With modern web advances, the opinions written in the ‘free phpbb forum hosting‘ post some time ago are somewhat changing.  With the relatively recent release of phpBB3 - “Olympus” - free phpbb forum hosting has started to become really quite impressive.

An example of this is: phpbb-forum-host.com - free phpbb forum host.

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Creating a powerful, interactive, usefull website can be difficult. However, the open source combination that has been proven to be a success is that of phpBB + Wordpress. What are they? Well… a short description is below…oh - both software packages are free too…and for those “techies” out there, they run using a mySQL database and PHP scripting.

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A very quick tip and the best blogging tip you will ever read for a succesfull blog.

Write:

1. Unique
2. Relavent
3. Interesting

Content.

And to top it off update your blog at least 3 times a week.

Ever wondered how to display recent wordpress posts anywhere on your site?   The answer is simple.  Simply using the following code snippet and adjust the HTML to something of your choice that matches your website.  All you need to do is include the wordpress config file of your installation you wish to retrieve posts from and use this small snippet of code on your website.

<ul>
<?php
require_once(’wp-config.php’);
$myposts = get_posts(’numberposts=5&offset=0′);
foreach($myposts as $post)
{
?>
<li><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php
}
?>
</ul>

To change the number of recent wordpress posts that appear, change this part of the code to a number that suits you: “numberposts=5“.

To begin - remember this short and key rule:

The title of your post grabs the attention of your users.

If you can grab the attention of your audience, then you will find that one, if not both of the below factors will happen:

1. Traffic will increase with new visitors.
2. You will get loyal readers to your blog.

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