Forums: http://sodenbowl.com/?page_id=1669
My issue is, I can not figure out how to make the latest post show up for 1 of my Groups in my forums: Madden 25.
On the rest of the Forum Groups, the latest post shows on the right side on main forums. Example: Xbox One (Other), when a post is made in one of the sub forums, it also displays “Last Post S S0DEN
Test
14 hours ago” on the right, but when a post is made in the Forum Group Madden 25, no Last post is created, am I missing a setting here?
I seem to recall one instance we had, quite a while back, where the ‘last post’ stats area to the right would not get filled until there was an actual topic in the main, parent forum. And by the looks of things all the forums that are missing this data ONLY have topics in their sub-forums. Is that correct?
I also seem to remember that we were unable to replicate this but if you are able to confrm if this is the case then we can take another look at it…
You are 100% correct, I just tested that. Once I created a topic in the main forums, it then displayed to the right.
we couldn’t replicate or find a cause for this last time we looked but I will open a ticket now and investigate. Might be able to look into this today actually as it is quiet at the moment.
OK – this is embarrassing! It is a one line code change to one file. If you want it I can give it to you to try but it will be in the next update…
Sure thing, I would not be embarrassed at all – this is a great product. I have used Vbulletin for years, and yet I enjoy this Simple-Press more.
That’s most kind. OK – if you want to fix it then the file to change is:
/simple-press/forum/content/sp-group-view-functions.php.
The function to edit is about two thirds of the way down the file and is:
sp_ForumIndexLastPost()
Right at the top of this function is the lione of code:
if ($spThisForum->post_count == 0) return;
and all you need to do is remove it…!
Instead of opening a new thread in your support forum, is ther documentation on how to use the SP Importer to import Vbulletin posts to Simple Press?
the documentation exists inside the that wp plugin itself… but you will need a clean forum to import into…
I figured that, I can start new since we do not have many posts at this moment.
its pretty simple, take a look and ask any questions…
you give us the vbulletin db info, the wp db info and off we go… please note, both db need to be on the same server obviously…
I set up a test WordPress website and a test Simple Press forum, I then went into the Vbulletin forums and moved all sub forums to regular forum status as the plugin states to do.
I then ran the SP Importer, this is what I received:
User/Member Data Created for Members 1 – 100
User/Member Data Created for Members 101 – 200
User/Member Data Created for Members 201 – 300
Members Post Counts Updated
IMPORTED:
223 Users
0 Groups
0 Forums
0 Topics
0 Posts
Why is the plugin not pulling my forums or posts? This is what I want pulled, not the actual users…
what is your version of vbulletin?
Afraid you cannot import just the forum stuff… the posts are rather meaningless with the users… I mean posts were made by users…
Not sure what the issue might be… What option did you use for UTF-8?
The vbulletin part of the importer was contributed by a user but has had good success with other users using…
If you try the utf option with no luck (worth a try), about the only further thing we could do would be to try it ourselves with the actual vbulleting db… if, of course, you were willing to share it… if so, send an email to support at simple-press dot com with the db… please be sure to link to this topic too… understand of course, if that is not possible…
Roger, will test in a few minutes using UTF-8. The traffic, posts is what I am after a long with the content of the forums. But yes, the users need to be there too.