lunabyte

It’s available at lunabyte.net for reference.

We haven’t announced the WordPress integration yet, which will be released with the next version. In fact, I’ve kinda been teasing our users about something coming up, but not saying what.

It looks massive at a first glance, but it can be as little or a much as you want, really.

As for templates, we use the SMF theme system since that’s the forum we work with. We figured why worry about running two template engines, etc, etc.

The SMF themes take a tick to get used to, but they are incredibly powerful at the same time. Once again though, you can be as simple or as complex as you want with this area too.

If you’re looking for an integration with a forum, the portal/cms that I help develop will be releasing an integration for WordPress within the next week that will coincide with our next version release. The integration is done, but there are a few minor code tweaks to our existing codebase that were needed to better accommodate other scripts. We’ll also be releasing a Coppermine and Gallery2 integration at the same time.

This integration has been written so that users of either the portal, or wordpress can benefit and keep their members. You would get forums, downloads, pages, and all kinds of gadgets and gizmo’s to play with.

You can have wordpress as your main site, or the portal, or both.

Seems I’ve given the same answer a few times already in other topics, so hopefully the mods here won’t think I’m trying to spam. If you’ve noticed, I haven’t posted the link to our site yet. We’ll save that for a new thread when it’s actually released in a few days. ??

Not sure if this is what you’re looking for but the portal I write for, which uses SMF as the forums, will be releasing a very nice integration with WordPress.

You wouldn’t even lose your current members.

We haven’t officially announced the new integration, but we will be releasing it in conjunction with our next release which will be within the next week.

Not too sure how deep you are into joomla, but I just finished an integration into the portal/cms that I develop for that provides everything you’re looking for.

If you’re handy with php, you ‘could’ create a system to where someone that was logged into wordpress, they could access the downloads area.

In a ‘big picture’ reference, you would begin by including the blog header file, which would then ‘essentially’ load wordpress to an extent. Then, you could simply check to see if the user was logged in by using the wordpress functions. You’d basically be looking for the cookies WordPress sets, then running an if else check where if they’re not logged in they are redirected to the login page.

Depends on what script you’re looking at for downloads.

But, thanks to the Dev’s for their backend api stuff, things like this are possible.

Not exactly sure what you’re trying to accomplish from your description.

I just completed a full integration of WordPress into a site that runs a portal/cms system, so it’s still fresh in my mind.

I checked your links that you provided, but I’m still a little in the dark on what you are trying to accomplish.

To be honest, you could use WordPress for the entire site.

WordPress has a page feature built into it, and it could easily reproduce your entire site. All you would need to do is create a new theme to match your current design.

Or, you could keep your current design structure, and for the blog directory simply use WordPress, and create a theme to match your current site.

Or, if you do not want to display the actual blog at all, you can add in the data from WordPress into your own page. By doing this, you could keep the actual application separate, and just display the content you’d like.

However, without modification it’s still going to insert links to go to the particular post, which may defeat this purpose.

If you could provide a little more info to what you are wanting to accomplish, someone could better help out.

Right now it reads like you want the blog at /blog, and blog posts at /pages/blog, which basically would be that same data on two pages.

Yep. All is good for

Mac OS X Tiger with : FF 1.5.1, Safari, and Camino.

Yep.

Quote from moshu:
“From the moment you downloaded the WP zip package from here – you don’t have to return here ever. Same for your visitors: they don’t even have to know this site exists :)”

True that someone doesn’t “have” to come back.

Funny though that most of them do for more goodies and whatnot!

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Must have been fixed?

The one I got was only 32k.

Quite a unique look though, nice job!

Yes, people would be able register to use your blog if you have your own hosting account. ??

If you have a question, go ahead and ask away.

Have you tried this?

I’m guessing this is a somewhat fresh install.

1) Install a second copy of WordPress, using a second table_prefix.

2) Using something like PhpMyAdmin, drop all of the tables with the new table_prefix EXCEPT “options”.

3) Open up the config file, and change the table_prefix to the original table prefix.

4) Open up wp-settings.php and scroll down to about line 75 or so, where it lists the table names. there will be a bunch of lines like:

wpdb->tablename = table_prefix ‘tablename’

edit the line for the options table like so:
before:
$table_prefix . ‘options’

after:
‘new_prefixoptions’

Note: new_prefix is the prefix you used in the second install, which is different from the first. So, if your new prefix was blog2_, the edited version would look like:
after:
‘blog2_options’

This way, you’re using the options/settings from the second install, and can customize it separately from the first.

I’d install it into a sub-directory.
For example, ‘blog’.

Then you can link to it from your main site.

If all else fails, save a local copy of the WP config file, the one that has your db connection info in it, then grab a copy of WP from the download link here.

Then, extract the downloaded file, upload the contents to the new sub-directory.

Open up the config file you downloaded in a text editor, and double check the settings to be safe.

Uplod that to the sub-directory.

Then, navigate to {yoursite.com}/{sub-directory}/wp-admin/install.php

Obviously, yoursite.com is your domain, and sub-directory is where you put the WordPress files.

For the class that contains the sidebar, you could try setting “vertical-align: top;” in your css file for that particular class. Might work, might not. Hard to tell with IE. But it’s a starting point.