silverfirefly

Just sign up for the plugin, save it somewhere, make a back-up copy, and add the author’s email address to your junk filter. That’s what I used to do. So his unethical methods are pretty much wasted on me.

I’ve been tinkering around in the Admin CP and I found that the permalink structure was causing the problem. So I reset the custom set-up to default to

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

However, my custom set-up was a rearranged version:

/%day%/%monthnum%/%year%/%postname%/

which prevented the archives and the calender from working properly. I don’t understand why.

Can anyone shed some light on this please?

IMO if you are serious about creating a professional business site, / forum I would use vBulletin. It has far more features than phpBB and you don’t have to do much hacking if any. The last time I used phpBB, I had to do quite a lot of coding to get the features I wanted, whereas vBulletin has many of these features built in as standard. If you need to add more functionality to vBulletin, most of it is done by using the plugin system which is far easier. I believe there is an integration script for vBulletin / WordPress too. The only thing is that phpBB is free, but vBulletin is not. Just my thoughts.

As for whether the blog should be the homepage… I use WordPress and vBulletin for my Vanguard guild website. I have not used an integration script but, if you aren’t planning on allowing people to comment on your WP articles then I would just have the blog as the homepage and have a link to the forums. Or, you could have the forums as the homepage, and have the blog as a link. I would go with the first option if you are planning on posting news and announcements on the blog as that will be the first thing people will see. If it’s the other way around then people aren’t as likely to see your news and announcements or other important articles. If you are allowing people to post comments on your WP articles then I would use an integration script.

Check out UrbanGiraffe.com for their simple tutorial. I’ve used it and it’s a good start into how to make WP templates.

Yes, I’m aware of how it’s done, but I meant for the devs to include it in a future version as standard.

I think that this would be a great idea.

Yes, I get the same problem too. One of my sites is running 2.1 and the other is running 2.1.1. The problem exists on both versions. I get the 404 error page every time I click on any link in the monthly archives, even though there are posts for these archives.

Any solutions would be good. Please can this be fixed soon?