vBulletin Wordpress CMS Integration
 

When I was deciding which forum software I was going to support first for my initial software release at Raven Technologies, I came across two problems:

Wordpress forum support was poor and that vBulletin didn't have a Social Networking system like IPB, so I started writing and researching about these two issues. The result were two solutions that will be release as product and free limited versions.

I'm hoping to gain the support of the community and to be able to complete these 3 projects in due time, the first is a social network that will be easily integrated into your Wordpress CMS and the other two are plug-ins that will integrate your vBulletin board or IPB with Wordpress, now you have a world class CMS like Wordpress with Social Networking capabilities and the proven stability and flexibility of vBulletin and IPB.


Wordpress Social Network System, I will talk about this later on.

With Raven Technologies I want to create a one stop resource for forum integration with other CMS, please read on what I'm currently working on:


Wordpress and IPB/vBulletin User Database and Skin Integration Project
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is a free blogging system that be extended and used a full blown Content Management System.

vBulletin and IPB, together IPB/vBulletin and Wordpress can create beautiful websites that can be flexible, expandable and scalable.

This project is a product that is easy to install and easy to integrate, you will need to install Wordpress and install this product as a Wordpress plug-in.

Wordpress IPB/vBulletin integration plug-in features:

Entirely self-contained within a plug-in. It provides seamless integration with your existing theme with full theme customization, use of your existing WordPress users table, search, pretty permalinks, full moderator controls and RSS feeds for individual forums, topics and users.

• User Database Integration: Integrates existing accounts into Wordpress.
  
• Invidual Database Support: Wordpress and IPB/vBulletin DO NOT need to have the same databse for this plug-in to work.
  
• New Registration Integration: Wordpress will use IPB's/vBulletin's registration process to create new accounts for its blogging/cms.
• Skin Integration: Wordpress will insert header, footer and CSS templates into IPB's/vBulletin's header and footer bit template for full skin integration. A great example of this would be the following blog:http://www.newathens.org Note Wordpress site above.

Free version wil be limited database integration.

Currently in BETA TESTING, click here be a beta tester.

This sounds awesome! Thank you!

It will be a "ONE CLICK INTEGRATION" no more dealing with file edits, I will make it dummy proof.

wow that will be neat i'm currently using a hack that well work with vb and wordpress but my issue is the skin i had to find a skin that matches my board..

you can review it at smartphonejunkie.com

i'll be looking into this:up:

We are building 3 Wordpress themes and 3 matching vBulleting Web 2.0 skins, also there will be two ways to match your Wordpress to vBulletin's skin, one by an Iframe and the other by inserting Wordpress' header, CSS and footer into vBulletin's skin code. All in one click!

Hehe, I think most here are cool w/ editing files, it just takes time but is pretty darn easy.

But thanks for making it a one button mod, those are always really impressive.

I'm tired of editing files, I have spent 4 hours editing files just to get a forum running the way I want it to run and I think plug-ins could be made a lot easier if the modification coder spent a bit more time coding the modification so that the end user doesn't need to edit any files, and waste time.

Why did you edit the files? Do you mean edit the plugins?

For me this will be the ultimate system. How soon?:up:

2-3 weeks for the vBulletin integration.

You are reading our minds, we are building the ultimate system... after the vBulletin integration is finished we will move on and build the Wordpress Social Network plug-in.