[Pascal Casier]

First in test, always !

Pascal.

[spottydog]

Hi.

I have created 4 Forums, but only the latest 2 show up on the Forum Index page.
I’ve looked at the settings, but I can’t seem to find anything to change to allow more to show.
The website is still under development, but you can see the page at http://www.computer-repairs-morayfield.com.au/jetski/forums/
All Forums are “Open”.
I’m hoping someone can shed some light on the problem.

Regards
Iain

[aaachiaki]

I think I’m pulling the right info…

MySQL server version: 5.5.42-37.1

On the PhP Back end…

Under “Web Server” it says:
Database client version: libmysql – 5.1.73

On phpMyAdmin it says:
Version information: 4.3.8, latest stable version: 4.6.0

[aaachiaki]

Late to the party on migrating, but I think it’s time. Installed bbPress via plugins on my WordPress instance. I’d played around with it in the past so I cleared all the old data with a board reset. Went to import and put in all the information – created a new MySQL user with full permissions to the database my phpBB forum is on.

Set rows limit to 75 and Delay time to 3 – I have a pretty big forum to move.

Checked all three boxes for Convert Users, Start Over, and Purge – I want a full, clean import.

It gets right to the start of the process and says:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘XXXX_forum.users’ doesn’t exist]
(the XXXX is the name of my database)

And it gives a long string in gray after that of info I don’t quite understand.

Tried deleting the plugin and reinstalling it. I’m on the latest version of WordPress and PhpBB.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance!

[abletec]

Well let’s see if the 3rd time’s a charm. My site is netballscoop.com. I’m running latest version of WordPress & BBPress. This is a sports site, w/content going back to 2007. I’d really like to make it such that only content for the current year is displayed & previous content archived to another site, but I’m having trouble. An export of only 2016 content & reimport does not work correctly (I suspect because the topic & reply numbers are messed up) & the WordPress Bulk Delete plugin simply can’t do this. Anyone got any suggestions? Please? Is this something that no one else wants to do or…?

[olliewe88]

Hello,

I make a new fourm role called facepainter. When I go into the user and set the fourm role as facepainter it works fine. However when they post somthing it still says member below their name, when it should say facepainter.

I am on the latest wordpress version
I am using Tesseract theme
My website is http://www.monsterbrand.co.uk

Hopefully that is clear enough
Thanks!

[ajay48jang]

i am testing forums but forum list style has shadow. I want to make it simple forum style. how to do it? http://www.wehackyou.com/forums

[klink]

I don’t really know how it would be possible to deactivate necessary plugins and/or switch themes and still make sure the site is still usable to our paid community. It’s not something I can test, as I don’t know how the spammers are getting through in the first place.

[Wendell]

I’m testing with a conversion from xenForo to bbpress as well. I’m using the latest bbpress available to the public, 2.5.8. My xenForo site has about 33,000 topics, 330,000 posts and 6,000 users. Running the bbpress import feature seems to work without a hitch. Then when I go to repair, all functions work great except for the “Recalculate the position of each reply”, as another user here has mentioned. After several seconds, I get a 500 error.

After the import and running the repair items (except for the one that doesn’t work), the forums *seem* to all be intact and working well until you look a bit closer. Many users aren’t associated with their posts — they show 0 posts in bbpress even though they have thousands of posts in xenForo.

I may go ahead and try bbpress 2.6 alpha and see how it goes.

FWIW, I’m running both forums on the same VPS, so the import is relatively quick. It takes a few hours.

[Sziban]

As I checked the converter again, I found that during the test period I changed the default value to “special” in this part below.
// User password verify class (Stored in usermeta for verifying password)
$this->field_map[] = array(
‘to_type’ => ‘user’,
‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_class’,
‘default’ => ‘special’
);
Is this could cause the error?

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m guessing the sync-all-reply-positions fails because of some incorrect meta for the replies, theres also a few known issues with this tool timing out when used on sites with lots of replies.

The user-role-map repair tool should work fine, no known issues with this one.

What happens if you create a new user, just a new WordPress user, can that user login, create topics and replies etc? What happens if you now remove all the imported users and run this repair tool again, theoretically it would only be running on “native” WordPress users and not any imported users, (i.e. “admin” and “test user” only), does the repair tool still fail?

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for this, I don’t think I have a copy of a vBulletin database so there might be some issues with the db schema here, I’ll try to hunt to a vB 4.2.2 database to test.

[Stephen Edgar]

Apologies for the late reply though I suspect this is an issue with compatibility and the version of PHPFox being imported, I’ve only ever tested the importer with PHPFox v3.5, what version are you using?

If you’re using a version before v3.5 can you upgrade to v3.5 and see if that helps?

[tech55541]

Hello,
I just tested it, working great.
http://yourtechadvisors.com/forum-stats/

I will probably customize it with CSS, but that is an awesome start.

Thanks.

[wfcfotovisie]

You are right and I know. But it is not that view that I mean …!
Latest topics is not visible for non-admin for the moment!

I will make it visible and you will see.
See menu on top, right hand site 🙁

[tech55541]

@robkk, I am quite a new coder, I will have to test it later and figure out what is wrong.

Thanks.

[Pascal Casier]

$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$user_id = $current_user->ID;
if ( 0 == $user_id ) {
    // Not logged in.
} else {
    // code from previous thread, use function like bbp_get_user_topic_count_raw($user_id)
}

Not tested ! But should be in that direction…

[erikture]

Hello!

I am planing to install bbPress on my site running the latest version of WordPress.
However I have a rather “strange” requirement.
On the site we have a private part where the users logs in with username and password.
The problem is that all users use the same username. We have tried to give each member an individual username but without any success. They will not remember their username or password. The information on the protected part is not personalized so it is not accturally a problem that they use the same username.

My problem is that when they then post to bbPress all users will post as this generic user. Is it possible to force the anonymous posting layout even for logged in users? This will force them to enter their name and emailadress and we can figure out who has posted what.

/Erik

[alfio8788]

Hello everyone,

After a fight with vbulletin and mysql i was able to (partially) import our vbulletin forum to bbpress (an estimated import time was 12 days for a full import, we decided to run such a task only for the last import that will go live) but sadly the import is totally out of sync resulting in this kind of problems:

1) Threads are posted by the wrong user
2) Replies are posted with the wrong user
3) Links to user profiles randomly missing (but possible to load by requesting the profile right away from URL)

Repairs after import were executed (with the exception of bbp-sync-all-reply-positions, it always times out even if the php execution time is set to insanely high values such as 3000 seconds).

If this is caused by the interruption of the import process just let me know right away and we will create a copy of the vbulletin database and keep a smaller set of data for our tests and then import everything once our testing is done.

[bj87]

Hey, my name is Johan.
I just wondering how to put the postbox on top of the forum, because we have reverse forum that you se the latest post first and not last.

So i want to have the post box on top. is this possible?

Where/or how do i fix that?

I use bbPress 2.5.8 version.

Thanks in advance!
/ Johan

[DL]

OK if I could delete the last two posts I would.

After struggling with doing this on XAMPP I gave up and set up a new test on a live server and it worked! (with some issues)

https://github.com/damon18/dizkus-bbpress/issues/4

[johnmontfx]

Hey folks thanks for responding — appreciate you checking in, Stephen E.

I’m going to do some testing on the live site over the holiday weekend (lower traffic and all) to try and debug this so I have more concrete information. The site is private, but I’m more than happy to provide a login if you’d like to check after I do some more trouble shooting.

We do have some users with quite a few forums visible on forum home due to how long they have been members. It can be a low of 10 — up to around 80 for our longtime members. The only data we show for each forum on the forum home is the forum name and freshness…

I’ll report back next week — thanks again for the followups

[aduggan]

I tried about 6-8 themes and they all have the same result. Ok, if its just a theme issue then don’t worry. I thought it went deeper than that. I guess WordPress themes are not tweaked for bbPress so this is likely to occur with most themes and need a manual edit.
I am still in the process of testing before moving site so lots of other things to iron out yet.
Thanks.

[mimbelli]

As I said I’m a WP newbie trying to understand how everything works. These are my considerations so far. I do not want to hurt anybody.

After a couple of days of testing I’m really going insane trying to get a minimum acceptable installation.
While I understand that acceptable is a moot concept, I mean “similar classic feature of all free forum scripts out there” I’m not speaking about cutting edge features but really standard forum features since phpBB 2 hence:

• extended user profile
• private messaging
• user signature
• post count and join date below username
• post preview
• attachments with inline images
• quote replies
• report
• sticky, new, hot for topics
• view unread content

Now I understand that all of them can be obtained through 10 different plugins but I’m really scared to do so for these reasons:

• 10 different plugins and authors are very difficult to maintain. Chances something screw up are high, no matter how godd is the code.
• some of plugins implementing above features seems already nearly abandoned
• In one of my past life I was so naive to dope my Joomla installation with several third party mambot/plugins. When I had to upgrade I discovered that several of them where abandoned giving me a hege PITA to upgrade
• In a recent life I avoided to dope my IP Board installation with plugins but during a main upgrade I had the same problem with some mods I made by myself

Now I’m trying to bring everything to wordpress + bbpress but I see that it is a steep climb just to get what in 2016 is considered a forum with basic features. I’m not a developer otherwise I was already coding the missing pieces.

Please: less plugins – more core features

[Pascal Casier]

Hi, Thanks for this detailed test.
Performance is among the main improvements in 2.6, so if you are in testing phase, could you check that version ? https://bbpress.org/download/

Thanks,
Pascal.