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!

After a long time sorting everything out — not least having to recreate a decent test environment due to my relocation, and then dealing with the multiple updates of phpBB3 & WordPress, I should be back on track for releasing v0.6.0

In the meantime I have released a preview version here — for those waiting for the new release, you can test it out and post any problems on the forums.

Update 1/10/07: The preview download has been updated (x2) to improve cross-posting handling and WP 2.3 compatibility.

Sorry for the lack of updates for the past couple of weeks, and the minimal participation in the forums — I have been in th e midst of a temporary relocation. If all goes according to plan, you should be seing a lot more of me in the coming week

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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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:

If you’re using WordPress 2.2, you’ll want a version of WP-United that is compatible. that means the development version, which you can grab from the SVN repository at http://svn.wp-united.org using your favourite SVN client.

Please note that if you do decide to use this code, it is changing rapidly, so be sure to check for changes often, including changes to the mod upgrade file.

For those who have already been making use of the SVN code, the version has just been bumped up to v0.9.5 in preparation for the next release. You’ll need to look at the upgrade mod file if you’ve been using v0.9.2.

If you’re a phpBB3 user, you’ll see phpBB3 code in there, but it is not currently supported (and will not work as you expect)… best to leave it for a few days.