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Imported: Psuedo Mainsite using WordPress #48

Open wtl420 opened 8 years ago

wtl420 commented 8 years ago

Sat May 18, 2013 04:22 PM Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by Elyk:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/

An interest in user created content was expressed in the MW2013 survey. How I envision this working is members will be able to make and comment on blog posts containing content that they created (art, video, game reviews, games, etc). It would probably be the simplest alternative to coding our own website.

Is this something I should try to implement? Is there a better option?

Sat May 18, 2013 05:19 PM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by El Huesudo II:

To me it seems like a good way to go, at least for the time being. I'm behind this.

Sat May 18, 2013 05:21 PM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by Spritey:

Wordpress is great, but I'm not sure how well it handles a large amount of users.

Still, the bridge thing seems neat. And Wordpress is super easy to develop for. There's a plugin for just about everything.

Sat May 18, 2013 08:42 PM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by Draku:

Yes, this is a great idea. Simple without too much extra effort unlike a lot of other possible solutions.

Sun May 19, 2013 12:48 AM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by Bitteh:

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Sun May 19, 2013 02:10 AM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by JoshJDubya:

I hope that you're still not going to replace the forum completely with the main site like originally planned, otherwise I'm sold.

Sun May 19, 2013 07:07 AM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by World'sTallestLadder:

JoshJDubya:

I hope that you're still not going to replace the forum completely with the main site like originally planned, otherwise I'm sold.

did you read the first post? it's a mod to bridge compatibility with wordpress and phpbb. how would removing the forum make any sense there???

additionally, in the main site plans the forums weren't being replaced, just the software, because phpbb is bad

i won't be using the main site so i don't care about this one way or another. don't see any point in a main site that just presents forum posts in a different layout anyway

Sun May 19, 2013 02:36 PM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by McKnackus I:

Comrade Kesha:

JoshJDubya:

I hope that you're still not going to replace the forum completely with the main site like originally planned, otherwise I'm sold.

did you read the first post? it's a mod to bridge compatibility with wordpress and phpbb. how would removing the forum make any sense there???

additionally, in the main site plans the forums weren't being replaced, just the software, because phpbb is bad

i won't be using the main site so i don't care about this one way or another. don't see any point in a main site that just presents forum posts in a different layout anyway

Sorta. The original mainsite was going to have a ground-up forum software that was gonna be half-forum half-blog, where forum threads in the VGV would also be blog posts in the mainsite view. At least, that's what I think it was gonna be.

This would theoretically be that, although to be honest I'm not sure I'd trust PHPbb to keep up it's end of this bridge.

Sun May 19, 2013 03:25 PM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by Elyk:

From what I gather phpBB would only be handling user accounts. Forum threads wouldn't show up on the blog an vice-versa.

Sun May 19, 2013 03:30 PM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by McKnackus I:

So the wordpress site would basically be a seperate site entirely but instead of seperate accounts from the forum it uses the same accounts?

I guess that's a little better than most sites.

Sun May 19, 2013 03:32 PM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by Spritey:

Yeah, from what I understand, I think it just synchronizes new phpbb accounts with wordpress. So even if the forum ever went down, the Wordpress accounts would still exist. I think.

Sun May 19, 2013 06:56 PM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by Kyori:

It needs the forum to do authentication, so if the forum went down the wordpress side of the accounts would still be there but you'd not be able to log in.

Sat Jun 01, 2013 05:31 AM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by Elyk:

So I've spent a couple of hours last week and a few more this week trying to get this plugin to work and it refuses to. I'm unable to get it to create the cache of users that it needs to pull user accounts from phpBB. The error message that it displays blocks you from using any of the admin cp or blog. Renaming/deleting the plugin folder on the host disables it but when reactivated it gives the error immediately without allowing me to reach the settings screen for it. To make matters even more troublesome nothing short of a full reinstallation of Wordpress has been successful in resetting the plugin. I've skimmed through the support section on their page and can't find anyone with a similar problem that has been given an answer. It also doesn't seem to still be developed.

This plugin exists but seems like it has a significantly more complicated install.

Sat Jun 01, 2013 12:25 PM Re: Psuedo Mainsite using Wordpress by World'sTallestLadder:

probably relates to custom changes to our user database then. have you tried it with a clean install of phpbb?