[bryan868]

Is the phpBB 3.0 converter included in bbPress 1.0 alpha 2? Just curious, I’m interested in testing it out.

[bmg1227]

Chris, no, I want them to see particular forums on the “front page” but when they click the forum link they can’t see any of the posts. Other forums like phpbb3, etc have this. Part of my forum is going to be open to the public, while another part is going to be paid support. I want people to see how many people are using the paid support but not be able to access that part of the forum behind the front page.

Make sense?

[chrishajer]

If you make it work, please post your experience so that other’s may learn from it. Thanks.

[shughey]

Thanks, that’s what I needed.

[chrishajer]

bbPress helps those who help themselves:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/phpbb

[shughey]

Is there a way to move my phpBB forum to a newly created bbPress forum?

Thanks,

Sam Hughey

[mirochai]

Hi,

Is there a way for me to easily merge Forums, topics, split topics and so forth?

I would like to merge a couple of my forums. I just imported my phpbb2 40 meg forum to bbpress. It works super! But I have so many forums and would like to merge them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best,

[meitershaker]

“You could do it with two browser tabs or windows.”

lol, euh yes, but not very user-friendly i think

“Why are you looking to see other posts while editing another (just curious)? “

because for me, edit a post for add or complete post, it’s more interesting to have always the entire thread. And for political forum, where the post are many times big, it’s necessary to have entire thread..

so, in phpbb by default for example, it’s like that…

i have no idea how to do it with a plugin, and i ask you for a little help :p

++

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-initiates-importexport-standard-for-web-forums

[bryan868]

So what was the outcome from the Summer of Code? Did we get a phpBB 3.0 converter?

[Sam Bauers]

If you upgrade to the latest bbPress trunk you will have access to the new BBXF exporter. There is also a standalone BBXF importer for phpBB, but I have not tested it yet. You will have to do some work to get it running at this early stage of development, this should be a lot easier as we move forward with this idea.

For more check here http://bbxf.org/

[meitershaker]

Hi,

like phpBB, i think it is interesting to open a wiki (with dokuwiki? )

why? because for example, i have many ideas of plugins, but the documentation is too small for i can understand how to do that

so, it is possible or not? :p

please please please :p

[thion]

For me it’s clear – bbPress puts user first, but it sucks without developer – I’m talking about board developer, not script developers . Someone need to set up forum first, and he is using this great engine-core as I’m calling it with additional plugins he need – if one is creating forum for php coders, then he don’t need bbcode or any form of editor, as users will know stuff. This forum for example don’t need editor because its target is people who are developing using bbPress.

For me, it’s a library of functions ready to set up a great, huge and fast forum – if you want a board like “set up and forget about it” then go and use phpbb3 – huge, slow with thousands of useless options. But if you’re a developer, then there’s nothing better than bbPress for you.

[chrishajer]

I’ve never done it, but I think the normal route is to go from phpBB3 to phpBB2 then go from phpBB2 to bbPress.

Here is some of the discussion:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/phpbb

[Chris Andersen]

I’d like to move from phpbb3 to bbpress. Do you have any import function?

[pab1953]

In vBulletin, if I want to pay $180, I could get the Porsche (reportedly) of message boards. In phpBB, if I want to grapple with a sizable infrastructure, I could get perhaps the most seasoned of the free forum systems.

What do I get with bbPress? Is it secure? Will it get spammed to death? Is it stable? Is it designed for personal sites or can businesses use it with confidence?

Here’s one very specific question: How do I add a link to bbPress to take people back to my WordPress home page?

BTW, the installation was a breeze.

[meitershaker]

help please, i’m very lost lol.

so, it is possible to add colors in bbcode, like in phpbb or punbb?

thanks.

[meitershaker]

for example, for phpbb2: http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/phpbb2-sessions-integration/

i would like to display the login form and menu in others page.

[meitershaker]

Hi,

i want to add simply sessions in my wordpress’s header (not the completed integration), how to that? like the phpbb session system

bye!

[chrishajer]

I tagged this for Sam Bauers, the developer who posted the original information at the GSOC page. Maybe he will stop by and add some insight.

[nsireland]

Thanks! Haven’t found anything, but I’ll do a lot more searching, thanks for the link!

[chrishajer]

The last I heard was that import/export was going to be a Google Summer of Code project, but I can’t find any updates there:

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=015986126177484454297%3Apfmwlvdl42y&cof=FORID%3A0&q=bbpress&sa=Search

[nsireland]

I loved bbPress to start with, but it’s become a pain now. bbPress is a lightweight piece of software, although there are some functions that should come with the installation that can be enabled/disabled via the admin panel.

There are just so many add-ons that most forumers want, and I think that bbPress has gone a bit extreme on the lightness, although I love it, other (annoying) forumers don’t, so now I’m stuck between moving to phpBB3 or just opening a guestbook lol.

Three of the main things that should change is being able to simply modify the number of tags in the sidebar. On the same page, it’d be nice to be able to have seperate options for the numbers of latest discussions and actual forum topics shown. People just don’t see the forums with the ‘Latest Discussions’ in the way.

Thirdly, it would be nice to see icons beside each forum, indicating new posts etc.

[nsireland]

I’m looking for the same thing. I want to move to phpBB3 without having to manually re-write all of the topics. bbPress is brilliant, but there are so so many issues that just get a wee bit irritating. Does anyone know if there are any updates on this front?

[_ck_]

There is at least one person I found via google who has done the simple:press conversion but they didn’t say how. I suspect it was the phpbb2 process.

Any series of steps you do via phpmyadmin can be saved in sql code and made into a converter. Give me the sql commands and I’ll make you a script.