IP.board 3.2 brings many deep changes, so IPBWI and IPBWI for WordPress are currently not compatible to IP.board 3.2. Please do not upgrade from IP.board 3.1.x to 3.2 when using IPBWI on live environments. I will release a compatibility patch in August. A Hotfix without any guarantee has been posted in the support forum.
Security Fix v3.041
Please Update IPBWI for WordPress to v3.041 NOW. There is an important security fix in v3.041.
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SSO will become smooooth
Currently, I’m working on a feature to make single sign on more smooth. The redirects from board to wordpress for login/logout/registration will be obsolete when next IPBWI for WordPress release is out. If you want to join closed beta to help me testing this stuff, please contact me on contact@ipbwi.com
When this feature is done, final will be released rapidly. Please note, that the prices of IPBWI for WordPress will increase when final is out. Check the Roadmap 2011 for more information. I recommend buying a license during the beta now, to save money.
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IP.discount
Looking forward to upcoming IP.board 3.2 release, the Invision Power Team has announced a great discount for all customers owning an active license: Each Addon is currently reduced to the following prices:
- IP.Gallery:
$64.99… $35 - IP.Blog:
$49.99… $35 - IP.Downloads:
$49.99… $35 - IP.Content:
$49.99… $35 - IP.Nexus:
$74.99… $55
This promotion ends June 17, 2011. I’ll buy all of these extensions now to get opportunity to enhance IPBWI and IPBWI for WordPress with some features based on these addons. If you plan using IPBWI or IPBWI for WordPress and need a feature connected to one of these addons, don’t hesitate to ask me developing this for you. Contact me on contact@ipbwi.com to get an offer based on your briefing/feature-request.
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Focus on “Field to Farm”
Providing Single Sign On is one of the key features of IPBWI for WordPress. And it’s one of the most complicated mechanism. My installation service for IPBWI for WordPress is great for those customers, who just want to get this feature work – without having deep technical knowledge about cookies, synced databases and so on. Ordering my installation service gives you more time for your core competencies – and for reaching your target.
So let’s read, what Steven says about my service:
Field to Farm was setup to advertise a book that explains how to live on agricultural land legally in the UK, without the need for planning permission. Up until Field to Farm was written there was no way for the average individual to setup a smallholding while living on their agricultural land. For most people equity is tied up in their homes so the ability to live on their land is key to making their dream of starting a smallholding a success. WordPress was chosen as the CMS for it’s SEO addons and because google loves to index it. It became clear after a few months, given the volume of email traffic, that we should create a support forum for the book owners. After comparing multiple pieces for forum software IPB was chosen. There are now approximately 8000 members in the Field to Farm community. A lot of those members ask questions related to the book, get free advice on some very complicated planning permission related questions (which would often cost thousands of pounds from a consultant) and some even post diaries to let others see their progress as they setup their small holding. The system outlined in the book takes several years to run through to ultimately gaining planning permission for a house. During that time people can post questions on the forum to help them through dealing with local planning authorities.
When I saw IPBWI I thought it would be a fantastic idea to integrate the two sections of the site. The single sign on would encourage forum users to break out of that area into the other parts of the site where they could post and comment on articles. Given the size and complexity of WordPress, IPB and the 30+ addons installed I decided to engage Matthias to do the installation.
Matthias provided an instant quote which was very reasonable. The payment method was quick (paypal) and he started work immediately. We now have single sign-on ability with IPBWI and later on I hope to use the custom blocks on the front page of the site to showcase the latest forum posts and number of members. There were a few minor problems with user authentication which I know would have taken me forever to fix if I had tried to do the installation. Matthias noticed these immediately and worked with the users of the forum directly to resolve any problems. From start to finish the process took about 4 hours from requesting the installation to it all running which I was very pleased with. Matthias has also offered ongoing support should I run into any problems and also a free install of the final edition of IPBWI once released. Overall I couldn’t be happier – what looked like a very complicated thing to setup became a great unexpected success. I’d recommend the installation service to anyone else out there hoping to integrate their WordPress forum with Invision Power Board.
Thanks,
Steven Acreman – person in charge of fieldtofarm.com
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v3.040 released
There is a new IPBWI and IPBWI for WordPress release out! upgrade now to benefit from many bugfixes and new features.
IPBWI
IPBWI for WordPress
Stats&Usage Widget
SSO optional
Hook into IPBWI4WP
Both can be downloaded from products page.
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Stats&Usage Widget
IPBWI for WordPress v3.040 comes with two new widgets which show the board statistics and member activity:
Live preview is also available on IPBWI.com down the page.
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SSO optional
Yeah, I’ve just successfully implemented another IPBWI for WordPress roadmap 2011 entry: Using Forum comment feature will not require activated Single Sign On feature anymore. You’ll still be possible to post a comment as guest. This enhancement will be released in IPBWI v3.040
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New Live Examples
I’ve fixed some functions in IPBWI and bring some new live examples as well. The fixes and new live examples will be released in IPBWI v3.040, here’s the preview:
http://examples.ipbwi.com/stats.php
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Hook into IPBWI4WP
The next IPBWI for WordPress beta release v3.040 will allow you to hook into certain functions to give you more flexibility in customizing the plugin’s behavior. This feature is for advanced PHP programmers only who know what they do. To hook into IPBWI for WordPress, just rename the file hookedFunctions.inc.php.rename located in /wp-content/plugins/ipbwi/lib/wordpress/ to hookedFunctions.inc.php and start customizing IPBWI for WordPress :)
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