Monthly Archives: May 2010

bbPress: Manually configure a Key Master role

By Eric | May 31, 2010
If at any time your account reverts back to a regular member account (effectively locking you out of the admin control panel), don’t fret! You can manually configure it back to a Key Master role in phpMyAdmin: Look-up your user_ID in your user table (bb_users or wp_users*) Search for this ID in the umeta_id column [...]
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vBulletin 4 to bbPress (and WordPress integration)

By Eric |
I will be going through the steps on how I achieved the following: Convert vBulletin 4 to bbPress (specifically, I converted from vBulletin 4.0.1 to bbPress 1.0.2) Integrate WordPress with bbPress to share the same users table Make the WordPress database contain the central user database (optional) Preamble I decided to test out bbPress using [...]
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Ads becoming commonplace in creative communities

By Eric | May 28, 2010
It’s rare to see advertisements on a company’s website. It does make better sense to attract potential clients instead of directing them away from your website. The creative community appears to be trending the other direction. Newer advertising networks like Fusion Ads and the DECK deliver targeted traffic by displaying advertisements solely on creative and [...]
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phpBB: Display different content for guests and members

By Eric | May 19, 2010
To display different content depending on whether or not a user is logged into your phpBB forums, simply use the following code in your template files: <!– IF not S_USER_LOGGED_IN –> Text between these tags will be displayed to guests. <!– ENDIF –> <!– IF not S_IS_BOT and S_USER_LOGGED_IN –> Text between these tags will [...]
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Mike Babcock is a prophet

By Eric | May 18, 2010
Not too long ago, Mike Babcock made a prophecy to the media. He pointed to the two teams that had won a series from a 3-0 deficit – the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs and the 1975 New York Islanders – and suggested that there was a cyclical pattern. TSN recently proved how difficult such a [...]
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Minor blog updates

By Eric |
Made some small changes to the blog. Worth mentioning is the removal of all advertisements and modification to the category names I used in this blog. The latter inadvertently changed all the permalinks as well, but I don’t think there’s a need for me to 301 redirect the old links since judging by this blog’s [...]
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