Hi Lynq.
I’m trying to run your code but seems to not work. I have wordpress 3.5 and CatchBox Theme. I copied the contents of “bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs-master” folder to “/public/www/wp-content/themes/catch-box/bbpress/” but it seems not working yet.
Because forums lists the topics as:
FORUM1
Topic1(0,0), Topic2(0,0)
FORUM2
Topic1(0,0), Topic2(0,0)
But want to make changes to do as:
FORUM1
Topic1 (0,0),
Topic2 (0,0)
FORUM2
Topic1 (0,0)
Topic2 (0,0)
Please, can you help ?
Thanks in advance.
Now its ~12 hours since your post above and depending on the size of the phpBB forum you are importing from it could take a couple of minutes to days if you have millions of posts to import.
If you go to the github page, then click zip, that’s the download link 🙂
The starter theme looks great. I don’t see any download link?
Hey
I am new to this kind of forum. I have used phpBB allot before.
But now im trying out this type to see if i can use it for my community´s new site.
But i have big issues understanding the setup for the forum. I mean, i cant find any settings about permissions…. Who should see what on the forum, who should write where and what moderation/admin permissions should each user have etc?
Anyone able to help?
You will have to recreate the theme for bbPress.
You might find this helpful for getting started: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/i-have-created-a-bbpress-starter-theme-with-a-phpbb-look-and-feel/
Good luck!
Another question :
When the database is imported from phpbb to bbpress, do the old database stay put or she is erased ?
Because i want to keep the old forum one day before migrate to the new forum.
Hello,
I want to import a phpbb forum to bbpress, i know there is a tool in Tools>>Forums. My question is about the theme. In Phpbb we have a particular theme, can we adapt the theme to Bbpress ? Is the theme imported with the database ? Or we have to re-create the theme for WordPress and bbpress ?
Thanks in advance !
#1958Â is more than just markup; it will likely take core bbPress changes to query everything efficiently.
Also, @jaredatch — don’t hijack this topic. 🙂
You might get some benefit from trying this theme out I created…
I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel
It kind of changes the default bbPress theme and seperates out the forums, see what you think, let me know if anything isn’t clear on it.
Sure, it would be great to be able to retrieve whatever data you wanted and then wrap it whatever tags you want using arguments 🙂
Just let me know what I can help with and i’ll try my best 🙂
Lynq this is the second awesome theme like this you’ve done. When we get cracking on 2.4 I’d love for you to give us a hand and your expertise with #1958 🙂
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!
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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!
