[normen]

@deschle: Did you actually get this to work somehow? I’d like to do the same for our site.
Cheers,
Normen

[normen]

Of course it does.

[normen]

Gotta love these lengthy help requests with private posting nagging even and then theres not even a “thanks” or “got it working” reply xD

[normen]

Its all explained on the plugin main page. You first import the data, then convert it and then activate the internal forums of buddypress using the config file in the plugin directory. You have to follow at least step 1) and 2) of the description in the page and then you either have to “create groups” for the forums (step 4) or you install “buddypress forum extras” which shows you the forums without them being in groups. Also, dont forget to do the bbpress update after importing!

The skipped topics are situations where the data cannot be assembled, that is a post links to a non-existant topic or creator id. We had some of those but it seems its only posts from deleted boards or something. I have commented out the output of the post content (the only hint at where it belongs as there are no numbers) in buddypress-smf-functions.php, line 651 for example. You can uncomment that to see the skipped posts content.

Cheers,
Normen

[normen]

Hey,

we use your plugin on our (not yet in production) jmonkeyengine.org site and I must say it rocks.

We intend to use the system so users can have a “tag” that shows where they belong and what they do. In our current forums we have tags like “moderator”, “manager”, “developer”, “advocate” etc. We also want to use the buddypress forums so I added the tag to the forum poster names as well like this:


add_filter("bp_get_the_topic_post_poster_name","jme_get_the_topic_post_poster_name",0);
function jme_get_the_topic_post_poster_name( $old_string ) {
global $topic_template;

if ( !function_exists("bpgc_has_identifying") ) {
return $old_string;
}

$identifying = bpgc_has_identifying($topic_template->post->poster_id);
if ( $identifying ) {
$old_string = $old_string." (".$identifying->name.")";
}
return $old_string;
}


Maybe its a useful feature for others as well.

Also, maybe you could add some more restriction options like forum creation etc. Its something we currently struggle with because we dont want to allow every group moderator to be able to create a forum for the site.

Any other ideas I get, I will post them here, thanks for this plugin

Cheers,
Normen

[normen]

I uploaded version 0.9, its got checks for non-existing users or topics referenced in tags and skips those tags on import. Also the redirect script was updated and should work properly now.
Cheers,
Normen

[normen]

Hm. What exactly is the error? It seems to work fine for me. However if its really only the tags you should be able to upgrade your database afterwards and then import it, just the tags will be missing

[normen]

I added it to the repository, its called buddypress-smf-import, I also added tag support, now use the WP database charset all the way and fixed some minor bugs, get version to 0.8.4 here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-smf-import/

[normen]

Uh, got a manual for that? How do I apply, where do I get svn credentials? Sure would do that.

Edit: OK, I think I found it

[normen]

Aand the first bugix release v0.8.2 , just re-download. User capabilities were imported with a wrong prefix in wp_usermeta.

[normen]

The guideline is available in the admin panel and frankly, I will probably only fix issue #3 (importing of tags) as this is the result of something we will hopefully only have to do once
However, I could probably maintain it in a way that I fix bugs or add contributed code etc.

Cheers,
Normen

Edit:
mem requirements I have to check really, I already optimized it after the the original script needed 760MB for our forum ^^ I think its ok now.