WP-United v0.8.1 contains fixes for bugs reported in the forum since the release of v0.8.0, including regressions in avatar support, and a permissions bug that prevented posting follow-up comments.
In addition, 20 minor other bugs are fixed.

Upgrading from v0.8.0 is easy — you just need to copy over the new files, purge the cache, and run the Setup Wizard again (an upgrade.xml file is included with details instructions).

If you are upgrading from v0.7x or earlier, see these instructions.

I’m delighted to announce – at last – the release of WP-United v0.8.0, our second release candidate.

This release – which has been "almost ready" for almost six months – is finally here, and represents a huge code overhaul, and many significant changes and additions. as part of this, the majority of WP-United code has been rewritten.

Here are some of the highlights:
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Now that WP-United v0.8 is released, you will be wondering how to upgrade an existing v0.7x installation.

The procedure is simple. However, while you are upgrading, site visitors will receive errors, and certain pages will be inaccessible. It is therefore important that you bring your site offline during the upgrade process. The easiest way is probably to require a username and password using your .htaccess and an htpasswd file.

Once your site is offline, you are ready to upgrade. Open the file contrib/upgrading_from_v0.5.5_or_later/upgrade.xml in your browser, and read through the instructions before beginning.

Then follow the below steps:

• Delete your phpbb-root/wp-united directory from your server — it contains old files that need to be removed.
• Perform all the file copies and edits indicated in the upgrade.xml file — there are edits to three files, and you need to copy everything from root to your live site. If you renamed or moved blog.php, don’t forget to replace it with the new one for v0.8, and then edit it and provide the path back to phpBB, like you did before.
• Next, open up the file wp-united/options.php on your server,find the option WPU_DISABLE, and change the option from FALSE to TRUE. This will temporarily disable WP-United so you can complete the upgrade.
• Visit your phpBB Admin Control Panel, and purge the phpBB cache. This is important, without this the new WP-United hooks may not run.
• Visit the WP-United Setup Wizard, and run it all the way through.
• When completed, go back to your wp-united/options.php and change WPU_DISABLE from TRUE back to FALSE

Your upgrade should now be complete. Surf your site and play with the various new options. When satisfied, re-enable access to your site.

Remember that WP-United v0.8 contains many additions and changes. It is recommended that you test it on an offline copy of your forum first to ensure the upgrade will fit your needs before upgrading your live site.

Happy blogging!

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

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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!

Busy, busy these days — very little time to devote to WP-United. However, I have made some progress with the next version.

First up is a new feature that many have been waiting for: Cross-posting.

If you enable this feature, you will find a new box on the WordPress “Write Post” page. Here, you can select whether you want to “cross-post”, and select a forum to cross-post to. When you submit the post, a topic will be created in that forum. The topic will be an excerpt of your blog post (or the full post, if you did not specify an excerpt, or did not use the “more” tags), complete with HTML converted to BBCode, a list of categories it was posted to, and a link back to the full post. The topic title can be automatically prefixed with text (say, “[BLOG]“).

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I’m delighted to announce the release of WP-United v0.5.5 for phpBB3.

In the first week since WP-United for phpBB3 was released, I received a fair amount of feedback, and a few bug reports. v0.5.5 is designed to address them.

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As is always the case with a first Beta release there were a few errors that got spotted immediately. If you installed v0.5.0, you can simply update by just copying over all the new files to their correct locations. You don’t need to run the install script or make any other edits.

There are only a few changes:

• Fixed: Some login & register links didn’t point to the right place when logins were itnegrated. This is now fixed (but redirection back to the page you were on will come later).
• Fixed: function.php warnings appeared at the top of the page for some templates.
• Fixed: Incorrect path to /includes/acp in the install MOD file.

Thanks to eeryone who helped spot and report the errors!

You can get the latest version by heading to the Download Page.

At last — the first public release of WP-United for phpBB3!

(And yes, as promised, it hit the streets before phpBB3 went final!)

While users migrating from the phpBB2 version will find mostly the same features, several enhancements have been made — particularly to the install & uninstall process. There are also numerous bugfixes, and several features, such as CSS ordering and DTD switching have been enhanced.

Over the coming days the forum will be expanded to accommodate phpBB3 requests & information.

There’s not much more to say, other than: Head on over to the Download Page!

Happy blogging!