[Angelheart29]

In Fact, this Name BDD, Name user and passe for a wordpress installation and my phpbb forum.

[Net Bee]

Result :

Bbpress import 6,159 topic but phpbb3 have 6,312 = 97% recovery
bbpress import (27,670) replies but phpbb3 have 33,868 = 81% recovery
bbpress import 80 forums but phpbb3 have 90 = 88% recovery

over all 88% recovery

so can any one help me at least 95% data import from phpbb3 to bbpress ?

regards

[Net Bee]

Sure let me try to phpBB importer , do you have any link for download the phpBB importer file (php file )? because i feel the phpbb importer file in bbpress have some issue thats why its not fetch all data from phpbb3 forum ,

Regards

[Stephen Edgar]

Stop using the SimplePress importer and start using the phpBB importer.

If you import using the phpBB importer your users can login to WordPress/bbPress using their existing username and password.

The only known issues with importing from phpBB are listed here (they are all very minor issues)
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

If you have issues with the phpBB import then tell us what they are so we can fix them.

[Net Bee]

Hey Good Morning , well i am using importing phpBB into SimplePress then into bbPress because its fetch almost 99% data from phpbb3 thats why i am using this way , and if i use import phpBB directly into bbPress then i loss lots of topics , forms & replies from phpbb, thats is main reason to use importing phpBB into SimplePress then into bbPress,

& try to bump the value you asked i did try more then 10 times but same issue its stop some time @ 299 or @ 499 and last night i was stop @ 3499 dont know how to solve this issue 🙁 help me plz ,
Wordpress site: http://wikifaunia.com/foro_animales/
Phpbb3: foroanimales.org

Regards

[Stephen Edgar]

Try the steps I outlined above:

If it does continuously stop in the same position open phpMyAdmin and open the wp_options table and bump the value stored in _bbp_converter_start by 1 and click start again, if it fails again bump this value again.

If it hangs for 10 minutes, click ‘stop’, then click ‘start’ again it it should resume.

… phpbb3 data in simplepress and try to import it from bbpress

Why are you importing phpBB into SimplePress then into bbPress?

Why not just import phpBB directly into bbPress?

[Net Bee]

Now its Converting topics (356 – 357) and “O” wait circle still revolving from 10 min its stop here 🙁 plz help how to fix that , 2 days before i did import every thing but the problem was UTF-8 , then i again i import the phpbb3 data in simplepress and try to import it from bbpress its give me hard time form that day to today ,

[Lynq]

Hey all, great to hear people are working with the theme more and more, I will work on an updated version for you all to get stuck in. Hopefully I will get more of the issues resolved and sort out some of the profile pages too.
Generally the main forum page is the only one that is done to give you a good start, but I have changed a lot on teamoverpowered.com/forums so I will try and bring that across into a better starter theme, hold tight!

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, I’ll add this back in `‘from_expression’ => ‘WHERE User.Deleted = 0′`.
I removed it as if there is a `‘from_expression’` in the template it takes precedence and ignores any `‘join_’` expressions. So I need to dig around `converter.php` and find why it is ignoring the `’join_’` expressions when converting the users.

The `callback_savepass` & `authenticate_pass` is where we add any extra password algorithms if needed for non WordPress passwords (phpBB.php importer is a good example)

I deleted my Facebook account a couple of years ago so I won’t be doing any FB stuff 😉

[chasernl]

Hi!

I am using WordPress 3.5.1 and bbPress 2.2.4 for a Magic: the Gathering related website (http://www.magicfriends.nl)

Before i was using phpbb but WordPress in combination with bbpress gives far more options and a sleeker look. For the Magic cards i am using the plugin “WP MtG-Helper”. This gives the possibility to use [card] tags to give a view of the mentioned card on mouseover and [deck] tag to show a deck of cards.

Somehow this works on the pages and comments of WordPress but does not work on the forums. I also installed the bbPress2 BBCode plugin because i figured an BBcode is needed for this to work.

Looking in the source of the forum page i do see the necessary script’s loaded. I am far from a star with php so I hope someone can help me with this.

Information on the plugin can be found on http://deckbox.org/help/tooltips.

I think more people can use this 🙂

[Kilomoana]

I already solved my problems. You can view the new forum here http://grow-together.de/forum/.

@reverendgeneral What kind of line do you need? Maybe you add an tag manually. For better styling options I divided the “loop-forums.php” in two parts.

[Stephen Edgar]

– Name BDD : The name in my wp-config (i use the same base for forum and a wordpress installation)

– Name user BDD : The user in my wp-config

– Pass : The Pass in my wp-config

These are your WordPress settings, you need to use your phpBB database name, database user & database user password.

[Angelheart29]

I tried to import Phpbb forum to bbpress, with the import tool :

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

I disable Forums and start the process, and i have this :

“Repair any missing information: Continue

Conversion Complete

No replies to convert

No tags to convert

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

No forums to convert

No passwords to clear

No users to convert

Starting Conversion
”

My informations :

– phpBB

– Port : 3306

– Name BDD : The name in my wp-config (i use the same base for forum and a wordpress installation)

– Name user BDD : The user in my wp-config

– Pass : The Pass in my wp-config

– Prefix : PhpBB3

and Start.

I show all the informations many times and they are all right… I don’t understand where is the problem.

Thanks for your responses

[LiveFreeOrDie]

I’m having a style problem with this as well. The forumhome only is taking 1/3 of the space counting sidebar, 1/2 the space it should. I tried editing the css but no luck. Any idea what class or id I should be editing?

View post on imgur.com

All other pages are the proper width, just now the forum home. Thoughts? thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

We will have to go down that route for now as the phpBB import has a similar issue and at the moment the docs state to manually delete these after import.

We can look into why the converter isn’t doing joins correctly on the user table for future versions as if we changed to much there now I am quite sure we would break other stuff and would have very little time to test this at this stage.

[reverendgeneral]

Can we get some styling documentation for this? I love the theme and I’ve been able to easily make some changes, but it’s unclear what I need to edit to adjust some finer details.

For example, I can’t find what I need to edit in the stylesheet in order to place a simple line dividing each of the forums on the main page. It seems like all the elements that would allow me to do that have been hidden, but there’s not enough help for me to be sure.

Also, when viewing a single category’s forums, the styling and functions seem to have a serious breakdown.

Forum Index: https://i.imgur.com/KXdBZNS.png

Category: https://i.imgur.com/ykJoCy4.png

Do I need to edit the stylesheet, functions, or both to remedy this issue?

Thanks again for the theme! It’s been a huge help so far!

[johanlm]

Top 5 plugins to use on bbPress = ?
I planned to try bbPress2 during the weekend to see if this would suit my company. I have a lot of experience of forums in general, phpbb2/3, SMF2, VN, etc. But this are very massive in their functions. As I understand bbPress2 is A LOT less “bloated”.
Still …
Some toys/functions are usally needed.
So in your opinion, what is good to have or a must have.

Also.
Is there companies/sites where you can buy supported bbPress2 addons?

[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… 🙂