Why?
Since I started this blog, I’ve used the exact same template. I’ve not edited a single piece of code at all except for my own mods, and it’s not broken a thing.
Also, if I install a plugin, it can somehow modify the WordPress files on-the-fly and add in any functionality. For example, The reCAPTCHA, the Flickr thumbnails, the iPhone skin, all those plugins were activated with a single click. NO code edits, NO file modification, nothing.
That’s why I like WordPress. It’s so easy to use.
Invision Power Board, on the other hand…..oh boy. Have a look at TVF’s blogs. IPS recently changed the layout a little, but all our custom skins are totally screwed. What it should look like, is this: IPS Blogs.
Somehow, if it was WordPress, that would be possible without needing any code edits. But being IPB it means there’s a TON of code to be edited, which is a chore.
So, IPS, please, steal some code from WordPress and make IPB work better then it does now between upgrades!
In The Castle by Wolfmother
WordPress plugins don’t actually modify the WordPress files
There are hundreds of “hooks” in pretty much all the WordPress internal functions and in your themes; these are what the plugins use to insert their code.
That’s exactly why I don’t like code, half the time I don’t know what does what.
But yes, that’s very much what I mean, and apparently IPS are trying to do the same type of system in IPB v3, according to their blog, so, we’ll wait and see if it works well.
*hopefully!*
I agree
I successfully integrated IPB and wordpress using the same skin. Infact I went a little further and also integrated IPBlog and a flash chat script all running fromt the IPB user data base.
Check it out:
http://www.RABBITROASTERS.com
I just hope that your suggestion makes it to IPS because I am dreading the next upgrade!!!
Matt