UBB.threads and Wordpress experts

A customer of mine recently wanted to know if I could gin up a custom ubbcode tag for Gametrailers.com and I obliged him. The first thing is to note a pattern that can be matched from the video URL and the resulting embed code at the site. In most cases, this is what you want […]

It’s good to have an SQL toolbox of queries at your disposal. UBB.threads has the Database Tools section, where you can save and re-use helpful queries. This will be a continually updated list of queries that I either run into or have to create in order to get data out of threads that isn’t normally […]

UBB.threads usually allows for alternating row colors in many of the parts of the forum and it is nice to have in order to set apart the rows by color (or more specifically CSS styling). The Post Island is such a creature that doesn’t allow this for some reason. Oversight? I really don’t know, but […]

Have you ever gone to a UBB.threads site, notice something unique about it’s layout and wonder ‘how the heck did they do that’ ? For example, there is a very well put together site that is in the ‘Community spotlight’ forum over at UBB.central called [ Love the Garden ]. They peeked under the hood, […]

The UBB.threads custom islands are a good thing and there’s is no doubt about it! With that said, I always like to do a little tweaking to get more out of the editing process. This article will show you how a small modification can accomplish just that. Edit the file templates/default/admin/editcustomisland.tmpl and look for these […]

This is probably one of the first things I do on a new Threads installation, because I like to see more of the style information when I’m in the style editor. Take a look below at the image and see how much horizontal realestate is wasted (click the image for full size): (more…)

It seems as if Twitter is the rage nowadays, so it is at least logical to have the option of a UBB.threads Custom Island to display your latest tweets. Let’s do one! This tutorial will assume you know your way around the Admin control panel for UBB.threads, but if you don’t, go the [ this […]

RSS (really simple syndicated) feeds are a very versitile, simple and popular way of sharing information between web sites. It’s pretty much a defacto standard and there are many tutorials, widgets, plugins and hard coded solutions to be found by just googling. That brings me to this article and the reason I’m writing it. I […]