[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, I will take a closer look in the morning, it’s late here down under and the brain is to fuzzy to dive in right now 😉

Can you confirm which importer you used, did you import using the vBulletin3 or vBulletin importer and what is the exact version of the vBulletin forum you are importing from. I’ll try to take a closer look at those BBCodes and also make any updates as needed.

[Stephen Edgar]

@zefred I hate this issue, I hit the same problem myself last week. 🙁

The root of the issue is a row (in your case the 29299th reply) in the database has some issue. What these issues are I have not been able to work out, the data looks perfect to me and for some reason it causes the import to stop. Every time I come across this issue I analyse the row from the database to try and find what the cause may be and have yet to come up with anything. It is also non forum specific so could be phpBB, vBulletin, Invision etc.

The workaround is to delete that 29299th reply from the source database and try again.

I know this is not an ideal solution but until I can identify the issue I’m unable to make the importer ‘workaround’ that invalid data. 🙁

[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.

[MediaSVI]

I imported VBulletin 4+ in bbPress and when I goto Forums I can see all the the threads but when I click on one of them this is what shows.. see picture.

[elaborate]

Hi,

Is there an established way to show a short excerpt of the latest post in a forum, category, etc. under the “Freshness” title?

Other software like vBulletin support this: Steam Forums

If not, then I would love a point in the right direction of which hooks and functions, etc. I should start with.

I’m developing a custom WordPress theme which I have now extended to cover a custom bbPress theme, but I don’t really know PHP, so any help will be appreciated.

Thank you.

[20millionmiles]

Is it possible to make bbPress look like a real forum? I want the typical board view with the categories like on phpBB or vBulletin. Any solutions for this? It seems that I am not the only person who wants that.

[Stephen Edgar]

Ok… I think I follow now, take a look at the following thread, it is a good example of customizing the bbPress templates to have the forum layout like a phpBB or vBulletin format.

I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

[Stephen Edgar]

See this thread on how one user did it for SimplePress:

bbPress SimplePress 5 Importer

Also a search with a few of these keyowrds: mod_rewrite, phpbb or vbulletin at Stack Overflow will give you some good examples to go by: http://stackoverflow.com/

[SK]

Ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2031

One feature that I struggle a bit in why bbPress broke from the norm is Freshness. It is customary to have the last column for “Last post” which includes the date-time of last post (topic/reply) and the author of last post.

bbPress has decided to use “Freshness” instead of “Last post” as title. Instead of date-time, it displays time-since.

Perhaps time to move to the more convention approach here. Probably good for performance too – won’t need to calculate freshness.

[Tearstone]

It has been about two weeks since I converted my vBulletin forum over to BBPress. The existing forum has been around since 2008 and since the conversion, we have been receiving emails over entire history of the site that topics have been replied to. These are notifications that have been sent non-stop since the conversion.

I installed Buddypress and BBPress at the same time, so I’m not sure exactly what is causing all of these emails to continue to be sent out. How do I stop these notification emails from going out? I’ve already attempted to add the following code to my site specific plug-in, but it does not seem to have helped much. I guess it helped with mentions but not the replies.

remove_action( ‘bp_activity_posted_update’, ‘bp_activity_at_message_notification’, 10, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_groups_posted_update’, ‘groups_at_message_notification’, 10, 4 );

What are the BBPress hooks to stop reply notifications? I just want them to stop for awhile without disabling email site wide.

[dannefaerd]

Wordpress 3.8.1
BBPress 2.5.3
BuddyPress 1.9.1
Site link: http://www.nzp8nt.com

Hi team

I have a new install of BBPress (within BuddyPress) on my site.

I imported my old forums (which have been un-used for around 18months) from vBulletin. No issues with the import.

However my members (we haven’t launched yet, and they are not registered as active in BuddyPress) are getting email notifications on topics that are in the system.

Any ideas?

I’ve turned off notifications in BuddyPress just in case that is it, but would love if someone could tell me what might be causing it, and how I can turn it off for historic posts.

Thanks!
Martin

[Mycelus]

I don’t know what the designers were thinking when they designed bbPress, but it looks like crap, not the theme, just the way the stock design is where the forums are just all bundled up underneath the category.

Look at the forums for example:

https://linustechtips.com/main/

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/

The categories are nicely separated in a hierarchy, with the posts and replies being shown to the right.

I need my forums to look like this, cause I’d like to avoid using crap paid software or open software like phpBB, vBulletin, IP Board, etc.

[Stephen Edgar]

This thread here mentions a vBulletin conversion of ~600,000 posts took around 8-10 hours on an iMac so thats 1/6th of the time you’ve estimated.

vBulletin to bbPress questions

I’d love to test the DB you have, maybe some improvements can be made though I doubt they’d be done before your import completes 😉 I just followed you on Twitter so follow me back and drop me a DM with a ftp/dropbox link and I’ll give it a whirl.

[Jeff Hester]

I migrated my forums from vBulletin successfully (thanks to advice here).

I’ve got:

• 17,643 Registered Users
• 65 Forums
• 33,338 Topics
• 140,676 Replies

I’m running on WPEngine and using Cloudflare for a CDN. But I’m seeing really slow loads when posting either a new forum topic or a reply to an existing topic.

The site: http://bigblueball.com/discuss/

Any suggestions?

[comagnum]

I’ve searched everywhere, to no avail. There used to be a plugin for this for older versions of bbpress (post count pro I believe it was called) but there aren’t any plugins for this anymore. I’m limited on my code knowledge, but I’d really like for this to be accheived. We’re a compeitive gaming community and vBulletin has been a staple of our professional/amateur gaming life since the beginning. I’ve decided to make the move to bbpress to have a more seemless site integration between users, posts, and news. My ultimate goal is to make the forums as similar to vBulletin as possible, but all of the plugins that accheived this goal do not work with the newer versions. I’d like for the post total to be listed under the users name when they post, as well as in their profiles. In addition custom user roles would be a plus, but not requred. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I’d be very grateful.

[comagnum]

I’ve searched EVERYWHERE but I’ve not found a suitable solution. I am searching for a way to integrate the number of posts each user has under their name as well as custom user roles. There was a plugin for older versions of BBpress that accomplished this (Post count pro I believe it was), but I cannot find any way to make this happen. I’d like it to be sort of like traditional vBulletin forums are, seen here hxxp://slashconnect.org/Public_html/upload/showthread.php?10-Battlefield-1942-is-Free

My bbpress forums; hxxp://www.slashconnect.org/forums/

My attempt is to make it as close to vBulletin as possible(the forums in general) but my knowledge is limited.

Moderator Note: Changed links from http to hxxp

[PushingPebbles]

I am not sure where to put this. The problem I have is every time a member is using my forum it, their dashboard looks like WordPress.

Is there a way to customize a members “user cp” so they can edit their profile, check the forums, etc.. Through a navigation dashboard that I have created or customized.

Similar to a “user cp” in vbulletin, I have seen it done on a couple of sites on here from forums. I was just wondering how it is done, as I have not seen any instructions on it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I hope someone knows the answer so I don’t have to export and redo everything into a vbulletin site.

Thanks

[Donta]

I even tried to put define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘2048M’);
define(‘WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘2048M’); in wp-config.php file.

[Donta]

upgraded from vb 4.1.5 to 4.2.2. so far the import was going great until i got this error.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 32 bytes) in /home/admin/public_html/…/wp-db.php on line 1001

I tried to allocate more memory (2000M) at php.ini and I am still facing such problem.

[Stephen Edgar]

You could just make the data anonymous, if there is username, emails etc after your export just normalize the data,

Eg. Username: Donta -> user1
Email donta@mydomain.com -> user1@example.com

The same for IP addresses, topic title, or any other data you can just change this ‘recognizable’ data to some generic text, the sql you export will be in plain text so you can edit this in any text editor.

The key information needed is:

* 3-5 rows from the forum table
* 3-5 rows from the thread table that are listed in the above forums sql
* 10-15 rows from the post table that show replies from the above topics sql
* 1-3 rows from the user table that shows users from the above topics & replies sql

[Donta]

Stephen, due to privacy, I wish not put any piece of data here.

Is there another way of getting that info to you?

[Stephen Edgar]

I said:

If you are comfortable in phpMyAdmin and you could export half a dozen rows from each of the ‘forum’, ‘thread’, ‘post’, ‘tagcontent’, ‘tag’ & ‘user’ tables I could have a closer look at why this isn’t working for you.

So if you can export some sample data add the exports to a .zip file and link to it here I will take a look.

[Donta]

Stephen, no luck so far. It seems the problem is with the usermeta data.

Not sure why phpbb to bbpress has issues with passwords. I am able to login to phpbb board seamlessly but the migration is not importing useful passwords.

I can give you access to my cpanel for a closer look the tables you requested. How do I contact you.

[Stephen Edgar]

Also I have only tested the vBulletin importer with importing from vBulletin v4.2 so there might be a few changes in the database structure between 4.1x & 4.2x but as I can’t get my hands on vBulletin 4.15 I cannot confirm this.

If you are comfortable in phpMyAdmin and you could export half a dozen rows from each of the ‘forum’, ‘thread’, ‘post’, ‘tagcontent’, ‘tag’ & ‘user’ tables I could have a closer look at why this isn’t working for you.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d suggest looking up how phpBB deals with imported vBulletin user passwords, some importers convert the password after the fact, so until userxyz logs into phpBB the password isn’t converted to the phpBB forums format.