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.
Lucky for you, there’s already a thread about this –
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/3?replies=18
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.
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!
Dear astereo,
Great guide! One thing I would add, however, is what to do when there are errors, ie troubleshooting. For some reason I get stuck at the install.php file telling me “Cannot select DB.” This is despite the fact that I have followed the directions you mentioned (and those included on this website) to a T and have successfully installed WordPress, phpBB, and other php/mysql web programs with no problem. Also it seems like the member n2 is having the same problem. If the solution is found to this, perhaps it could be put in your ultimate guide, so that others do not fall into the same trap. Thank you.
I’ve just installed bbpress and have the same problem – my posts were all -1years “freshness”
I figured out that I needed to configure the config.php with my server time and not my local time. My server runs on PDT, which is 7 hours behind my physical location (on BST, shortly to be GMT). So now my “freshness” is correct, but all my post times are wrong. I’d like to see a mod that allows the user to define their local time zone and operate independently of the board’s installation location.
Apart from that – bbpress looks great and I love the freshness of it after the clutter of phpBB.
What about importing from PunBB?
*sigh*
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 …
spencerp
My mistake; you’re absolutely right — it only displays deleted posts.
Marky, I can be wrong, but the only posts which appear on the admin are the deleted ones. That may be why the imported posts don’t show.
Marky, just after posting here I realized I forgot to convert the bbcodes. I’ll try to make it shortly.
About the announcements and sticky, I’ll give a look too.
But I still don’t have a clue why posts don’t appear on the admin. If you or anyone know why, please let me know.
One more quick note: the imported posts don’t seem to appear in the admin interface, even after re-counting everything and such.
What about importing from PunBB?
*sigh*
OK, I gave the script a shot and it imported everything very nicely!
The only snag is that the bbCodes weren’t stripped or converted in the process, so many of the posts end up looking like gibberish. Also, sticky threads and announcements weren’t converted as such, although that’s less of an issue.
I certainly hope there’s enough demand for this script to justify adding these features. Otherwise, nice job!
Ok, I see there is an importing from phpbb but I’ve got a slightly different issue with vanilla. I like it but love bbpress much more now and would love to bring over my site to it. Is there anyone with any ideas on where to start on this and possibly some help over that. It would be greatly appreciated.
brunotorre, you’re a life saver! I’ll give the script a test shot tonight, and I’ll let you know how it goes.
I did this: http://brunotorres.net/unsorted/phpbb2bbpress.phps
Worked fine to me, importing a phpBB database with about 30000 records, including users, metadata, topics and posts. It takes a lot of time to finish, but works.
The code is a mess. I just finished doing this. Maybe I’ll make it better, if there’s people interested.
You have to use it on a fresh instalation, since it’ll delete any existing data.
It was just tested by me and I can’t ensure it’ll work for anyone, but I’d like some feedback.
Enjoy!
You should always feel free to discuss this or anything eles on the mailing list: https://lists.bbpress.org/mailman/listinfo/bbdev
I might do a converter for you. It’ll depend on a couple of things. If someone “in charge” here gets in touch (leaves me an email addr to contact them on) I’ll discuss with you.
Si yo entiendo bien, y recien estoy explorando bbpress mas y mas, que phpbb tiene diferentes capacidaded. bbpress me parece mas rapido pero no tiene algunas cosas que un foro bien grande debe tener, como la capacadid suscribir a un thread por email. No se, pero si my pagina era casi todo foro, yo usaria algo como phpbb o invasion, etc.
You might want to follow this thread maybe?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/3?replies=6
spencerp
Not yet, from what I can gather. But hopefully someone will work on an importer script soon.
Hi all,
Is there an easy way to import a phpBB forum into bbPress?
Thanks!
Hola!
Que lástima enterarme tarde, acabo de montar un foro en mi blog http://www.alhaurintorre.com con phpBB.
Me ha llevado bastante trabajo y de haberlo sabido, seguro que lo hubiese intentado primero conWP.
Cuando me recupere de la experiencia lo intentaré con bbPress.
¡¡Suerte!!
I second this request; bbPress is absolutely perfect, and I’d love to switch, but I have a six-year-old phpBB support forum filled with support topics for users to search through. What a shame it would be to lose all that info!
Thanks for sharing that Detro, the thought saving the PMs is important as well, now if *only* there was a way to grab ALL of the informations from a phpBB board, that’d be awesome.
If no one around here can do one up, I’ll see if I can get *someone* I know, to do it..
spencerp
