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March 7, 2007
site migration

Posted by nitestrike in : Dev, Blogging , add a comment

Over the past several weeks I have been helping my friend move his blog, the Library Despot, to a new home. It has been fun and I have deffenantly learned a few things about making sure what type of database backups to have and the different versions of database software can cerate much, much fun. In the end I must say that it was quite the learning experiance and I would most certianly would try that again.

November 26, 2006
UPDATED: bbPress integrated…

Posted by nitestrike in : UPDATE, Dev, Hacks, Blogging , add a comment

As I said in my previous post I have the picture gallery integrated sufficiently that it will works nicely. Now I’ve been working off and on with getting the theme to play nice with bbPress over the last couple of weeks. It keeps spitting back an error.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_header() in /…/forums/my-templates/header.php on line 27

This is the line where it calls WordPress which I have set in the config file.

require_once(’/…/wp-blog-header.php’);
define(’WP_BB’, true);

This is how I have it setup in my bbPress test site, using the default theme for WordPress. But that is where I stand at the moment. I’ll make sure to keep you all updated.

November 3, 2006
UPDATED: bbPress integrated…

Posted by nitestrike in : Site Changes, Dev, Blogging , add a comment

So I’m doing this a little bit out of order but I have installed bbPress and WordPress on a new site, yes I’m slowly ticking  up the AnderTek family of sites. I have them up and running with each having their own DB, but using WordPress DB for the user accounts. Just a little hint when using two Databases  make sure that you don’t have the password and host server names swapped, just does not seem to work :-) So for those ticking off points, I’ve got the two installed (WordPress / bbPress). I still have some integration like having them use the WP Theme in bbPress and to have a link to forum (bbPress). Since this is going to require some coding I’m not going to develop on Dev-n-Progress, just not going to be stable enough to allow.

To-Do:

Tally-ho

 

Update - 11/04/2006:
I have wrapped the WordPress Theme around bbPress install, which just took some tweaking of the bbPress Theme and referencing the WordPress install that it was associated with it.

Update - 11/06/2006:
They didn’t take much, and was quite a simple, I now have a static page that access the access the forums. I had not updated the options permalink options to date and title. Then the setting I found on the bbPress Support Forums setting the Page’s Post Slug = Folder name of the bbPress install folder. Side note you do need to have bbPress located in a sub-folder of the WordPress you are referencing from.

October 28, 2006
bbPress has hit ver 0.73…

Posted by nitestrike in : Dev, Blogging , add a comment

For those keeping track, not sure if there are any out there. Get your bbPress on, everybody! I’ll have to give it a try and see the improvements, hate to say it but have not had a chance to keep up on it.

After a couple of weeks of kicking the tires, we’ve decide we’ve fixed enough bugs to put out a new version of bbPress. So here it is: 0.73, the latest in the bbPress “Bix” series.

The changes in brief:

  • Improved rewrite rules generation
  • Template cleanup
  • Much better support for non-English forums including support for right-to-left languages
  • Improved installation
  • Even better integration with other software
  • And, of course, a small security fix

More detailed information about the changes can be gleaned from the tickets we fixed and the code we improved.

 

Product:
bbPress - New release (Download)

September 22, 2006
PHP Dive

Posted by nitestrike in : Dev , add a comment

This week I have been busing myself with learning PHP. I downloaded Apache Web Server, PHP, and MSQL Data Base applications. I installed all three on my test machine, which is actually a VMWare instance.

The installations appeared to go smoothly, but found that the Apache server was not able to start after setting up PHP for Apache. Did not like that the PHP5 DLL was invalid, it now appears that it is a known issue. I was able to Google the error and found a little write up explaining to use the latest dev build of PHP5. And what do you know the Apache was able to start up and access the test PHP file I had created.

I’ve played with variables and displaying them. Read through most of the information at W3 Schools on PHP. Going to play around with what I’ve read and hopefully get the PHP to connect, read, and write data to MQL.

Welcome to my world, the weird, the wild, and the geekiness. OK not so much the wild. :-)

 

Resources:
PHP Wiki
W3 Schools - PHP

August 18, 2006
Theme tweaking

Posted by nitestrike in : Site Changes, Dev, Hacks , add a comment

I really like the Regulus Theme by Ben over at Binary Moon. But as I was going through my own site(s) I noticed that the date only appears once for each day there is an entry.  The date is displayed after the title of the newest/last post of the day. I’m going to look through the code and see where that is written to the page and put it before and on a line above the tile of the newest/last post of the day.

UPDATE: Boy that didn’t take long, took longer to save the change. Cool, my first tweak for Wordpress.

UPDATE2: I have now updated the Regulus Theme on all the sites.

August 3, 2006
Wordpress, see bbPress

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I’ve finally gone and done it… I’ve found what I’ve been looking for. Automatic has gone and developed another project, bbPress, that can be used with Wordpress. Right now I am testing it out in it’s own space.

bbPress

Forum software is notorious for being bloated and insecure, and bbPress is pretty much everything most modern forum software is not. Sharing the same philosophical roots with WordPress, the most prominent installation of bbPress is the WP support forums themselves, which have hundreds of thousands of posts yet still are as speedy as can be. All the features you need — like tags, AJAX posting, categorization, modular user system — and nothing you don’t.

Some of Automattic’s other projects are WordPress.com, a free hosting service of WordPress using WordpressMU. MU is a multi-user version developed with hosting services in mind, it has limited functionality due to the environment it is used for. In addition they have developed Akismet, a program to help fight off spam.