Jeremy O'Connell

This plugin will check your phpBB board and grab vital statistics such as total members, total threads, total posts, newest member, and last post and display that information on your WordPress site. phpBB can even be on another site, server, and datacenter. You have total control over which statistics are displayed. The theme is totally customizable and its easy to modify to match your design concept.
You are able to pull statistics from up to three (3) boards and display them on your WordPress powered site. Each board may have its own refresh setting. So if you have a busy board you may update its information more frequently than one that isn’t so heavily traveled.
Why a refresh interval? When loading statistics from your phpBB install a web query is required to grab the information. This makes sense, right? Well this action is taxing because another system must be contacted and possibly another datacenter too. So the data collected from your board(s) is stored in your local WordPress database. Thus between refresh periods the phpBB statistics are loaded from your site’s database, which makes this process more optimized for performance. However there are two other important optimization features.
First when the refresh period has lapsed and its time for new information only when the next page load occurs will this plugin contact phpBB. So if you have a 15 minute refresh period and your site gets no visitors for 32 minutes then at that time the plugin will grab the updated information and start a new 15 minute count down. After all why grab the information when no one is visiting the site. Yes, if you are wondering, spiders and bots count as visitors and thus new information will be pulled if they are the visitor.
Second when it comes time to update the board information this plugin will not wait long for phpBB to respond. In fact it only waits up to two seconds. If the board can’t be contacted in that time due to a network issue, slow server, or server is down the last saved statistics are displayed. Cleverwise phpBB Statistics will then automatically keep trying with every page load to update the information. So as you can see this plugin is designed to reduce the amount of resources required to accomplish the goal at hand.
It should be noted that there are two required parts to this setup. First is, obviously, this very plugin. The second involves some important files that allow this plugin to communicate with your phpBB install(s) called the wpapi. You see this system talks to the wpapi, that is uploaded to your phpBB styles directory, and that is what gathers the actual information from your phpBB(s). Now there are two important settings in the wpapi.
First is a secret key, that you create/make up, which keeps unauthorized sources from grabbing your data. Second is an optional setting that allows you to direct the wpapi system to omit specific forum(s) when looking for the latest post. Why this feature? Well if you have a hidden forum on your phpBB board you probably don’t want any topics from it displayed in the last post to your board do you? Nope.
Now you are wondering where do you get this wpapi? The download link is posted in the “Help Guide” in this plugin. So once you have installed this plugin simply download those key files and follow the instructions in the “Help Guide”.
Language Support: Should work for all languages that use the A-Z alphabet. The default language to display the statistics is in English but is easily changeable into any language.
Live Site Preview: Want to see this plugin in action on a real live site? <a href="http://www.armadafleetcommand.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">ArmadaFleetCommand.com</a> and look in the right sidebar.
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Cleverwise phpBB Statistics

Displays key phpBB statistics from up to three boards on your Wordpress site with total control over layout and what is displayed.

jhong

Bridge phpBB and WordPress!
WP-United glues together WordPress sites and phpBB forums. Get the full power of WordPress publishing and plugins, with the familiar and established community format of phpBB.
WP-United is fully modular and individual features can be turned on and off. These features include:
<ul>
<li>User integration: including single sign-on, synchronised profiles and avatars, and user management. Works with external registration modules such as social login plugins. Users in phpBB get accounts in WordPress and vice versa. Completely controllable and customisable by setting permissions for who can integrate and at what level, using a unique drag-and-drop interface.</li>
<li>Template integration: Have your phpBB forum appear inside your WordPress site. Or vice-versa; integrate your WordPress blog inside your phpBB header and footer. Includes a “one-click” mode that analyses your theme’s CSS and modifies it on the fly to avoid CSS and HTML conflicts. This is no iFrame solution, it is a complete and automatic template integration.</li>
<li>Behaviour integration: Use phpBB smilies and word censor features in WordPress </li>
<li>Cross-posting: Post something in WordPress and have it cross-posted to your forum — Automatically or manually, you choose! Once an item is cross-posted, comments in phpBB and WordPress can be set to sync up under the blog item too!</li>
</ul>
WP-United also includes TEN widgets for you to drop into your WordPress page. Each widget is configurable and displays a wealth of forum information to increase engagement on your site. All of these widgets work even with the above modules turned off. They are:
<ul>
<li>Latest forum posts</li>
<li>Latest forum topics</li>
<li>users online list</li>
<li>Forum statistics</li>
<li>An integrated login/meta/avatar/profile block</li>
<li>Birthday list</li>
<li>Quick poll (select from active phpBB polls in an ajax widget)</li>
<li>Useful forum links list</li>
<li>Forum top bar (with breadcrumbs that work in WordPress)</li>
<li>Forum bottom bar (to match the top bar!)</li>
</ul>
Visit <a href="http://www.wp-united.com" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-united.com</a> for more information and to view example integrations in the gallery.
The download iincludes the following languages:
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Français</li>
<li>Deutsch</li>
<li>中文（简体）</li>
<li>русский</li>
<li>Srpski (Latinica)</li>
<li>Português Brasileiro</li>
</ul>

Cleverwise phpBB Statistics vs WP-United : phpBB WordPress Integration