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PunBB powers Facebook Developers Forum

March 1, 2008

This's a very accidental discovery. I found out that Facebook.com is using PunBB for their Developers Forum.

The strange thing that caught my attention is that PunBB is a very simple PHP-powered bulletin board. Why such a big company like Facebook didn't make their own forum CMS or use a commercial one such as vBulletin, or the free and famous one phpBB, or bbPress. Why PunBB?

I went ahead to PunBB and register for an account for their forum. I tested it and here are some findings.

PunBB features

PunBB claims to have the following features:

Tags: CMS, facebook, forum, Site, url

Fixing Post Teaser Plugin Bug for WP 2.3.1

November 17, 2007

Have you ever had problem with Post Teaser plugin for WordPress? I am using it and I found a bug. So I fixed the bug and now you can download it right from this page. I name it "Post Teaser 2" just so It won't mess up with the original one.

It's now available for download from this page: Post Teaser 2 - An Essential WordPress Plugin.

The Bug

When I click the Update Options button on the Manage Post Teaser page, I got this: "Cannot load post-teaser.php." as shown in the snapshot:

Post Teaser Bug

Tags: Plugin, Site

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