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Bit of a while since an update due to a few things, but take a look at the open source releases over at DooBDee.net.

If you are interested in phpBB, wordpress and most things computers / coding / internet entrepreneuring then open source releases is for you.

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Welcome to DooBDee.net. This website is designed to cover open source releases, internet resources, downloads and support.

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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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Relatively recently, you would have noticed that on a lot of phpLD based website directories that thumbnails are not working. The fix for this such problem is relatively simple and depending on your template you will need to edit:

• link.tpl
• main.tpl
• details.tpl

You then simply replace the msn girafa or alexa screenshots code with:

http://www.artviper.net/screenshots/screener.php?&url=

Therefore, the complete image tag would look like:

<img alt=”site preview” class=”thumb” src=”http://www.artviper.net/screenshots/screener.php?&url={$link.URL|escape|trim}” />

There are plenty more alternative services out there. This one however, does have good reviews and more information about implementing this service for the phpLD thumbnails problem can be found here.

Todays post is sponsored by: Web Inspiration.

To create a theme (since version 2.2) is to make the theme widget enabled, so this is how you do one.

In order to make a theme widgetized, we have to do this. Open sidebar.php and add this:

<?php /* Widgetized sidebar. */
if ( !function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

// Sidebar content here.

<?php endif; ?>

Thats all there is to it!