For the benefit of the community - I am sharing my solution as I found that the almost all of the plugins and solutions to enable phpbb posts to appear in wordpress had expired and no longer worked.
On the wordpress plugins in 2025 a new plugin appeared called New Posts from phpBB from a developer kikipress and is currently in version 1.0.0. It does work however has a few issues so I improved it (and have tried to inform the author so they can update).
In short, the plugin enables a widget to be set. Here the database credentials for phpbb are added and the plugin gathers posts and then displays them in this widget. I ran into a few issue so made improvements.
• Improved speed / efficiency -> for large databases the original call was processor intensive so as been adjusted to utilise inbuild phpbb functionality and as a result it much faster and more efficient
• Introduced caching -> reduces number of calls and included an option to adjust the caching time (eg. every 3 hours)
• Improved security to the possibility of block malicious injections
• Table-prefx -> An option to adjust the database table prefix if needed
• Ability to exclude forum -> e.g. moderator or member internal forums where posts should not published
• Improved design / layout to include the subforum name and a nicer layout and removing "Re: " in the title of responses.
If I hear from the developer and they are interested in merging the modifications then perhaps a new version will have this by the time you read. So click through to the wordpress plugin above and look at the version number and changelog.
Otherwise can share directly (message me).
On the wordpress plugins in 2025 a new plugin appeared called New Posts from phpBB from a developer kikipress and is currently in version 1.0.0. It does work however has a few issues so I improved it (and have tried to inform the author so they can update).
In short, the plugin enables a widget to be set. Here the database credentials for phpbb are added and the plugin gathers posts and then displays them in this widget. I ran into a few issue so made improvements.
• Improved speed / efficiency -> for large databases the original call was processor intensive so as been adjusted to utilise inbuild phpbb functionality and as a result it much faster and more efficient
• Introduced caching -> reduces number of calls and included an option to adjust the caching time (eg. every 3 hours)
• Improved security to the possibility of block malicious injections
• Table-prefx -> An option to adjust the database table prefix if needed
• Ability to exclude forum -> e.g. moderator or member internal forums where posts should not published
• Improved design / layout to include the subforum name and a nicer layout and removing "Re: " in the title of responses.
If I hear from the developer and they are interested in merging the modifications then perhaps a new version will have this by the time you read. So click through to the wordpress plugin above and look at the version number and changelog.
Otherwise can share directly (message me).
Statistics: Posted by bna — Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:11 am