[...]... work, including work with the phpBB 2.0.x series, earned him multiple accolades such as phpBB of the Month” at phpBBHacks.com, where he was one of the original support team members and now serves as an advisor to the webmaster Presently, Jared blogs about a variety of topics at www.jaredwsmith.com (using WordPress, no less), and in the very near future, he will be maintaining a phpBB board there as... Steven Wittens, Morbus Iff, and so many others who suffered through early drafts and helped me focus my ideas and writing Finally, to my wife Kimiko, who helped me get to a place where I could undertake this project and stood by me throughout the entire process Robert Douglass I would like to thank Matt Mullenweg for his passion and dedication to all things WordPress Without Matt, WordPress would not be... released plug-ins and themes for WordPress Without those, I would have had a lot less to write about Special thanks to Steve Potts for moral as well as technical support Mike Little The cast of characters that drive me to do what I love to do is immense, and could take up a book in and of itself First off, I must thank the phpBB Group members, who are responsible for writing the phpBB software Without them,... online learning tools, artists who want to share media online, businesses or individuals who want to sell goods online, and programmers who want to work with a platform that is extensible, clean, efficient, and well architected Developers find Drupal very easy to customize and extend Drupal departs from some of the conventions and techniques of the past, and is therefore for anyone who is eager to learn... posts, generate polls, and host private and public forums, just to name a few features In the second section of the book, Jared Smith will cover everything you need to know to get started with the phpBB bulletin board package You can find the official web site for the phpBB project at http://www .phpbb. com/ Blogs have emerged in the last few years to become a very strong player in the online community arena... England ■JAMES WALKER is a founder and lead developer at Bryght, a Vancouver-based company offering Drupal hosting and services He is also an active member of the Drupal community, having made several core contributions over the past three years He also maintains nine contributed modules and advises on the security team When not promoting Drupal world domination, he enjoys spending time with his wife and. .. Creating and Modifying Themes 348 Working with phpBB s Template System 349 Creating Your Theme 357 Getting Help with Templates 362 5629_FM_final.qxd 11/16/05 4:11 PM Page xvii ■CONTENTS Installing and Using Themes 362 Adding Templates and Styles... starting b2, to Ryan and all the developers for continually improving a great product, to Podz and the fantastic support team, and to Lorelle and the great documentation team WordPress is enriched by its community; I cannot name you all, but you know who you are Thanks to Chris (c3ro) for allowing me to use his theme as a starting point in Chapter 16 Thanks to all the great developers and designers who... 373 Why WordPress? 375 WordPress Features 376 WordPress Releases 377 Summary 378 ■ CHAPTER 14 Installing and Configuring WordPress 379 Installing WordPress ... into the code and totally reworked the design for his nowdefunct Windows support site, WindowsLaunchpad.com Jared learned a lot from that experience and proceeded to begin writing and releasing modifications such as the Anchor Hack, which returned users to the last post in a thread after they posted, and an enhanced version of another Who’s Online hack, which he optimized for performance and redesigned . Little, and Jared W. Smith Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress 5629_FM_final.qxd 11/16/05 4:11 PM Page i Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress Copyright. 185 PART 2 ■ ■ ■ phpBB ■CHAPTER 7 Introducing phpBB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 ■CHAPTER 8 Installing and Configuring phpBB. . . . 347 PART 3 ■ ■ ■ WordPress ■CHAPTER 13 Introducing WordPress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 ■CHAPTER 14 Installing and Configuring WordPress. .