I’ve been suffering from a shortage of time recently. Sorry for not being terribly active on the forums — and I know I have 5 Private Messages I’ve promised to answer. I will get round to you, I promise. (More…)

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….

After nearly a month in the making, I’m pleased to finally be getting v0.9.0 out!

This will make WP-United much more interesting to WordPress users: You can now easily integrate phpBB into a WordPress page ! (Of course, as existing users know, you can also do the reverse).

User integration is also completely revamped and much more robust, and a user mapping tool is provided so you can see what is going on — and check for any errors.

Uploads/attachments are now also completely separated… when users have their own blogs, they can only see and act upon their own uploads.
There are many other new features. In addition, this release should also address all of the bugs that have been posted on the forums over the last month… so what are you waiting for? Hit the Download Page!

A decent demo will be provided soon.. but in the meantime, here’s a ‘money shot’ for you — phpBB inside K2:

This is a small but important update to fix the following issues:

• Users with usernames containing non-alphanumeric characters do not integrate correctly
• When there are no bloggers, the blog home page does not display correctly.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have been running the mod with user integration turned on, you MUST perform the following steps. (More…)

A popular request has been a “reverse” template integration - having phpBB appearing inside the WordPress header and footer. (Much like this site looks to the untrained eye - although WP-United.com actually uses a phpBB header and footer on every page).

Well - it’s in alpha and on its way to being released. the package will allow you to choose whether you just want the forum inside the WordPress header and footer, or inside a WordPress template page. (You could even put an entire WordPress install inside a single blog post if you so desire).

And, of course, it’s a full template integration - no iframes or any of that jazz!

Here are some obligatory screenshots:

OK, v0.8.9.0 is iminent…. still a bit of cleaning up to do, but it should be out within the next 24 - 48 hours.

Due to time constraints, and the sheer volume of other features/fixes included, I have had to drop per-user categoris and blogroll for this release — they will be coming soon!

The changes v0.8.9.0 brings are: (More…)

WP-United has two major new features on the horizon. I have pre-alpha code, but it will probably not be included in v0.8.9. (More…)

v0.8.9 is just around the corner, and will bring several improvements.

Most important of these is a nice, automatically-generated front page, listing users’ blogs and various details. Second on the list is per-user categories. A few new template tags to allow phpBB avatars are also available (check out the comments in this blog for a preview!). (More…)