I’m pleased to announce the first draft of the WP-United User Manual.

This will soon be available with all downloads of WP-United, and should be useful reading for both new and existing users of WP-United.

There is still more to add — it is a work in progress. When it is completed, it will form the basis of a new wiki here at WP-United.com. In the meantime, you are free to edit or add to it.

Get the WP-United User Manual here.

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I’ll be on the phpBB Weekly live podcast this weekend at 16:00 UTC this Saturday (27 June) to discuss WP-United.

Be sure to come along and ask questions if you’re interested. Hopefully I won’t be too boring You can listen and participate live at www.phpbbweekly.net.

I’m pleased to announce an updated release of WP-United. This is a stability release — it fixes several bugs uncovered since the release of v0.7.0, and works with the newly released WordPress 2.8.

It also includes one new feature hotly requested in the forums — you can choose to have comments for posts cross-posted from WordPress to phpBB automatically closed, and a link added to the forum thread.

The full changelog is:

• NEW: Auto-linking of cross-posted posts’ comments to the forum.
• FIXED: Error with WordPress 2.8 final
• FIXED: (regression) List of forums with cross-posting permissions not correct in wp-admin
• FIXED: posts not cross-posting if post is first saved as a draft
• FIXED: Couple of mistakes in install.xml causing errors in AutoMod
• FIXED: Regression in session invocation was causing autologin to stop workig with some setups
• FIXED: Some plugins caused widgets to be executed in wp-admin, where wp-united widgets aren’t designed to run, causing errors.

As always, you can download the latest version of WP-United on our Download Page.

[EDIT -- Oops, download link fixed!]

Well, I promised a v0.6.5 this week, but with help from Japgalaxy, we have so many new features and bug fixes in this release, that a point-release was no longer appropriate. As such, I’m delighted to bring you… WP-United v0.7.0!

This version brings a slew of new features and fixes:

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I’ve just upgraded the site — at long last — to WordPress 2.7.1, latest phpBB3, and latest WP-United.

EDIT: It was such a long time since we cleaned ship, some of the phpBB files had crusted over, preventing some users from being able to log in — after a bit of spring cleaning this morning, things are back to normal!

This also allowed me to iron out a few final issues with the about-to-be-released WP-United v0.6.5. We should be close to a release soon.

I am — finally — putting the finishing touches on WP-United v0.6.5. This new official release will be compatible with WordPress 2.7 and 2.8 (and all older versions!), and will fix a few known issues.

I hope to have it released before WP 2.8 goes final.

if you would like to test it in advance of the release, please post here.

WP-United lives on thanks to you

Many apologies for not posting here for such a long time. WP-United development has been stalled for the past year while I have had to attend with personal life — a new job, and more recently, the financial crisis.

The current version of WP-United up on the download page here is out of date — it will need a few changes in order to work with the latest versions of phpBB3 and WordPress. The good news is that, thanks to the power of open source, and resourceful users, WP-United lives on!

You can find the latest version of WP-United here at nitemarecafe.com.

Help needed!

I apologise for not being able to answer support questions on the forum. However, I would like this site to continue as a useful resource, and intend to return to active WP-United maintenance, provided I have some help.

WP-United is big enough to warrant being managed and developed as a community, so, in the meantime, I am looking for:

• Developers — If you have been keeping WP-united up-to-date yourselves, I would like to have your patches submitted against the WP-United SVN tree here. Please contact me for commit privileges.
• One or two forum moderators — people who are already active on the forums, and would enjoy helping people out where necessary. These people could also field their own support/installation services if they wanted to, via the support section of this site. Even though I can’t visit as often as I would like, I hope that they can still facilitate support and user interaction.

If you are able to help in either of the above roles, please post in the comments to this blog post.

Server move

Finally, in order to keep this site alive, I will be migrating it to a new server in the coming days. For a short period, the blog and forums will be locked, to ensure the process goes smoothly. Everything, including the URL, will be the same after the move.

[Update: The server move is now complete -- if you are reading this update, then welcome to the new server! If you spot any problems, please add a comment to this blog entry]

Happy blogging!

John

I’m delighted to finally be able to announce the first release candidate of WP-United for phpBB3.

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Thanks to yoos, who posted this.

A few people have reported problems with phpBB3 not automatically redirecting upon login. Check out this post to see if it helps.

Sorry for the delay with this one — work has been busy (and interesting), leaving me less time and energy in the evenings to focus my attention on WP-United.

I’ve also been a little weary of the sheer number of RC releases for phpBB — I was a proponent of another beta release prior to going RC, and you can see why! Each release has required a fair few template changes — which, on my sites with customised themes, means a lot of time wasted updating software when I’d rather be programming!

Anyway — since phpBB3 RC7 seems relatively stable, I have prepared another interim release, updated to install with phpBB3 RC7. As previously, if all is OK, I shall release this as a new version in the coming days.

Download it here: V0.6 Preview

Happy blogging!