Single Login for PhpBB3 & Coppermine

April 2, 2010

PhpBB3 to Coppermine Bridge A great way to make the phpBB forum even better is to link it with Coppermine. Coppermine is an open-source photo gallery you can use on your website. It may not be the prettiest or most feature rich option, but it’s really stable, and does most anything I’ve ever needed it [...]

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Remove Shadow Topics in phpbb3

March 15, 2010

I recently had a mod move a topic and leave a shadow topic in it’s place.  The intent was to move the topic to our area for deleted topics, but the shadow caused it to remain visible. I wanted to delete the shadow topic without deleting the original topic.  A little bit of digging around [...]

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Switch Between Multiple Google Accounts

February 4, 2010

I routinely use two separate Google accounts.  One for personal use, and one for business.  This was a huge pain until just recently when I discovered a great way to switch from one to the other.  I now use a Greasemonkey script called “Google Account Multi-Login.” This script basically replaces the “Sign Out” link on [...]

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Tweaks for the Thesis WordPress Theme Round 2

January 29, 2010

  I’ve been converting most of my websites over to Thesis the last couple of months. There are a few little tweaks I’ve made along the way. I shared a few Thesis tweaks a while ago, I now I wanted to share some more of them. Remove “Comments Closed” You can turn off comments for [...]

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Removing the Headline Area from Thesis Theme

January 21, 2010

  One thing I don’t love about the Thesis Theme for WordPress is the page headlines. Usually when creating static pages, I’d rather not have the page headings appear ( i.e. – Home, Contact, etc. ). They’re not always bad, but the “Home” one always annoys me, and is kind of a giveaway that you’re [...]

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Bring on 2010 (whatever you’re calling it…)

January 15, 2010

I started my blog in late 2008.  I didn’t really know what I was going to do with it.  Part of me wanted to write intelligent articles, another part of me wanted to write about random nerdy things I came across on the web, and the other part of me just wanted to keep an [...]

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PhpBB3 Update Turns Off Active Topics

January 15, 2010

When you update to the current version of the phpBB3 forum software (3.o6), the section for Active Topics is turned off by default.  I did a little looking, and found out it’s just something you need to turn back on. There was a bug in the previous versions whereby the option for active topics was [...]

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