{"id":115188,"date":"2004-12-05T03:03:39","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T03:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wp-messageboard\/"},"modified":"2017-02-07T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:41:09","slug":"wp-messageboard","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wp-messageboard\/","title":{"rendered":"WP-messageboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am about to undertake a project:<br \/>\nRedesign my primary website (imperialdub.com) which has long been essentially unread news and links, plus a very popular &#8220;community section&#8221; (phpbb.)<br \/>\nafter about a year of loving, coding for, and really appreciating WordPress, i find that doing anything with phpbb is more or less an ultra-turnoff.<br \/>\nSo my questions are:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong>  is there any simple BB script in the world which would take the user info used in WordPress, and retain it\/ retrieve it for use on the board?<br \/>\n<strong>B.<\/strong>  is there some way to hack, or plug-in, wordpress so that it might operate more like a BB than a blog?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I really want to use one or more installs of WP to execute my entire site, but the issue of &#8216;community&#8217; is really important. And somehow a &#8220;blog&#8221; is such a singlular, try-not-to-get-too-personal experience that the dynamic is <em>very<\/em> different.<br \/>\nStill, the thought of the latest post\/comment popping into the first position on the index, as well as the display only being the title\/author just doesn&#8217;t seem like a way-impossible operation.<br \/>\nthat said, i don&#8217;t have the know how to alter the post order in the WP structure itself.<br \/>\nand even if i did (cause i am going to try regardless) i wonder ifthe cookie info would even be shared between 2 installations of WP. Probably not, right?<br \/>\nbammer&#8230;<br \/>\nF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-115188","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/115188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/115188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8750155,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/115188\/revisions\/8750155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}