Only a couple of more evenings of work are needed (touch wood!) on WP-United for phpBB3.

We’re getting pretty close, and it’s looking pretty good

For the initial release, I have tried to maintain feature parity with the phpBB2 version as far as possible. However, there will be a few differences — some by necessity, and a few improvements thrown in along the way. Here are the main ones: (More…)

The second WP-United site for phpBB3 is finally up. Can you guess which one it is? (Hint: You’re on it!).

While I uncovered a number of minor bugs during the upgrade that I will need to fix, none of them are show-stoppers, which means that I should be able to package and release WP-United for phpBB3 soon.

This site is a bit more ‘integrated’ than the last example: Users are integrated, and we use several template tags. So far so good (although I need to clean up the template and fix a few fonts here and there).

There are a few things outstanding: A bit more work on the installer, admin panel, and widgets, a bit of cleaning up to do, plus a bit of CSS for default template integrations. Nothing too major left I hope.

So stay tuned….

Sorry for being a bit ‘hands off’ the last week — had a long weekend in Hong Kong, but managed to get in a spot of work on WP-United for phpBB3. (More…)

More progress…

The majority of the code is now working well with phpBB3.

I’m using the phpBB3 native permissions system to integrate logins without any problems.Template integration are completed.

And… the beginnings of an ACP interface are beginning to emerge…

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Apparently a picture tells a thousand words… so here are two thousand:

I’m finally getting a little bit of time to sit down and sync some of the phpBB2 & phpBB3 code together. Template integration is pretty much done…which brings us a fair bit closer to a release. In the meantime, here are some screenshots of Olympus paired with WordPress!

  

Now, just to get my hands on that prosilver theme….

Most phpBB-based sites fall into two categories: Those where phpBB is used as an add-on feature of the main site: for example, as a support forum; and those where a phpBB community is the site.

Sites in the latter category live and breathe ‘community’ — and are often places for pre-existing off-line communities to discuss topics and meet online. Often, such sites using a stock phpBB install spring up and attract large numbers of users — without even a custom design or other site features. It usually doesn’t take long, however, for users to request new features, and a nice portal page summarizing news or announcements is usually the first request. (More…)

I’ve been making fairly good progress with WP-United for phpBB3. While I can re-use much of the phpBB2 code, Olympus is quite a different animal in many respects. (More…)