As I am sure you will understand and, for obvious reasons, IPB is one of the more obscure imports we get asked to support and this particular import script was actually supplied by a user – although they did claim a successful import at the time and, I believe, it has been used by others since.

But it does mean that it may fail to keep abreast of IPB changes as none of us own a copy and I believe IPB like to change their stuff from time to time – quite dramatically!

If it works out OK it will bring across forums, topics, posts and users but not attachments. However, if they are on the same server it may well be that the lirks to them are intact although i am really unsure how IPB stores the urls to attachments.

But the bottom line is that it is free and quick to try and it wont hurt the current IPB installation. We do not offer exports to other forums – now that would be an unusual thing to do! But these people might.

So there is no way to use a demo to try it? 

I don’t really have $30 lying around just for it to fail (the import).

Thanks!

demo it??  As Andy said, the core simple press plugin is free and the importer is free…  so nothing to pay $30 for…

Mr Papa said
demo it??  As Andy said, the core simple press plugin is free and the importer is free…  so nothing to pay $30 for…

Can you change the size of avatars with SimplePress? or does it have to be small? Can I set it to be f.ex: 100×150?

I am going to sign up anyway to enjoy other features, just gotta make sure I can do the basics,
this is by far better than bbpress that I tried.

One more thing, the importer.

Invision Database Name: is this the website’s url? (the IPB that I am using)

Database host: I use Bluehost, do I just write bluehost.com?

avatar size can be whatever you want…  of course, if you make it very large, you may have to adjust your column widths for it to fit…

Its as it says, the database name… the name of your mysql database holding your IPB data…  if you dont know it, you can find it in the config file for IPB…  same for the host, though its likely localhost…

Thank you.

I tried installing SimplePress but I ran into a few errors, one in particularly that was extremely annoying. But I guessed there’s a setting that I am missing.

1. The menu bar stacks on top of each other, Like

Home

 Community

 Topic.

Unlike the forum you’ve got here, it is Home > Support Forum > Pre Membership. 

This way my forum menus look a lot smaller, and is hard to notice at first.

The second issue I noticed, I can not create any new thread? Even as an Admin, I click “add topic”, nothing happens.  I have the same issue when trying to upload an avatar, I click “browse” nothing happens. It’s like I am clicking a blank spot of my screen, and I do have upload enabled. 

So then I went to enable remote avatar, and when I then enter the avatar area, its all plain text, there’s no images or anything, it looks like a html code all over the screen, and after I entered the remote url, I get a blank screen that says “success”. There’s no auto-referring back to profile, or “ok” button, I actually have to click “back” until I end up at the forum, then refresh.

Tried to re-install, and I got 

“This plugin does not have a valid header”. 

Well the issue with the menu items stacking (Breadcrumbs) is that this is the way the breadcrumbs are displayed in the forum in the basic theme. The theme that we use here on the support site is included within the purchase, which displays the breadcrumbs differently.

As for the next issue, just a guess, but have you had a look in your WordPress admin under ‘Forum’ ? You have to actually create your forum groups in order to have a section to post to, see forum > forums and you have a list of options underneath.

Have a look also in your WordPress admin under ‘forum’ at forum > profiles > avatars to see if there is any option that might be disabled that you need. Although this issue sounds a little odd, its worth a look.

On to the valid header message. This could be any number of things, how did you re-install?

The valid header was actually like that the first time I tried to install as well.

And I had created a test-forum, but I can’t create a topic in it at all. add-topic just doesn’t work.

this is a pre membership forum – we cannot really provide support here…  the importer is a wp plugin not an sp plugin… and just verified as downloaded from here works fine…

from someone that converted from mingle, to bbpress to simplepress, I highly recommend simplepress, you won’t regret making the change, these guys are awesome, except for that mr papa fellow, he scares me

I kid, I kid

is there a way to EXPORT sp forum into another?

I mean user DB, all existing forums and messages?