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After some counseling, PHPBB and WordPress are now talking to each other. Its a tentative arangement, but I think they will overcome their differences.

Let’s keep an eye on them.

Wilbur

Trying out a new way to do the photos. I hope this works.

Here is Bancker again.
Move to folderblog

Take note David, this is a combination of Picasa 2 and WP. It takes the export feature of Picasa 2 and parses it into a Post. Pretty neat.

Wilbur

I have lost my voice. I have mucus blocking my breathing passages. And I cant hear anything. Damnit.

Wilbur

Mind the mess, we are reconstructing the site.

Old site

OK, I have a little dilemma. I love the way I have MT(blog) and Phpbb(boards) set up…, but I dont like MT. MT is hard to work with and I dont know how many times I have messed something up and struggled to get it back up. Its slow with the rebuilding and hard to back up and restore. And I have had to struggle to get every upgrade or addon working. I have had to recode the the site when I wanted to update or just change the look of the site. When I asked for suggestions, David and Mary asked for a system to keep track of posts and comments. I searched around and couldnt find an easy solution and something dawned on me. If I continue this website, I will need to move to a new system.
Reasons why I will need to move:
1) MT came out with a new version about 6 months ago. They are no longer supporting this version, and mod creators are changing their mods over without back support.
2) Maintaining MT and making sure its secure will become harder over the next few months, years.
3) I despise MT, now(and all its little hidden codes).
4) I want a more integrated system.

Unfortunately, there is a slight problem, phpbb. WordPress and Phpbb do not like each other, refuse to negotiate a truce, and have started attacking each other. I am to the point of fogetting the whole integration of the two for the time being. (wordpress developers are getting a lot of requests to allow the integration into existing databases, so there is a good chance later it will work.)

WordPress is nice. I wont go on about how nice it is(oh looks like I did), but I could actually set it up so friends could post new messages creating a community blog. While David, Ronnie, whoever wants, can have a separate section or blog to post their ideas. David and I have been playing with another wonderful plugin a live chat system, which was so freakin easy to install. I can restrict posts to selected users by level per post and privatize a post all together, allow friends to register their names but also allow unregistered users to post, and integrate everything into one package or keep separate and make changes accordingly. New updates The big thing that will make me move over is the support and developers and the easy to interpret code, the system is new but already the plugin support is amazing.

For most of you (friends and collegues), this only means that small things and appearances of the websites will change. For David and Ronnie, a lot of things are going to change, but hopefully for the better. There should be no problem with transfering the old posts into the new system. I should also be able to bring over the comments into the new system, but it may take a little work, hehe. I will also try to import all the users from phpbb into the database, so that everyone will have their own logins.

If you have any concerns or any wishes, please feel free to post them. Ronnie and David, you will need to tell me whether you want a separate system or an integrated system. And we will need to work out the logistics. I will start setting up the system for the transfer.

(Phpbb will remain, though its significance will diminish until I reintegrate them, but then I may not need to.)

Wilbur

Goofing around, I found another weblog solution called WordPress.
I have installed it Here.

David and Ron, I have set up logins for you to test using the same password and login for Movable Type. Test it out. Tell me what you think. It has a lot of nice features to it:
User categories and restricted viewing requiring login.
I am seeing if I can integrate it into phpbb. Shouldnt be too hard?
If not and it looks fun I might switch over to it.

Tell me what you think.

Wilbur

Structure Change (slight)
I have moved the listings on the side around. I am still playing with it, but it should satisfy the curious. David and Ron if you would like me to change it or add the recent discussions to your site, please post or message me.

Notification by Email
In the boards, you will find if you are logged in a link near the bottom of the page labeled “Watch this forum for posts”. If you click on the link, the board will automatically email (to the address in your profile) when a new topic or message is posted in that forum. Test it out see what you think.

MT Notification
I tried to integrate a mod for enhancing the notification system. Unfortunately, it required Movable Type 3 or higher. I cant decide to upgrade to MT3. Reasons why I havent upgraded include:
1) Cost –
the free one limits to 1 Author and 3 weblogs
for $69 – it allows 5 authors and Unlimited blogs.
for $99 – it allows unlimited blogs and unlimited authors.
2) Mods –
the integration mod we have all come to love may not work with 3.0
meaning I would have to rewrite it, which would suck.
i dont know if the photo-blog would work either.
3) Upgrade –
I would have to upgrade everything, which means the styles.
I do not think the styles sheets we have can work with the new style.

Oh well, I am still fumbling for a way to have them post immediately upon creation, but it would be easier at the moment for the authors to just view their entries after writing them. Just go to the individual entry as you would if you were reading them and it will make the post in the forums. Oh well, I will probably stop fooling around with everything till next week. I need to focus on something more important.

Wilbur

I have been tinkering with the website to make it more convient for myself, which in turn makes it more convient for people who want the same things as myself. If you will look to the right of the screen, you will see a new Recent Discussion section of the website, which instead of listing previous threads, which seemed to me to be a little redundant, now shows the current topics of discussion. I am in the process of updating the code for the integration and I hope to redo the recent discussion, but it doesnt seem to be working (at least this way works). If you see any problems, or better yet, if there is anything you would like this webpage to do, post a reply to this. I am trying to integrate the restricted posts into the phpbb usergroup categories, so its a little more secure and harder to circuvent. then I can post to my hearts content about “stuff” that might offend the “children”. hehe

In an interview with Good Morning America, George Lucas announced a new movie, a prequel to SW ep1. Though restraining orders had been issued to force Lucas to avoid contact with my memories of my youth, he has repeatedly forced himself upon them to fatten his wallet. Now he has threatened to rape my memories head on with a new movie based 100 years before SW Ep 1 with Yoda as lead.
Does he not have enough money? Could I just start sending it to him? $50 a month? Why is he going after Yoda? When will he stop?

Wilbur