I’m delighted to finally be able to announce the first release candidate of WP-United for phpBB3.

Here’s what’s new: (More…)

Thanks to yoos, who posted this.

A few people have reported problems with phpBB3 not automatically redirecting upon login. Check out this post to see if it helps.

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

Just a quick reminder to everyone

I’ve been keen to fill the gallery to show off WP-United’s features to new users (there’s nothing better than seeing it in action on real sites). Up until now, I’ve been adding sites regardless of whether they link back to WP-United.com or not. In actual fact, the vast majority do — so I’m pretty happy.

However, there are a growing number of new sites which have dumped the included link from their footer, or haven’t linked to us at all. To be clear, this is your prerogative (provided the copyright statements in the PHP code remain completely intact) — however, links back to us are one of this site’s main lifelines. Without them, far fewer people would find the site — either directly or via Google.

Feel free to modify the link, or move it to a separate “credits” page. I understand some sites want to make it look like they are developed in-house, or believe in security through obfuscation, but in reality there’s really very little reason not to link back — some very large sites are doing so.

Also, a few people have kindly written about WP-United on their sites or blogs. Some have even written tutorials in their own languages. This is fantastic, something I love to see

The stick: eventually, when the gallery fills up, I’ll start being a bit stricter with who stays in there The carrot: The more people discover WP-United, the more incentive there will be to keep it developing rapidly.

Thanks to everyone who is already supporting WP-United — either by donating, linking, contributing code or translations, writing about us or recommending us to peers. It is much appreciated.

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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I’m delighted to announce the release of WP-United v0.5.5 for phpBB3.

In the first week since WP-United for phpBB3 was released, I received a fair amount of feedback, and a few bug reports. v0.5.5 is designed to address them.

The major changes are as follows: (More…)

As the readme file introducing the WP-United template tags is missing from the phpBB3 download, as as I’ve been meaning to do a proper write-up for months now, I’ve put together a page, All About Template Tags.

For most users, the provided widgets should be sufficient. However, if customisation is your “thing”, then this page is for you!

As is always the case with a first Beta release there were a few errors that got spotted immediately. If you installed v0.5.0, you can simply update by just copying over all the new files to their correct locations. You don’t need to run the install script or make any other edits.

There are only a few changes:

• Fixed: Some login & register links didn’t point to the right place when logins were itnegrated. This is now fixed (but redirection back to the page you were on will come later).
• Fixed: function.php warnings appeared at the top of the page for some templates.
• Fixed: Incorrect path to /includes/acp in the install MOD file.

Thanks to eeryone who helped spot and report the errors!

You can get the latest version by heading to the Download Page.