Item one complete. You can grab a copy of the latest TDO-Forum v0.3 here. It’s compatible with Wordpress 2.5 and all that. Enjoy.
Upgrade and add some features to TDO-Forum for WP2.5- Test and Upgrade the Theme I’m currently using for WP2.5
- Create a merge of TDO-Forum and my current custom Theme (for the forums)
- Update thedeadone.net to Wordpress 2.5
- Move Hosts (maybe)
- Try again to get a gaming group together
- Do some further work on TDO Mini-Forms (AJAX, Form Hacker, find some way to get rid of the dependency on $_SESSION - I’m a little tired trying to sort out people’s host problems, there is only so much I can do, etc)
- Write-up and make available some RPG rules I created a long time back: Story Hooks and Passions
This theme turns your Wordpress blog into a Forum!
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Thanks to the wp-hackers list I came across a plugin called Slave Me Wordpress. It allows you to use the user tables from one Wordpress install in another install. So you can add a second blog to your website but keep the same user logins.
Using this plugin, you can use TDO Forum to add a forum to your Wordpress blog. Like I’ve just done! My new forums are actually powered by Wordpress with the TDO Forum theme. Please feel free to try it out. If you’ve registered an account on thedeadone.net, it’ll be valid on the forums. I was afraid TDO Mini Forms plugin might be incompatible with Slave Me Wordpress plugin, but it isn’t, which is exceedingly cool.
I did have to write a new plugin that converted my old forum posts (from XD Forum) into actual Wordpress Posts and Comments. I’ll be releasing that plugin during the week btw. I’ll also be making a new release of TDO Mini Forms (several bug fixes) and TDO Forum (with a custom posting interface). So stay tuned!
I’ve just seen that TDO-Forum has been mentioned on one of Wired’s blogs: monkeybites and it’s been submitted to digg. It’s only got 5 votes, no sudden digg-effect is going to hit thedeadone.net. However TDO Mini-Forms has been around much longer and only recently got digged and is only up to 3 votes as of now. It’s quite nice to know that at least 5 people give my plugins a thumbs up! 
I’ve created a Wordpress Theme that turns Wordpress into a pretty powerful forum! You can see it in action here (please check it out and tell me what you think!) It is currently using my TDO Mini Forms plugin to allow visitors start new topics without being turned into full-blown authors.
It works by treating Categories as Forums and treating Posts with omments as Topics. I’ve also built in a number of features to the theme:
- Lists Posts by date of last comment (instead of published date) (included as a page template)
- Unread topics are highlighted and can be used to filter posts list (included as a page template)
- A hierarchical Forum list (included as a page template)
- AJAX Comment Preview (can be turned off)
- Comment QuickTags (can be turned off)
- Forum-looking Layout
- Pages and Categories can be used as Tabs (configurable)
- RSS 2.0 Feed of forum posts (can optionally be included in the theme or replace the main post RSS feed link)
I also did some special integration with two popular plugins:
- Filosofo’s WordPress Gravatar Plugin so that users automatically have user-icons thanks to Gravatars.
- Paged Comments. With Paged comments, I’ve done quite a bit of integration. If you enable this plugin with the theme, essentially the blog post (which is the first post in a topic) appears only on the first page of comments, not on every page of comments as if it was a blog. And it handles ascending and descending order too.
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