[powernick]

i think you should try out orson’s forum converter…!

[mohammadg]

Having the same issue for some reason. Cant get the importer to work.

[SK]

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-gregs-high-performance-seo-gregs-high-performance-seo-kills-bbpress

It took me a lot of trial and error, deactivating and activating of plugins to figure out what the problem was with my bbpress.

I don’t know what, why or how, but there is some problem between bbPress and Greg’s High Performance SEO. If Greg’s is installed, bbPress does not work – your forum root will seem ok enough…but if you click on any forum, the forum’s topic listing page will not list any topics, and the topic page will not show the discussion or any response options.

This is sad because I have come to like Greg’s High Performance SEO…but because I have decided, for many reasons, to move from phpbb to bbPress, I hope a fix is found soon.

[SK]

Thanks, Anointed.

Can you confirm whether bbconverter can import from phpbb 3.0.10

[SK]

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbconverter-whither-phpbb

I’m quite surprised that you started off with platforms (vbulletin and invision) that are jointly less popular than phpbb. But I suppose one of the plugin developers had forums that used those platforms and I’m glad to be able to benefit from your hard work.

You have mentioned in the plugin description that conversion for phpbb is coming *soon*, and I was wondering if you might be able to provide some updates on that.

Finally, am I correct in assuming that bbconverter

i) imports topics and forum hierarchies into bbpress

ii) including the relations between topics and forums

iii) and slugs for topics and forums

iv) generates an .htaccess to place in the old forum directory so that old URLs are 301 redirected to new ones.

v) imports users including profiles, passwords, signatures and roles

[SK]

@shoo

Forum converter does SEEM to get stuck in one place, but in my experience, that place is the end of the conversion – it just forgets to tell you that the conversion is done. Have you checked the forums post-conversion and found that the conversion wasn’t finished?

@DiannaM668

When I installed Forum converter, a couple of other things automatically got installed:

ForumConverter-Auth

ForumConverter-Password

ForumConverter-Signatures

See if they can help you.

[shooo]

Hi ,

@DiannaM668,

I try both plugin, but none is working properly.

phpBB converter from AWJunkies generates strange content for the link and images.

forumconvert does not complete the conversion and gets stuck in one place for no reason.

This plugin is no longer followed for a while now.

Do you see how it works? it created additional tables in the database to link up with tables currents bbPress.

If you have a problem later, you can not recover anything, the plugin no longer followed.

[SK]

DiannaM668, sorry to hear that.

Not sure how to fix apart from manually bulk editing/moving…

[Nirzol1]

OK i will try this.

And with a custom page I can have a specific sidebar for forum too isn’t it ?

Because with the standar installation I can’t make a sidebar just for forum

An other questions : no way too have icons before each topics or categorie forum? (like phpbb ?) to notice read / unread posts ? or new posts?

Maybe with a class in html and with css ?

thx anointed

[DiannaM668]

Hi OC2PS again, I tried the converter with changing the version to 2.0.2 which matches my BBpress latest version and it did seem to work this time! However, it is weird how you can’t see it doing anything and then after awhile I hit refresh and check and it converted.

However, I’ve had this problem before and I’m not sure what could be this problem. Everything seems to convert great with users and forum structure, even the forum counts. However, my topics don’t show up within the forums. Within my topics, it shows that they are not connected to any forum. So I have about 500 some pages of topics not attached to anything.

Do you know or have any idea what I could be doing wrong that is not pulling the topics over to their respective forum??

I’m so close to getting this!

I’ve even thought to go through 500 pages of topics and put them in their forums. I am that desperate! But I know better than to work that hard but also I don’t know where these topics really belong or I would consider it.

Help?

[jangles]

I tried to convert phpbb. It ran through successfully. I had to comment out the code that was causing it to choke.

[DiannaM668]

HEy shooo! I think I saw you posting on the other thread about the other phpBB converter from AWJunkies. I feel your pain, looks like we are in the same boat of no luck in getting our phpBB forums converted.

It appears this converter is the one to troubleshoot as it seems that others here have had success.

shooo, I haven’t seen what you just posted because I never got that far. Mine would just say that database failed and then would say conversion was not supported.

Thanks OC2PS! I’m going to go look at that link that you provided. I’ll report back if any luck or for more begging….

[shooo]

Still nothing about the many problems of conversions phpbb?

[shooo]

hello,

I tried desperately for months to transfer my phpbb on bbPress, but without success.

This plugin crashes during the creation of the first forum.

have you ever had this problem?

“relinking forum hierarchy

fixing subcounts

done processing forums

Converting posts …

converting posts

Disconnecting

reconnecting …

reconnect success “but after it happens nothing.

This plugin is no longer followed by the author …

it’s just a mess ^ ^

[adv_user]

Hi John (do7d).

Thank you for your attention.

I’m interested in seeing what changes you made​​.

Not exactly the model of Invision or other powerful forums, but their forum was better organized with subcategories.

But still, I keep my critical: bbPress need to improve the hierarchy of sub-subforums to become a powerful forum and allow the creation of many subforums and well organized.

Even the simple press allows this organization/separation of blocks with subforums:

http://simple-press.com/support-forum/

Thanks!

[do7d]

@adv_user

please forgive me if this isn’t what you’re looking for, but im pretty sure i just created the forum @ http://www.USADriftTrikes.org the exact way you wanted to. it wasn’t too difficult, but took about a day of playing with to get where it is currently. let me know if i can help-

john

[SK]

Yup, it worked.

The problem is the plugin is not very tolerant (version numbers had to be added to make it work) and not very communicative (doesn’t show a message when import is completed). But it worked.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-forumconverter-conversion-failed

2 files need to edited.

[DiannaM668]

dingles and OC2PS I’m having this very same exact problem.

BBPress has a converter but I cannot get anything to work right there and no one seems to be around to help me directly with my issue. I’ve been trying to get my forum converted for a month and a half now. I’m at my wits end.

So I’m coming back to Orson’s plugin in last desperate attempt to try once again even though I’ve always gotten the same conversion failed messages.

Dingles, could you share in more detail what you did to get it to work?

Or OC2PS if you figured it out?

I would be forever indebted!!!

Dianna

[SK]

All that Firebug has to say is:

syntax error

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options-general.php?page=fc-options&settings-updated=true (line 304, col 2)

[SK]

Can’t get it to work at all. Consistently get “conversion failed” error. No idea why

[DiannaM668]

Hi djoep, are you meaning me that you tried to email about my SMF forum or are you talking the AWJunkies?

If you mean me, I never received it and would LOVE LOVE LOVE to contact you about how you converted your SMF forum. I’ll email you now to touch base with you. I originally have an SMF forum and had converted it to phpBB and waited on this phpBB converter. But I’m just having no luck and not sure what I’m doing wrong. I’ve thought of going back to the SMF forum and looking your instruction over again.

I hope you don’t if I contact you and try it again. Thx!

IF AWJunkies/Alex did make the SMF converter next, that might very well solve my problems so I’m not double converting to get it to bbpress.

ETA: djoep, your profile doesn’t have an email in it. I tried your site link but it doesn’t seem to be a working website anymore. My email is dianna@diannamangus.com if you would or want to contact to help me with the my SMF conversion. I did get pretty close with it, so I’m sure it’s just something stupid that I’m not doing correctly.

[DiannaM668]

Hey you guys, been away for a bit and was excited to see the phpBB conversion being added to the list of converters. Thank you so much Alex and congratulations on the marriage!

I have a problem that I haven’t seen anyone mention yet so I’m wondering what I’m doing wrong. I’m trying to run my conversion and I’m getting the “exceeded 75000 questions” and so I was going to have to keep trying to run it every hour to finally get it all converted.

HOWEVER, I keep getting an odd end result after I get the screen with the error messages that it will then take me to my login page but it’s the 5 minutes wordpress installation option and it asks me for my login info and then it says page not found.

My forum is at http://www.mywebsite/forum

My wordpress site is at http://www.mywebsite/blog

After converstion it will send me to http://www.mywebsite/blog/wp-admin/install.php

If I put in my old info to the wordpress login it will kick out another list of the conversion errors.

I’m not sure if I’m having root directory problems or something going on with the conversion. I’ll keep looking but does anyone know immediately off hand what I’ve got going wrong or what it could be?

It’s weird.

ETA: I just found that the conversion has changed my wp-config file settings for the database name, dbase username and password. It looks like it puts in some generic settings that you guys have. Here’s what my config says…

/** The name of the database for WordPress */

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wrd_kk3k2nhle4’);

/** MySQL database username */

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘tsupport’);

/** MySQL database password */

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘123456’);

Should I try to find a certain converter file and change this default setting within that file? The converter must not have taken my settings that I put into the form provided to do the conversion.

[dingles]

Once I edited out the conversion not supported message error it worked perfectly. Was frustrating for a while but this plugin is quite impressive.

[dingles]

Unfortunately can’t get it to work at all. Consistently get “conversion failed” error and have no idea why. The error on the bottom is “conversion is not supported.” Could be a server setup error but I have phpbb3 and wp in the same database. My guess was that since I have the host configured as an ip behind a firewall as 10.10.xx.xx that I would use that as the hostname. I tried everything and get the same error. I used the same hostname as is set up in wordpress, same user name same database and same password and I get the same “conversion is not supported” error. Anyone see anything like this?

[neodoxa]

*Bump*…

What I’m aiming for is just something like this…

http://purerover.com/forum

Maintaining my main menu and logo at the top, while having full width organized forums/subforums below.

Is there a way to do this with bbPress or phpBB3?

Any help with this is super duper appreciated!

Thanks,

Corey