[vamshidhar]

Thanks, John. RC 5 is not downloading, I have downloaded RC 3. I have tried it locally with phpBB3 and bbPress2.6. It has imported Forums, Topics and Replies but not Users. Is there any problem with importing Users?

[vamshidhar]

I have an old forum running on phpBB 2+ version. It has nearly 70000 users and 400000 artcles.
Now I need to migrate it to latest bbPress. In bbPress documentation I read that it support importing from phpBB 3.0+, So how can I achieve this migration?

[rick435]

https://cholangiocarcinoma.org/db

We’ve ditched our old punbb board and some of our users miss the ability to view just the posts that have been posted since their last visit. That “New Posts” link was actually one of our most popular pages.

Are there any plugins available that could do that? I’ve spent awhile looking and it seems like a popular request for those of us from punbb and phpbb.

[paladinbrewer]

Hello,

So I am new to wordpress and bbpress. For forum usage I am very used to phpbb3. I installed bbpress + buddypress because my wordpress theme supports it, but upon playing with it, it doesn’t feel like forums at all.

1) Why can’t I do a normal forum layout:

Category 1
Forum 1
Forum 1 description
Forum 2
Forum 2 description
Category 2
Etc

2) Where is the normal forum functionality? Signatures, Mark all as read, statistics, Who’s Online, etc

3) No usergroups or controls? How do I set private forums? Some forums I want people to read and reply, but not create new posts. I can’t do this?

4) It doesnt seem it even tells me which forum has new posts and which doesn’t? Maybe that’s a Theme issue?

So is bbpress actual forums or meant for something else? Or am I missing it all entirely?

[InTempest]

Archived old site: imapiece .com/connect1/
New wordpress site curently being developed: imapiece .com/
WP version: 4.8.1
BBPress Version: 2.5.13
(I broke the links and removed the https:// because the previous posts I made where all the links worked were never approved by mods and stayed in limbo, just take out the space before .com and they’ll work)

I am moving my current guild forums from PHPbb to buddypress/bbpress in wordpress.
There is one thing I can’t seem to find, and ive been looking around everywhere and it seems im not the only one looking.
bbpress .org/forums/topic/looking-for-an-application-plugin

Here is what im looking for, user registers and then applys for a specific group by going to a page with the php form and on submission the post is made in a specified forum.

So lets say there is a page with links to the groups pages and on each page is a application to join that group because the cosplayers have different questions than car guys or wow players. User fills out the app and when they submit it creates a new thread in that groups recruitment forum.

Here is the addon that I use with phpbb
phpbb .com/customise/db/extension/application_form

Here are some screenshots of it in its current use

Front end application

Then it creates a new post with New Application from %username

Then in the output view it has it in its own post

Has anyone seen ANYTHING from bbpress or buddy press that can do this? I have been looking and as mentioned I can’t find a solution anywhere. Closest I found was an option in gravity forms to send to trello or via email but that doesn’t make a new thread in a pre determined forum where community members can access and respond to it. I’m bootstrapping this myself if anyone knows a place that contracts this stuff out. I don’t have a lot of money, but the guild is dying and i dont know what else I can do.

Thank you for any information you may have available,
InTempest

[ersatzpole]

Hi,
I am trying to convert from phpBB but have come across a problem.
My reply subject and content is in a different table to the normal ‘posts’ table.
The standard code in the existing conversion file joins the topics table to the posts table like this:

// Setup reply section table joins
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'topic_id',
			'join_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'join_type'       => 'LEFT',
			'join_expression' => 'USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id != topics.topic_first_post_id',
			'to_type'         => 'reply'
		);

but I need to also join to the table with the subject and content, the ‘posts_text’ table.
Is this possible using the current conversion framework?
If so can anyone please help me with the syntax.

Many thanks

[willes]

Hi,

I’m trying to import a phpbb forum (3.0.12) to a new bbpress (2.5.13) installation.

Everything works well, except that I’d like that imported users that exist in the wordpress (4.8) installation are automatically linked to subjects, messages, etc…

As mention in this post, I could delete “imported_…” accounts and choose the existing users. But I have more than 1100 matches. One by one is just terrible…

I tried to modify the “bbpress/includes/admin/convert.php” file but with no success.

Is there any way “automate” this ?
Thank you.

[InTempest]

@Robin W

Ive looked at those too, and i guess my issue is im trying to have the comminuty and the front end of each niche seperate enough for each group to be self maintained, yet connected enough with the whole for larger stuff like for event planning.ect

I was using phpbb to handle the majority of this where I just iframed the root of a groups category on their page and had the rull root show up on the main site. but it was ugly and the application plugin stopped getting updates and leaving an out of date phpbb install is a bad idea, thus trying to find a solution in WP till I can make the custom site

@Stephen Edgar

Whats funny is I saw the episode of WP watercooler where she gets called out being pro MS because of this talk, but they didnt link it.

If I didnt need to have standalone pages I wouldnt be as worried, but its trying to find a way to create what I have designed that can show an alpha or at least beta concept before i try to find funding to get my full site/schema made since the last quote was in the 5 digit range to start.

[InTempest]

Reference site http://imapiece.com/

Ill start by saying im not a developer and can edit php and code, but I cant write it from scratch…. yet

So ive been moving a guild site over from phpbb into wordpress and am still trying to figure out the best way to handle applicants, I made a post here if anyone had any ideas about that
https://bbpress.org/?post_type=topic&p=181981

So I was looking into how to maybe do a multisite with a single forum handling all the main communication among the community as a whole. I was looking through the forum here and everything that said it cant be done is very old. Is there a way to have shortcodes and custom user fields to work around that? Or maybe iframe?

Here is my thought, ill use car clubs for example

Root Forum

1 category – Car Club –
1-2 forum – public
1-3 forum – recruitment needs

2 category – members only
2-2 forum – New Car Club Applicant
2-3 forum – Car Club Events
2-4 forum – ADMIN

3 categories – (3) Honda – (4) Ford – (5) Mazda
3-2 forum – news rss
3-3 forum – brand specific news

Ok, so lets say on the main site if someone goes there it pulls everything since its the root. But give the car club its own multisite along with any niche sub group. In the custom user groups have shortcodes associated with the different ranks to show them on their member page when they look at the info something like [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] and add more to the root of that ranks permission. That way you dont have to add them per user, but per rank per group.

so in the shortcode for public users they would only have access to 1 and its contents
people in the honda club who are just members would have access to 1, 2(excluding 2-4) and 3, once they get bumped up to admin rank in that group the shortcode to display 2-4 gets added since its connected to rank roles.

In the same breath on the front end of the multisite pages you could just have them display the public forums associated with that niche pulling the data from the forum via [bbp-single-forum id=$id ].

I had a ton of control like this through phpbb using theme styling and domain masking and am trying to find a way to make it work in wordpress but its been a learning curve. I know groups in buddypress have some of this function built in, but it doesn’t seem to be tweak-able between sites. I dont want a guest to see every group in the opt in part of registration off the bat. Would rather have them app on that groups page, members review then they get added and what they see is based on what rank they have in all the groups they are in.

So am i trying to overthink this? Have I missed something that could solve this idea?

Thoughts/Suggestions?

[scrawny]

I installed phpBB and it worked fine, but I wanted something like the Ad Inserter plugin I’m using on WP and couldn’t find anything suitable.

phpBB is a good forum program with lots of good extensions. I’m hoping bbPress will ‘soon’ be updated to function properly with php 7.0.19 and 7.1.

In the meantime I’ve got to post another question elsewhere on how to cleanup the mysql database and get rid of the 7 forums I created using bbPress earlier – all forums named the same because none of them ever appeared as a forum in the listings or appeared anywhere except as a listing on my sidebar- so when I do try bbPress again I won’t endup with a mess of forums all named the same.

[Robin W]

sorry thought you went with phpbb ?

[scrawny]

2.5.13 too late. Went with phpBB.

[andreas7777777]

Hello,

I run a very large community (ca. 3 Mio posts, 60k users) and using over 17 years Woltlab as community software. Basically, my community is a forum / discussion board, but also has a magazine, gallery and a marketplace.

As I work for many years with WordPress on other projects, I really like the pros in using an open system. Thats the total opposite of a software like WBB from Woltlab, and its getting worser and worser.

So, I really think its time for changing the system and that finally 😉 brings me to my questions:

1. There is no direct importer for Woltlab, right? As far as I read you must transfer the data to phpbb and then there is an importer phpbb >> bbpress, right?

2. How is the performance if you are running a very large community?

3. I watched a few sites that uses bbpress, but they only give me little impressions how the functionality of the software is. Is there a documentation on how the moderation works / what functions exists?

Thanks in advance!

Regards, Andreas

[israelclp]

Sorry for my English!

I’m trying to migrate PHPBB 3.1.10 to BBPress, but to no avail. Always the same mistake. I would like your help if possible.

Erro no banco de dados do WordPress: [Table ‘falco785_phpb1.phpbb_user’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(user.uid USING “utf8mb4”) AS uid,convert(user.password USING “utf8mb4”) AS password,convert(user.username USING “utf8mb4”) AS username,convert(user.email USING “utf8mb4”) AS email,convert(user.regdate USING “utf8mb4”) AS regdate,convert(user.realname USING “utf8mb4”) AS realname FROM phpbb_user AS user LIMIT 0, 100

Thank you,

Israel Pimentel.

From Brazil.

[Arize Nnonyelu]

Sorry i didn’t get the mail alert, i thought i would be notified. Related topics are going to be spotted with their tags. A list of topics with the likely tags or high views, voices etc something to make the forum more interesting. Other forum CMS like phpBB and so on has it. But they don’t have fine UI like BBPress. I wonder why BBPress don’t have that feature. Right now viewing this topic someone will just go out of the website, showing other topics at the buttom would make them stick around more. You get me right?

[scrawny]

Latest WP version, latest php version, 2016 Theme, latest bbPress version, site under construction.

I installed bbPress, followed the setup and create a forum following directions. When I click on View page or copy/paste url for the forum I get a blank page.

I deactivate and delete bbPress, clean cache and reinstall bbPress. Do everything according to directons and get a blank page.

When I click on the ‘All Forums’ link I get a blank screen even after creating forums. All forums set to no parent and order is set to 0.

I’ve installed and deactivated and cleared cache and mysql and reinstalled bbpress 7 times and keep getting a blank page no matter which url I try to display the forum. What’s that saying about people repeating the same mistake over and over and over??

I’ve run vBulletin for years, and phpBB, but no matter what I keep getting a blank forum screen with bbPress.

[cfncurtis]

WP Version 4.7.5 I think I am using phpBB

I am using the bbpress forum tool. Everytime I try to delete a forum that has been overrun with spam – I get this error back. And it won’t even let me close it or make it private. HELP!!!

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 32 bytes) in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas02_data01/61/2063961/html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1841

[lrtrln]

Hi,
After making an import of data from phpBB 3.2 to bbPress 2.6beta2,
impossible to connect one of the users formerly present in phpBB.
The following errors are immediately displayed when attempting to connect:

Notice: Undefined index: _bbp_converter_rows in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 753
Notice: Undefined index: _bbp_converter_db_user in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 754
Notice: Undefined index: _bbp_converter_db_pass in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 754
Notice: Undefined index: _bbp_converter_db_name in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 754
Notice: Undefined index: _bbp_converter_db_server in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 754

Can someone help me figure out what’s going on? Thanks.

WP: 4.7.5
bbPress: 2.6beta2
phpBB: 3.2

[Michał]

Hi,

I need help with migrating forums from the xoops system (xoops.org). The forum is based on the “newbb” module very similar to “phpbb”. I tried alone using available converters in bbpress package but unfortunately it only moves forum categories. Will there be a willing person to help with this?

Regards, Michal and sorry for my english 😉

[blasterspike]

Unfortunately I haven’t found a solution.
I still think that due to

Existing passwords are converted during the import so users can login to WordPress/bbPress as soon as the import and recounts have finished.

the converter should have saved the database information to read phpbb_users somewhere but it hasn’t, that’s way I’m getting the “Error establishing a database connection”.
Which I think is somehow related to
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1886

At this point I will ask my users to reset their password.
During my tests, I have also discovered that even if you reset your password, you are still getting the “Error establishing a database connection” error for migrated user and to “skip” it, you have to rename/delete the table “wp_bbp_converter_translator”.

[blasterspike]

I have tried again from a dump of a phpBB 3.1.9 and I’m back at the

Error establishing a database connection

error. Every time I have to do a test, I’m sure I use the “Reset Forums” function (tools.php?page=bbp-reset) and at the import I select both
“Start a fresh conversion from the beginning”
“Purge all information from a previously attempted import”

[blasterspike]

I have to update this thread.
After the Nth time that I was uninstalling/installing bbPress 2.6 beta 2 to do a test with a new import, this time it’s just giving me a wrong password error while I’m 100% sure of the password as I have done a copy/paste from the old phpBB forum.

[Brandon Allen]

@giobby

What I can tell you for sure as a general feedback is that since I’ve moved to bbPRess from phpBB the forum has suddenly died and users are pushing me to roll back to phpBB as they don’t find bbPress as user friendly.

Humans are generally resistant to change. That doesn’t mean they’re wrong, but it also doesn’t mean they’re right. If you would be willing to share specific feedback your users have given you, we would love to look it over and see what we can do. There’s lots of room for improvement.

2.6a has been there for a while and I am wondering when a stable version will be available and what new functionalities will be available.

I’m curious about what specific version of 2.6-alpha you’re running (this should be listed in the admin on the plugins page, e.g. – 2.6-alpha-XXXX). Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter though, because we’re currently at 2.6-beta-2 (https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.6-beta-2.zip).

I would suggest updating to 2.6-beta-2 and seeing if anything improves. 2.6 will have a lot of improvements. Performance is one of those improvements. The biggest performance improvements won’t becoming until beta-3 is released, but you can always download the development version (https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip).

Do let us know what comes of any changes.

[Michał]

I took the phpBB.php modification. I replaced the names of 3 tables in the database: from “xoops_bb_posts” to “posts”, from “xoops_bb_posts_text” to “posts_text”, from “xoops_bb_topics” to “topics”.

I am working on a converter, converting a forum category -> OK, the first error appears when it starts to convert topics:

Błąd bazy danych WordPressa: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'INNER JOIN posts_text AS posts_text USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id = topic' at line 1]
SELECT convert(topics.topic_id USING "mypass") AS topic_id,convert(topics.topic_replies USING "mypass") AS topic_replies,convert(topics.forum_id USING "mypass") AS forum_id,convert(topics.topic_poster USING "mypass") AS topic_poster,convert(topics.poster_name USING "mypass") AS poster_name,convert(posts.poster_ip USING "mypass") AS poster_ip,convert(posts_text.post_text USING "mypass") AS post_text,convert(topics.topic_title USING "mypass") AS topic_title,convert(topics.topic_status USING "mypass") AS topic_status,convert(topics.topic_type USING "mypass") AS topic_type,convert(topics.topic_time USING "mypass") AS topic_time,convert(topics.topic_last_post_time USING "mypass") AS topic_last_post_time FROM topics AS topics INNER JOIN posts AS posts USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id = topics.topic_first_post_id INNER JOIN posts_text AS posts_text USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id = topics.topic_first_post_id LIMIT 0, 100

It seems to me that the problem is because the “newbb” system uses two tables to display the response content: xoops_bb_posts and xoops_bb_posts_text. The structures are both here; http://www.kulturystyka.org.pl/newbb_table_structure.txt

[Stephen Edgar]

First up, if you use bbPress 2.6 beta there are huge updates to the importer 🙂

You can download bbPress 2.6 beta from https://bbpress.org/download/

I’d suggest you look at either the phpBB or SMF importers, the two of those are the best examples that uses as much functionality as possible.

I’ll take a look at that table structure you posted later today and see if I can make some suggestions to help, p.s. very helpful that you posted that, so thanks 🙂