I decided not to sit on v0.9.2 any longer — I’ve been testing it for a while and most reports are quite positive.
It fixes a lot of bugs in v0.9.1.6, and also completely alters cross-posting and cross-posted comments. At first glance you won’t see a lot of shiny new options, but if you’re using cross-posting on your site, particularly with commenting enabled in the forum, you will quickly notice the new added flexibility.
You can upgrade from the WordPress prompt or by downloading from the download page. To upgrade, you will need to upgrade both the phpBB and WordPress portions of your site, but there are no code changes in phpBB — you just need to copy over the files. Of course, you will be prompted to do this if you don’t do it before upgrading.
If you are heavily dependent on cross-posting and have a lot of legacy cross-posts, they will be automatically transferred to the new cross-posting schema. This should all happen automatically after you upgrade. But please do backup just in case.
The full list of changes is:
- NEW: Re-write of cross-posting and cross-posted comments. Cross-posted comments now appear mixed with WordPress comments, and can be viewed, filtered and managed from WordPress as well as phpBB. Cross-posted topics now also fully support custom ordering, threading and guest posting, and are stored and recalled more efficiently.
- NEW: Cross-posted comments (posted by guests) that are pending moderator approval in phpBB now show up in WordPress, with the appropriate “pending approval” message.
- NEW: Guest-cross-posted comments now store e-mail and website, just like native comments.
- NEW: New cross-posting comment permission in phpBB allows guests to cross-post comments without having to open your forum up to guests.
- NEW: Cross-posts by unauthenticated users can now be passed through WordPress filters (e.g. Akismet).
- NEW: The initial connection screen now falls back to manual path entry if your server has restrictions on scannng the document root
- NEW: You can choose to enter the phpBB path and document root manually, in case your phpBB root is under a different document root.
- BUGFIX: Users getting logged out of phpBB on full-page phpBB-in-WordPress
- WORKAROUND: Incorrect user integration flow when Ultimate TinyMCE (or similar plugins that set current user too early) are active.
- BUGFIX: Regression in avatars; default avatars getting syncd to phpBB rather than true Gravatars.
- BUGFIX: categories/tags & stats not showing up for some users if the same database user is used for phpBB & WordPress in some circumstances.
- BUGFIX: Initial connect screen was complaining about lack of phpBB MOD before even trying to connect
- NEW: More errors can now be passed through on the initial connect & settings screens: No more guessing what it is keeping you from installing.
- NEW / BUGFIX: The forum page title keeps getting reset back to “Forum” and the page creation date keeps updating.
- BUGFIX: Top navbar not correctly showing post name
- BUGFIX: Numerous issues with caching of template-integrated stylesheets leading to very full caches and some styling errors.
- BUGFIX: Userdata cache not cleared on first integrated login to phpBB
- BUGFIX: $table_prefix was getting unset on phpBB-in-WordPress pages, upsetting some mods
- BUGFIX: Improve handling of double-byte characters when escaping cross-posted topic titles and user names in user mapper.
- BUGFIX: Clash with the phpBB classifieds MOD
- BUGFIX: Synced avatars losing CSS styling
- ENHANCEMENT: Try multiple ways to initialise admin javascript, so it works even when other plugins with script errors halt JavaScript loading
- NEW: Lots more login integration debugging, so you can see what is causing login integration problems. Now works on WP pages and in admin too.
- NEW: Some more core rewriting and cleanup; the context switcher is now separated into its own parent class; the main plugin is now divided into auto-loading modules.
… and plenty more cleaning up and fixing in addition.
Enjoy! Happy blogging!
Awesome. Thank you. I can’t stay up any longer, going to bed. Great job on what you’ve done with the cross-posting and 0.9.2.0 in general. Be back tomorrow
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Hi,
I have been looking for a WP-Phpbb3 bridge and have just come across your site. I have a few questions about features that I hope you can answer.
I have wishlist member set-up on my wordpress install. Users signup via paypal and wishlist upgrades their user level. If/when they unsubscribe, wishlist will lower them back down to a general user.
I’m looking for a bridge to PHPBB that will alter a users permissions based on the wordpress group they are part of and not just once, users need to bee added and then later removed based on the wordpress user level.
Is this something that WP United can do?
Thanks
Ben.
Hi Ben,
When users are created in WordPress, WP-United can create mapped phpBB users; but they are all created in phpBB as standard registered users, at the pont of initial registration.
It would be an easy add though — you could add a WP-United sub-plugin (which can be dropped into the “extras” folder) that would modify phpBB group membershio whenever a certain action was fired.
Thanks for the reply on this. I’m going to have a go at setting it up.
You say there is a plug-in. Where can I find it?
Thanks,
Ben
You can download WP-United from the wordpress plugin repository. It will then prompt you to download and install a phpBB mod during installation.
Alternatively you can download the full package from the download page on this site.
i have installed the wordpress and phpbb plugins/mods
I now want to set it up to upgrade a member to be part of a phpbb user group when they have their membership changed in wordpress
Just to add to that,
I am using with list member to control a WP users membership level. How can I add a PHPBB user to a forum group when their WP account gets altered.
Thanks
Ben.