This release marks the most major update yet to the WP-United codebase. The full list of features and significant bugfixes is as follows:

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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…)

Community blogging is nothing new… at least not when compared with the timescale of the existence of the “blogoshphere”. But its potential has yet to be fully tapped.

“Community Blogging” means different things to different people. Some are concerned with the natural emergence of communities in a sea of otherwise discrete and disparate blogs. The proliferation of bookmarking and social networking sites are testament to this phenomenon. Others see community blogs as location-based groupings of people. Witness the rise of the “ists”.

However, it is a third, more expansive definition that interests me the most: leveraging an existing online community to create a blogging platform with an instant audience. (More…)

Changes in this release:

• FIXED: WP-United Connection now installs properly when PHP is running under IIS
• Better and more reliable handling of embedded RSS feeds in an integrated page
• Better auto-setting of page basename
• FIXED: Trailing slash after blog.php no longer causes a 404 error when permalinks are turned on
• Improved detection of WordPress styles and scripts that need to be included in an integrated page
• Superfluous full-stop removed from mod file (thanks Georgie!)

I recommend that anyone running WP-United upgrade. If you;re runnng v0.8.8.x, the process is simple, just copy over the new files.

There is also one minor change in the mod file to overall_header.tpl (change {WP_STYLES} to {WP_HEAD} ), but this change will not become necessary until v0.9.x - both are currently supported.

Hopefully this will be the last of the bugs cleared up in advance of the v0.8.9 release, which will have many new features!

You can download WP-United v0.8.8.7 on the Download Page.

Happy Community Blogging!

This is just a minor release to improve the integration features:

• NEW: Login/logout links hard-coded into templates are now fixed when logins are integrated
• All RSS feeds now work, even when WordPress is inside the phpBB header/footer!

To download, please visit the Download page!

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…)

Ready for immediate download!

In addition to several code improvements, this release fixes a number of issues that were discovered in the integration with WordPress 2.1: (More…)

Plenty of releases this week!

This version includes three small changes:

• Improved (again) setting of Blog URI (now includes http:)
• FIXED: Non-fatal error when installing WP-United Connection on a new WordPress install

To upgrade from v0.8.8.x, just copu opver the new files and then run through the Setup Wizard again.