TP BLOGS

[domineaux]

Does wordpress allow members to make their own blog, i thought it was just for the owner and they can make comments. Also: Someone should integrate wordpress with smf so they don't have to register all over again.

Yes Wordpress has a Blog for the lazy or non-devs.  You can also create your own blog site with a large number of add-ons and themes.

Registration is not a hassle. Think about how many times you have to register now.  The iframes solution pulls in the Blog just below my horizontal TP menu.  Users have to register and login and I've not gotten one complaint about it on the sites I have blogs.

Don't worry over the dual login, think about how great it will be if you have a security issue.  Your databases are separate.  A hacker can't nail your entire site, and you can apply security updates immediately.

[Ken.]

author=domineaux link=topic=12901.msg124712#msg124712 date=1176163273

Pssssst  - I don't consider it to be a temporary solution.  There are just so many addons and enough themes you can find something close enough for integrating.

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Thatââ,¬â,,¢s the way I look at it as wellââ,¬Â¦ If someone ever writes a bridge that will let WP use the SMF member database that will be great but if not then Iââ,¬â,,¢ll live with it as is.

[bluedevil]

Yep. I use wordpress with iframe

[brianjw]

Wordpress is a nice system but I am looking for something better for integration, something that will be integrated like "Felblog" except felblog almost crashed my forum it was a good blog system though except for that part.

[domineaux]

Wordpress is a nice system but I am looking for something better for integration, something that will be integrated like "Felblog" except felblog almost crashed my forum it was a good blog system though except for that part.

When you find it, share it with us.  I never found anything to beat Wordpress.

[shomazta]

This works for me.  I messed around with themes and found one that only has about twenty pixels of horz scroll at the bottom.

<iframe src="http://mydomain.com/WP/" width="100%" height="900"></iframe>

I never could get the above larger script to work.

haha... dang im slow, i shoulda looked for how to "wrap" pages in another page... blah blah, im not making sense...

what i meant was thanks for putting the code down, since i was too lazy to figure it out myself. works awesome. and easily with the custom actions mod for smf... no coding on my side =) yea.

update : 12:19 oops. forgot to spam this board :

www.shomazta.com/sm/index.php?action=blog

ooOo yeah action=blog yerp. looks like theres an actual action=blog dont it. cuz it says action=blog ... okay ill shut up =P

[Ken.]

Your link is not working but I found your blog anyway. 

Nicely setup site & blog, looks good.
I like the "Drop it like a FOB" blog! Too bad the vid is not working because that might sound good. 

[shomazta]

woops SMF haha i put sm

[shomazta]

Your link is not working but I found your blog anyway. 

Nicely setup site & blog, looks good.
I like the "Drop it like a FOB" blog! Too bad the vid is not working because that might sound good. 

thanks. ill see if i can fix that link. i just uploaded a wordpress backup (xml file) to that site yesterday. so all those blog posts are old. but yeah if i can't find the song online I'll upload it, cuz i think I have a copy of it.

[lady_l]

I would not want a blog. I hate those things. The amount of deeply personal information people are willing to post all over the Web, to me, is unbelievable. :smiley6600:  And it's all an "ego trip" for the blogger. I'm not interested, sorry.

Blogs and boards are polar opposites.

I think there is room for both, I mean I am not into blogs but some people are...good for them. I should point out too that many older forms of web communication are still going after all these years...remember the old LISTSERV type email lists, and the scrolling bulletin boards (such as boardhost)? They are still going. Forums will be here for a while.

Lady L

Ok, you convinced me.  Now convince CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and all the major main stream media.  The MM is jumping all over Blogs, even promoting them from their broadcasts, by interviewing bloggers, etc.

Blogs can make the difference in an active site.  Forums do as good a job, but the content is "too enclosed" and ends up lost after a few threads reside atop it.  Blogs are out there month after month, highly visible and comments alway reside under the original postings.  This gives blogs an importance and stature not achieveable with forums.

Blogs provide a podioum or soapbox for the writer. The blogger says his peace as eloquently and competently as possible.  Then readers can comment as it pleases them.

Blogs can turn into forums,  if the admin allows the original poster to enter replies to comments made by others. Sad to say that is the way of it on many blog sites.

Just because you think there are enough things for people to use to communicate is not forward thinking.   I realize you may be content with status-quo, but that is not the way of the internet.

There will always be new exciting things going on, and that should be fun for all.  It will keep you thinking young and part of the maintstream of happening things. 

Still doesn't mean I need an IPOD  

I have a forum/gallery because we are a group of people who are doll collectors, and we are fans of a certain type of rather strange, and wonderful ball jointed fashion dolls, a pretty narrow interest, and we are not interested in the media attention. SO to the comment about CNN etc. I say.... so f'in what. If you want to be a media star, or get your book or photos on the tables in Barnes & Noble, or send your paycheck to your web host for extra traffic, I guess blogs are the way to go . We don't care about any of that, what we want is more dolls, and to share the ones we have with our friends and other fans. It hasn't anything to do with being "young" or "hip" (our dolls happen to be a very in and cool thing to collect) but with our purpose.

My point is not to argue this issue here which really belongs on some other board or blog. It is to point out that there are plenty of people who feel no need to have a blog at all, and that we would not want to see SMF/TP tinkered with beyond recognition. And that people should have the common sensse to evaluate things for themselves rather than jump on whatever bandwagon happens to pass by.

I actually had a WP blog as our home page for a while while I built the rest of the site, I was able to post comments and updates on the site construction while I was building it. That was a good solution at the time, but it wound up taking up time I needed to spend on the site itself. So when we launched I got rid of it.

L.