Blog with Integrated forums..

[Inoshishi]

Is there such a thing?

Basically I am helping run a blog site, what we want to try and do is have the blog to provide news and have it integrated with the forums, what I mean by that is, if a post is made by certain members on the forums, it automatically shows up on the websites news\blog section and they are linked together.

Much like with a regular blog you get a comments system at the bottom of it where users can post comments, we want to rather than just have a comments section, have it link to a fully fledged set of forums.

At the moment we are using wordpress and phpBB2 - which works but you manually have to make two posts, one on the blog and one on the forums and then link from one to the other manually.

Hope all that makes sense

 

[WotDa]

I too want something like this, and have been hunting for ages!

 

[Augmented]

Sounds like something a phpbb plugin would do - I seem to recall phpbb's got some kind of system for plugins?

Wordpress has an XML-RPC interface, meaning that you can remotely post to the blog from a source other than the Wordpress admin interface. So your phpbb plugin could monitor a particular forum section, or you could add a special checkbox, and it would automatically send the post content to Wordpress when it's submitted on the forum. The method of sending could be anything from email to a direct connection.

I'd say it wouldn't be overly complex to implement for a good PHP coder familiar with both systems.