[Stephen Edgar]

Another (most likely dumb) question I forgot to ask. This could be the answer to the missing(?) topics/replies. At the end of the conversion, the program shows in short intervals ‘-’ on the screen. This takes forever and lasted almost as long as the initial part of the conversion which grabbed the Rows. I thought the conversion was finished when the ‘-’ stopped appearing on screen ‘————’ etc. Was I supposed to wait for some kind of other message which indicates the conversion ended?

This is basically WordPress losing the connection with the MySQL database and is a right pain, once this occurs “nothing” is now happening, the import is essentially stopped.

So in answer to your question, most likely this is the result of the missing topic/replies.

So yes, at the end of the conversion, you’ll see “Conversion Complete” with a link to the repair tools.

With most of the databases I have had to test to get compatibility with the importers many of the sample databases I have been sent (I don’t have a license for most of the commercial forum packages) I make a copy of the database and then prune/delete all but ~10 topics, the topics replies, the topic and reply users. This makes testing a breeze as it completes in a couple of minutes, once I know all is good then I give it a whirl on the full database.

[johnwasneverhere]

Hello! I’m using WP 3.91 and BBPRESS 2.54. My forum is at caravanguitars.com/forum

I’d love to add a colum to my topics list just like here… with the image being the main addition.

http://www.highexistence.com/discussions/latest/

Any ideas how to accomplish this? I’ve been searching high and low with no promising leads. Thanks for any help!!

[EzYRiDaH]

Hi Stephen / @netweb,
Many thanks for your replies! I am trying to convert MyBB 1.6.11. It is a very old forum which (unfortunately) was customized improperly by the previous owner. It was lagging many many versions. I paid a student to do an upgrade about a year ago, but there is some funky **** still in the PHP. With my limited knowledge of MyBB I even tried to a fresh install of MyBB and imported the complete forum in it. Pulled all my hairs out when I found out MyBB stores code in the database…

I’ve stressed my dear wife to start cleaning the old forum, which she’s (finally) diligently doing now.

Don’t worry too much about making any updates on the code 🙂 I also have some kind of life and job next to trying to convert a MyBB forum 😉 After all the cleaning of the old forum, I will do another test run to see if I can find any other issues. It is very likely that some errors are just because it is an ancient forum (10 years old). Read up on the conversion of @Halo-DieHard. Will make sure I do a repair/optimization of the old forum. To be honest, I am not sure if I did that with the last conversion, sorry.

I will report back on the forum on what I was able to squeeze out on performance with MAMP, with what settings and the results.

Another (most likely dumb) question I forgot to ask. This could be the answer to the missing(?) topics/replies. At the end of the conversion, the program shows in short intervals ‘-‘ on the screen. This takes forever and lasted almost as long as the initial part of the conversion which grabbed the Rows. I thought the conversion was finished when the ‘-‘ stopped appearing on screen ‘————‘ etc. Was I supposed to wait for some kind of other message which indicates the conversion ended?

In the meantime I am busy integrating the plugin USERPRO and GD bbPress Toolbox. Never coded in PHP and already hate the syntax 😉 I will get there and report back on the results!

Thanks again for your time!

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, glad it fixed it for you 🙂

I’ve been using IPv6 heaps lately for testing but my 127.0.0.1 equivalent in IPv6 is ::1, thus it wasn’t an issue locally 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry for the delay, life has been getting in the way.

Thanks for listing those tweaks you made, they make sense, we already bump the PHP timeout and up the memory limit to 256M but that is all we can really do safely before we cause grief in shared hosting environments.

I linked this post from our Import Troubleshooting docs so when I get the time we can expand that section (or a dedicated section) on tweaking ‘all the things’.

It doesn’t look I have asked this previously, what version of MyBB are you importing from?

All my tests have been with MyBB v1.6.10

Some topics are not combined correctly. All replies are separate topics. The ‘Recalculate the parent topic for each post’ does not fix this. I ran all repair queries btw. An option in the Topics interface to combine these, would be ace 😉 Is it possible to correct this with a query? My SQL skills are too limited unfortunately.

I just ran an MyBB import of my ‘standard’ MyBB database and without running any repair tools replies are correctly associated with their parent topics.

As to the possibility of correcting this with a MySQL query, it could be, it’s hard to say without knowing what data is mismatched.

Run the following query in phpMyAdmin:
– 83 is my topic ID
– 97,99,100 and 102 are the reply ID’s I know should be part of the topic ID 83
– A single topic and a couple of replies should be all I need to see what’s going on

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID IN (83,97,99,100,102)

Once you’ve executed the query, click ‘Print View’ and the results should open in a new browser tab, select all the text and paste them into a GitHub Gist and select SQL from the language dropdown (You don’t need an account for this)

https://gist.github.com/

It should look similar to this (this is based on my above screenshot)
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/04ed1cf9cf5f67528fcb

The Repair Forums option ‘Recalculate the position of each reply’ does not work. It creates a white screen. Load problem?

Yes, sadly, this is because of the size of the forums, kind of a know issue so that is good, sortof. Anyway the best thing is is that you do not need to run this tool. This is for only repairing ‘threaded replies’ which MyBB did not have so you can just skip running this tool. I’ll update the verbiage for this text in the next release and make some improvements when used with ‘large’ sites and some error handling.

myBB accepts spaces in the login name. Unfortunately WordPress does not. The conversion leaves the spaces in the login name. Is it possible to correct this with an SQL? Is there another workaround? Correcting them one by one is not my preference

I’ll work out a fix for that shortly, second time I’ve hit this issue today, @Halo-DieHard also did on BuddyPress.org.

Two forums are created double. The copies do not contain any topics or replies, so it is easy to remove them. Just thought you should know

That shouldn’t be the case, though as you point out easily fixed, most likely one of two things, either those forums were still there from a previous import OR there is something funky with the forum categories versus the forum forums though checking my import I just did, everything is fine for me 😉

The original myBB forum contained 1mlj+ messages and 36k+ discussions. The converted forum contains 109k subjects. That can be explained because of the first issue. But it only contains 830k replies. It could be that myBB adds subjects and replies to messages, but the difference is a bit too big. Is it possible to do an SQL checksum to check the expected output?

It does sound a little off, some forum software combine the total topics and replies to create a total post count.

On my MyBB I have:

Our members have made a total of 22 posts in 10 threads.
We currently have 6 members registered.

After importing using the [bbp-stats] shortcode I have
Topics 10, Replies 12

So that works out correct in my case, total of 22 posts = 10 topics + 12 replies 🙂

It’s hard to match up yours because the issue above as you state, ball park 109k + 830k = 93k which is a few short of the 1m, this will be due to those issues above and we can take another look after they’re fixed.

[theuniversitygal]

Hi,

I deleted all the widgets from my sidebar except for categories and added a search bar and email subscribe widget. All of this is showing up correctly in my sidebar, but isn’t reflecting on my website. I believe I have the latest version of wordpress. I don’t knowing any coding or html. I have tried multiple times to delete or add widgets, with no luck.

Thank You

[godavid33]

testarooni2
Password123

http://thefivestarconnect.com/groups/dsnews/forum/

That is obviously just a normal subscriber/participant account, though the same occurs for my admin account

[godavid33]

I just installed the latest version of BP from the WP repo
WP 3.9.2

When I go to a buddypress group forum page, it says the forum is empty (which it is) and displays the new topic editor. I can’t fill out any post content for some reason though, the box is grayed out. The html doesn’t say it is disabled. If I click the “code” WYSIWYG button, I can then type but if I remove the tick marks I cannot once again. Title and tags are both completely working, though obviously I can’t create a topic because I cant add content….

Help please 🙁

[cybarmitzvah]

it works now??

yes

ill test out that profile link ,

if you think its social login , deactivate and see if robins profile link code works.

still not working

im sure its just positioning it with css , but hey it doesnt have to be floated right, not a big deal if it is or not.

will need that code, would appreciate it 🙂

i just achieved this today. But it required a lot of work with my theme.

Darn, tell me any steps if you remember

TY
JB

[Robkk]

works not, I just did not have the <?php in my site.

it works now??

So I just added the code from Robin W’s link,

however it does not work,

ill test out that profile link ,

if you think its social login , deactivate and see if robins profile link code works.

Plus, I would prefer it to stay all the way to the right.

im sure its just positioning it with css , but hey it doesnt have to be floated right, not a big deal if it is or not.

Plus, preferably, look more like this sites, with the username and photo of the person logged in, in the top right.

i just achieved this today. But it required a lot of work with my theme.

[Robin W]

should be something like

add_filter ('bbp_get_title_max_length','change_title') ;

Function change_title ($default) {
$default=60 ;
Return $default ;
}

try this in your functions file – if not come back, but suppers ready and I haven’t time to test!

[themefurnace]

Hi,

I have finally converted a large forum over to bbPress from Vbulletin,
The bbPress forum page and threads etc are quite slow – Im just using bbPress + BuddyPress with Twenty Twelve theme at the moment while I code my forum theme.

The bbPress section of the site is slow – there is a few seconds delay when clicking a thread or onto the forum page itself so guessing this is due to the size – 850k replies, 61k topics and 21k users.

I wondered if there were any tweaks or recommendations for speeding up the site, Im on my own dedicated server and Vbulletin is blazing fast on it.

I saw this thread – http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/slow-to-post-forum-topics-and-replies-on-large-forum/ where it mentioned a speed increase in 2.6 for larger forums, any news on that ? Or anything I can try now to test it out ?

I read that hidden forums might make a difference so I unhid the forum but no speed increase.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve just tested this with bbPress 2.5.4 and Twenty Fourteen with no other active plugins:

* Created a page /123 and added the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode
* Opened that page /123
* Entered 123 as the forum title and description
* Selected forum for the forum type
* Selected open for the forum status
* Selected Public for forum visibility
* Selected root for parent forum (Root is another forum I already had setup)
* Clicked submit and the forum is created and I am redirected to create a new topic in that forum e.g. /forums/forum/root/123/

[Stephen Edgar]

It could be a plugin conflict or a theme issue, disable all your other plugins and switch to the Twenty Fourteen theme and try again. I tried to access your site using /forums and get redirected to a login plug, so this is what leads me to believe its a conflict somewhere.

I’ll try some tests on my sites over the weekend and see if I can replicate the issue.

[Dane Gould]

Hi there

We are experiencing a ‘mass spam attack’ that is overloading the database on our web host server. Our web hosts SGIS have looked into this and have deleted 75,000 spam attacks this week that have taken place from May to August 2014 (there were only a few hundred in the 14 months preceding this).

Investigation has seems to show that the spam attack is linked to the bbpress forum plugin in our website. We have the latest version of Akismet installed and the latest version of bbpress. We don’t allow guests to start topics or posts or to reply to posts. All users have to be registered to reply to posts and only a few users are allowed to start new topics and posts. We are also using the latest version of WordPress which is 3.9.2. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas about why this may be happening? Look forward to any reply.

Our website address is: http://www.tenantcentral.org.uk

Cheers – Dane

[Robkk]

no i dont want to do that , its harder for me to design the look of the widget.

here let me explain a little bit more on why i want to hack your shortcodes plugin to show recent replies.

well first i want my recent replies (and also recent topics) to look sort of like any recent comments widget. im going to use jetpacks recent comments on their website as an example.

I have already pretty much made a copy of your shortcode plugin , edited it and threw it in my functions.php and put the shortcode in the visual editor widget by blackstudio

heres what it looks like vs the default recent topics widget.

now to make a replies widget with your shortcode all i have to do is rearrange code and use css to style everything together.

to make it look like its showing recent replies, i just show the latest reply authors avatar , their name and what topic they replied on and im done.

The only problem when doing this is if there is no replies on a topic , it would just show the topic author instead.

Plus if you can figure this out i can also make a hack to make a replies archive. Which would be cool for something else i might do and ILL share it all when im done.

i just need help on only showing topics with replies instead of all topics. if that is possible.

[Robkk]

the css or content-statistics.php

if its the css ,

test to see if you need to add more classes to the code so it could with the tab widget,

test it by seeing if another stats widget has the css if you place it alone in the sidebar by itself in the tab widget

[melanie bund]

Hi
I am using the latest wordpress and bbpress
i have my own login form, (for people to upload images to their portfolios) how do i synchronise bbpress with that form rather than having to have 2 login forms which seems silly
Thank you in advance
Melanie

[AwakenStudio]

Created a dummy user with the Participant Role. After testing the Test user could not edit the posts. What is even more weird is that even as a Admin, after deleting the post, I can not restore it. All I get is an error that says “Are you sure you want to do this?”, then a link below that says “Please Try again”. Any idea what is going on here?

[LoraLu]

I am attempting to use the shortcode [bbp-forum-form] to allow users (keymasters) to be able to add new forums as needed. I set up a new page and added this shortcode. The page looks great and the shortcode pulls up the form to add a new forum (as desired). However, when I test it by filling out this form and clicking submit, nothing seems to happen. The page does seem to refresh but a new forum is not added.

Am I missing something? I am new to bbpress so perhaps I just missed a setting somewhere? I am running the latest version of WordPress (3.9.2) and bbPress 2.5.4. My site URL is http://wwcustomercare.azurewebsites.net.

Thank you in advance for your help!
Lora

[Robin W]

I’d suggest that you

1. create a test site (which everyone should have in nay case !)

and

2. Google sql tutorial video, and work out how to code my statements

3. go into phpmyadmin on your test site and play until you get it right

4. Come back and post the resultant code to help others

sorry, but almost all of the stuff I have learn’t has been by spending time googling to find some examples, and then hours getting it to work 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Try creating a new user, assign the participant role and test this yourself.

Does it work for you?

What about when you repeat those same steps with a moderator or keymaster role?

Have any of your other plugins or themes recently updated?

Have you tried to disabling all your plugins to see if the issue is resolved?

Have you tried switching the Twenty Fourteen theme to see if the issue persists?

[jborbely]

Hi Robin,

I managed to install the standard WP stuff. Btw: I posted the same question on the WP Support Forum, after the reply from Robkk, no response at all so far…
I attempted to change my header img, as the first exercise, but it seems that the web documentation about what to modify and where has nothing to do with the directory and files structure of WP I’ve downloaded, which was the latest 3.9.2 on Saturday. I’m ok with html, but I’m a beginner with php. Is there anyone who could tell me how can I change(add) a site header img for the theme twenty twelve specifically?
Best regards, Janos

[EzYRiDaH]

A lot of trial and error. Have restarted it a couple of times. Running it on my Macbook Air with SSD and i7 and MAMP but it is taking days.

#3 test conversion is progressing slowly. Already running for almost 2 days. Now done more than 50%. Doing 10.000 records at a time, with 0.1 delay time. No issues so far. Not sure if I can boost it more. The restarts seem to work ok too.

Will keep you posted 😉 Will be really glad when we get rid of MyBB! Fingers crossed 😉

[Robin W]

yes it should be as bbpress just uses wp_query once args has been parsed.

see

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query dates are quite a way down

untested but something like

$week = date( 'W' );
$year = date( 'Y' );
bbp_has_topics( array( 'year' => $year, '&w' => $week ) );

would do last 5 days