[EJRaven]

A new commercial plug-in is in the works for this issue.

Wordpress and 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 is the leading forum software on the internet. Together vB 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 and 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 vB DO NOT need to have the same databse for this plug-in to work.
• * New Registration Integration: Wordpress will use vB's registration process to create new accounts for its blogging/cms.
• * Skin Integration: Wordpress will insert header, footer and CSS templates into vB'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.

More information will be posted here and at:

http://www.invisionplanet.com