That’s an interesting tool too, although it didn’t give me much advice that I am able to do anything about other than turning off plugins that were not being used. I did upload a copy of the forum to a test site so see if there was any difference compared to running it locally. It’s about the same really. I don’t know how this forum here is so fast, if I could get mine to be this fast I’d be happy. The whole site just seems sluggish, even the pages without the forum on it.
http://www.sky-disc.com/forums/
Most of that forum is private, but I opened up the Stuff For Sale section for testing without an account.
I would like to migrate my vBulletin v3 forum over to the latest version of bbPress. I tried the migration tool from bbPress but it says there is nothing to migrate.
Is vBulletin v3 supported? If not, is my only option to update to vBulletin v4 first? I would like to avoid that as the upgrade costs $200 and I wouldn’t be using the software.
Please help.
ok, it’s not a good idea to post user access details on the website.
I took a quick look, but please DELETE my username to prevent you being spammed.
This may be either a permalinks issue, or theme or plugin
so try
Permalinks
This could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings>Permalinks, MAKE A NOTE OF WHAT IT IS SET TO, then select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.
If that doesn’t fix, Then
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
Update:
There is one place, where bbpress shows up within the backend. On the dashboard there’s the little widget, which shows some information about how many posts were written and how many users are there … and so on.
SO: When clicking on (for example) hidden answers, it should open a site, where i could edit them, to show up or delete them, or whatever …
But there comes an error message: You are not allowed to edit this (something like that – as it shows up in german on my site).
Now:
In the past I also tested a few plugin to handle user roles. But all of them are uninstalled. Might there be a problem with an old user role, which is still active? Strange enough, as I always was set as the keymaster!?
Best regards
Torsten
Hi dear BBPress Community,
after a long while of thinking about using bbpress or not – i decided to use it. The thing is, that I had installed it once (a long while ago). And now I reinstalled it to configure and use it in combination with Buddypress.
But then – HEY – It is (although activated) completely invisible in my wordpress backend. I created a site called “forum” to see if there is something it puts out in the frontend. And yes – there are even my old test-forums shown, which I had created two years ago.
But still no chance to see or change any option in my backend.
Strange!
Can someone help, please? š
Warmest regards
Torsten
I use the traditional forum outputting as well as shortcodes in posts.
Now I want to differentiate the output format, but both the shortcodes and standard output use the template content-single-topic.
How can I test if the template was included from bbpress/includes/common/shortcodes.php so that I can apply different styling.
Hi, So yesterday, I installed bb press on my WordPress site. I finally created a forum, as well as a test topic. Knowing I wanted users to be able to create accounts, I went to settings>general and checked the anyone can create accounts box or something like that. but when I go to register, it is not sending me the email with a password. I can of course login with my username and password, or manually create accounts for who ever wants to use the forum, but that would be defeating the purpose of what Iām trying to do. I donāt know if something is not configured correctly in PHP mail, because I am fairly new with that. Any help would be much appreciated.
Hey superaven,
That’s a perfect answer, actually. I was hoping that the move was successful, but even with what you shared, there’s still value in your answer. So thanks for that.
We’re currently testing BBPress and plan to test Xenforo and Discourse as well. Xenforo has its origins in VB, so to us, that seemed like the most like-for-like switch, but as we’re also a WP shop, with 10 years worth of posts, we were hoping to bring everything to WP, or find something with cleaner integration with WP. bbPress is/was our hope for that. As we currently stand, with our hybrid WP/VB site, user authentication, access control, and user profile data defaults to VB, using an open-source VB plugin. We want to bring that into WP, so we can take advantage of some other WP-specific plugins/services, keeping that user profile data (and profile pages) in WP instead, without needing custom code. Having all of that under one roof has its obvious advantages.
We’ll continue to test bbPress and the other platforms on our end. Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated.
Hi Folks,
I thought I had this nailed but my forums are not sending out any messages re new posts.
I’m using the following setup:
WP version 4.4.1
Theme Jolene 1.1.5
PHP version 5.4.45
bbPress version 2.5.8-5815
site url http://conwycameraclub.co.uk
Active Plugins Name and Version
– p1 AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions 2.1
– p2 bbP Manage Subscriptions 1.2.0
– p3 bbP Toolkit 1.0.6
– p4 bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1
– p5 bbPress 2.5.8
– p6 bbPress2 shortcode whitelist 2.2.1
– p7 Content Aware Sidebars 3.0.1
– p8 Duplicate Post 2.6
– p9 GD bbPress Attachments 2.3.1
– p10 My Calendar 2.4.13
– p11 Nav Menu Roles 1.7.4
– p12 PDF Embedder 2.4.1
– p13 Postman SMTP 1.7.2
– p14 Remove Widget Titles 1.0
– p15 Fast Secure Contact Form 4.0.39
– p16 Simple Custom CSS 3.3
– p17 Slideshow 2.3.1
– p18 TablePress 1.7
– p19 W3 Total Cache 0.9.4.1
– p20 WP User Avatar 2.0.4
This is a real pain as I’ve only just created the user accounts for the club membership at:
conwycameraclum.co.uk/forums
I’ve checked all the setting options on the associated plugins but can’t find anything that could be causing the problem. Sending a test message from postman SMTP works and the site is providing admin messages re users changing passwords etc. Seams only bbP that doesn’t want to comunicate.
Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Eugene
Hi,
bbPress has a converter from vbulletin. You can install the latest stable bbPress 2.5.8 as a plugin to your WordPress and start the conversion. I would however like to indicate that bbPress 2.6-alpha (so not yet stable) is however much improved for conversions, so it could be an option to do it with that version.
You can find information on installing and importing in the codex: https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/
Hi,
As written above, I would propose to test with bbPress v2.6-alpha and see how it goes with the import. There should be no issues about the size of topics/replies you have. The import start on the first one and … just goes to the last one !
Pascal.
For importing, did you try to do it in test on bbPress 2.6-alpha (https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip) ?
Importing has improved a lot in that version.
Pascal.
@superaven @willywonkabar
v2.6 is in a pretty advanced state now. You can download the current alpha version from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip . It has improved a lot in, amongst other things, importing from other forums.
It would be of great help if both of you could test it and let us know your feeling about it.
Pascal.
Hey willywonkabar,
Unfortunately, I never tried. As mentioned further up, the fix needed for us to do so was supposed to be rolled into v2.6 which was due out soon. You’ll note on the download page that after all this time, the latest stable release is still at 2.5.8, so unfortunately BBPress isn’t even an option for us yet. Really sucks, because we’ve lost massive amounts of traffic struggling with bridge options and so far none have been all that great. We moved from vBulletin and settled on Xenforo as at least there appeared to be plugins to bridge their forum system to WordPress, but we’ve found after paying and testing the top 3 or so, that all come with compromises of one sort or another. We’re actually in the process of a major development effort now to move from a fully custom theme to a commercial theme for the purposes of simplifying the complexity of everything and dropping the various plugins and custom development we’d been using for our authentication and member roles. Hoping this improves the situation with the bridge, but not holding my breath. I really wish I could move us to an integrated solution like BBPress so we no longer have to worry about hacked bridges and unreliable authentication, but until BBPress improves the methods of how data is stored, it isn’t an option for large / active forums.
Sorry I don’t have better news for you.
i’ve been able to create the (correctly displaying) test page thanks to a plugin recommended by moderator Robin W. thanks, robin!
Hi,
I run a site: http://rohamjelvenyek.com/, WP 4.4.1, BBPress 2.5.8, BuddyPress 2.4.3, Enfold theme.
The last week 2 strange thing happened:
1.
A user: who was moderator of the site for a long time, has disappeared from users, and all his forums become visible on the site under the name: anonymus.
As admin I did not do anything with this user before this happened, I only made the WP and plugin updates for the site. The user says, he did not deleted his account either.
2.
Yesterday (after 10 day of updating the site) another user who was moderator of the site for a long time, has disappeared, but at this time, his forums become visible under another user (a moderator) ās name.
What is very strange for me, that the issue happaned twice, but not the same way and time, and that the other 21 moderators have no problems, are not deleted.
I use a plugin: User Roles and Capabilities, maybe this caused the errors? But I cannot regenerate the issue on a test user, because I dont know, why exactly the users disappeared.
I let run a bbpress repair scripts after the issues, but I dont know, if it will help.
Please help me, I am afraid of other moderators will disappear also.
Thanks
Hi,
To be honest, I tend not to use MU except for testing. The network activation of plugins (so push and activate them to all the subsites) is nice, but not all plugins are ready to be used like that. But I more see it like different websites under the same admin and not as a site and a subsite.
Pascal.
This seems to be working well for me now that the update has been rolled out to my site. I’ll continue testing but looks good so far. Thanks for all who were involved in investigating/fixing this problem!
Thanks Pascal,
I look at the SQL and saw that ‘imported_Glenn’ was 3228 and ‘Glenn’ was 1. Tested and changed one of them to 1 and it worked OK. I will look at replacing them all tonight.
Unless anyone shouts out not to do it. š
Glenn.
Hi,
The latest stable version is still 2.5.8, but 3 days ago probably the readme file was modified to indicate that WP 4.4.1 is supported.
Version 2.6-alpha is in the development trunk but not yet moved to ‘stable’.
Pascal.
Hi,
If you use the latest WP and bbPress and also the latest version of the plugin, then it SHOULD work. But it would be best to open a support call on the plugin directly. This issue seems to have happened before.
Pascal.
Make sure your using the correct database prefix, most phpBB tables will be named something like phpbb_posts, in that case the database prefix is phpbb_
If you are importing from phpBB 3.1 then you can test the new importer via our bbPress ādevelopment versionā aka bbPress 2.6 alpha, theres some new import improvements, you can get this from the following page or direct link:
ā¢ https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/
ā¢ https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip
link to your site please
and
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
Trying to import a very large bbpress 1.2 forum to the latest. As I understand it, the converter essentially reads through all topics, replies and forums and creates a new post of type “forum” in the main WP database.
My issue is that this forum has approx. 520k topics and many, many more replies. The furthest the import process has managed to get has been 67k posts imported before timing out or dying in some unshown way. This is running on a dedicated server with 4GB RAM which runs nothing else.
Short of me rewriting the converter so it’s pure scripting and doesn’t run in WP, is there some way for me to speed this up and make sure it doesn’t die? To recap, it’s died in the following ways:
1) got to 67k, ended in ———- : AFAIK from reading, this is due to login timeout. I’ve solved that by auto refreshing the dashboard page
2) Says “starting conversion” hangs there indefinitely : logging that I’ve put in place indicates that inserts are happening but nothing is coming through on the WP log window. This eventually dies as well.
Any advice would be great – I’m not sure if @netweb is still around but if yes, please help š I’ve read all your posts to other people on this sorta topic.
Right, but I’ve tested it without all the other plugins and it’s entirely fine. What’s strange to me is that any new post is accessible from the page where you can see all the forums, but in that specific forum, it’s not there.
For example, if I were to post “Hello.” In a forum called “Miscellaneous”, I can see that I’ve made a change in that forum under the freshness section in the page where you can see all the forums, and if I click on that link I see the post “Hello.” But if I click to see the “Miscellaneous” forum, the post “Hello” isn’t there.
I’m utterly confused…
