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WordPress 3.0 has been around for a few days now, and yesterday I noticed that WordBB has some broken features. So I fixed them, added a couple things some folks asked for, and uploaded WordBB 0.3.

Here’s the new stuff:

• Fixed some WP 3.0 compatibility bugs (posts and categories sections)
• Improved performance on some SQL queries
• It’s now possible to add a link to the original WP post before or after the thread’s post content
• Latest threads widget now checks user and forum permissions (e.g. protected forums won’t be visible to guests)
• Fixed bug on the post excerpt function (now it checks if there’s an excerpt, otherwise it just uses the content before the “more” tag)
• wordbb_get_userinfo() renamed to wordbb_get_logged_user_info()

As usual, post your bug reports and/or comments here (please try not to use forums or PMs on the MyBB forums, as I can’t keep track of everything). Enjoy!

Flying Lotus‘ third album, Cosmogramma, will be released on May 3rd, 2010 in the UK and May 4th in the US on Warp Records.

Cosmogramma will feature collaborations with Thom Yorke, Laura Darrington (who appeared on previous albums as well) and Outkast string arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson.

If you are an hardcore fan (like me), good news: while you wait for it, you can listen to these new four tracks extracted from the album.

Computer Face / Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph / Nose Art / Satelllliiiiiteee

Recently I had to make a plugin for one of my message boards which would send an update to Twitter whenever an user posted a new calendar event. In this tutorial I’ll explain how I’ve done it.
We will see how to shorten the event URL through bit.ly and post a new status on a Twitter account with PHP. Of course the same code can be applied to threads or posts.

Continue reading How to Tweet Calendar Events on MyBB…

So you have a WordPress blog and you want to show your latest tracks from Last.fm in your sidebar? Then Last.wp is the plugin for you. It works through JavaScript (no server overhead each time you load a page) and it displays song names, artist names, album names and even album artwork.
This is by far the best Last.fm plugin for WordPress I’ve ever tried.

Continue reading How to Show Last.fm Tracks In Your Blog…

No, don’t get me wrong, I love Last.fm.
I’ve been a subscriber for years and I’m really happy with it — my profile reflects my music taste just fine and I always discover new stuff through the recommendation system. It has clean interface (unlike some other social sites out there), okay people (haven’t seen much trolls there) and the whole idea of scrobbling music building my profile is very appealing.
I really shouldn’t complain about it, but… okay, here’s my list of reasons why Last.fm sucks, at least a little bit.
Continue reading Some Reasons Why Last.fm Sucks…

A new WordBB version has just been released. You can get it on the official WordPress.org WordBB page. Here’s the changelog:

• Now it’s possible to post a comment on the forums through WP’s form
• Added “Redirect to MyBB thread when using WP’s comment form” setting
• Fixed bug in Sync function
• Fixed bug in get_comment_link() hook
• Now you can leave “Default Post Forum” empty in order to avoid syncing by default (and maybe enable it only for specific categories in “WordBB Categories” section)
• Fixed createPost function bug
• Fixed bug in get_comments_number() hook

The most important feature is that you don’t need to hide your WP form anymore: you can just use it and it will post comments on MyBB directly from your WordPress blog without forcing your users to go on the forums (of course the user must be logged in). Some template tweaking is still required, as you may want to show the username of the currently logged in MyBB user near the comment form.

As usual, you can report bugs and glitches on this blog post. Happy merging!

Unfortunately Techloid.com has recently closed, so I’m mirroring their interview with vgmTorrents creator (i.e. me) here.

Interview with vgmTorrents creator

Ahh, Italy. Home to Ferrari, Valentino, the Renaissance, The Mafia, Pizza, Leonardo da Vinci, Enrico Fermi and many beautiful women!

But that’s not all. Italy is also home to Rosario, a game developer who lives and works there. Rosario is the creator of vgmTorrents, a private video game music tracker. After discovering his how-to on building a torrent tracker, we exchanged emails and sent him a bunch of questions on vgmTorrents, video game music, The Pirate Bay and the future of torrents and file-sharing:

Continue reading Interview with vgmTorrents Creator (mirror)…

I’m just wondering how many people out there are actually using WordBB on live websites and enjoying it. If you are one of those, please comment this post.
I noticed most of you have some problems with theme editing, which is okay since it requires some PHP/HTML skills. If this is your case, please give a look at the documentation and let me know if there’s something you still don’t get or are in trouble with. I can’t offer much support (too busy with work and other stuff) but I’d be glad to improve documentation and tutorials if there’s the need.

Also, if you’re looking for new features on WordBB, now it’s a good time to ask.

We’re almost at the end of year 2009, and the commenting system on YouTube still sucks like horseshit.
I followed its evolution throughout the years, but nothing has really improved. The worst thing of all this is that people don’t seem to realize it, and a lot of them use YouTube comments to make incredibly elaborated conversations (mostly flames) that go on even for days.
Anyway, here’s my list of reasons why commenting on YouTube sucks.

Continue reading YouTube’s Comment System Sucks…

One of the most important parts of a torrent site is definitely the search engine. It is probably the first thing people are going to use, and a bug free search form will greatly improve user experience.
In this tutorial, we are going to implement a Browse section including torrent details columns, paging, and a form which will be used to filter results based on search queries.

Continue reading How to Create a Torrent Tracker: Part 4 – Search Engine…