Comments on: WPWeekly Episode 63 – Interview With Randy Hoyt And Scott Clark

By: Taking WordPress Custom Fields to the Next Level | kevinleary.net

Taking WordPress Custom Fields to the Next Level | kevinleary.net — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:03:48 +0000

[...] CMS is somewhat new to me, and was originally something I heard about on the WordPress Weekly Podcast. It has a 5/5 star rating with 23 ratings on the WordPress Plugin Codex and was developed by [...]

By: Scott ellis

Scott ellis — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:53:06 +0000

Guys, great episode. I was really impressed with PODS when I saw the preso at WCDFW09 and as a long time CMS developer (years of Vignette experience since 98′) I have been looking for plugins/functions that would take WP from a lightweight CMS to something capable of more “heavyweight” CMS implementations. Keep up the good work with the broadcasts.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:30:41 +0000

Looks like Conorp has caught up with Josh as they are both tied for first place after week two.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:10:53 +0000

@Aaron D. Campbell - Thanks Aaron. Maybe Will didn't come across it during his search but in any case, he whipped up a plugin and it works just fine for me so I don't plan on switching. But interesting to see one already existed.

By: Aaron D. Campbell

Aaron D. Campbell — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:28:27 +0000

Regarding the Minimum Comment Length plugin by Joost, you can see on WordPress extend that it was last updated 7 months ago, before you had yours developed, and you can see on the plugins trac that it was first checked in 12 months ago in July 2008.

By: Conorp

Conorp — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:12:45 +0000

@JLeuze -

Phpbb has akismet:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1340275

By: JLeuze

JLeuze — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:10:55 +0000

@Conorp - I've heard good things about MyBB.

By: Conorp

Conorp — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:09:05 +0000

I just thought i would point out that I’m a big fan of Mybb.

http://www.mybboard.net/

By: JLeuze

JLeuze — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01:22 +0000

Dang, I’m going to have to stop sleeping on the weekends if I wanna keep my points up there ;)

I’ve got a few forums on phpBB, and I’m happily migrating them to bbPress now that it is past 1.0, I’m so sick of spammers I don’t care what I have to “give up”. I don’t need private messages, signatures and all that other stuff, I’d gladly trade them for Akismet!

The thing that disappoints me most about phpBB is it’s age, it’s slow and lumbering, and has a real upgrade like every two years. That reminds me way too much of Windows…

It really depends on your specific needs though. On one of my sites, i have a rather active phpBB forum, and the main site is in WordPress and not very active. I have several authors on the WordPress site, and they are moderators on the forum. So it makes sense to have that all under WordPress/bbPress with integrated login. I am hoping this will also encourage more people that are already logged in to the forum to comment in the blog since they would be logged in there as well. I also like having more options for pulling the latest posts and threads from bbPress and promoting them in the sidebar of the blog.

By: Conorp

Conorp — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:30:03 +0000

Thanks Jeff, that was very kind of you to make an exception.

Why do many people find it better to link the blog and forum accounts. I’m with your Jeff, to me it would be an added pain. Plus what benefits are you actually getting from doing this?

If linking accounts is something thats important to you, why not still go with something like phpbb and just install a mod that does it. In my opinion you shouldn’t go with a ‘mediocre’ forum system, when you can go with a high performing one with the same result.