Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

By: Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little, Jared W. Smith

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Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.

Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.

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About the Authors	p. xxi
About the Technical Reviewers	p. xxiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Introduction	p. xxvii
Drupal
Introducing Drupal	p. 3
What Is Drupal?	p. 3
Who Should Use Drupal?	p. 3
Installing Drupal	p. 4
Creating Drupal Content	p. 14
Touring Drupal's Features	p. 16
Summary	p. 20
Configuring Drupal	p. 21
Configuring Site Settings	p. 21
Setting Up and Maintaining User Accounts	p. 30
Using Modules	p. 38
Using Blocks	p. 39
Managing Content	p. 42
Managing Comments	p. 49
Configuring Themes	p. 50
Using Categories	p. 53
Summary	p. 59
Using the Drupal Core Modules	p. 61
Aggregator Module	p. 61
Archive Module	p. 64
Block Module	p. 65
Blog Module	p. 65
BlogAPI Module	p. 66
Book Module	p. 67
Comment Module	p. 70
Contact Module	p. 70
Drupal Module	p. 71
Filter Module	p. 73
Forum Module	p. 73
Help Module	p. 75
Legacy Module	p. 75
Locale Module	p. 75
Menu Module	p. 79
Node Module	p. 83
Page and Story Modules	p. 83
Path Module	p. 83
Ping Module	p. 85
Poll Module	p. 85
Profile Module	p. 86
Search Module	p. 88
Statistics Module	p. 89
System Module	p. 90
Taxonomy Module	p. 91
Throttle Module	p. 91
Tracker Module	p. 92
Upload Module	p. 92
User Module	p. 94
Watchdog Module	p. 94
Summary	p. 95
Adding Contributed Modules	p. 97
Getting Drupal Modules	p. 97
TinyMCE Module	p. 99
Image Module	p. 107
Image Assist Module	p. 109
Flexinode Module	p. 114
Event Module	p. 120
Location Module	p. 128
Organic Groups Module	p. 131
Spam Module	p. 135
Database Administration Module	p. 141
Developer Tools (Devel) Module	p. 144
Summary	p. 147
Adding and Customizing Themes	p. 149
Understanding Themes	p. 149
Installing New Themes	p. 154
Customizing Themes	p. 155
Using Theme-Related Modules	p. 181
Summary	p. 183
Maintaining Your Site	p. 185
Scheduling Automated Tasks	p. 185
Running Multiple Drupal Sites	p. 190
Making Backups	p. 200
Maintaining a Test Site	p. 204
Updating Drupal	p. 206
Getting Drupal Support	p. 212
The Drupal Community	p. 214
phpBB
Introducing phpBB	p. 219
The Basics of Running Your Own Forums	p. 219
Enter phpBB	p. 221
The Million-Dollar Question: Why Use phpBB?	p. 222
phpBB's Feature Set	p. 223
What We'll Accomplish	p. 226
Looking Toward Olympus	p. 227
Summary	p. 229
Installing and Configuring phpBB	p. 231
Installing phpBB	p. 231
Configuring phpBB	p. 240
Touring the phpBB 3.0 Installer and Administration Panel	p. 252
Summary	p. 265
Touring phpBB's Features	p. 267
Reading and Posting to Forums	p. 267
Creating User Profiles	p. 273
Private Messaging with phpBB	p. 278
Searching Forums	p. 280
Grouping Users	p. 282
Visiting Other Points of Interest	p. 285
Touring phpBB 3.0 Feature Upgrades	p. 286
Summary	p. 293
Securing and Maintaining phpBB	p. 295
Implementing Security Strategies	p. 295
Installing Updates	p. 298
Mastering phpBB Permissions	p. 303
Managing Registrations	p. 307
Moderating Your Forums	p. 310
Maintaining and Performance Tuning phpBB	p. 314
Introducing phpBB 3.0 Security and Maintenance Enhancements	p. 320
Summary	p. 325
Modifying phpBB	p. 327
Installing Modifications	p. 327
Creating Modifications	p. 334
Looking Ahead to phpBB 3.0 Modifications	p. 346
Summary	p. 346
Styling phpBB	p. 347
Acquiring Themes	p. 347
Creating and Modifying Themes	p. 348
Installing and Using Themes	p. 362
Touring phpBB 3.0 Templating Improvements	p. 365
Summary	p. 366
WordPress
Introducing WordPress	p. 369
A Brief History of Blogging	p. 369
Weblog Software	p. 371
Blogging-Related Terminology	p. 373
Why WordPress?	p. 375
Summary	p. 378
Installing and Configuring WordPress	p. 379
Installing WordPress	p. 379
Configuring WordPress	p. 390
Making Your First Post	p. 398
Summary	p. 400
Starting to Blog and Building Your Community	p. 401
Using Basic Post Options	p. 401
Using Advanced Post Editing Options	p. 405
Adding Images to Your Posts	p. 409
Managing Categories	p. 413
Managing Comments	p. 416
Adding Multiple Authors	p. 419
Adding Blog Pages with RSS Feeds	p. 423
Improving Your Site's Search Engine Visibility	p. 428
Summary	p. 431
Changing the Look of Your Blog	p. 433
Using Themes to Communicate with Your Audience	p. 433
Selecting an Installed Theme	p. 434
Adding New WordPress Themes	p. 436
Modifying an Existing Theme	p. 439
Summary	p. 459
Customizing Your Blog's Layout	p. 461
Considering What Your Reader Is Doing	p. 461
Changing the Layout	p. 463
Summary	p. 487
Maintaining Your Blog	p. 489
Backing Up and Restoring Your Database	p. 489
Monitoring Storage Space and Bandwidth	p. 496
Checking Your Links	p. 501
Keeping Your Content Fresh	p. 504
Maintaining Security	p. 505
Summary	p. 506
Index	p. 507
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