Gaming Blogs that accept bbcode?

[Ryukouki]

I just wanna make a simple blog. Which ones accept bbcode? I haev a ton of bbcode blogs to transfer. I wanna do this for fun. Any recommendations? Blogger? Blogspot? TUmblr?

 

[Ryukouki]

Forget that approach. What's a good web host that accepts BBPress or WordPress? How do you properly install it? My FTP upload did not work. All I got was source code when I tried running the install.php file. Is there an auto install?

 

[monkat]

Any host that allows PHP and MySQL will be able to run wordpress, and any self-respecting paid one will.

As for auto-installs....I haven't been in the hosting game for a while now, so I can't give you the word on that availability.

 

[twiztidsinz]

Forget that approach. What's a good web host that accepts BBPress or WordPress? How do you properly install it? My FTP upload did not work. All I got was source code when I tried running the install.php file. Is there an auto install?

The problem is most likely that your host doesn't support PHP.

Rydian has a write up about starting a website here: http://gbatemp.net/t276964-how-to-make-your-own-website
I would suggest byethost.com which is what we used for the Ragnarok DS translation, but they recently deleted my site for inactivity and the link to reactivate was dead.

 

[Ryukouki]

OK. So! I decided to upgrade a little bit to FreeHostia. I got a BBPress forum rolling nice and slick here. The problem is, when I go to my main domain, http://www.gaminghub.org, I only get the directory instead of my root site Gaming Hub hosted by BB Press. How can I get it so when I go to gaminghub.org I get the forum, not the parental directory? THanks again!

EDIT: Now I'm tinkering and I got the forum to appear but all I get is this page not found thing.

EDIT 2: Now the forum appears but at http://www.gaminghub.org/bbpress. I want it to appear at www.gaminghub.org. How do i do that? Thanks yet AGAIN.

EDIT 3: Fixed it!

EDIT 4: I need to add forums to it.

EDIT 5: How the heck can I safely merge it with Wordpress?

 

[Ryukouki]

OK guys, for those of you in web design... I have a few simple goals to reach, and I want your voice on how to get there.

a) I have successfully established my site's root (at the moment, it's a forum) at http://www.gaminghub.org. What I want to do now is make a BLOG (probably WordPress) the root, and have a forum link like the one on the GBAtemp portal, or the one on the old DSDatabase layout, here: http://www.dsdatabase.org/blog.
b)Using FreeHostia services, how can I make a Word Press rooted blog have a subroot or domain at say sometihng like httq://www.gaminghub.org/forum or something? I want an arrangement like DSDatabase's but maybe better. My ideal site is a main blog that can lead to a forum run by BB Press.
c)Using Wordpress, can I somehow integrate the two together?

Kudos to the person who answers this!

 

[twiztidsinz]

a) I have successfully established my site's root (at the moment, it's a forum) at http://www.gaminghub.org. What I want to do now is make a BLOG (probably WordPress) the root, and have a forum link like the one on the GBAtemp portal, or the one on the old DSDatabase layout, here: http://www.dsdatabase.org/blog.What determines what is shown is the index.php/.html/.htm file.
You could have your setup like this:
htdocs/wordpress/
htdocs/index.php which is your wordpress page.

For example, the default Wordpress page is this:

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As you can see, to save lines of repeated code, each section is it's own .PHP file and then included into the main page. It not only saves lines of code, but any changes will only need to be made once.

And here is the code I use to grab the posts from a particular category, for the download page:CODEÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂYou can set the number of posts and the category (which should be obvious).

b)Using FreeHostia services, how can I make a Word Press rooted blog have a subroot or domain at say sometihng like httq://www.gaminghub.org/forum or something? I want an arrangement like DSDatabase's but maybe better. My ideal site is a main blog that can lead to a forum run by BB Press.I'm not sure, but I think you would just make a folder called "forums" and have the index.php of your forum software there.

QUOTE(Ryukouki @ Feb 25 2011, 01:09 AM)

c)Using Wordpress, can I somehow integrate the two together?

You can do a ton of stuff with wordpress, they have a wiki (or just pages?) that can help answer your questions.