Thanks! Haven’t found anything, but I’ll do a lot more searching, thanks for the link! 
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
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.
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?
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.
If you are not on 2.6 yet, stay with 2.5 and install bbPress 0.9
bbPress 1.0 is in ALPHA and not ready for active sites that use/need plugins. Many of my plugins have issues with 1.0 because of many internal changes.
bbPress integration is easy and takes just a few minutes if you have a typical server and standard setup.
There are a several large sites using bbPress (including WordPress.org) so it handles high traffic just fine.
I’ve never heard of anyone converting from Simple:Press, you’ll have to search for it. If you can get it into PHPBB2 format, several people have converted from that.
Hi, I am already using the Simple:Press Forum but I am not happy with it. I am thinking to make a phpBB3 integration but it seems to hard to do, so I see this forum system and taking a look is simple but usefull, so, who questions…
1. May I think to use this system for a high trafic forum ?. I mean, can I control the users, has good permissions and things like that.
2. There is a way to import from my actual forum system ?
PD. I will update to 2.6.x today or tomorrow.
Thanks,
Hi guys,
I want to start a forum from scratch and was going to install phpBB but after too much reading I decided that is best to me (and to the forum) use the bbPress.
I installed both stable and trunk versions on my local machine and was playing around for a couple hours. bbPress is really what I want, but I’m a little bit undecided about what version upload to my host.
I know 1.0 final release is coming soon but have too many tickets to close and I don’t want to wait.
In your opinion guys, for who wants to start over theses days… should I install 1.0 Alpha or latest stable version to put on production.
Thank you so much.
Joel Teixeira
Many people have posted about phpBB. Just click the tag you added phpBB and you’ll see lots of discussion.
Here are a couple:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-phpbb-to-bbpress-database-converter
RE: public, private and superprivate forums:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/
That enables you to hide forums based on roles.
I administer a phpbb forum that we are considering migrating to new software. As I’m pretty familiar with WordPress I thought this might be a good option, but I wanted to double check and ask a couple questions:
1) Can bbPress import my phpbb database? What info am I liable to lose?
2) My forum has a public section, a private section, and a superprivate section for admins and such. Does bbpress support this sort of thing? We govern who can go where with groups and permissions in phpbb, but I’m concerned that it wouldn’t translate.
Thanks!
Well each forum matrix is maintained by someone from each project. I recently had MDA update the settings for bbPress but there are still some things that are incorrect due to the limitations on that website (for example “plugin” is not an option on some settings).
In other related news, Wikipedia decided to delete the page on bbPress last week which really upset me:
http://ckon.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/wikipedia-overlords-delete-bbpress-page/
Virtually every other forum software is on there, so I don’t know why they felt that was necessary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_forum_software
Posted a year ago and no action!
*I* just found it here.
Not sure who if ever anyone else will see this – but what a job those people did on that chart!
Cheers!
Himagain
I’m interested in this too. Mostly I’m interested because my current forum that I’m converting from (phpbb) allows you to preview your post, and that feature will be sorely missed. Bring able to save a draft of it would fit right along side a preview, pretty much just like the way WordPress allows authors to save/preview drafts. Now, I’m not a php person in any way (although I wish I was) but I can see it could easily work to make a plug-in or mod that would allow you the option to save your post draft for later with a different post status and pull it or all your saved/unpublished drafts into a single page by pulling them based on the status and your user id. From there you could edit those posts and “publish” them by saving and changing the status code to so that bbPress “sees” it as a valid post rather than a “deleted” or “saved draft”.
I tinkered with this idea a little while ago but with my php knowledge limited to hacking peices here and there to suit my needs it’s just too much of a task. I can’t imagine it would be too complicated to implement. Let us know if this pans out Vili or anyone else who has an urge to work on something like this.
I think I can transfer to phpBB. So there is a plugin to transfer from phpBB to BBpress? I’ll look for it.
If not, I’ll grab my database admin friend and see if he’ll help me.
(All moot till Yahoo gets mySQL working again; I can’t even access phpmyadmin. 
)
Unfortunately that software is so new I don’t think anyone has done a conversion yet.
If you can get it into phpBB format it might be possible to convert from there.
If you are comfortable with phpmyadmin and some php code you can always attempt to do it yourself too.
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I’m considering switching from phpbb to bbPress, but I’ve run into nothing but problems when it comes to working on my own profile. The registration process goes just fine, but after I log in, I can’t get to my own profile?
Is there something else I have to do? Do I have to remember that awkwardly long and unintuitive password that was sent my way? Can’t I set any preferences in my profile?
This isn’t on my site, this is right here on bbpress.org forums.
And me, I would like to say “thank you!” at the developers! :p
Indeed, I myself separate of phpBB for bbpress 1.0, a forum for ~ 100 members. I think that even if bbpress is less natively provided, he went on good bases with excellent management of urls and rss excellent! Even if it takes a twenty plugin to find features like on other forums, well bbpress seems better already!
I’m just frustrated to not find IRC channel and there have not an integration process native of the best plugins: p (perhaps should organize competitions, is not it?). therefore it lacks a bit of “fun” lol. But bbPress is already super:)
we want the fun :p
SMF has had over five years of development. vBulletin has had over eight. phpBB, eight years. punBB, five years. Vanilla, four years. Invision, six years.
I wish people would compare by software development time. bbPress is just over a year old, just imagine what it will be like in five years!
Development has been slow this year so I understand the frustration but technically it’s not even 1.0 yet so anyone using it is considered an “early adopter”.
Yes, put it in it’s own folder, inside the WordPress folder. So you might have something like this:
/var/www/public/website/wordpress
/var/www/public/website/wordpress/bbpress/
The 404 error might be because you are trying to use permalinks, either “slugs” or true, and they’re not set up on your server. I would change them to false for now and see if you can get the links to work. If that works, then you know that was the problem and you just need to set up permalinks.
https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks
phpBB3 conversion:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion
I don’t think so, not easily, not yet. I think there was a script to export phpBB2 to bbPress:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-phpbb-to-bbpress-database-converter
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Also can I convert my board from phpbb3 to bbpress?
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I’ve decided to go with bbPress for my new website because of my love for WordPress because of the relative ease of user integration and it’s light weight. I have everything nailed down except that I’d like to customize my installation to show categories like other forum software, i.e.:
Category
+Forum
+Forum
+Forum
Category
+Forum
+Forum
+Forum
You get the idea I’m sure. I’ve searched quite a bit and found only some posts from a year ago where this was brought up and supposedly this is in the trunk now. Has anyone managed to do this to a current stable installation or know how I could do it myself? It seems there used to be patches that did this for old revisions and I thought about playing with them to try to produce the desired effect on the current stable version. Has anyone else tried that?
I figure one option I _could_ use is trying out the current trunk (which I have almost up and running, got it installed but have an error that says it cannot find the uri) but I worry about stability.
I’d appreciate some tips and tricks if anyone has any. The lack of organization isn’t a deal breaker but it would be very nice. I don’t feel like waiting until version 1.0 which I know will be a long way off and I don’t want to try to cram together wordpress and another bloated beast of a forum like phpbb3.
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Para aquéllos que quieran hacer la locura que he intentado, y por ahora me va saliendo:
1. Migrar un foro phpBB a bbPress (sólo desde phpBB2)
2. Integrar WP y BBPress.
(Se puede)
No debe aparecer ninguna especificación de codificación ni en bb-config.php, NI EN LA SECCIÓN ADMIN de BBPress. Es decir: quitad utf8 en la pestaña “opciones” “WordPress Integration” y del archivo bb-config.php.
Me ha costado un mes.
