[Trent Adams]

Sorry, one more thing. An example of this is my forum if you want a look (click on my name in this post). I was using Nucleus and phpbb for comments and moved over to WordPress for new posts and eventually moved phpBB to bbPress.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

I haven’t heard of an export from bbPress to WordPress, but I don’t imagine that someone couldn’t write one in a hurry if they understand both programs. If you already have posts in punbb, you could easily export those posts to phpbb format and then use the import from phpbb to bbPress.

If you already have your comments and posts in a forum, why not setup a new WordPress blog once you have all your posts imported into bbPress and then have all new posts in WordPress go to bbPress for comments and further discussion. That way, all your old posts are already in the forum and all new posts will end up there as well. This is easily done with the bbPress-Post plugin. All new wordpress articles are created in bbPress and a link is placed in the wordpress post to the corresponding bbPress post.

Just something to think about.

Trent

[Ahni]

Hey folks.

I’m currently using punbb and snews, and I’m interesting in switching over to wordpress and bbpress. I honestly should’ve used wordpress in the first place, but new things frighten me (lol)…

Anyways, what I’d like to do is put all my punbb posts into wordpress – and the only way I can see that happening is if I first import all the posts from punbb (to phpbb) to bbress and then to wordpress.

That’s probably overly complicated, but I can’t imagine how else this is possible and I have no real technical skill –so what I’m wondering is how difficult would it be to get the posts from bbress to wordpress? (or maybe someone has another suggestion.)

Thanks for all the great work.

Ahni

[sidzzz]

hmm yeah i left out phpbb… too huge and spammy… i am going with vanilla

if any suggestions let me know

[ardentfrost]

Yeah, for that you’ll either have to wait for support or a plugin to be written. Gotta give it time. It’s something I was going to try to tackle soon, but I wouldn’t hold your breathe on my account

I still have my phpbb forums up and they get slammed all the time with spammer comments. If you’re going to use something else while you wait for a plugin to be written, I’d probably try something else if I were you.

[sidzzz]

Hi there,

I run my blog/site on wordpress and I am really keen to add a forum. I have the option of phpbb or smf or our very own bbpress.

Picture support is my basic requirement. Could you please tell me when will it be added to bbpress? Coz i am all for WP!

And is there anyways, we could have the title of the thread as the url for the thread to make it more SEO friendly with keywords?

Cheers,

Sid

[alinutza]

Hey,

The open source community is working on a standard process to evaluate software.

At ITerating, we’re working with the Business Readiness Rating (BRR) consortium and with users to gather this shared content . We provide an easy interface to post a review using the BRR approach.

It would be great if one of you could take the time to provide feedback on bbPress using this approach. All you need to do is go to http://www.iterating.com/products/bbPress and click on “review this product”. The information will be part of the growing database of reviews on the http://www.openBRR.org site, in addition of being viewable on the iterating site.

Reviews for other products in the same category as bbPress , such as phpBB have already been posted on the site.

Thanks,

Alina Barbuceanu

Research Analyst

alina@iterating.com

http://www.iterating.com

[ardentfrost]

So, I just started using bbpress 3 days ago mostly because phpbb is God awful when it comes to spammers (akismet is pretty awesome on my homepage, so I assumed it would also be awesome in forums).

At any rate, I installed a copy as a test and have been playing with it, got kinda sad that avatars weren’t supported (and didn’t want to make people get gravatars just to have an avatar, esp since gravatar service was down the other night). So I wrote my own avatar functions.

I have everything I did on my forums, or you can just go check it out at http://www.rayd.org/forums2/

My question is, can what I did be done in a plug-in? I know I can put my two ground-up functions in a plug-in file, but the one I don’t know how to do is the way I added a spot for a link to an avatar in profile pages. Here’s the link to me describing what I did, and the quote from what I’m talking about:

http://www.rayd.org/forums2/topic/6?replies=1

bb-includes/functions.php line 1388: Added avatar info to the array in function get_profile_info_keys(). Looks like this:

array(‘user_email’ => array(1, __(‘Email’)), ‘user_url’ => array(0, __(‘Website’)), ‘from’ => array(0, __(‘Location’)), ‘occ’ => array(0, __(‘Occupation’)), ‘interest’ => array(0, __(‘Interests’)), ‘avatar_loc’ => array(0,__(‘Avatar URL’)))

As you can see, adding that little avatar stuff at the end of that array definition not only easily added the spot to the page, but put it in the database and allowed me easy access to it in my other functions.

I’d love to make this into a plug-in, I just don’t know how to do that. Any advice would be great

[erikgloom]

Interesting. Shouldn’t be too difficult to convert & import from any forum to another.

[Trent Adams]

Did you edit the plugin to have your database username, database name and password? The plugin requires that information hardcoded into the space provided.

Trent

[pixelfight]

Well, dunno…I cant get it to work ;-(

[pixelfight]

I got this message….

Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

I am very new to databases, and I really could use some help here

[worrypascanada]

«What steps did you take? Did you install bbPress in another database or did you install it again in the current database that WordPress is at. »

I did install bbPress in another database or by itself… separate from WordPress database.

«If you installed in another database and then exported out the bb_ prefix tables and imported them in the database with the wp_ prefix tables, nothing should have happened to WordPress.»

Yes, it’s what my web host support that did the export/import… the exact same steps you instructed me to do or as shown above: export bbPress tables, then import bbPress to WordPress. It seems that I’ve use the same identifier or username (Robert Richard) for the bbPress as it already existed within WordPress (Robert Richard)… both database had the same Admin username or identifier.

«Either way, nothing should have happened to WordPress because bbPress uses the login information from WordPress, not vice-versa.»

I’m not sure of about «either way», but I will ask my web host help desk to re-install backups and start over again with a different identifier or username.

«When I installed bbPress, I chose the ‘key master’ as an account that isn’t the admin in WordPress. That is a pain because I have to login as 1 user to administer bbPress and logout and login as another user to administer WordPress. Of course, I figured all this out after importing my phpBB posts.»

I’m figuring out this stuff hands on and by having you as a support. It seems logical to have a different identifier; I thought about it afterwards. Regretfully, I don’t have the formal training with database and tables to have predicted this dynamic. Luckily, bbPress.org has you.

Thanks a million.

Robert Richard.

[Trent Adams]

Robert,

What steps did you take? Did you install bbpress in another database or did you install it again in the current database that WordPress is at. If you installed in another database and then exported out the bb_ prefix tables and imported them in the database with the wp_ prefix tables, nothing should have happened to WordPress. Either way, nothing should have happened to wordpress because bbpress uses the login information from WordPress, not vice-versa. When I installed bbpress, I chose the ‘key master’ as an account that isn’t the admin in WordPress. That is a pain because I have to login as 1 user to administer bbpress and logout and login as another user to administer WordPress. Of course, I figured all this out after importing my phpBB posts…..

[lingmiester]

THANKS!

[marky]

There’s a phpBB importer script available in this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/3

But it doesn’t convert BBCode yet. I think that feature is in the works, though.

[BetaCandy]

I’ve already had a porn spammer sign up and create a profile just to get a link back to his site. If I mark him a “bozo” will that prevent search engine bots from tracing the link from my site to his? I don’t want search engine bots to track outbound links to spam sites from my site.

If so, the bozo option will be much better than simply deleting them; I know from my old phpbb board, if you delete them, they just come back.

[Tammy Hart]

I am so happy that this has been released, and I can’t wait to get knee deep into the templating system. I do have one question, though. phpBB provides converters for people that would like to swtich from say, vB to their script. It would be great if there was a way to switch from phpBB to bbPress. I realize that’s a big request, but it would make my life so much easier. My husband recently told me he wanted to add a blog to his site that is already running a phpBB board, as his webmaster/design/tech-head, my first answer was, “Okay, but it’ll have a different members system. If we could convert his phpBB to a bbPress, I could then add the WP and integrate them.

his site: http://www.emmaus-way.net

my site: http://www.tammyhartdesigns.com

[AphelionZ]

Adding my support… in my old phpBB board i had a section called ‘ftl/n’ (for the lose, or no?) section that I encouraged people to take their flame wars/immaturity to that only registered users could see (so guests didn’t have to see threads descend into madness) and I’d like to be able to get that feature back.

[bftuk]

Will bbpress have an option for members to have signatures, where they can add text or links?

I’m looking at starting a new forum, having used SMF & PHPBB forums in the past, but i really like wordpress so have installed a ‘test’ site using bbpress, and am really impressed, but its an important feature that i’m need to be installed.

[mrjain]

very nice design. A couple years ago on stumbled onto WordPress and glad I did. I feel the same way about bbPress, but i’m sure it will be rock solid and full of features a lot quicker. I was looking at phpBB, but I’m going to implement bbPress.

take care,

mrj

[AphelionZ]

Three types of forums:

Kind of Active

Very Active

Way too Active

View posts since last visit is how users in most “Very Active” forums keep track of what’s going on, as well as the moderators, so it should be available.

(Compare this to kind of active forums where you can immediately tell what’s changed, and way too active forums where users usually search out/discover and ‘subscribe’ to their favorite threads in the sea of threads.

This will also help people in the transition from an older forum solution like phpBB.

The links you mentioned also still be useful for moderators, especially “posts with no tags.” if they want to go in and clean up after the users. Perhaps resolved/unresolved/not a support question should just be made extensible so users can pick whatever they want to put there, or choose not to use it at all.

PS- If you comment those links out of your front-page.php that should solve a lot of your immediate problems.

[AphelionZ]

Lucky for you, there’s already a thread about this –

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/3?replies=18

[lingmiester]

Hi,

I have a forum running on phpbb2.

I’ve reciently got bbpress set up and running in a breeze! So I am wondering if I can transfer all my databases of posts and users from my phpbb2 site into bbpress, so my users can just login agian, rather than re-register? Also I like to migrate all my posts as well.

[RedSkunk]

Please! You’ll have to be patient.. we are lucky we got this phpBB to bbpress importer this quickly.. jeesh! I’m sure brunotorre will probably make up more import scripts then..

If not brunotorre, then someone else I’m sure.. We’ll just have to be patient here.. Just my 2 cents …

I was able to use his script to bring over all of my users, just by modifying the table names that it was calling for from phpBB. But his code got more complicated, especially for the posts.. For someone who has a firm grasp on php, it wasn’t as much to ask as it might seem.. But I ended up bringing over the info by hand via PHPMyAdmin… Nearly everything, minus the dates of posts since PunBB put that info on a different table altogether.

But yeah, I’m not faulting brunotorre for not getting to my issue immediately. The demand for PunBB->BBPress is prolly going to always be small. Kudos for brunotorre’s work, def!