i've got a huge vbulletin user database: Threads: 120,188, Posts: 2,187,280, Members: 15,743, Active Members: 5,583

want to start up a frontend using wordpress -- is this a good solution?

would i just install wordpress, then this plugin?

Installed simple and easy.

However posts in WP have no avatars. So, when going to the WP profile section and trying to setup the profile info, it just redirects me to the VB board login screen.

How can I get avatars to show up, or allow users to set up their profiles on WP?

I keep getting 'You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.' error

Please help!

Same bug here!.

A.

i also have same problem

Do de dum.

*waiting on support*

First, let me say this mod is awesome! I'm so appreciative of all the hard work!

The problem I'm having I saw reported previously but it was dismissed, I think mistakenly. Or I'm just not understanding something.

To which Jafo responded:

I am having the same problem as remotay. But it's not "random," of course. Recently "imported" vB users are showing up in place of WP users with the same ID#. As soon as I "auto-interate" -- even while everything seems to be working fine... -- my the_author() values become vBulletin impostors!

I have replaced my the_author() calls with the recommended code from the readme, but that doesn't make any difference. The problem appears to be that WP is drawing user values from the wrong table!

Now, I *know* I'm missing something obvious, but it's 6:46am and I just can't figure this out. Help would be greatly appreciated...

İnstalled ...

See if this post helps

I keep getting

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

Even on a fresh wp + vb install

Please advise

Is there any way to import already registered Wordpress users into vB?

How about a solution already?

I've got a newly installed wordPress v2.7.1 site and a newly purchased 3.8.1 vBulletin board I'm trying to integrate. Per the instructions I do the following:

1. Create a new VB User ID: 6
2. Create a new user for the VB Username: mypublicuser
3. Create a new forum and add it to VB Forum ID: 8
4. Add the Forum URL: http://mysite.com/vb
5. Add the Forum Relative Path: /vb
6. Add the Database Prefix: vb_
7. Answer Yes to Forum use UNICODE (UTF-8)
8. Select Yes to the "Post Articles To Forum" option
9. Clicked Submit and successfully create a new Post in the forum.
10. I then mapped my VBUsers accordingly:

Unregistered / Not Logged In Do Not Map
Users Awaiting Email Confirm Subscriber
Super Moderators Editor
Moderators Author
Registered Users Subscriber
(COPPA) Users Awaiting Mod. Subscriber
Administrators Administrator
Banned Users Do Not Map

11. Mapped users Saved!
12. Turn Auto-Integrate on. Saved!

Attempt to log in and am no longer unable to as none of my WordPress accounts work. So before proceeding to "delete or rename the vbbridge.php file and that will deactivate the plugin" I figured I'd check here to see if this is still necessary. What do I do afterwards? Do I start over or is there a fix? :erm:
I am able to log into vBulletin with my admin account but I'm unsure of how to access WordPress from here. Did I miss something in the instructions?

Any responses appreciated.

@ getfitatl: Log in with you vb admin in wp-admin :)

That's how it works for me too. Once I configure per the instructions, the current logged in vbuser is the one that comes up automatically logged into wordpress. I think that's how it was designed to work.

I may be wrong but I don't think the bridge works that way. My experience is that it goes from vb to wp and not the opposite way. I think that's a different integration that hasn't been done that I know.

Anybody have a guess why wordpress is stripping backslashes out of the document? Randomly, I just noticed that when I publish, the backslashes in the "path" examples I am using are all stripped out. I doubt that its the bridge but have no idea now?

Ok so where do I go from there? It's like going in through the back door but not being able to see through the house. How do I get access to WordPress? All I see is the board which isn't integrated into WordPress yet. From reading through the previous post the script doesn't integrate so as of right now a user doesn't see the pages or the rest of the site. Do I remove the Register option from the front page and have users register through vBulletin? If so how do they access the rest of the site? I wasn't able to log in with my existing WordPress accounts is that because they didn't exist in vBulletin? Is this "common knowledge? If so where's the documentation covering this so that I can read through it?

So as it stands right now I should:

Perform the integration again, or rename the vbbridge file back to what it is.
Once I do this check to make sure that the vBulletin account is logged in to the board.
???

Any responses appreciated.

A silly question, perhaps, but does WP have to be installed into the same database as vb - or can it use seperates?

I don't think they share databases; at least that's what I experienced when I performed my installs:
1. I installed Wordpress first into it's own database.
2. Installed vBulletin into it's own database.
3. Uploaded the integration files and configured them per the instructions.

gl:up:

Thank you kindly... I shall now, move on & try this out :)

You log into wordpress using your vbulletin admin users. If you are an admin in vb, login to your forum and simply got to your Wordpress admin area - example: www.yourdomain/wp-admin

Your existing Wordpress users will be disabled whilst the bridge is active.

Actually, I don't think its a silly question at all. I have using this bridge product for a long time and while I can't find a specific requirement that WP and vB be in the same database, that is how I have always run them. All the "integration" that I have ever worked with in other products had all the integrated products installed in the same database. So, I just naturally install them together, kind of autopilot I guess. HTH.

No you don't I run them with different databases

I understand, but like I said, I am on autopilot about doing integrations. I just see it as an unnecessary complication to run them in separate databases though I wholeheartedly agree that you don't need to run them together.

I am very happy with it but I have one issue that is happening with it. It is the photo/database load function in wordpress.

Unfortunately this is crippling for me as I really really like the bridge and otherwise it works excellently/perfectly.

Any thoughts appreciated. I read through but didn't see if or where this was addressed other than other people reporting the same problem. Thanks! Andre

Hi all, I have been working on this when I get a spare few minutes during the week. I hope to release an update this weekend to address all the current issues..

Hi. If you're running this plugin on your site, could you please give us a link to show what it looks like?

The demos in the OP's message show a toned down version of the comments. Seems like the ability to thread and reply comments are gone.
Thanks

I have the same problem. When the bridge is active, I can't upload any images to my posts. Also, the "Feature Content Gallery"-plugin doesn't work with Firefox when the bridge is active. I guess it also clashes with the photo load function. I really hope there is a solution coming for this, because I really love the bridge otherwise!

I'm running this on my site http://collectorsedition.org... actually I'm running the version for 3.7 and I'm debating whether I should upgrade or not.

I found some bugs in the old pluging that were causing things to not work right, I fixed them and then other aspects of the plugin that were dormant because of the errors now started firing and THEY had some errors... I eventually sat down and went through line by line fixing all the syntax errors I found and everything works great...

I even added a few features that I wanted that weren't included (like support for PAGES as well as posts)

there is one issue I have though and if this is fixed in the new version then It will be worth it for me to upgrade.

if I publish a post in WP it creates a post in vB just fine... everything as desired...

HOWEVER if I edit that post again in WP and re-save it... it will update the vB post BUT it will break all of the image URLS going from proper urls like: "http://mysite.com/uploads/2009/03/imagefile.jpg" and replacing them all with: "http://mysite.com/wp-admin/" it does this for all images... and it has done this before I even modified a single line of code in the plugin so I know it's nothing I changed...

This is quite annoying since I post a lot of pictures (most of my posts are a few lines of text followed by 20 or so pictures)... so if I go back to fix a minor typo I have to edit the vB post and fix all of the image links...

Is this fixed in the new version?

I'm using the previous version because of the bugs in the new one. However, I realized that members in my "registered users" usergroup are able to access my Wordpress Dashboard! They are properly mapped and should not be able to do this. Does the problem exist in the new version?

I'm using the Mimbo Pro theme on my wordpress site (http://b-roll.net) and when I install this plugin, it breaks the theme. The front page displays to a certain point on the page and then stops. All other pages display fine.

In my brief experiment, the plug-in seemed to work properly... other than breaking the them.

Has anyone had this issue? Is there a modification I can make to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance...

kev

I'm sorry I'm so new to this, I have a blog www.comeboca.com and i want to install a vbulletin forum on a separate page....i bought the licence for vbulletin but i havent installed it yet because i dont know if it'll interfere with my wordpress blog....can someone please explain to me how to go about installing vbulletin into a separate page(tab) on my blog... like: Home | vbulletin forum | contact | site map etc

You would just install vb into a seperate directory like "forums" and link to it via a wordpress page or category. Like the community menu I have on www.ozsource.org.

Ok so I rename the file back to vbbridge.php, log in to the vBulletin admin panel as an admin, open another browser and navigate to http://mysite.com/wp-admin which takes me to the Wordpress Dashboard. Now I'm dizzy with confusion. From this point how do I, or my users, access Wordpress? I hear you when you say that existing WordPress users don't get used but what about the rest of the site? I'm guessing it's made available to my vB users via the integration instead? If so then are they logged in to WordPress the same as I am? If so am I suppose to create a link to their WordPress profile or do they now use their vB profile? Is there a separate hack or mod that allows vB to sit within the WordPress header and footer or does it have to appears as a link off the front page?
Is there another round of documentation on this so that I don't feel like I'm asking "simple" questions?

Any responses appreciated.

Nice site AzzX and it looks as though you have it sitting between the header and footer? If you link it as a page is there piece of code to add it like you'd do say the WordPress event calendar, [wpcalendar]? If not then how do you add this to the page?

Any responses appreciated

I have updated this version to address the following issues:

* Fixed issue where media manager would break

* Fixed issue were users would not have certain capabilities

* Addressed issue where slashes would be in the title in the VB forum

I think its not the "dashboard" you think it is if you are thinking that its that admin dashboard. I check this the other day and its the members WP account not the admin.

Hi Jafo232 Thanks for another update, i keep checking every few days as i'm really depented on your plugin :)

I got this issue were users who add / edit new posts to my site sometimes get database errors and i also keep getting emails like this:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM user WHERE userid = '1';

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Friday, March 6th 2009 @ 08:41:32 PM
Error Date : Friday, March 6th 2009 @ 08:41:50 PM
Script : http://www.****.com/search/anime Episode 1 english dubbed
Referrer : http://www.*****.com/
IP Address : 69.120.152.47
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :



SELECT * FROM user WHERE userid = '1';
this line keeps randomly changing the userid between the users who has editor access.

I still didnt apply the latest update, and i also run VB 3.7 do you think i should upgrade to 3.8 ?