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KV kvr28
kvr28
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xDave said
Hmm plugin import leads me to standalone import too…is this intended?

“Tags” is installed.

I don´t even know what to enter at “bbpress table suffix” :(

look at your database tables through myphpadmin, some reason I named my database rufus when I created it 2 years ago, so my bbpress database was rufus_forum_  and such, so just put what ever the beginning part is, for me it is rufus_   the part I messed up was my users, I thought the correct one to use would have been wp_users, so I was using wp_ which kept only importing me and no one else, once I changed it to rufus_ everyone got imported, one thing I had to do was one of my forums was showing 0 categories and posts so I went through the simple press toolbox and clicked on housekeeping, I reindexed all the forums and everything came out fine after that

if this is your first time converting, let me tell you, this conversion was much easier than converting into bbpress

good luck

XD xDave
xDave
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hmm okay. But I created the forums some weeks ago and really dont know, what I should put into the “bbpress prefix” field. I guess it should be “wp_” as well for the bbpress forum posts are stored in wp_post I think? Is that so? And why does the “plugin” option dont work?

KV kvr28
kvr28
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xDave said
hmm okay. But I created the forums some weeks ago and really dont know, what I should put into the “bbpress prefix” field. I guess it should be “wp_” as well for the bbpress forum posts are stored in wp_post I think? Is that so? And why does the “plugin” option dont work?

is this a original fresh install of bbpress? I think their tables should be wp_bb, I would double check to make sure, not sure on the plugin, but our conversion went fine even though it said the stand alone 

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Yes – I am afraid the label was wrong and said stand alone when it isn’t. If you chose plugin from the main importer menu then you are running the right one.

If your bbPress is in your current WP site then the prefix should be the same as the prefix for all of the WP tables and that is set in your wp-config.sys file and was set when you first installerd WP.

XD xDave
xDave
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OMG!

Tried to install SP today on my livesite. But when i install the css-only theme I cannot access the SP-Admin anymore. Only way is to completly deinstall SP :(

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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This would have been better in its own topic but I wont move it yet.

So – is this also a case where the folder name of the theme has had a number appended to the end of it? The CSS only folder name (by default in /wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/ should be ‘css-only‘. If it has a number on the end (like -1) then just rename the folder.