Thread: phpBB integration and other questions.

phpBB integration and other questions.

Hi

I'm a potential purchaser of your product, I just can't find enough info on it as your forums are blocked for customers who haven't yet bought it. Anyway...

1. I have a Wordpress site currently running with phpBB integrated into the Wordpress theme. I used WP-United for this, which worked fine. This gives me a single sign on option so users are signed into WP and phpBB via one sign in page. I am planning a complete site overhaul and your theme looks as if it could meet my needs. Can you tell me if your theme would allow the same integration?

2. Do you know of anyone who has successfully integrated a single sign on option using your theme and phpBB?

3. Does your theme allow for static non-classifieds pages? I wish to have a static front page with links from there to various parts of the site such as the classifieds and the forum etc.

4. Are version upgrades free?

Thanks

Vinny

Hi Vinny-

To be honest I don't know of any existing customer who has this type of integration.

ClassiPress uses it's own login page as you probably could tell from the demo site but this shouldn't cause any problems for plugins.

There's a chance some custom integration might need to be done, however....it's hard to tell unless it's been installed and tested.

Yes, you can have static non-classified pages by just creating your normal pages via WordPress. You can also create your own static page and just point to that as well via WP.

Upgrades are free.

I recalled a thread on a similar topic, and in one of those threads a customer mentioned they do have such a setup which took some amount of customization, but their users can log in just once and have access to the phpbb forums and ClassiPress install (both on separate WordPress installations). From what I read of their description they too are using wpunited plugin, but the version of CP they are using is pre version 3.0.5... I suspect v3.0.4 was used based on the date of the comment.

Their ClassiPress install here.

Thanks for the quick replies! I'll have to investigate further before I invest, although I'm very close. Pepsi, that website you linked certainly looks like they've done a good job on the integration, maybe I'll contact them.

is not possible for the administration, having bought the vbulletin license, to check it works ok the bridge?

I am very very interested in acquiring ClassiPress, but I need a forum as well, and is chosen for many reasons vbulletin.

excuse my English.

I'm afraid this is not going to happen, because then that would require testing on the part of our development team (who are busy working on actual themes), and ultimately our themes do not come bundled with forum software, so implementation of a forum with any of our themes is not officially supported. Basically, any customer who has implemented such a thing, has had to do so of their own accord.