[pfswss]

Hi Robin, so you don’t like feedback here? I seemed to have hit a sensitive nerve with you! I did try to make some positives as well as what I thought were honest concerns. I looked on the support forum and there were also other older threads with no replies, not just mine, If you can’t take feedback about what you do then I’m sorry to say you will never learn or grow. As for it been free, well I’m not going to go into a debate about that. But I believe there would be ways to make money out of this like here: http://www.packtpub.com/bbpress-complete-comprehensive-guide/book

Rob, thanks for the reply. I have now put instructions into my post as suggested.

I had found the theme by lying but from what I seen all it basically did was separate the man forum page to have borders in between the categories and that was it or is there more?

Both that and the Suportte theme just seem to be a very simple white theme that I can’t see how they look like Vbulletin, Invision or PhpBB. This is the demo I found which is just a screenshot: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/0370bd78798f25ca777774b376651cc71ef4fff9/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f386c45694144442e6a7067

Am I missing something?

Your own layout looks promising, I hope it goes well.

As for examples

Just any thing that looks like a forum:

here is one theme I do like, just a screenshotL http://invisionmodding.com/index.php?app=downloads&module=display&section=screenshot&record=1678&id=1408&full=1

even IP board support forum is very basic: http://community.invisionpower.com/

here are just some random links to IP board forums I found, nothing special but just demonstrating a forum look with a structure of a forum with a skin.

osatuk.com/community/forums/
mlbboards.com/
community.simtropolis.com/

[Robkk]

1./ Lack of Support – check out this topic, not one reply as I waited for several days. In the end I had to do it myself on hope and lucky for me I puled it off. I hope this improves.

i saw this and had no idea what you were talking about, and i didnt have a correct answer, and since you solved it you could share so that people in the future that came across the same problem can find your topic and help themeselves in the future.

2./ Lack of dedicated Styles and themes.

phpbb inpsired forum theme by lynq

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs

envatos support forum theme-is actually a wordpress theme in whole on github, idk if copying templates will work because this relies on 5 other plugins also

https://github.com/syamilmj/Supportte

I might make a better mobile responsive forum theme in the future and post it on github

here is how my theme kind of looks like , the bbpress theme i will post on github will be loosely based on this

My Forum Layout (in progress)

It was impossible to find anything like a normal forum from Invision, Vbulletin or PhpBB.

what would you like specifically like other forums??

[pfswss]

I was excited to find a wordpress forum that had good reviews and seemed the best solution after comparing a few.

I’m happy I was able to import my old PhpBB forum without much problems due to what I believe is an improved importer.

but I’m disappointed with 2 things:

1./ Lack of Support – check out this topic, not one reply as I waited for several days. In the end I had to do it myself on hope and lucky for me I puled it off. I hope this improves.

2./ Lack of dedicated Styles and themes. It was impossible to find anything like a normal forum from Invision, Vbulletin or PhpBB. There is nothing available that can make your forum look like those types of forums. There is one very basic template thing that does not do much but that is it from my many hours of research. Even the Themes section has nothing at all basically. I was expecting to find many dedicated BBPress themes. The good thing is most new themes will work with BBPress but they all look the same, simple with no organization etc.

Despite all this I am excited to have moved my PhpBB forum to wordpress and I can now make use of plugins etc.

I hope in the future BBPress improves these 2 issues.

[Stephen Edgar]

Ok, maybe the pre v3.0.0 never included ‘topic tags’ so the best solution is to delete or comment out this section in vBulletin3.php

Basically remove the code between lines #293 and #334 in vBulletin3.php bbPress 2.5.4

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.4/includes/admin/converters/vBulletin3.php#L293
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.4/includes/admin/converters/vBulletin3.php#L334

I hope to get the updates that I have been doing over the past week and a bit finished by the end of the week and it would be great if I could get a few people to test theme out 🙂

[themefurnace]

I believe I did get this error :
[Table 'vbulletincopy.tagthread' doesn't exist]

The version is 3.0.0 RC8

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m still not having any issues with my vBulletin 3 databases 🙁

First up, once the import is finished the progress window should look something like this:

Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No threaded replies to convert
Converting replies (79500 - 79599)
Converting replies (79000 - 79499)
...
Converting replies (300 - 399)
Converting replies (200 - 299)
Converting replies (100 - 199)
Converting replies (0 - 99)
Converting topic tags (0 - 99)
No super stickies to stick
Calculating topic stickies (0 - 99)
Converting topics (5000 - 5099)
Converting topics (4900 - 4999)
...
Converting topics (200 - 299)
Converting topics (100 - 199)
Converting topics (0 - 99)
Calculating forum hierarchy (0 - 99)
Converting forums (0 - 99)
Delete users WordPress default passwords (0 - 99)
Converting users (0 - 99)

Starting Conversion

In particular, do you get to see the Conversion Complete without any errors shown?

Do you ever (or even know if you can remember) if you see the importer is actually converting topic tags per Converting topic tags (0 - 99) or do you see an error along the lines of WordPress database error: [Table 'vbulletincopy.tagthread' doesn't exist]

Also @themefurnace what version of vBulletin is it specifically? v3.1? v3.2? v3.81? etc

[Stephen Edgar]

Hmmmm, that’s no good, I’ll take a look in the next few days, I’m busy as making a load of importer improvements so I’ll test these with vBulletin 3 at the same time.

Also this reported in this topic also, so maybe subscribe to that topic also in case I write omething there and forget here 😉

import from vbulletin3 and no replies

[themefurnace]

Hello,

Ive just imported quite a large Vbulletin3 forum to bbPress using the built-in importer and it doesnt seem to have imported any replies,

The threads and users moved over ok but there are no replies listed in bbPress.
I ran the repair options after the import one by one.

Wondered if anyone had any ideas ?

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, have a look around the site here also as there a few interesting topics, like this one.

Let us know if you need anything else, will try to answer any Q’s you have.

p.s. Our vBulletin importer is pretty awesome, works well, and is included free, the downside is waiting for those MySQL queries to finish 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

So to be clear, you feel that if I were to implement a work around for ‘last active time’ or wait to install BBPress version 2.6 that I can confidently run BBPress on a forum that size?

Indeed, as you stated you need a fairly robust server though it sounds like you already have that. As bbPress 2.6 continues development I’d suggest you set yourself up a test install on your local PC and do some benchmarks and test the vBulletin importer as ~6.5 million posts will take a bit of time to import and familiarising yourself with how this works is worth knowing so you know what has to be done before you switch over your live site.

Is ‘last active time’ really the bottle neck? As I understood this issue, it had to do with bbPress sharing the DB table with the WordPress posts.

Yes, ‘last active time’ is the primary bottleneck as by default we sort topics based on the latest reply in a topic, though if a topic has no replies this is slotted in also.

The full technical details of this are here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925, it is not the easiest read and as there are two potential methods discussed. Primarily because of this ticket is why bbPress 2.6 is running late as there is a boat load of testing to be done to make sure we don’t break backwards compatibility.

Lastly, do you have a target date for v2.6?

3 weeks late 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Hi,

The issue discussed in the thread you linked to is being updated/fixed for the next bbPress release, version 2.6, we are currently just working through some other bits as part of 2.6 before finalizing this update.

I don’t see the size of your vBulletin forum being an issue for bbPress 2.6, the ‘last active time’ is a bit of a pain for large sites though there are also a couple of workarounds already implemented in these large sites.

What version of vBulletin are you currently using?

bbPress has built in importers for vBulltin 3.x and 4.x, I also have a ‘development’ version for vBulletin 5.x that will be in a future release of bbPress.

[superaven]

Forgot to mention… Our server hardware is pretty robust ands plenty capable for a stand alone forum like vBulletin or Xenforo. Since BBPress looks so streamlined and minimal, I’d have guessed its resource footprint on our servers would be significantly less than some of those other forum systems that has ever heel and whistle imaginable.

I know these discussions often turn towards solutions like throwing more system resources at a problem and you can run just about anything, but trying to get an idea of efficiency as best I can so we can make an informed decision.

[superaven]

Hi,

We’re contemplating moving our website to WordPress and are looking at integrated forum options to replace an older version of vBulletin we’re running now. I know vBulletin to WordPress bridges exist, but I’m hesitant as its been a nightmare bridging it to our current CMS and hoping to also not have to maintain two separate scripts, never mind theming them both as well.

Anyhow, I was informed that BBPress shares the same database table as WordPress and that migrating a forum as large as ours would have a massively negative effect on our WordPress install and properly affect our posts pretty bad.

Our vBulletin forum has approximately 180,000 members, 100,000 threads and roughly 6.5 million comments.

Any suggestions on how we might best proceed in a forum solution should we go the WordPress route for the rest of our website? I did see Simple:Press and saw it runs off a different table… Hate to be superficial, but looking at the website, it doesn’t really inspire confidence. (no offense)

Thank you in advance for any input or insight that can help us make a decision.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ll have to take a closer look at this as I have thought/presumed that all vBulletin v3.x installs include the ‘topic tags’ table tagthread irrespective of if they are used or not.

That said because of that error the import stopped, the good thing is that if you click ‘Start’ again it will resume from where it left of, in this case it will start importing your ~300,000 replies. (Just ensure you use the same settings for the import as your outlined above).

I’ll try to get to this on the weekend whilst I’m updating many of the other importers 🙂

[sigwinstonwolf]

Hi, i have reset the forum, and run import again.

These are my selections:

source platform: vbulletin3
–database connections data–
row limit: 100 row
delay time: 1 minute
convert users: checked
restart: checked
clean previous installation: checked

log:

– start conversion
– no data to clean
– user conversion (0-99)
– user conversion (100-199)
– cuser conversion ….
– Delete the default password of WordPress users (1200 – 1299)
– forum conversion (0-99)
– calculation forum hierarchy (0-99)
– conversion threads (0-99)
– conversion threads (100-199)
– conversion threads (…)
– conversion threads (12600-12699)
– No stickies to stick
– No super stickies to stick
– No tag to convert

Repair any missing information: Continue (<- this is a link to /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair)

WordPress database error: [Table ‘vbulletincopy.tagthread’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(tagthread.threadid USING “utf8”) AS threadid,convert(tagthread.tagid USING “utf8”) AS tagid,convert(tag.tagtext USING “utf8”) AS tagtext FROM tagthread AS tagthread INNER JOIN tag AS tag USING (tagid) LIMIT 0, 100

After this message i click “Continue” and run the “repair page” one at a time.
All operations are successful except “Count the number of threads in which each user” has replied … Failed!

No replies on forum. Only one replies for each thread.

I have wordpress 3.9.1 and BBpress 2.5.3

[Stephen Edgar]

Everything is stored in the wp_posts table including WordPress posts, pages, bbPress forums, topics and replies so a rough guess here is that the 12,000 topics have been imported but not the replies.

If your comfortable using phpMyAdmin can you run this query for me on your vBulletin 3 database:

SELECT
post.postid AS postid,
thread.forumid AS forumid,
post.threadid AS threadid,
post.ipaddress AS ipaddress,
post.userid AS userid,
post.pagetext AS pagetext,
post.dateline AS dateline 
FROM post AS post 
INNER JOIN thread AS thread USING (threadid) 
WHERE post.parentid != 0

That should return the first 30 rows of your 346,000 replies, does it? Or do you get an error?

[sigwinstonwolf]

Hi stephen, the version is 3.6.4

You’re right. I have checked the wordpress database, i have this tables:

wp_bbp_converter_translator
wp_commentmeta
wp_comments
wp_links
wp_options
wp_postmeta
wp_posts
wp_terms
wp_term_relationship
wp_term_taxonomy
wp_usermeta
wp_users

The “wp_posts” table contains 12.878 record, exactly as my original vbulletin forum.

But, but no other table contains 346.000 records.
Only the table “wp_postmeta” contains 127.513 record that look like this:

column meta_id: 638945
column post_id: 25653
column meta_keys: _bbp_last_active_time
column meta value: 2013-05-06 21:53:24

Nothing in the database.
thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

What version of vBulletin 3 did you import from?

The vBulletin 3 importer hasn’t had a great deal of testing, a quick look at the database I have here is v3.6.4

During the import did the status update showing that your ’86 forums, 12,000 threads, 346,000 replies” had been imported or are they just the stats from the vBulletin stats? (Trying to determine if you they actually all were imported or not)

[sigwinstonwolf]

Hi all,
After importing a large enough vbulletin3 forum (86 forums, 12,000 threads, 346,000 replies), I successfully imported users, forums and threads, but in any threads, there is only one answer, the first.
All threads have only one answer, not one more!
Any idea?
thank you in advance

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like we won’t get the threaded replies in v1, I had a similar issue with vBulletin 5 and which is not included in bbPress at this stage. Trying to get a single query to handle all of the replies doesn’t look good at the moment for WPS.

You can take a look at the vBulletin5.php importer, rather than just ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ and ‘Replies’ sections I had to add a 4th, ‘Comments’ this then meant I had to extend the main converter to handle this extra step.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2440/

I’ll have a think about this over the next couple of days and come up with some options, there is a chance I can add this extra section to bbPress and then included WPS threaded replies, vBulletin5.php in the next version of bbPress. There is just a ton of testing needed to ensure the ~20 other importers continue to work and fix any issues that arise…

[localsports]

I am trying to use the import tool in bbpress to transfer all the posts and users from my vbulletin forum to my new bbpress forum. The vbulletin forum was set-up and hosted by a web company. I emailed them and asked for the required set-up information and they responded with the following:

Database Server: niagara.localsportsreport.com
Database Port: 3306
Database Name: lsr_niaglsr
Database User: lsr_niaglsr_ro
Database Password: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (password blocked out for privacy)
Table Prefix: forum_

However, when I enter this information into the database settings page on the import page and press start, it comes back with the following:

Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No reply_to parents to convert
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
No stickies to stick
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
No passwords to clear
No users to convert
No data to clean
Starting Conversion

Any suggestions on what could be wrong?

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, I’ll add the BBCode [video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video] as part of the vBulletin importer.

And yes, let me know how it goes.

[MediaSVI]

The SoundCloud is BBCode I got from vbulletin.org The youtube is part of VBulletin when it is installed.

<object height="81" width="100%"><param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=Paste SoundCloud Link Here&g=bb"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=Paste SoundCloud Link Here&g=bb" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed></object> <a href="Paste SoundCloud Link Here">Paste SoundCloud Link Here</a>

I will re import the forum using the file you just made and let you know how it works.

[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

[MediaSVI]

I imported from a VB 4.2.2

I first tried the (vBulletin) importer but it did not work.

Here is the import file that worked. https://gist.github.com/ntwb/513187363f36b56ec77d/download