Linking to phpBB forum from WordPress blog

[ottolapsi]

I think this should be a simple task, but being new with wordpress, I don’t know how to do this, so could someone please help me?

I have a phpBB forum and I want to start using wordpress front page for it. Basically what I want to do is identical to this site: http://www.bimmerpost.com/

What I want is:
– clicking the blog post title should take you straight to the topic in the forum
– blog post should show how many replies has been made to that topic

So WordPress basically just acts as front page linking to my forum.

Thank you.

[ottolapsi]

Please, could someone help me?

[jon]

I did just that in the iframe on this page:
http://www.radiowest.ca

I coded it as a Shortcode using the Shortcode Exec PHP plugin, created my own plain jane theme (though you won’t need that theme or the iframe if you use WordPress for the entire home page), and wrote the shortcode’s php code by dissecting a phpBB recent posts plugin I found in the WordPress Plugin directory.

I’m not aware of any plugin that would let you do this yourself without any php coding of your own. But I could be wrong. There isn’t much call for this so most phpBB plugins have not been tested on the current version of WordPress.

[ottolapsi]

I found a mod which allows me to link to external sources directly from the blog post title. But how can I make WordPress count the replies made to topic in phpBB forum?

[jon]

You would have to do php and MySQL coding for that, to create a custom SELECT statement that calculates that number of replies and returns that number to WordPress. Creating your own Shortcode (with the aforementioned Plugin) is probably the easiest. But it still requires php and MySQL skills.