[wtfmatt]

FORKPRESS 1.1 … July 2010?

Let’s hear from some of the biggest plugin developers people.

Let’s hear anything for christ’s sake. Spill your thoughts, PLEASE.

If we want things to change, action is needed. Inaction will simply keep things how they are, with crippling wishful thinking.

There is no need to feel abandoned by WP… if we retain our own community with our own goals and our own work.

Look how fast myBB is growing right now, the world is desperate for alternatives to hacking SMF and phpBB to work with a CMS like WP.

The fact alone that bbpress supports SEO friendly URLs is keeping this software alive, I swear to god.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’m really not a fan of the colours and layout, but I love that you’ve done so much with it and have a thriving community. From what I can see, signatures and image posting are working really well for you as have Avatars etc.

While my personal taste preffers your Kate Humble forums, its great to see you and your forums doing so well!

Keep us notified of any changes you make too, and well done

[kieranyo]

I just thought I’d let you know that I’m made quite a few visual and functionality changes to the forum since posting this so if anyone is interested, take a look –

http://forum.cubeownersclub.co.uk

[andreascreten]

Hi guys

Thanks for the kind words. We are also very happy with the implementation and there is more to come.

The hardest part in this project was migrating the 2 million forum posts from phpBB to bbPress.

Don’t hesitate to ask us any questions on how we did this.

Cheers

Andreas

[ch8rt]

Just gone through this process, and for the most part it was painless (I had to go through and remove those offending characters).

But I can’t get my head around the password situation, the documentation with the plugin seems to suggest that the users password will be converted upon login, but they can’t log in because their password has changed.

Link to plugin https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/md5-insecurity-for-bbpress/

What exactly is this plugin doing then? am I just stuck with everyone needing to reset? In which case do I need this plugin installed?

[Ryan Hellyer]

No, they just told me about it via an IM chat a while ago.

IIRC they just converted to phpBB3 and then on to bbPress. That seems to be the standard way of converting between most forum softwares (via phpBB2 or phpBB3).

I think he had a few minor problems with a small details such as website links not being transferred over. But the guts of it, posts, topics, usernames and passwords were all shifted flawlessly from what I heard.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Oh yeah totally agree, and your forums are nice and work well for you.

I suppose then I’m asking if you have any tutorial/guides/tips from whoever converted from SMF to bbPress via phpBB3.

[zaerl]

Check this post: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release

[marsaday1971]

Hello, i am thinking of moving over to word press to create a website for my town.

can i transfer a phpbb into WPBB ? my bulletin board currently has 1300 posts. Is it straight forward or do i need a programmer to do it.

thanks

[amplifiedshock]

Hello everyone,

I just wrote a guide to basically achieve what the title says. Two reasons:

(1) There isn’t a vb4-to-bbPress converter out there making the process more difficult then it should be

(2) The answers are out there if you’re willing to search for hours like I did I decided to piece together all my research into a single guide

Credit, of course, goes to the generous souls who created the vB-to-phpBB and the phpBB-to-bbPress converters, which are both required.

I’m still working on the integration with WordPress part which should be up soon. If you guys see any errors, please let me know.

Hope this helps!

Edit: Forgot the link! http://www.ericm.ca/2010/articles/vbulletin-4-to-bbpress-and-wordpress-integration

[CEThom]

I’m new to bbpress, having previously only used phpbb where all the codes are present as follows:

Italics:

Bold:

So on and so forth. But these codes aren’t working for me on bbpress.

What are the codes for formatting text on bbpress, ie. bold, italics, underline, centralising, changing the size, etc?

Or is there a plugin I can get so the text bar appears at the top of the page like it does on a phpbb forum?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Akismet is not great on forums, it catches alot of legitamite posts and marks them as spam. That said, it also catches a good percentage of the spam too.

On one of my forums, 100+ spammer registrations a day is about the norm. One of WordPress and bbPress’s plus sides is it’s easy to register, so there’s alot of automated bots out there.

Not having Akismet activated with the amount of registrations / traffic you’re recieving is probably a bad idea.

Phpbb has a feature where you have to approve a member’s registration before they become members

Thats not built into the core, infact very few moderation abilities are; but I’m sure there’s plugins to enact such functionality. Zaerl had something like that I belive.

I am using WordPress MU, the Buddypress Magazine theme

bbpress is not built to, and does not play well with WPMU.

If you’re using WPMU, I strongly strongly advice BuddyPress instead of bbPress.

They are somewhat integrated

We probably need somewhat more information

[jbrzr3]

Wow, why is this happening? Do any of you have the same problem? Phpbb has a feature where you have to approve a member’s registration before they become members. Does Bbpress have something similar?

Also, my akismet is not activated. I am using WordPress MU, the Buddypress Magazine theme. They are somewhat integrated. However, when a user signs up via the bbpress forums and not on the main page of the website which is WPMU, that user will not show up in dashboard of the WPMU, only the bbpress listing of users.

If I activate Akismet, will I kill my site?

-j

[Ryan Hellyer]

I know someone who converted from SMF1.1.x to bbPress 1.0 by converting via phpBB3

[mikkelsen]

Hey,

This is probably not what you want, but I just recently made the switch from vBulletin to bbPress. I converted my vBulletin database to phpBB, and then I converted the phpBB database to bbPress. The only issue with this solution is that all your users have to choose “Recover password” the first time the try to log in on the new forum, because the passwords can’t be converted due to some password protocol phpBB or vBulletin uses.

Everything else works great though, and I’m very happy with the switch.

[JCrosby]

OK thanks. I have unmodified the config file. The phpbb folder is directly above it.

So if I go 2 directories deep for setup, can I specify the URL of bbpress once it is installed?

[Ben L.]

bbPress looks in its folder and the folder directly above it for a config file. If you move bbPress out of the phpBB folder or move bbPress into something like [phpBB folder]/bbpress/test/[bbPress folder], it should work. Don’t modify the phpBB config file.

[JCrosby]

I am currently running PHPbb in the root directory, but want to install bbpress as I have used WP for years and love it.

I want to be able to import current posts and users from phpbb, so to keep it ‘easy,’ I installed a new directory and new db for bbpress. I go to that URL, and get the installation start page. On the second page, I get this error:

Oh dear!

An old config.php file has been detected in your installation. You should remove it and run the installer again. You can use the same database connection details if you do.

The config file is NOT in this directory, it is in the root (for phpbb). I tried editing in the info directly into the config file, but then the db can’t connect. I went through these steps, but no luck. How can I tell phpbb what db to use?

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks.

[gerikg]

I found this:

http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/nav.html?bb-plugins/bbxf/exporter-bbpress.php.source.html

Does do that help any coders?

and Sam’s post on the subject:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/exporting-bbpress-to-phpbb2#post-18830

[mikkelsen]

I managed to convert vBulletin to phpBB3, and then phpBB3 to bbPress.

The users passwords however does not work, and I can’t seem to get the email when I try to reset it.

[mikkelsen]

I got all my users over, but the system never sends me an email when I try to to reset the password. Has anyone encountered that problem?

Also, how may one copy users from the phpbb_users database to the bb_users database manually?

Thanks for all help.

[psycheangels]

hmm you can copy the user db from phpbb to bbpress but your website user need to reset password because phpbb use md5 hash

[Geekaholic]

Thx, hab das gemacht und es hat funktioniert

[Anonymous User]

Hi Geekaholic,

you moved the phpbb user to the bbPress user table (e.g. bb_users). The users are still there. After the user integration you must copy the users from bbPress user table to the WordPress user table – and also copy the user_meta information.

If you had some WordPress users before the transfer form phpbb to bbPress/WordPress – it is possible to merge the users by hand. I do this within the phpMyAdmin.

Markus

[Geekaholic]

Hi,

I’m using phpbb3 right now but want to move to bbpress. So I installed bbpress on my server and was able to import all the posts and users from the phpbb3 to the new bbpress forum. Everything worked great. But now I would like to integreate the wordpress user database with the bbpress database. When I’m using this build in integration method, all the users I transfered from phpbb3 to bbpress disapear…

does anyone know how to fix that or is the bbpress user databye deleted by integreating it to wordpress?