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Following those instructions for the blacklist/whitelisting ended up returning “500 Internal Server Error” messages. Now if you go to the website that you linked, it is also returning the same 500 Internal Server Errors as well.

I have access to change mod_security, but I would need to know what was changed.

This is definitely an issue that I’m having. This was with the default, freshly installed Word Press. I didn’t start using another theme until after I got tired trying to figure out what was not allowing me to post, just giving me a blank page.

It doesn’t seem to be a set amount of words either. I tried posting 15,061 Words (81,789 Characters) and it didn’t work. But if I posted 12,042 Words it would work as long as I used <!–nextpage–>. I did another post with 16,213 words and it worked with <!–nextpage–>.

I’d prefer that I didn’t have to use nextpage. It does seem that if I’m using pictures then that limits how many words I can post even more.

This was with the default, freshly installed Word Press. I didn’t start using another theme until after I got tired trying to figure out what was not allowing me to post, just giving me a blank page.

Keep in mind that I am posting a really large stories. For example the last one I tried was 15,061 Words (81,789 Characters). I had to break it up into 2 parts and even then, those parts had to use the NextPage tag otherwise I would just get a blank post.

Hhhmmm I see. So I’ll just have to keep them has “tables” then unfortunately until they change web browsers or add more functionality to CSS.

That is essentially what I already have. 3 div blocks border_header (.classA), border_content (.classB) and border_footer (.classC). The border_header and border_footer blocks are fine.

If I remove the height from border_content (.classB), which is basically what you have labeled .classB then the images vanish. They do not repeat and the column completely vanishes. If I add “height” in, they are there… and I can’t figure out why it isn’t working.

From what I understand Firefox has issues since there is nothing in the div container for the left and right div sides. So I tried putting a spacer in there but that still didn’t work. So then I just tried putting the image in the div table as a “img” tag. At least the column will show up when I try to debug it with Firebug now.

<div id="border_content">
        <div id="border_leftBorder">  </div>
        <div id="border_contMain">  </div>
        <div id="border_rightBorder">  </div>
</div>

As you can see:
https://www.pcxdesigns.com/dev/ipb3-wp/blog/

The right column is visible but only because I left the “height” in the .css. The left side column is vanished when I removed the “height” , or rather won’t repeat down even though the .css should be correct.

#border_leftBorder {
	background: url(https://www.pcxdesigns.com/dev/ipb3/public/style_images/protoculturex/border_mleft.png) repeat-y left top;
	width: 40px;
	float: left;
}

#border_contMain {
	width: 600px;
	float: left;
}

#border_rightBorder {
	background: transparent url(https://www.pcxdesigns.com/dev/ipb3/public/style_images/protoculturex/border_mright.png) repeat-y scroll 0 0;
	width: 40px;
	height: 889px;
	float: right;
}

Got it, makes sense. Thank you.

Since I can’t edit the original note. This project has been updated with some slight changes.

Products Involved:
IP.Board 2.3
IP.Converge (IP.Converge)
WordPress
WordPress-MU

Payment:
This would not be a completely free project, depending on estimates of time and how much work it would take to do I am willing to work out some payments for this to be done. I know there are other users interested in this, so this amount may be able to be increased with donations from others as well. It all depends on the initial estimate.

Needed:
Experienced PHP programmer. Knowledge and experience of IP.Board and WordPress is a bonus and definitely would help in this.

Plugin Request:
Although IP does have a multi-user blog, it lacks certain things that do not make it suitable for a community type forum environment where users like to have individual customization and choices to their styles. In the world of Facebook, MySpace, Live Journal, etc they are communities built around blogs where users can specificially customize their blogs/journals to represent themselves in their own unique and individual way.

A person could mod/hack to get the member databases to work between WordPress and IP.Board however the correct method would be to make a Plugin for IP.Converge and use that as a bridge between WordPress and IP.Board’s member database. Originally I had wanted to go with another Blog but after looking at requests on WordPress and IPB as well as doing some testing with the interface, WordPress seems better suited for this project.

WordPress and its multi-user counter part WordPress-MU both utilize Plugin’s as well as IP.Converge. The programmer would need to create a Plugin for them, connecting to IP.Converge as a Plugin allowing the member databases to be synced up similar to how IP.Converge is used to connect 2 or more IP.Board member databases. From looking at other discussions and requests it is something that could be done but requiring an experienced PHP programmer. By bridging them together this way, it is less likely that updates will require lots of time to keep Plugin’s current when WordPress and IP.Board upgrade.

From what I understand to start working on this and get it to work, we should utilize the converge_local folder located within the IP.Board base installation. That would need to be copied into the WordPress/WordPress-MU root directory and then modified to apply itself to WordPress instead of IP.Board. The login process would need to be modified to send a XMLRPC request to IP.Converge. An example of how IP.Board does that can be found within sources/loginauth/converge/auth.php within the IP.Board base directory.

If someone is interested in working on this but does not have access to the converge_local or auth.php files, I can provide them for you. Even though this is technically against the EULA for IP, Brandon and Charles are ok with it developers working providing we release the Plugin for others to use as well.

Documentation on the Converge XML-RPC process is here.

If you have any further questions please post here so we can keep it an open discussion. Any questions about payment, time to complete and cost, etc can be emailed to me at [email protected] or you can reach me via AOL Instant Messenger, Dark Severance or Yahoo Messenger, DarkSeverance.

Thank you.

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