Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

Whether you want to build a community with a content management system, a bulletin board, or a blog, Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress is the authoritative guide using Open Source software.
Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of web site you desire, from an eCommerce to a community-based site. With phpBB you can set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is fast becoming the software of choice for the exploding blog community.
Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts, including Jared Smith, a long time support team member of the phpBBHacks.com web site who has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases, and Mike Little, the founder and a contributing developer of the WordPress project.

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Robert T. Douglass - Robert is a very active member of the Drupal community; he regularly submits patches to the core Drupal code and is the maintainer of several modules, including the media and subscription modules. In 2005, due to the growing popularity of Drupal, he became a freelance Drupal consultant and programmer working out of his home in Germany. His most recent project is NowPublic.com, a Drupal-powered site which unites the citizen journalist with the blogosphere. Mike Little - Mike is one of the founders of the WordPress project and is still a contributing developer. He has been programming professionally for 15 years in a variety of languages including PHP, Java, JSP, Perl, and assembler. Jared W. Smith - Jared Smith has several years' worth of experience administering, styling, and modifying the phpBB bulletin board software, and has been designing Web sites in some form for several years before that. He was among the original Support Team members at phpBBHacks.com - the leading distributor of modifications and templates for phpBB - where he now serves in an advisory role

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Section I: Drupal: Overview, Terminology, Installation; Key Concepts and Configuring the Site; Using Core Modules; Installing and Using Contrib Modules; Utilizing Themes; Maintenance Tasks and External Resources.- Section II: phpBB: Overview and Terminology; Installation and Configuration; Mods: Installation and Common Mods; Mods: Creating Your Own; Styles: Installation and Create of New Styles; Securing & Maintaining Your phpBB.- Section III: Wordpress: Overview and Terminology; Installation and Configuration; Plugins and Hacks: Installation and Common Plugins and Hacks; Plugins and Hacks: Creating your own; Themes: Installation and Creation of New Themes; Maintenance Tasks.