redneck

“I’m only looking out for the newbie that wants to get started fast with content and a general style/color scheme.”
I’m not sure I understand the issue.
Once you install WordPress, you can go to https://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/wordpress/styles.php and download any of a score of different and elegant styles that work instantly, no tweaking required.
If mom can install WordPress in the first place, she should have no trouble copying style.css from somewhere.

Is if (isset($a)) $cat = ”; the right syntax? Is $a really the variable that matters here?
I might be able to hack something out, but I’m not sure of the relevant variables.

Oops, um, yay, it works!

Check it: https://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/

No, I don’t see that text (you can check my site). There’s nothing in the page source either.
I fool around with my category, so there is never a case where there is no category selected (forces $c to 1 if no $c is set). I don’t know whether that would screw up your !isset($c) || $c != 1) test. Also, your !empty($photo->thumb) texst might fail, since all I have in there is the one sample that came with your download.
Not a big deal at the moment. I just thought I would try it. I have other fish to fry for now.

Alex: “what did I expect to see?”
From the README: “Then click the Add link next to a post and click the (Use ->) link next to your folder.”

Damn, you’re right (I have this enabled on my site too).
What’s going on?

LoganSix: Again I am in agreement with you.
If I was going to choose just one BB user and session system to support, it would be phpBB, but why support just one?
If I was going to create a default user and session support system for WP or anything else it would be phpBB, but why not have a way to optionally support others?
People would write simple hacks for their favorite BB integration, once WP was made compatible with one of them.

I suggest phpBB for the simple reason that it is by far the most popular open-source PHP BBS package.
Even if there are others, there’s still not much justification for inventing a new and incompatible users and session system every time you start a new project. It makes sense to examine what’s out there and see what you can use.
If there were lots and lots of open-source BBSes out there all with a similar share of the market, the decision would be more complex. But this is not the case. These days, you are very likely to see either phpBB or VB, and VB is not open-source.

I have long been noodling around with the idea of building PHP applications of whatever kind starting first with the phpBB user and session management system, just lifting it right out of phpBB. Here are the reasons why:
1. It’s already done, and it is robust.
2. It is familiar to a large proportion of web users.
3. Using phpBB’s user and session system would allow instant and painless integration of phpBB forums with your application, should that ever be desirable.
Therefore, I think LoganSix has the right idea. You would want an option to use the phpBB user system. I’d go a step further and suggest, per my noodling above, that the native WP user system be replaced or supplemented with the phpBB system, even if you don’t have phpBB installed.

Could you explain why?
The more I thought about it, the more I was inclined simply to add a few fields to the wp_posts table. What would that break?

Scooter, any tips on how you accomplished that?

How appropriate, you’re using the same layout as I am!
https://www.urbanredneck.org/index.php

I’ve got everything loaded, worked out the bugs and issues, but don’t see anything.
https://www.urbanredneck.org/index.php

Yay!
I searched everywhere for this info. Is this seekrit?