The WP-Recent-phpBB plugin defines a sidebar widget and a shortcode to show the most recent posts of phpBB 2.x or phpBB 3.x forums on your WordPress blog.

The plugin submits only one SQL query to gather all the required information from phpBB. Your phpBB tables can be located on the same database of your WordPress tables, another database or even another host.

This plugin allows you to choose the phpBB forums and users that you would like their posts to be included in or excluded from the listing.

The look of the phpBB posts are fully customizable within the plugin. This plugin uses two templates, one for new topics and another for replies. So that, you have complete freedom to define your own display format for phpBB posts on the sidebar widget or on your posts (or pages).

Here is the list of template variables that you can use to format each post:

• {POST_URL}
  Absolute URL of the post
• {POST_EXCERPT}
  Excerpt of the post (maximum first 20 words)
• {POST_DATE}
  Date of the post (date format is determined according to your WordPress settings)
• {POST_TIME}
  Time of the post (time format is determined according to your WordPress settings)
• {POST_SINCE}
  Time elapsed since publishing the post (e.g. 5 minuets ago, 2 weeks ago, …)
• {TOPIC_URL}
  Absolute URL of the post’s topic
• {TOPIC_TITLE}
  Title of the post’s topic
• {FORUM_URL}
  Absolute URL of the post’s forum
• {FORUM_TITLE}
  Title of the post’s forum
• {USER_URL}
  Absolute URL of the poster’s profile
• {USER_NAME}
  The poster’s user name

To embed recent phpBB posts in a post (or page), type [phpbb] in the content area, and then save/publish the post (or page).

The [phpbb] shortcode accepts the following parameters:

• db_host
  Host name of the phpBB database server.
  Defaults to WordPress database server.
• db_name
  Name of the phpBB database.
  Defaults to WordPress database name.
• db_user
  User name of the phpBB database.
  Defaults to WordPress database user name.
• db_pass
  Password of the phpBB database.
  Defaults to WordPress database password.
• table_prefix
  Prefix name of the phpBB tables.
  Defaults to ‘phpbb_’
• link
  URL to the phpBB bulletin board.
  Defaults to none
• limit
  Maximum number of phpBB posts to display.
  Defaults to ‘5’
• template_new
  The template for showing the new phpBB posts.
• template_reply
  The template for showing the reply phpBB posts.
• forum_include
  Comma separated list of phpBB forum IDs to include in the output.
  Defaults to all forums
• forum_exclude
  Comma separated list of phpBB forum IDs to exclude from the output.
  Defaults to none
• user_include
  Comma separated list of phpBB user names to follow their posts only.
  Defaults to all users
• user_exclude
  Comma separated list of phpBB user names to ignore their posts.
  Defaults to none
• show_link
  Whether the link to the phpBB bulletin board should be displayed (‘1’) or not (‘0’).
  Defaults to ‘1’ (show link)
• link_title
  Title of the link to the phpBB bulletin board if show_link is on.

By the way, if you have more than one phpBB bulletin board, you can use more than one instance of the phpBB Recent Posts widget on your sidebar.

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WP-Recent-phpBB (15.8 KiB, Last updated on March 19, 2013)Defines a fully customizable sidebar widget and shortcode to show the most recent phpBB posts on your WordPress blog.