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Setup your Database Connection, see Other Notes

unzip phpbbrecenttopics.zip in your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. (You'll have a new directory, with this plugin in /wp-content/plugins/phpbb_recent_topics)

Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

Configure the plugin, you need to tell wordpress about phpbb, this is done in the wordpress menu 'Settings' -> 'phpBB Recent Topics'

The following Settings are required:

* The name of your phpBB database (e.g phpbb)
* The name of the table where topics are held (the default is phpbb_topics )
* The full url of your forum for links (e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/forum)
* The number of topics to show. (If left blank you get 5)
* The Date Formatting, i.e. "d/M/y - g:i a" similar to the WordPress "General Settings"

Hit 'Update Options"

To output the list of topics in a page or post...

* create a new page/post, type `{phpbb_recent_topics}` , hit 'Publish' or 'Create new page'

To output the list of topics in your theme sidebar using the widget… * click “design” in the dashboard * click “widgets” * next to phpBB Recent Topics click “add” * click "save changes" To output the list of topics in your theme sidebar...

* edit sidebar.php and inside `<div id="sidebar">` type...

    <?php
                if (function_exists('phpbb_topics')) {
                    phpbb_topics();
                } 
            ?>