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Originally Posted by ihstiv

Can someone help me understand exactly how the 'vBSSO Access Settings ' options should be configured just to sync vbulletin 'registered user' and WP 'subscriber' ? My goal is to allow my logged in VB 'registered users' to comment on my WP posts and have their VB username and avatar appear next to the WP post comment.

Currently, I have success with connecting my VB 4.2 and WP 3.5, but when I navigate from VB to WP it does not show me as a logged in user in the WP post comment form unless I manually log in via the vbsso login form WP widget. Then it does show me as logged in in the comment form as desired.

Here are the 3 fields - I'm too dense to figure out exactly what they mean w/o an example:

Allowed User Groups
User groups having access to any platform (separated by comma)

Allowed WordPress User Groups
User groups having access to WordPress platform (separated by comma)

Associated WordPress User Groups
User groups associating visitors from WordPress platform (separated by comma)

Thanks!

Update: shortly after posting the above I logged in with the vbsso WP widget, and then logged out w/ the VB logout link and noticed that it also logged me out of WP, then I logged in again w/ the VB login and it also logged me into WP as desired. This was after I cleared everything from all of the 'access settings' fields and just left them blank. So I learned that by leaving all 3 fields blank, a VB registered user becomes a WP subscriber by default.

When I log in as VB admin, my WP role is also 'Subscriber' by default, so now I just need to know how to set it up to sync VB administrator as WP administrator...?

i tried adding Administrator and Administrators to all 3 fields in all possible combos to no avail. maybe I'm not supposed to be able to get in to WP admin w/ VB admin role?

Thanks

Sure. What you are looking is already ready and working out of the box. You just need to install plugins for vBulletin and WordPress and connect WordPress from vBulletin. The options to show username and avatar are available at WordPress vBSSO Settings.

Sounds good that you have a chance to log in to WordPres from vBulletin and vice versa. The "Allowed XXX User Groups" means that all the users added to the vBulletin usersgroup are able to log in to XXX, otherwise it doesn't log them in to XXX. It's so useful if you want to restrict access to WordPress for some usergroups.

"Associated XXX User Groups" means that users registered on your forum from XXX automatically assigned to the connected usergroups.

Currently vBSSO doesn't sync roles, however we have received enough requests to support this feature and it's going to be implemented and received next year.