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Hey everyone,
After years of running IP.Board 3.4.x I've finally upgraded my forums to the latest 4.3.x. Apart from bringing my community to the cutting-edge of forum software, I was most looking forward to using the REST API.
And WOW am I impressed! Great job IPS team.
Anyways, one of the first things I'm doing is building a simple plugin that pulls the latest posts/topics and display them in a widget for use on the sidebar of my WordPress website's blog. The REST API gives me more than enough information to make a nice widget with member info, profile photo, timestamps, and other good stuff.
I have ideas for use outside of that as I'm looking to shift the discussions from my blog to my forums, and think I can use this data to add some convincing features around my site.
My questions for you guys:
1) Does anything like what I'm explaining exist in any form already?
2) How many of you use WordPress and IPS and see value in a feature like this?
3) What ideas do you have of "bridging" your forums to your website?
By the way, I'm talking about the self-hosted WordPress version, not the hosted .com version. I'm curious for your feedback because this is something that could be useful to release as a free plugin on WP.org.
After years of running IP.Board 3.4.x I've finally upgraded my forums to the latest 4.3.x. Apart from bringing my community to the cutting-edge of forum software, I was most looking forward to using the REST API.
And WOW am I impressed! Great job IPS team.
Anyways, one of the first things I'm doing is building a simple plugin that pulls the latest posts/topics and display them in a widget for use on the sidebar of my WordPress website's blog. The REST API gives me more than enough information to make a nice widget with member info, profile photo, timestamps, and other good stuff.
I have ideas for use outside of that as I'm looking to shift the discussions from my blog to my forums, and think I can use this data to add some convincing features around my site.
My questions for you guys:
1) Does anything like what I'm explaining exist in any form already?
2) How many of you use WordPress and IPS and see value in a feature like this?
3) What ideas do you have of "bridging" your forums to your website?
By the way, I'm talking about the self-hosted WordPress version, not the hosted .com version. I'm curious for your feedback because this is something that could be useful to release as a free plugin on WP.org.