October 24, 2008 By

Our Forum Is Moving To WangCyber.com

image InternetMillionaires.com.my is making some important changes. However instead of trying to do more, we’re actually going to do more of less. What this means is we’re going to focus on just a few things:

  • Conducting seminars and workshops
  • Conducting mastermind events & meetings
  • Adding more interviews and content
  • Helping our affiliates make more sales

The blog and the forum, while useful for members, requires too much effort based on expertise that we do not have. Instead of having members come to a rather empty forum all the time, why not align ourselves with one of the most popular and active forums in Malaysia, WangCyber.com?

There were 2 forums we considered for the move: WangCyber.com and WebmasterMalaysia.com. However, I believe WangCyber.com will be a more mutually beneficial partnership as this a forum more for marketers and idea builders.

At WangCyber you will find Internet marketers who are friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. This “marriage” in the long run will be better for IMC members. Here’s how it will work:

  • Under WangCyber there is a sub-forum called “Internet Millionaires Forum” which is the default forum for all IMC members
  • WangCyber forum is in Bahasa Malaysia, but the sub-forum will be in English – of course you’re free to write in English, BM or the trademark “Manglish”
  • You’re free to participate in any other part of WangCyber, trade with other members, and much more. 

We’re starting the forum from scratch, so you will have to register again here: http://www.wangcyber.com/forum/register.php

Please also read this announcement from me.

Ideally, we would like to have the forum right here as it is. But I’m sure with this move, we can both provide a more conducive environment for members to discuss and learn from other members, as well as help us focus on planning and creating more valuable content and events for members.

I will make a commitment to visit the new forum daily and answer any questions posted in this forum. With all the technical headaches removed, I look forward to learning from each other.

All other areas of InternetMillionaires.com.my will remain unchanged.

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August 6, 2008 By

WordPress Blog And PhpBB Forum Integration

Many blog owners have started to build their own forums, both to foster a community around their niche and also to benefit from user-generated content and traffic. Although paid forum software like VBulettin would be the best choice if you had a proper budget, the easiest way to get a forum up and running is to use PhpBB, a free forum software bundled into most Cpanel web hosting accounts.

Installing PhpBB is as easy as installing WordPress via Fantastico, and just by entering a few variables everything is done for you. All you need to do then is to login, create your forums and sub-forums, and get yourself a new forum "skin"

That is usually a major headache if you’re running WordPress and you want your forum to have the exact layout your WordPress blog does. The most common way to do this, if you’re not a coder or designer yourself, is to get a freelancer to build you a new PhpBB theme based on your WordPress blog’s CSS file.

However, Brian Gardner has made it extremely easy for regular people like you and me to perfectly blend our WordPress blogs with PhpBB, if you’re using any of his wonderful Revolution themes.

This is how your WordPress blog / PhpBB forum pair would look like with the Revolution CMS theme:

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WordPress Blog Theme
PhpBB Forum Skin

This is how your WordPress blog / PhpBB forum pair would look like with the Revolution Pro Media theme:

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WordPress Blog Theme
PhpBB Forum Skin

This is how your WordPress blog / PhpBB forum pair would look like with the Revolution Magazine theme:

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WordPress Blog Theme
PhpBB Forum Skin

This is how your WordPress blog / PhpBB forum pair would look like with the Revolution City theme:

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WordPress Blog Theme
PhpBB Forum Skin

As a result I can get massive site that looks professional and clean.

You can see the updated list of all available PhpBB forum skins or themes here. If you don’t have any Revolution WordPress theme, I recommend that you at least get the single-user license to the Revolution Magazine theme or the Revolution CMS theme. It’s a great bang-for-buck and with just a few changes you can make your blogs look great..

How to Create A Single Login for WordPress / PhpBB

One thing most site owners want is to create a single user id and login for both the WordPress blog and PhpBB forum. Before you even try to do this, consider for a while if it’s really worth your time:

  • Does your blog require registration? Unless you require people to create their accounts and log into your WordPress blog before making comments on the blog, there is no use trying to integrate with PhpBB.
  • Can you
    handle tech stuff? If you cannot, or don’t have access to someone who can help you, be prepared for nightmares when you upgrade WordPress or PhpBB, or both.

If you decide to integrate, then what you need is a PhpBB / WordPress integration tool called "WP United". Although WP United is free to download and use, it may requires a certain amount of fiddling around before you get it right. Plus, once you DO get it right, make sure you don’t regularly update WordPress or it might just all break down.

According to the site:

WP-United is a new integration package that glues together PhpBB, the leading open source bulletin board, and WordPress, the popular blogging tool.

WP-United is for PhpBB users who want to integrate WordPress into an existing community — perhaps using it as a content management system for articles, perhaps to offer their members personal blogs, or perhaps as a portal page. The choice is yours!

WP-United ties WordPress to a PhpBB community, with login to WordPress (optionally) handled automatically by the integration package.

View a useful forum topic here on WordPress / PhpBB integration issues.

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November 19, 2007 By

Add A Simple Forum To Your WordPress Blog

Want to have a forum for your blog? It can help your blog by increasing the rate of discussion and interaction on your blog. But if you are unable to use phpBB or not able to afford vBulletin then what should you do? All you can do then is go wordpress!

You can even add a forum to your WordPress blog only. RS Discuss is a plugin which lets you to do so. RS Discuss allows you to add a simple bulletin board forum on your blog which lets your readers do everything they can do on a forum.

Installing RS Discuss is very easy, you just need to upload the plugin file to your WordPress plugin directory and then activate it. You can even add administrators, moderators in your WordPress forum, just goto the RS Discuss menu and edit the user settings.

Pros:

  • Another cool plugin to add yet another functionality to your blog which can increase the blog’s SEO factors.
  • Easy user management like moderating, rating users, banning users etc.
  • RSS Feeds to the forums.
  • Can easily be indexed in your blog’s search system.
  • Multiple themes available, even own blog theme can be used.
  • Available in many languages.

Cons:

  • Some conflict is there with WordPress 2.3 tagging system.
  • Forum URLs are not much SEO friendly.
  • Requires you to allow user registration in your WordPress blog.

Overall, this plugin can be very helpful if you have a plugin release or a theme release. It can even be very helpful to increase your blog popularity.

Get WordPress RS Discuss

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October 26, 2006 By

WordPress Forum Integration With bbPress

Can you integrate a simple forum into your WordPress blog and allow users to have the same login for the blog and the forum, all without messing around with WordPress plugins and theme modifications?

Yes, you can. The answer, as I discovered on Lorelle’s blog, is NOT a WordPress plugin.

It’s bbPress, another venture by the same great gang that gave WordPress to the world.

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On the surface, it appears to be easy to install and looks very much like the design of WordPress official sites and forums. That goes without saying, of course :)

However, if you’re not into trial-and-error, it’s best to wait for the next version of bbPress to arrive. If you decide you want to try this now, read the documentation properly, and you may also want to refer to this guide by Devlounge.

I installed mine and for some reason or another can’t seem to login:

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While there has been some independent developers creating forum plugins for WordPress, bbPress allows you to integrate the forum user database nicely into the WordPress user database.

In other words, people use the same login for your forum and for posting comments on your WordPress blogs. As far as themes go, the current version of bbPress does not offer many options, although a WordPress-style theme selector is promised in the near future.

If you want to get your hands dirty, you can use the customizable template files and make it fit right in to your existing wordpress blog theme.

One feature I love about bbPress is the usage of tags:

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I’m too tired and sleep to do all the work today, so my wish for tomorrow is to be able to:

  1. Troubleshoot the login error
  2. Customize the header and footer
  3. Integrate the RSS feeds into my blog’s feeds maybe?

Then again, I’m still busy with the existing forum, the directory and the new membership site I’m about to develop. So I could end up just paying someone to do this for me.

The existing forum is already using VBullettin, and I have no intention of switching over to bbPress for this site at least. For new sites though, bbPress is definitely an attractive options simply because:

  1. It works with WordPress, my prefferred publishing platform
  2. It’s free, unlike VBullettin
  3. It looks clean and simple unlike PHPBB

Another excellent tool is introduced to the Internet marketing community. Great :)

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