Apologies for the various bits of downtime over the last 24 hours — I have moved the VPS that holds WP-United.com, among various other sites, to a different continent. The move is now complete — if you are seeing this, then welcome to the new server!

If you notice any problems, please let me know. However, for all intents and purposes, things should be identical to the way they were before.

In the next couple of days, there will be a small amount of downtime as this site migrates to v0.8 of WP-United — consider it final testing just before I get to finally release it. In the meantime, any help in testing v0.8 and reporting bugs in the appropriate forum is, as always, much appreciated.

I had promised v0.8 by Christmas — and it really is, very nearly ready. I just need a few more days to complete the finishing touches and do some final testing. If you are waiting for it, I encourage you to download it from our SVN server at http://www.wp-united.com/svn and test it out.

Meanwhile, wp-united.com will be moving servers from tomorrow. This shouldn’t take more than a few hours, and I’ll post more details here once the move is in progress.

I was hoping to have v0.8 released before WordPress 2.9 — but as I want v0.8 to be the best release yet, there is still a little more work to do. It will be ready by Christmas, however.

If you would like to upgrade to WordPress 2.9 now, and are using WP-United v0.7.x, you will need to make a small edit to the file wp-united/wp-integration-class.php, as follows:

Find the line // or you could add your own here

And after it, on a new line, add:'wp_embed',.

Alternatively, hang tight for all the new features and bug fixes in v0.8 — watch this space!

If you are testing WP-United v0.8 (on a non-live webserver, of course), I have just checked in a large number of updates, that fix several show-stopper bugs.

Please update to the latest version by updating from http://www.wp-united.com/svn/trunk . However, please note that several changes have been made to the install.xml file — the number of code edits is significantly reduced.

For testing, I recommend testing on a virgin forum, but if you want to update your existing test v0.8 installation, please follow the directions in the latest contrib/../upgrade.xml file — in particular, the parts that get you to look for previous WP-United code edits and ask you to remove them.

People who don’t want to set their server on fire will still need to wait for the final release of v0.8 — as always, it should be soon. However, if you do have time to test and report bugs on a development server, it would be much appreciated.

If you are interested in testing or modifying WP-United code, you should check out the WP-United Build Environment. I have just updated it to use the latest phpBB and WordPress.

WP-United Build Environment

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Sorry for once again having “real work” taking over my life. WP-United is till very much alive, and I hope to be able to release v0.8 before Christmas.

I do, however, still need help with the forums — thank you to those who are already moderating and helping out with queries. Any more help is much appreciated.

I have a bit of holiday coming my way, and hope to be able to use it to ensure WP-United stays on track, and get around to providing some support services. In the meantime, do not hesitate to check out v0.8 from http://www.wp-united.com/svn and let me know how it goes.

John