Wrapping vBulletin with Wordpress Header & Footer

[CaskSmuggler]

Hi all

Just wondering if anyone can advice on a step by step way of taking the header.php and footer.php from Wordpress and putting them at the top & base of our vBulletin forum?

Naturally, the goal being to make the forum look like it's a part of a website.

I can't seem to find a tutorial anywhere.

On a side note, would anyone happen to know for sure if injecting Wordpress into vBulletin like that would effect SEO rankings?

[BBNZowner]

I'd also be interested in this.

I've heard you can just take the header HTML and replace the vbulletin one, but I have no idea how to integrate the CSS properly. Am also curious about SEO.

[tpearl5]

I did something like this recently. You may be duplicating meta and title content depending on what is in the header file that you're including.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16580818/how-to-add-wordpress-header-and-footer-in-vbulletin-4-2

[CaskSmuggler]

Sorry John, but I couldn't really make heads or tails of the response on that link (or/aka) the initial thread from its poster: http://bythegram.ca/tutorials/wordpress-meets-vbulletin/

It actually lost me at:

"Step 1: Create a WP Header Plugin:"

Is there anyway this could possibly be dumbed down to such an extent my dead goldfish would be capable of understanding it?

[tpearl5]

Even alive goldfish don't have very good memories :)

But either way. If you don't understand how that works then I wouldn't mess with it. I would just make a plugin, but the way sites are setup varies so much that it would be messy. Even this method is a bit messy.