Hey everyone, I’m a total newbie with bbPress, as I have only had experience with phpBB in the past. I have a very simple question. I’m setting up a new site with bbPress, but am seeing that the forums I’m making (underneath their parent categories) are not being displayed one at a time on their own line, but rather one right after each other, with commas separating them. (Image of this seen here: http://tinypic.com/r/o86nab/6 )
While this isn’t the end of the world, I’m much more used to seeing each forum on its own line, and it seems to make for easier navigation.
Is this something that is specific to the theme that I am using (Buddy) or is it something that can be changed with a plugin? Thanks in advance!
Run the ‘Repair Tools’ after the importer has finished importing everything
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/
At the moment i running phpbb 3.0.11 and like to convert the system to bbpress 2.2.3
BBpress hase a nice import tool buth if i run this application, forums, topics, reply’s and users are convert.
One problem users are not related to the topics ore reply’s, olso forums have 0 topics.
Please can sombody help me.
Excus my bath language..
Grtz Rene
I downloaded the latest version of bbPress and the latest version of wordpress, did a local install probably only 5 days ago at max and then re created it using the functions from my teamoverpowered.com site.
Nice Lync… What version of bbPress did you base this from?
I will take it for a spin and closer look later…
Download the Zip from github and then unzip it into your wordpress theme. It will take care of the rest.
Good luck!
How do I install this theme into bbPress?
Thanks!
Nothing on the profile pages or single topic views yet… but potentially in the future 
Neat. Any other changes? To profile pages, single topic views, etc?
Hey all,
I thought I would have a go at creating a quick and easy theme for people to get started using bbPress. This was built fairly quickly using one of my other themes (which are based off the default bbPress files).
If you want to check it out then have a look at: http://www.epicwebs.co.uk/content/bbpress-theme-invision-or-phpbb-feel or check it out on github https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs.
The theme allows you to get more of a phpBB or invision look to your forum. It uses the functions I posted previously on bbPress.org along with some css to get the forum looking nice by installing the theme. The forum should be pretty fluid so it will fit any width of site.
Good luck, I hope this helps!
Hi JJJ,
after studying the bbPress 1.1 converter code and an deep look into the mySQL data I know the error. In my installation the field post_position is set for all old post to ‘0’. It’s possible that this is an error form the originally convert from phpBB to bbPress 0.9 some years ago.
From the import:
‘join_expression’ => ‘USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_position IN (0,1)’
So for now – i’m searching for an solution to reset the post_position.
bbPress includes a conversion tool to import forums/topics/replies/users from some of the popular forum packages eg. bbPress or phpBB
There is an ‘example’ file also included as a ‘reference template’ that if your forum software is using a SQL database then you could easily modify this to be a custom importer by matching the correct database tables/fields etc
The file is called ‘example.php’ and is located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converter
You can setup categories and forums underneath it.
Getting them to look similar to phpbb and invision in yiur template will take some time.
Good luck!
Hey all,
I will be adding a Forum to an existing WordPress site, and I am familiar with both PHPBB and vBulletin, and I would like to use the “Category” features — where Forums are listed under an appropriate category.
I would like to use bbPress for the common look and feel, and single sign on four our users.
Can I set up Categories?
TR
I was able to complete step 1 with the following sql query:
INSERT INTO wp_users (user_login)
SELECT DISTINCT post_username FROM phpbb_posts
Now I have transferred over the user names and need to work on step 2 which I think can actually be combined with step 3 as one function… but would still love to hear any ideas.
The shortcode would allow forum owners to display the category and it’s forums with their descriptions, number of topics, posts etc. on a page.
If we had this shortcode, we could set up bbPress forums to look like phpbb3 – with all categories and their forums on one page – which is what I’ve seen a lot of people asking for.
I’m really hoping someone can help me figure out some sql queries I would like to run (especially spwestwood). I have been working on migrating a forum for a number of days now and would love if I could get some help on this last piece. I started out with a Phorum > migrated to SMF > migrated to phpBB3 > migrated to bbPress. The first 3 conversions were all successful. I would stay with phpBB3 but even after I loaded WordPress I could not get all my PHP to work properly on the forum page and I really like the bbPress integration into WordPress. But, I have the same anonymous error on the majority of my posts (55k) because, I believe, these are actually anonymous users who were not required to sign-up in order to post. The problem seems to be that bbPress uses only an ‘id’ to attach the name of the poster to the post and phpBB3 uses a ‘username’ field that actually contains the name within the table. All of these unregistered users simply default to user id = anonymous (1998 in my case). Here’s my solution… only, I don’t really know how to implement it as I have limited mySQL experience.. so please bare with me as this is all theoretical and I have no idea if it will work… and how to write it out in sql commands.
Step 1: I want to take phpbb_posts.post_username and assign new users in wp_users for each unique user name (I want to avoid duplicates obviously!). I would like that user_name assigned to both wp_users.user_login and wp_users.display_name. Now I have user accounts for all these anonymous posters.
Step 2: Convert the date format in phpbb_posts.post_time from an integer to the ‘datetime’ php format using the from_unixtime sql command… or something. That way I can accurately match the date/time field in both databases since they currently use different encoding.
Step 3. When wp_posts.post_date = phpbb_posts.post_time match phpbb_posts.post_username to wp_users.user_login GET id and assign to wp_posts.post_author
Does this make any sense? Or am I completely off the ball here? THANK YOU SO MUCH for any help!!
Hello all,
I have recently created a bbpress forum in a WordPress website. Being used to phpbb I have faced a few issues that seem to be not standard in bbpress or missing but found ways around it. Here comes my issue in place….there is a private forum in the forum, the off topic one where people introduce themselves. This topic is hidden when nog logged in…so far so good. Because the forum is closed, all topics and replies are safe….at least I thought. Until I added the search in forum plugin and realized that all replies made in the private forum/topic where still public?!
As the users enter the reply in the frontend there are not add ons and one should expect that when a parent forum is private that all in the forum is safe. Not I guess? Or is there a way to get this configured?
I found a temporary way around it for now (next to turning of the search totally), I have added the Groups plugin and set the „groups_read_post” filter on forum/topic AND replies now to ensure that the replies are not found in the search. But this is not doable on the long run as it means that I manually need to alter each frontend reply in the backend and mark it as „groups_read_post”.
What can I do to get this permanently fixed and how can I be sure that these replies are not picked up by search engines?
Thanks very much to whomever takes the time to read this and help me figure this out.
Kind regards,
Nikki
365gaming.nl
Wordpress 3.4.2.
bbPress 2.2.2
Theme Respo
Hello, can anyone tell me which file/s create this page: First page of bbPress Forums
and this page: Second page of bbPress Forums, a category page of forums?
I want to create a page that looks like the second page, but has all categories on it and I think I can figure it out if someone points me to which files I could copy functions out of.
I saw an old thread of people looking to set their bbPress forums up like phpBB3, has it been done? ‘Cause that’s what I’m looking to accomplish here and I’m willing to share the template once I get done.
bbPress 2.x includes a conversion tool to import forums/topics/replies/users from some of the popular forum packages eg. bbPress or phpBB
There is an ‘example’ file also included as a ‘reference template’ that if your forum software is using a SQL database then you could easily modify this to be a custom importer by matching the correct database tables/fields etc
The file is called ‘example.php’ and is located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converters
Yeah, I made sure that phpBB was selected. I was just now re-checking over everything again and I see that my database has two User ID’s, one attached to the database and one for FTP. Assuming this process works like FTP I then made sure to run it again with the user name I have for accessing via FTP and I get the first message:
“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
”
I’ve even tried it by replacing “localhost” with my database’s Host Name. Same result. I double-checked that Database Port is the default, 3306, yep.
Do you know which User Name I’m supposed to be using? The one that has my database id in it, or the one I use for FTP?
Also, does anybody know what it does if your FTP password is incorrect?
Make sure you select ‘phpBB’ with the ‘import forums tool’ option ‘Select Platform’
Check out the brief docs here https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/
The import works pretty well for the base of phpBB migration for users, forums, topics & replies.
WordPress Version: 3.4.2
bbPress Version: 2.2.2
Theme: Custom Community
Hello, I am considering changing my site from phpBB3 forums to bbPress to better integrate with my WordPress home page.
I’m attempting to Import my forums into my test site, on another database, to test bbPress’ “Import Forums”. I’ve filled out all the necessary information, but the first time I ran it I got messages at the bottom that 0 Members had been imported 0 posts, etc all the way down the line. I tried running it again and I get this message:
“Fatal error: Class ‘Example’ not found in /homepages/33/d410891000/htdocs/THEMETEST/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 1291”
I’ve attempted to reset the process by choosing to Purge Previous Import and save, then Start Over and save, but I continue to get the same message when I try to import.
I tried to resolve this on my own, but I searched for an hour online before I even found that bbPress has an importer built in! Unfortunately stuff from the last five years had priority in the search. Also, I could not find a search on this site, so I started Googling “bbpress.org import forums” but still no answers, so any help would be appreciated.
One more thing: I don’t have so many members that I couldn’t create their accounts myself if I *had* to, so if anyone knows of an easier way to just import the forums and posts, that might work.
Thanks in advance for your time.
Hi, I am also trying to convert buddypress to bbpress 2.2
but in the select platform (in tools Import forums) I can only see Example, vBulletin, Invision, phpbb. and bbPress1
am I missing something?
what do I choose to convert from BuddyPress?
thanks
Kris
I’m new to web designing and i want 2 design a website which contains a discussion forum. I heard that using bbpress or phpbb i can create a forum. I want 2 know hw 2 build a website with these things??
and whether they are only for forum or can i build my entire site using only bbpress??
