Sorry - it isn't the format that is a problem - it's that every comment is listed as 12-31-69 and 7pm, no matter when they were posted. You can see example in articles here. Scroll down to the comments.

I have wiped out the wordpress database and did a re-install. Still have the same problem:

Whenever a regular user submit an article for review, the VB admin comes over to EDIT it, it becomes an article published by the author name "Admin".

Oh I see. I don't know but I guess there is something wrong with the template/wordpress. You need to check the time function code both places.

This mod is only for admin's to post to forum from the blog. Not meant for other users.

Is it possible for me to use one vBulletin install, with two different instances of wordpress - using this hack (2 times)?

I don't see why not? Give it a try and post the result here.

Completed integration of second install of WP with the vBulletin dbase and it WORKS! WOW!

Okay, another question. Is there a way that I can import user ids / passwords from vbulletin dbase into a wordpress dbase?

If you using this mod, you don't need to do that. Why would you wanna do it anyways?

Because by using this hack, I am unable to import vBulletin users into WP tables. And for what I am planning to do, I need all users of my vBulletin install in WP as authors. That, in order to give them access to more functionality sets that are originally native to WP (such as profiles, etc).

it currently doesnt work that way. This mod is not designed for such use yet. Maybe in the future versions, the mod author might add this much wanted functionality. maybe someone can make the code changes and post here.

Is there a way to make it post the excerpt instad of the actual post content.

Or converting HTML images to BB?

Looking a html image tags in the forum doesnt look good!

Yes mate.... just enable it in dashboard > tools > vbridge settings.

as for HTML tags thingy, just enable HTML in all forums or install that mod i posted in the previous links.
:)

Ugh - finally integrated the users so that scheduled posting works through, but now XMLRPC doesn't work. I searched through the thread and found that it was removed in the February update - any chance of getting that back?

Not only is it dead useful for offline desktop blogging using Windows Live Writer, but it's also the only way that most mobile apps can blog.

Btw, if anyone wants an example of the mod in action, you can hit http://www.symbian-guru.com, the forum is at /forum, but it's all integrated with comments and whatnot. I still need to update the wordpress side so that the Comments look better.

Thanks! This worked for me.

I was having problems with the redirection when logging in to the Wordpress side of things. Looking through the code I found the following in "functions_vbbridge.php":
However, I could not find where $redirect was being called from. In my case, I believe it was NULL. So, I replaced it with this code:

OK - thanks for all your help.

I've been using this for about a week now.
Keep in mind: we are NOT using auto-integrate. We have no interest in sharing users ... only in crossposting our articles (WordPress) to our forums, and using the forums for the comment engine.

Earlier, I posted about how regardless of what UserID I have in the vbridge settings, it always posts to the forum as UserID #1. This somehow magically started working correctly all of a sudden - I never did go into phpmyadmin and change userID's around - it just started working.

HOWEVER - now that multiple articles have been published, the actual articles are now hitting the forum with RANDOM userID's ...

I think it has to be a conflict with the Users/Role Manager plugin we're using in WordPress - we have many contributors ... and when they publish their articles, they appear in the forums with random userID's ....

Example: user "SaintLewis" in wordpress adds an article and submits it to the editor. Editor approves and publishes. The article hits the forums in userid: 27? (which is someone else's userID, of course!).

Another user in wordpress publishes an article - and it gets published on the forums as another random ID.

Then, another one publishes, and it goes to the forum with the correct userID as defined in the vbridge settings.

I'd really love for this to work, but I'm on the brink of giving up unless someone has a clue what keeps causing this.

EUREKA:

OK, we've discovered that all of the posts that went into the forums correctly were published directly. All of the ones that went INCORRECTLY were posts that were "scheduled to be published" and were published according to the schedule, automatically.

Seems like in my reading (and re-reading) of this 44+ page topic that i've seen some issues of scheduled posts.

verified by me working like a charm on vB 3.8.3 . . . good job.

Is there anyway, without using the forum for comments, to pull in the avatar from the forum to display next to each persons WP comment?

I get this error:
Code in this line:
Seems like its searching for a table caled vbb_vbrpath but there is no such table in my database!

Problem solved...

Changed line to:

I must have made a mistake somewhere along the line...

Anyway, I couldn't log in to my wordpress anymore and tried to use the resetvbbridge.php file but it didn't work and it gave me an error. I opened up the file and saw the error, figured it might help a few people out...

should be

Anyone found success in having scheduled wordpress posts hit the forum with the correct (and not random) userID?

Edit because of stupidity ;)

EDIT: Fixed my issue

You and I are trying to use this the same way, I believe. I'll bet that, if you look into it, you'll notice they aren't random IDs, but rather that they have matching ID #s. I.e. SaintLewis is #24 in wordpress and 27? is #24 in vbulletin - that's what was happening to me, at times.

I've used both integrated and non-integrated, and scheduled posts don't work 100% either way, annoyingly. At this point, honestly, I'm seriously considering just disconnecting the forum from my site and using it as just that - a discussion forum, rather than a commenting engine. Especially with the loss of XMLRPC and the gallery features, it's becoming much more trouble than its worth, and the original dev isn't doing anything on this, either. I realize he's only volunteering, but when I offered $50 to whoever would help me, it was another member, rather than him, which kinda bothered me.

Thanks 4 this great Mod !

I have a little question..
I'm going for two weeks of vacations, so i decided to leave some assigned posts for some determined days but when it post on the forum, will it be on the default subforum/category? It's because I would like it to be post on the correct forum and I put it when I save the post, but I did a test and it showed on the default one..
How can I make it to post on the correct one? plz?

For me, while scheduled posts authors don't always come across correctly, if you choose the desired subcategory before you choose publish/schedule, it has always worked properly. I don't know what happens if you use the quick edit option, though.

question removed

I'd like to know this as well.

How can I show the VB userbar inside WP ?

Has anyone else had trouble with the plugin turning itself OFF, randomly? I've not touched the settings, and on 2 occassions now over the last couple of weeks, we've got to write posts, and noticed the forum menus aren't listed at the bottom of the page, and an attempt to save a draft gives errors ... we go into Settings, and the plugin is turned off ... but I didn't turn it off.

Odd.

Are we assuming the original developer has ceased support - nobody has heard from them in a long time, right?

Forgive me is this was already addressed and I missed it but --

If I hid / removed the comments from the wordpress side -- can I have the bridge post a link to the thread it created on the forums?

I met the same problem with you, the visual editor couldn't show well.
My version is 3.8.3.

So, how you resoved it?

No, nonononononono,
nonono,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still this problem.
Mine is 2.8 and 3.8.3
What is wrong????????????????
Reply me pls.

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read() on a non-object in /home/forumzed/public_html/portal/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 475

oh, this hack is tooooooooooo bad.. so many problems and fatal error met when installing.
Cost my too much time.

I'm using this Mod with WP 2.8 (and I did the upgrade with this mod and integration turned on). It worked perfectly at install -- mostly. So, those of you getting install problems I can only assume are not correctly following the directions.

There are many implications to this mod that are difficult to anticipate until you start using it in testing.

My only continuing problem is the "Author" problem. WP expects the Admin account to be #1. But, my VB Admin account is userID=3 and there is no userID=1 in my vB. So, much of the time the "Author" is shown as blank. Well, it shows blank, but it actually has userID=1 in the post, but since there is no #1 it is blank.

If I click on Publish in the QuickEdit section of WP. It will put my correct user ID on my posts. However, if someone else has written the post it also changes the author to me when I publish the post. That's not good. It shows me as the author of everything.

I gave up on trying to get Avatars and such from VB into posts here. I never could get that to work.

I've had some problems with the media upload, but by using the browser upload instead of the Flash upload all is fine.

When setting it up I knew I wouldn't be using the post back to VB option, but I still set it up to do that as per the install instructions and then I just turned that feature off after I was sure it was working.

I posted to let folks know that it does work. And works pretty well. So, keep working on it. It would be great if someone adopted this mod, and took over working on it for the future. WP is too important to VB at this point and time and the two need to REALLY work together.

I'm to the point where I'm going to just disconnect the forum and blog, almost. Here's my current issues:

1. As mentioned above, whoever live-publishes a post, that person shows as the author (in vBulletin only), not the true author. I have 3 writers, only 2 of which can publish posts, so this is a problem.
2. Scheduled posts now correctly show the author, sort of. When viewing the thread in the forum, it shows MainPage (or whatever I have in the first two setting fields), and registers as a guest. However, when you open the thread, it shows the correct author as the first post. Since I have my vBulletin set so that guests cannot start threads (encourages registration and minimizes spam), this is a major problem.
3. The forum/subforum selection box isn't fully integrated into the Wordpress post creation page, which means it's difficult to make mobile-friendly. Not a big deal to most of you, likely, but a major deal to me.
4. The forum/subforum selection box doesn't save my selection. I.e. if an author chooses a subforum, and then my editor opens the post, that selection is lost, and the editor has to remember to reset it.
5. Unapproved comments show up on the Wordpress site when you've got your comments integrated.
6. With auto-integrate of users turned on, XMLRPC doesn't work, which is again a major ordeal for me.

I really wanted to use vBulletin as my comment engine, as it seems to offer everything I wanted for my community. However, this mod is a royal pain to deal with, and there's virtually zero support for it. I would be willing to donate $50-100 again, but only if *all* of these issues are fixed. I would bet that more people would donate, too, so that we could offer *someone* some real reimbursement.

At this point, I'm investigating converting my forum from vBulletin to phpBB, since that platform has multiple wordpress bridges, both of which are actually updated. That just sucks cause I bought a lifetime license for vBulletin, thinking it was the best. Either that, or I'll just run the forum as a standalone 'feature' of my site, and go back to using Wordpress' built-in comment system. Ugh.

As someone that moved from PHPBB to VB I don't think I'd ever do that just for the CMS in Wordpress. But that was a few years ago and maybe it's different now. Your mileage may vary.