticbaby This is something I am currently looking into, unfortunately it is not as easy as it sounds, i’ll keep you informed if I get round to updating the theme with this.

I will probably look at re doing the whole theme for the main forum view, sub forum view and topic view, make that nice and slick and fluid then move onto some profile pages and stuff.

[DramaticBaby]

Great base to start off with, I’ve done it like this myself. Too bad I didn’t start with it now, it could’ve saved me a lot of hours x)

Anyway, I have one problem. How do I add the forum descriptions beneath the forum headers? I’ve tried adding the_content() in a few places but no matter what I do the category description shows up.

So under the category and the forums the same description pops up. Any ideas?

Sincerely,
Tobias

[gasaixyuno]

It looks pretty good.

[Doezer]

Thanks actorjml, this wasn’t very clear and there isn’t any explanations about the installation in the codex.

[Anointed]

Is this the base of what teamoverpowered was built with to get the hierarchical forums setup?

I’ve been keeping an eye out on #1958 and was curious if this theme solves those issues as I have been trying to replicate a vb style bbPress theme for some time now. As I have 400k topics, I have to be extremely careful on the efficiency of the queries used.