Wrapping vBulletin with Wordpress Header & Footer
 

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?

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.

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/1...-vbulletin-4-2

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/wordpr...ets-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?

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.