• From: DC
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Topic: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

I know I had a lot of trouble setting this up, so I want to make it easy for others to do this when they decide a phpBB forum is something they want to use with their wordpress site.

Here is an example of what I've done with my site:

The Forums | The Normal Website

Make sure you have a phpBB forum installed before you start this process, and that your forum style closely matches your normal website.

Step 1 - Open up your normal website and open the page source.

Find:

<div id="header">

Step 2 - If you want only the header on top of your forum, copy everything up to:

</div><!-- #header -->

If you want to include the navigation bar from your normal website, copy everything up until:

 </div><!-- #nav -->

Step 3 - Open up your overall_header.html file of your forum and paste the code you got from your normal website. Each forum is going to require that you paste it in a different spot, so it's going to take some trial and error.

Step 4 - Once you've done that, you have to head over to your wordpress site's CSS files and copy the CSS files for your header, nav or anything else that affects your header. Paste the CSS from your normal website into either stylesheet.css or colours.css.

That's basically all you have to do! If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask.

My Arras Site: http://Orioles-Nation.com

oriolesprospects's Website

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  • From: DC
  • Registered: 2010-03-10
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

Here's a updated version of this tutorial, which goes more in depth:

http://jordantuwiner.com/2010/07/17/int … and-phpbb/

My Arras Site: http://Orioles-Nation.com

oriolesprospects's Website

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  • Registered: 2010-07-12
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

Hi,

I tried following the above (and using the link) and it doesn't seem to work for me. The instructions were very vague in some areas, so I can't be too sure if I did everything correctly...

Check this out: http://holdstartselect.com/forum

It doesn't look like what it should.

Any advice?

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  • From: DC
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

Is this how you'd want it to look?

My Arras Site: http://Orioles-Nation.com

oriolesprospects's Website

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  • From: DC
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

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My Arras Site: http://Orioles-Nation.com

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  • Registered: 2010-08-05
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

Thanks for the tutorial. I am newbie when it comes to these kind of things so I messed everything up. I guess it went wrong at step 3 or 4 but I'll try again later with a new phpbb theme.

Where do I find the Wordpress CSS that I should copy? Is it under /arras-theme/css/styles and then default.css? How do I know how much I should copy?

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  • From: DC
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

n0000b wrote:

Thanks for the tutorial. I am newbie when it comes to these kind of things so I messed everything up. I guess it went wrong at step 3 or 4 but I'll try again later with a new phpbb theme.

Where do I find the Wordpress CSS that I should copy? Is it under /arras-theme/css/styles and then default.css? How do I know how much I should copy?

Did you make changes in user.css or defualt.css? If both, you need to pasta all of default.css and then delete the default lines of default.css that you made changes to in user.css. If only default.css you can paste the entire content.

If you give me a link to your site I can tell you what to copy and paste.

My Arras Site: http://Orioles-Nation.com

oriolesprospects's Website

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  • Registered: 2010-08-05
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

I think I kind of solved it. It looks better now at least. I still have to modify the phpbb template to get rid of the header from their. I'll PM the URL since the site isn't "official" yet.

I believe that I misunderstood the detailed instructions. The phpbb template got messed up when I deleted some code from the overall_header template. I just pasted my wp header+nav code to the overall_header file.

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  • Registered: 2010-08-05
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

I just want to send a big thank you to oriolesprospects who help me with my overall_header file. I really appreciate it!

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  • Registered: 2010-12-04
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

Hi..Can you please help me with my site too..

I am having problems in the step 4..Please please help me...

The link to my site is www.eduarena.com

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  • Registered: 2010-12-29
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

Can someone help me too??

I want to use the standard phpBB template.. can someone upload the "overall_html" of a detaild tutorial....

thx

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  • Registered: 2011-02-12
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

This guide looks awesome but why using external forum? SImplePress is working good with WP.

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  • From: DC
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

analogbernd wrote:

This guide looks awesome but why using external forum? SImplePress is working good with WP.

It's too simple. phpBB is probably the best looking forum style out there, especially when blending like this. Or, at least for me because I found the perfect phpBB theme to match my site. But phpBB is in the top 3 forum softwares out there probably behind vBulletin and these boards.

My Arras Site: http://Orioles-Nation.com

oriolesprospects's Website

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  • From: DC
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

Would anyone be interested in an updated tutorial for arras 1.5?

My Arras Site: http://Orioles-Nation.com

oriolesprospects's Website

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  • Registered: 2010-12-29
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

oriolesprospects wrote:

Would anyone be interested in an updated tutorial for arras 1.5?

YES, ofcourse  big_smile

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  • Registered: 2011-06-16
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Re: Integrating your Arras Theme/Wordpress blog with a phpBB forum

oriolesprospects wrote:

Would anyone be interested in an updated tutorial for arras 1.5?

Hi,

I am highly interested in your tutorial please if it's still available.

Thanks.

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