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Hi,

I just installed on a test domain WordPress, bbPress and WPML. All are updated to the latest versions. I don’t use any other plugins and the theme is also the default one, Twenty Sixteen.

I setup 2 languages: german as default and english. So the URLs are like this.

website.com
website.com/en

I posted some topics in bbPress in both languages and I can see them per language, which is what I want. On the german version I see only the german posts and on the english version I see only the english post.

Of course, a problem may be with the bbPress slugs settings. I cannot translate them but I can live with them.

What I noticed is that when I go to profile and try to see the “Topics Started”, “Favorites” and “Subscriptions”, I see only a message that I don’t have any of those, although on the main Profile page shows that I have started 11 topics.

That might be also a problem because it counts the topics from both languages. But I can live with that also, for the moment.

I switched the languages and I made english default. After doing this, everything worked fine in english but not anymore in german, because german became the second language.

Basically, I can see the “Topics Started”, “Favorites” and “Subscriptions” only for the default language.

Only “Replies Created” show up for both languages.

I also attached some screenshots.

I also changed the theme from Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Fifteen and also Twenty Fourteen. Same problem.

I setup another test website as WP Multisite, without WPML and everything works properly. I had to install another plugin to connect both languages. But I would like to use WPML and a single website, if this is possible.

I hope there is a fix for this. bbPress is the most used forum and WPML should be able to handle it.

Thank you very much for your time.

Best Regards,
Alin

Ive successfully imported an SMF database but am running into several issues. I have about 25K replies, but no forums and no users. Where can I begin to fix things?

Hello, I am new to the bbpress forums, so I apologize if this should have been in plugins instead (I am using the built in import function).

I have a database backup of an SMF forum that I wish to import. When I input my database credentials (my SMF backup looks to be OK in mysql) I get the following:

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Table ‘backup_smf.topics’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(topics.id_topic USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_topic,convert(topics.num_replies USING “utf8mb4”) AS num_replies,convert(topics.id_board USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_board,convert(topics.id_member_started USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_member_started,convert(messages.poster_ip USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_ip,convert(messages.body USING “utf8mb4”) AS body,convert(messages.subject USING “utf8mb4”) AS subject,convert(topics.locked USING “utf8mb4”) AS locked,convert(topics.is_sticky USING “utf8mb4”) AS is_sticky,convert(messages.poster_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_time FROM topics AS topics LEFT JOIN messages AS messages ON topics.id_first_msg = messages.id_msg LIMIT 0, 100
No topics to convertNo forum parents to convertStarting Conversion

This is not a fully standard SMF install – I know some customization was done but even if I can get the core of the forum stuff working that would be a great start. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello, I have noticed that the subscribed forums in a group do not show up on a user on profile page under the Subscriptions option. Is this intended to be this way? Other non group forum subscriptions do show up. Thanks

Hello,

According to the text, if you deactivate the forum in a group, it wont delete the forum, and if you reactivate, the topics should still be there.

I tried this but the content was deleted. What is correct? Deleted or not deleted on reactivation?

Thanks

Hi all

I’m in the process of migrating a custom-built PHP/MySQL forum (approx. 1.8 million topics and replies in total) to bbPress 2.5.8 on WP 4.5. My solution is to generate a bunch of bulk insert SQL scripts for wp_posts with post types forum, topic and reply.

This works. After the import, though, I need to run the bbPress repair tool, in order for posts, post counts etc. to be displayed correctly.

I’d prefer to avoid as many manual tasks as possible when switching from the old forum to the bbPress one, so I’m considering two options:

1) Run the repair from the command line rather than in the browser.

2) Generate the required wp_postmeta rows as part of my export.

I have a couple of questions about this:

Regarding option 1, is it even possible and does such a script exist?

Regarding option 2, what are the required wp_postmeta keys I would need to generate?

Thanks in advance for any input on this.

Kind regards,

Morten Wittrock

Hi everybody,

that’s my first post so I take the opportunity to thank the community for its amazing job.
I am in the process of migrating an existing community (PHPBB based) to BBPress on a dedicated server.

In terms of volumes, we are talking about 6K users, 350K replies and 15K topics.

The import seems to run quite well but I’ve notice that the author of certain posts is wrong.
I’ve found in the forum someone with the same problem but he was running a specific plugin to sync his existing PHPBB installation whilst in my case I have a pure PHPBB installation running on version 3.0.12

Do you guys no some magic options to remap the posts to the right authors?

Thank you in advance,

Gio

Hello,

I want to know what is the best practice for the database settings for import forums?

I have a big phpbb db with 100,000 topics and mabout 8000 users.

Especially
Rows Limit
100 rows to process at a time
Keep this low if you experience out-of-memory issues.

Delay Time
1 second(s) delay between each group of rows
Keep this high to prevent too-many-connection issues.

And what does Convert users mean?
Attempt to import user accounts from previous forums. Non-bbPress passwords cannot be automatically converted. They will be converted as each user logs in.

As the topic say, can I replace forums/forum/ with only /forum?

Is there anyone who have suggestions for custom slugs for swedish language?