[lagrou]

Sorry my dump wasn’t successful in helping you out here…

Slug vs. stub, I missed that one, I tried your version on my test install and it works !! It converted forum / topics / replies. Thanks! Couple of issues, questions, comments…

In WPS terminology, there’s one forum made of categories. They can be nested. Along with subforums, they may contain topics with replies. One of these cats may be made the “default category” which users will be prompted with when posting in the forum frontpage, that’s ‘symposium_cats.defaultcat’. If not set, the first of the list will be the default. I’m not sure what happens if two or more cats are made default…

‘Allow new topics’ will basically close the category to new topics. Likewise, in a topic there’s a checkbox to allow new replies or close the topic.

‘remote_addr’ is for monitoring spammers, I don’t think it deserves much interest in importing forum content as it’s mainly a short-time asset.

I’ll go through your callback functions tomorrow, but a quick comment about values in WPS: they are either ‘on’ or anything else, possibly not set, so it’s better to revert the switch and test against the “case ‘on'” and any other “default” ?

The group forum post from my demo install was converted. In the list of topics it is indicated as ‘no forum’ which is true (as per my previous post). We should either create a forum (named like the group itself for instance) or discard group forums topics altogether (WHERE symposium_topics.topic_group != 0).

About importing users, you raise an interesting point. I’d like to understand if this tool is a converter or an importer. Being located in a folder called /converter/ I had assumed it should work within the same WordPress install and convert it from one plugin to another, but you seem to move it towards the import of data accross platforms. Incidentally, I have been wondering why I need to fill the ‘Database Settings’ with db name / user / password / prefix, while I’m converting an existing forum within the same base. I’m happy with both, although I would tend to consider that most WP-to-WP imports will be performed within the same site…?

The other topics I’d like to bring at some point in our discussion are the attachments and the avatars. I’m not sure yet how bbPress handles attachments, for WPS they are physically stored in a location set from the “params” tab, and displayed either online or as links (depending on a setting). As far as avatars, once WPS is deactivated they are all gone, is anything possible or is this too dependent upon the plugin the admin may install for avatars ?

[Robin W]

The approach should be to get to a ‘clean’ site – ie one that works, and then add back theme, and then plugins until you find which is conflicting with bbPress.

Some plugins and themes delete database stuff when they are deleted, but many/most just leave it behind, so deactivating should do it.

If you have a local dev, then I’d deactivate ALL plugins, and change to a default theme.

Then test if this works. if it does then you have a good start point.

Then add bbPress and see if this produces an issue.

a) If it does, then come back with what theme, and confirm versions of bbpress, wordpress and theme and exactly what you are doing to test – ie user set to… go into… select…. and I’ll try to replicate.

or

b) If your base version above works, then add theme next. Don’t worry about the extend plugin, as you’re seeing if the issue is with a post, not bbPress !

Then add extend and re-test

Then each plugin and retest

[rbbouman]

OK, I get it 🙂

In your opinion, does it make sense to deinstall all plugins instead of deactivating them in order to test this? Or do I have to perform a new fresh install, since code already might have been overwritten and this is probably not undone by deinstalling plugins. I can do both on my local dev.

[Stephen Edgar]

I just checked the difference between the current version included with bbPress and that version you linked above. The version included with bbPress has quite a few enhancements, password support, forum categories, author IP, closed topics, sticky topics and topic tag slugs.

The difference that you need is the BBCodes:

// This is what is currently included with bbPress for YouTube:

$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );

//And this is what we had in that custom linked version:

// Replace '[video=youtube;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );
		
// Replace '[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube_share;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );
// Replace '[SOUNDCLOUD]$1[/SOUNDCLOUD]' with '$1"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[SOUNDCLOUD\](.*?)\[\/SOUNDCLOUD\]/', '$1', $vbulletin_markup );

So the addition of these two BBCodes:

[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video] and [SOUNDCLOUD]$1[/SOUNDCLOUD]

Do you know if both of these BBCodes are included with all vBulletin versions or are these custom BBCodes you manuallly created in your vBulletin install?

Either way I just updated that gist with the above BBCode that you should be able to download and test as you did 8 months ago, it has ‘all the things’ above included in it. 🙂

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/513187363f36b56ec77d

[Robin W]

‘I might be missing something, but if deactivating the bbPress plugin solves the problem, the bbPress plugin is probably causing it.’

Depends how you define ’cause’

bbPress is tested against the default themes (twentyten, twentyeleven etc.) and latest versions of wordpress, and should be fully functional against that.

Since bbPress is just a plugin, it ranks equally alongside all other plugins and all non core themes. All of these have the capability to conflict with each other as theme and plugin authors use tweaks and add-ons to WordPress. The ability for two authors of plugins/themes to try to change an element is actually quite large, and changes can have unexpected results.

So if two authors both make a change and one overwrites the other, both can argue it is the other’s fault.

So I cannot get bbPress with a default theme to have your issue for authors or above.

If without any other plugins, and using a default theme, you get this issue, then please come back with what levels of access and I’ll look further.

[Stephen Edgar]

Turns out when I said it was late, it was, I downloaded and installed the plugin 😉

Firstly for most forum importers I use a set of categories and forums based on the ‘Nested Set Model’, this gives a great hierarchy layout to test with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model#Example

First issue (question) is, why the converter doesn’t find forums. Or at least doesn’t convert them.

For the ‘Forum slug’ you have slug it should be stub

Does WPS ‘pretty permalinks’ even work? I am guessing that’s what these are?

Once I changed that the forums imported fine with correct title, desc, parent, order, slug.

We don’t need to worry about counts as the bbPress repair tools will do this for us

Categories or Forums I am not sure of, to set a category in WPS I set the Allow new topics? field to no we can use this to decide if the bbPress forum will be a forum or category if this is indeed the intended purpose of this field.

I’ll go take a look at the topics and replies now…

[rbbouman]

I might be missing something, but if deactivating the bbPress plugin solves the problem, the bbPress plugin is probably causing it.

So I did some further tests. If I deactivate ALL plugins except for bbPress, the problem is still there. If I then deactivate bbPress as well, the problem doesn’t occur.

I think this narrows it down to bbPress. Do you have any suggestions?

[fasttimes]

Hello,

I am in the process of importing my current phpbb forum to bbPress. Most of the data seems to have migrated but Convert reply_to parents failed. So any topic with multiple pages is not formatting correctly or is missing posts.

According to the sources the migration script does the following steps:

STEP 1. Clean all tables.
STEP 2. Convert users.
STEP 3. Clean passwords.
STEP 4. Convert forums.
STEP 5. Convert forum parents.
STEP 6. Convert topics.
STEP 7. Stick topics.
STEP 8. Stick to front topics (Super Sicky).
STEP 9. Convert tags.
STEP 10. Convert replies.
STEP 11. Convert reply_to parents.

The steps from 1 through 10 were successful. Migration script failed on the 11th step.

Site that we are importing from is: http://www.ridingfeelsgood.com/forum/index.php

The phpbb forums where resynchronized prior to import.

Being imported to WP 3.9 on testing server with new theme.

Can you please offer some help to correct this.

Thanks,

[lagrou]

I’ve added a WPS install to one of my test sites. By default WPS has 3 forum categories, and one topic with two replies. I’ve added two topics, to populate all categories, and made one category child of another. So it should look like what you expect.

I’ve also created a group. In WPS, groups can have a forum, with no category hierarchy, so they are not listed in the table symposium_cats. I wasn’t using groups myself, but my proposal is, if we can, to make the converter gather the content as a subforum in bbPress, then the admin may decide to delete or restrict its content ? So, I’ve also created a group on that test install, with a topic and a reply.

As I’m not sure what you call a MySQL export I’ve dumped it using a page template where I perform a succession of queries, then var_dump( $wpdb->last_query, $result ); and copy/pasted the page content as a text file, added to my repository above. I hope it’ll be fine.

[Stagger Lee]

O no Stephen. For Kunena converting i used this script from this topic here. Worked OK. Just saying if someone hits the wall and cannot wait anymore, to test this commercial plugin.

As it is Joomla to WP converting this plugin is more then usefull for plenty of other things, not just forum.

[Stagger Lee]

You people if you dont mind paying little over 50 € you can try this converter:

Kunena add-on

I would not advertise commercial plugin here if i not tested theirs K2 to WordPress converter. It is simply brilliant. Imported absolte everything, custom fields, attachments, dates, page views, and aranged whole WordPress so that i didnt have any work to do with organizing content.

[niclasto]

Hey,

I try to give you an example:

It is for anonymous posting:

User A enters the name “abc” and the mail address “test@web.com

Now user B comes and want to enter the name “abc” as well but since he enters another email address,for example “hello@web.com”, he can´t take the name “abc”.
Once User A entered its data, name and email belong together.

Hope its clear now:-)

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Except for the default BBCode [b], [i], [u], [img], [url] etc the vBulletin importer only has [quote], [mention], [youtube] BBCodes added at this time. You would need to manually edit your topics and replies for any SoundCloud embeds.

To test this any further I will need your vBulletin version you importing from so I can take a closer look, firstly to see if I have a copy of a vBulletin ‘version xyz’ to test against and then to see if I can see any reason why it would not be importing everything correctly.

[Robin W]

Not sure if this parameter is there ie set or just blank in buddypress

However you can test if empty – empty meaning not set or set to 0 or set to “”

by changing

echo 'Location: ' . $user_location; 

to

if (!empty($user_location)) {echo 'Location: ' . $user_location; }

[sicky_brazz]

Hi, I am using the latest versions of both WP and BBPress.

My problems are that when I try to add stuff to my style.css, my BBPress pages just don’t seem to follow them…

Here is an example:
>> Remove menu/nav bar and search form from all pages (style.css)

/* Remove nav bar and search form */
.page #nav-bar {
display: none;
}

.page #s {
display: none;
}

The code works on all other pages (BuddyPress ones included), just not any BBPress pages..
Does anyone have any ideas as to why?

I am no coder or expert so this has totally thrown me lol.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not sure of the exact issue you are having a problem with!

The snippet of code you have looks correct via https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/

I have done a fair bit of testing of WordPress v3.9/v3.9.1 and bbPress v2.5.3 compatability with the above snippet to ensure things are not broken with the new TinyMCE v4.0.x in WordPress v3.9.

I have also used this plugin to test the above also https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

[dbongi22]

I’m running bbPress on my site and it is currently integrated with both BuddyPress and OptimizePress. Right now, only Admins can view Voices. If a non-admin tries to view a voice, it’s just a blank page essentially with the ability to reply.

I’ve test all the bbPress roles and even Keymasters can’t view topics. Only if I change their account role to Admin.

Any ideas?

[alhoseany]

hi, i cant edit my posts. i am an administrator and each time i try to edit a post i get a blank bbpress page with only this error:
“Sorry, there were no forum topics found.”
my edit link is like this:
http://www.mydomain.com/community/topic/test-editing/edit/

also, all user roles get the same error.

[mcleandesign]

I’ll get the test site up and get back with you. Thanks.

d

[Robin W]

Hey thanks for continuing to test – really appreciated it !

on the settings page – I can’t replicate this – I just tried a new install, and whatever combination of activate I use in the general settings, they still save ok. I am not sure what to suggest next – let me have a think.

For the random words, I’ll take a look later today and fix.

[Pasquale Galasso]

Other error (important) to correct

If in the fields as in the image I write random words, the plugin stops working and all the forums are visible for all

Clarification: I am glad of this plugin, this plugin seems to give me everything I was wondering, it looks really great.
I’m just putting it to the test to help the developer. Great plugin.

[Pasquale Galasso]

You whrote:
and another thought – have you been into settings to set up the groups? Dashboard>settings>private groups

It may be that I’ve not allowed for this – so if you have just downloaded the plugin and gone straight into setting up a page it might fail – I’d need to test, but please let me know.

—————-

exact, I did not set the groups, now I proceed.

[Pasquale Galasso]

a few non-active function of WampServer, probably.a few non-active function of WampServer, probably. But I can not know what is. I now send the online site, and let you know.

<hr />
=== Private groups ===
Contributors: Robin Wilson
Tags: forum, bbpress, bbp, private, groups
Requires at least: 3.0.1
Donate link: http://www.rewweb.co.uk/donate
Tested up to: 3.9
Stable tag: 1.4

[Robin W]

and another thought – have you been into settings to set up the groups? Dashboard>settings>private groups

It may be that I’ve not allowed for this – so if you have just downloaded the plugin and gone straight into setting up a page it might fail – I’d need to test, but please let me know.

[Robin W]

‘Sorry for my english. ‘ – do not apologise your English is excellent !

Ok, I have just re-tested and I do not get that issue – I can create pages and posts fine.

You could just try deleting and re-installing the plugin just to eliminate any load issues – unless you have just downloaded it, maybe download the latest version from my website so that we are both on version 1.4.

Then maybe we should try to eliminate plugin and theme conflicts

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Come back and let me know.