Fahlstad Design

I get lots of email questions about how to do things in WordPress, like adding latest posts to the sidebar or how to display posts only from one category. All these emails I try to answer in private. To share all these answers to you my dear readers I have started a new category called “WordPress Tricks” and I will post tips n’ tricks, code snippets and ideas.

So if you want any particular questions answered just send me an email and I’ll try to make a short post about it. So start asking questions.

Mostly of the code is written and I’ve had some time to debug using the forum on this site, Much thanks to Bharatk who are helping me with the debugging and for coming with feedback and suggestions. I still need you people to come with input and suggestions about functionality and design. It is after all you who will be using it and I want you all to be happy with it.

So please if you are browsing the forum and encounter any errors please add a comment to this post about it. I have put a lot of effort to get the forum secure and it should be quite safe to use it. Some big changes to the database layout makes the next version not compatible with earlier versions. A initial upgrade is made the first time the new version is activated. All your posts, topics, forums and moderators will be intact.

I have come so far that I decided to run a beta version of WP Forum on this site. Please help me out if you find any bugs.

I have currently over 22000 user on by blog where probably 90% is spam users. I’m gonna remove all users without any blog comments or forum posts.

I’ve started to use Sabre Captcha plugin for user registrations and it’s working like a charm.

Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine By Didier Lorphelin.

If I by mistake remove any correct user I do apologize in advance and urge you to re-register, sorry for the inconvenience.

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After many hours of debugging i have decided to completely re-write WP Forum from scratch. And as I go along I’m adding some new features such as User Groups. User Groups can be used to restrict and/or permit certain users to access forums. This is something I have gotten a lot of requests about. Better support for different character sets. Especially the spanish and russian one. Better support for language packs.

And for programmers out there, I’m doing this completely object oriented. This have several benefits:

• Less bloated code
• Maintenance is much easier
• Re-use of code

As a user you can rely upon a much more stable product. This next version will be 2.0 and I’m almost done with the admin interface. It’s gonna take a while but it’s well worth the effort. I have started to use WordPress SVN repository which makes updates a breeze with WordPress’ built in installer.

I’ve come a cross several bugs in WP Forum lately, mostly it’s from incompability with WordPress. I haven’t been updating my plugins for a while and therefor i have to fix these things. Lots of Captcha bugs fixed and some user handling added and fixed. Version 1.7.8 is available both from WordPress plugin page and from my own plugin page.

I’ve come a cross several bugs in WP Forum lately, mostly it’s from incompability with WordPress. I haven’t been updating my plugins for a while and there fore i have to fix these things. Lots of Captcha bugs fixed and some user handling added and fixed. Version 1.7.8 is available both from WordPress plugin page and from my own plugin page.

Bug hunting is not what i like to do on my free time but what don’t one do for the WordPress community. And as the famous programmer Brian Kernighan said:

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? (Brian Kernighan)

Clever dude.

I’m currently upgrading WP Forum to include password protected groups and fine tuning the Captcha function. A beta version ca be downloaded at the plugin page.

Please feel free to test this new beta version and give me feedback on bugs and problems that might occur. Downloads is made from the WordPress subversion directory from now on. Makes it easier with the version tagging and lessen my confusion.

Version 1.7.7 of WP Forum is not released and it features optional Captcha for unregistered users. And as always de-activate and re-activate the plugin to allow WP Forum to update the database.

I reacently discovered the magnificent game of Word Of Warcraft (WOW) and I have been addicted ever since. I always have considered roll playing games to be for the younger people, oh my, was I wrong. It really sound silly a 33 year old can be so addicted to something as simple as a computer game. I really have to cut down my playing hours, but I’m currently a level 33 night elf hunter… and the quest continues.

WOW is a Massive Multiplayer Online Roll Playing Game (MMORPG) and is played online as the genre name says. Anybody else feel the same way?