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Maxx wrote:1. I installed phpBB3 inside WordPress. When I access my site, it starts with the forum, but I want it to start with the blog. How do I change this?

You can either set a redirect using your htaccess file to redirect to blog.php or you can rename blog.php to index.php. Just make sure to follow the instructions in the wp-united settings page in the ACP for doing this. I have not personally tried this method, so I am not certain as to how it works. Trial and error may be your friend on this one. Ideally, if your forum is in a directory and wordpress is in another, you can simply have the renamed blog.php in your site root folder leaving the phpbb and wordpress files intact, Just make sure to go back into teh ACP and set the location of blog.php in the wp-united settings where it requests it.

Maxx wrote:2. How do I add a link to the forum in the WP menubar?

That is very dependent on which Wordpress theme you are using. In wordpress admin you can edit your theme. The file you want to edit will be header file. Look at the structure for the other links in the menubar and mimic them for your forum link. Should be fairly easy (without knowing your site and what theme you are using it is hard for me to be any more specific on this part)

Maxx wrote:3. I want people to only be able to react on the crosspost in the forum and not in the blog. How do I do that? I know you can turn of the replies in WP, but I want a link there to the crosspost on the forum.

Best way I have figured out to accomplish this is to disable replies in wordpress and when you post, include a link or instructions in the post to the corresponding forum post for replies. Ideally, given time it would be possible to edit the files to include the link automatically or redirect replies to the forum post. I am still familiarizing myself with this script so I have not had a chance to delve into that idea deeper as of yet. I hope some of this is useful, please feel free to ask any more questions you may have. If I cant come up with the answer I will find it for you.

Great mod and thanks for taking over and continuing the development.

Any chance you'll be pushing for 2.6 integration?

I'm hoping to find time to devote to this. With my other projects, sites and such I am burning the candle at both ends lol. I am really hoping to find a team of volunteers to assist in the continuing development of this great mod. I have put off upgrading my Wordpress install to 2.6 until this mod is compatible, so I like you would rather this happen sooner than later. If anyone reads this who is proficient in php and has some knowledge of this mod shoot me a PM

I'm pretty sure more testing is needed but on a fresh copy of phpbb 3.0.2 and wp 2.6 it looks like it works for the most part. Going to run some more extensive tests on an old board.

akouka wrote:I'm pretty sure more testing is needed but on a fresh copy of phpbb 3.0.2 and wp 2.6 it looks like it works for the most part. Going to run some more extensive tests on an old board.

Have you tried it with phpbb-seo 3.0.2? when I tried it last time it was completely inoperable. Either I made a noob mistake (i hope that is the case) or you are referring to a vanilla install of phpbb 3.02?

I'd be interested to learn about your experience with WP 2.6 akouka.

I would be interested in knowing this as well. Any results to report yet akouka?

Hoping you could clarify a point for me... I want to give hundreds or even thousands of users blogs with this mod, do I use Wordpress MU or ordinary Wordpress?

thanks

You use ordinary Wordpress for this.

Hi,

Cheers for resurrecting this!

For my situation, all I want to do with this mod is when I post a news article, a topic on my forums is created, linking to the article etc. Is this possible? I really don't need the integration aspect, just the posting on forums part.

Could you possibly give me a stripped version or something?

Hugely appreciated.