IPBWI for WordPress v3.1.7 is out and supports Facebook Connect now! Just activate Facebook Connect in IP.board and configurate Smooth Single Sign On in IPBWI for WordPress. The userbar Widget contains a Facebook-Connect button, to enable facebook login via WordPress, too.

Additionally, there is a bug fixed when running IPBWI for WordPress on Windows machines.

I am thinking about developing an Invision Power Board Website Integration for Drupal Plugin.

What do you think about that?

The blank-page-of-death-error in IPBWI for WordPress should be fixed finally now – big thanks to the community feedback which helps me a lot fixing that issue.

Additionally, I’ve polished the IPBWI for WordPress settings page, it looks a bit more shiny now:

Both, IPBWI and IPBWI for WordPress are updated and now ready for IP.board 3.3.x. This patch is compatible with IP.board 3.2.x, too.

Additionally, there are many bugs fixed in IPBWI for WordPress and some bugs fixed in IPBWI.

There is a new Smooth-Single-Sign-On Enhancement which allows automatic creation of a WordPress-Account, when the existing IP.board user account is logging in. This is good for those situations when an IP.board installation exists longer than the WordPress installation and there are some board users need to get synced to WordPress.

IPBWI for WordPress Smooth SSO Settings in IP.board can now be installed as application – no need of manual importing the setting fields anymore.

If you have had any issues with IPBWI for WordPress before, please update to this package to check wether the issue is fixed now.

IPBWI stands for Invision Power Board Website Integration – until now! Today, we are proud to announce, that we adopt an user suggestion of Invision Power Community to name us Invision Power Board Women Institute.

IPBWI for WordPress v3.1.4 fixes several bugs:

• widget loading issues fixed
• lost password feature issue on WordPress fixed
• account creation issue with Q&A-error on WordPress fixed
• License-Status on IPBWI system settings improved:
  • shows expiration of DEMO
  • displays LIFETIME-license correctly

Download the update on IPBWI for WordPress Product’s page!

IPBWI v3.1.3 brings some minor fixes e.g. better support for SOAP.

IPBWI for WordPress v3.1.3 brings much better compatibility of Smooth Single Sign On Feature between WordPress and IP.board.

Important: You need to change a file in WordPress manually now to use Smooth Single Sign On:

Please open wp-settings.php (located in your wordpress-root-directory) in a text editor and replace all occurences of “=&” with “=”. Remember this step when you’ve updated WordPress – this is required to get smooth single sign on worked and could be reverted through WordPress updates.

I am always looking for the most smoothest solution, but unfortunately WordPress’ bad coding style requires this manual corefile-hack to get included within a local scope worked. PHP developers will understand why an “WordPress API” working in a global scope only is just a shame, but that’s a good example for open source and free software which is not as open as it’s promising.

License renewal check implemented now.

Please note, that release-time vs. license-time check is implemented now. This means that the customer version of this script will work on licenses which are buyed from now on or within the last 6 months only. Exception: Owners of a LIFETIME license which was selled until beta of IPBWI for WordPress has ended are not affected. So what does it mean in detail?

• LIFETIME-license: You will be able to use all IPBWI for WordPress releases
• Standard Domain-License or Standard IP License: Open your license-file named license.dat in a text editor. You’ll see a line with the following content: purchased: xxxx-xx-xx. The xxxx is the year, xx the month and last xx the day of your purchase. Check the release note date of a new IPBWI for WordPress version on IPBWI.com. There are three possibilities:

• latest release notes are older than your license date: You already have the newest version of IPBWI for WordPress, so no upgrade is needed
• latest release notes are newer then your license date, but within 6 months after it: Just download newest version. This release-version will work with your license file and will not expire
• your license file date is more than 6 months older than latest release notes: You have to renew your license in your client area to get a new license file.

There is a maintenance update out which brings many bugfixes and some security enhancements. Download the IP.board Single Sign On Solution IPBWI and IPBWI for WordPress from the products page.

In my rare free time, I’m currently on Germany’s biggest LAN-Party with currently over 1.700 PC Gamers. To celebrate PC Gaming and the great world-wide gaming community, here’s an benefit when buying an IPBWI for WordPress license: You’ll get a free VIP Slot for the official IPBWI Battlefield 3 Gameserver Good Play by ipbwi.com. Come and join the party – play a round BF3 with the author of IPBWI, Matthias Reuter

IPBWI for WordPress v3.1.1 is released and brings a minor compatibility fix for users of the W3 Total Cache plugin or other caching plugins using a db.php /wp-content/ directory