Use Wordpress as a Forum (powered by TDOMF)!

I’ve created a Wordpress Theme that turns Wordpress into a pretty powerful forum! You can see it in action here (please check it out and tell me what you think!) It is currently using my TDO Mini Forms plugin to allow visitors start new topics without being turned into full-blown authors.

It works by treating Categories as Forums and treating Posts with omments as Topics. I’ve also built in a number of features to the theme:

Lists Posts by date of last comment (instead of published date) (included as a page template) Unread topics are highlighted and can be used to filter posts list (included as a page template) A hierarchical Forum list (included as a page template) AJAX Comment Preview (can be turned off) Comment QuickTags (can be turned off) Forum-looking Layout Pages and Categories can be used as Tabs (configurable) RSS 2.0 Feed of forum posts (can optionally be included in the theme or replace the main post RSS feed link)

I also did some special integration with two popular plugins:

Filosofo’s WordPress Gravatar Plugin so that users automatically have user-icons thanks to Gravatars. Paged Comments. With Paged comments, I’ve done quite a bit of integration. If you enable this plugin with the theme, essentially the blog post (which is the first post in a topic) appears only on the first page of comments, not on every page of comments as if it was a blog. And it handles ascending and descending order too.

My first AJAX!

It is an Enchanted Device Generator for Ars Magica (4th Edition). It’s built using PHP and Sajax which is a free AJAX toolkit.

It’s been quite an enlightening experiment. The buzz and hype generated around AJAX is quite something, so I thought I’d give it a shot. I started with an idea, a simple script that takes in a few values and does some calculations and presents the result to the user. But, I wanted the user to be able to tweak the values and see the results immediately. That sounds like something AJAX is perfect for.

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Use Wordpress as a Forum (powered by TDOMF)!

My first AJAX!