Tech Oddity

I have now added a forum again.
It’s powered by bbPress though I don’t think it’s the best forum software but it does integrate with WordPress quite well.
I will see if I can import the content of the SMF forum to it. If not the users on it will need to re-register if they want to post on the new forum.

I have now switched the site login to WordPress. Members have no benefits at the moment due to comments being disabled and the lack of a forum. This will change when I add a forum again.

I am suspending the forum for two reasons:
1. I want to use WordPress as the site authentication now and I can’t find a working plugin to bridge the two.
2. No one is using it.

I may add a forum again in the future if I can find one that integrates with WordPress and has the features I want.

I just added the page ‘My Hardware’ to list the computers and other hardware I have.

I added the page fixes.
It lists various registry fixes I’m made and posted on the How-To Geek forums.

I have now integrated the forum into the site.
There is a login box on the right sidebar.
The forum page now has the WordPress header and sidebar like the rest of the site.
This integration is done with a few includes here and there.
The WordPress and SMF user tables are still unlinked as I couldn’t find a suitable bridge between them but I don’t need it right now as I’m the only WordPress user.
It took a few hours to work out some of the bugs with the integration.
I’m sure there are still some to fix.
I’ll do some more testing tomorrow on it.

Site Updates:
Fixed bug that caused images in the articles to not be displayed.
Added Guestbook forum topic for visitors to post quick feedback.

Here is some recent site activity:
The readers from FeedBurner went from 1 up to 4 and then down to 3 then 2 then 1 again.
The forum has one new member and no new posts. At this pretty much nothing post rate I’m starting to wonder why I even have a forum. I’ll still keep it though, maybe it will have more posts in the future.
My logs show a few more people have downloaded the WPFVAUAS_Daemon utility. Of which I need to find a better name for. The current one is hard to type and remember.
A few views of the pages and downloads of files from links on the How-To Geek forum. Makes since as that is the only place with links to my site at the moment.

Edit: Corrected name of utility. It was listed as wpafvaas_daemon a name it might have been not what I picked.

I’ve added a new utility to my site.
Network Send Keys is a program that lets you have hotkeys that send key presses to a local application and the same application on networked computers.
I also added a License to the page that basically says do whatever you want just give me credit and don’t change for the program.

I have updated the about page to list my other goal with this web site of trying out the whole blog, articles and others idea.
Thus far the articles far has worked fairly well.
The blog part though not so much. I just have site updates and no real blog content.