Integration with vBulletin - Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings

Identical to this Mod here, but now for the Vbulletin 3.8 line.

DOES NOT WORK FOR Vbulletin 4.x

This version probably no longer works for Wordpress 3.x. I have started developing this product over and have released the NEW version here:

http://www.lampwrights.com/showthread.php?t=41

This mod bridges your Vbulletin users over to Wordpress. You can also use Vbulletin as your comment engine instead of the spammy one built into Wordpress. You can display the comments inline in your post. You need not use the comment feature, if your only interested in sharing users.

You can map your Vbulletin Usergroups to Wordpress Usergroups and those users will then be recognized as registered Wordpress users.

For example, user "Joe" registers at your forum and logs in. Joe then clicks on your Wordpress page. Joe is instantly added to the Wordpress user base with the permissions you set for his usergroup. In otherwords, if a user comes over belonging to the "Registered User" group, you can select that he is placed in the Wordpress "Subscriber" usergroup.

If you change a users group from vbulletin, it will automatically change in Wordpress.

Requirements:

• DOES NOT and WILL NEVER support Wordpress MU.
• Wordpress and Vbulletin scripts must reside on the same physical server.
• Wordpress and Vbulletin must use the same domain name.
• Stable Wordpress Version greater than or equal to 2.7.
• DOES work for Vbulletin 3.7.
• Does work for vBulletin 3.8.

Limitations:

• Does not work for 4.x. Why? Because VB 4.x does not work for me. If they ever make that product worth a shit, I might support it.
• Please don't ask if it works for any BETA versions of Vbulletin. I do not know and will not convert this to the latest version of VB (whatever it is at the time you are reading this) until the version is released as non-beta.
• Does not work with XMLRPC.
• Chances are, this will not work when VB and Wordpress are located in different sub domains. I.E. forum.yoursite.com - blog.yoursite.com. Cookie issue.
• I did the best I could in determining your forums file path with the script. There may be certain script setups that cannot find the file path properly, in which case you may get errors that the script cannot find or open /config.php. If this is the case, please HARDCODE your ABSOLUTE path to the forum in vbridge.php.
  
  To do this find:
  
  

   ## If you are having path problems, uncomment this next variable and define the path
  ## NO TRAILING SLASH!
  # $vwd = '/some/path/to/your/forum';

  And uncomment the last line, and change the path to your forums path:
  
  

   ## If you are having path problems, uncomment this next variable and define the path
  ## NO TRAILING SLASH!
  $vwd = '/some/path/to/your/forum';

Common Mistakes When Installing:

• Using two different host names causes problems. If your forum URL contains www.yourdomain.com, then your wordpress blog URL MUST contain the www. part of www.yourdomain.com also. This goes for any other host name. Browsers are finnecky when it comes to cookies (as they should be).
• Editors generally EDIT, not write. In Wordpress, editors don't show up in the post author drop down. This has nothing to do with this plugin, that is Wordpress code.
• Make sure you DO NOT create a subdirectory for this plugin in the wp-content/plugins directory. Just upload it directly there..
• If you do not map users before you turn auto-integrate on, the plugin has no idea whether your allowed into the dashboard.
• If you all of a sudden can't login to the dashboard, see the above two common mistakes.
• FOLLOW the directions and make a test post first. Being in a rush and not testing will most likely turn out bad for you.

UPDATES:

Changelog is included in download, here is the most recent changes:

3/09/2009

• Added code to process scheduled posts
• Addressed code where links and images would not show up properly in VB
• Added new table called vb_forumid for scheduled posts
• Reduced redundant calls when dealing with forum excerpts

Sites Using This Plug-In:

• http://www.jeffsrecipes.com
• http://www.xboxcircle.com
• http://www.detailuniversity.com
• http://www.zeropaid.com
• http://www.daggersden.net/
• http://www.talkbronx.com/
• http://www.czeta.it
• http://www.boonvilleforum.com

(PM me if you want to add your site here)

Special Thanks:

axisoverdrive - Debugging Help, Kyraal - Paypal Donation, Kalina - Paypal Donation, Wildcard27 - Paypal Donation, Shri - Paypal Donation, pspcrazy - Paypal Donation, Tomahoochi - Paypal Donation.

If you use this plug-in, and find it useful, please support us by nominating us for Mod Of The Month (MOTM) in the top right corner of this thread, or feel free to donate.

If you do install:

Please Click Install

Brought To You By: Lampwrights.com.

[Dr Longhorn]

Hi all

My question is what are the advantages and disadvantages of using vbulletin as my comment engine, instead of the “spammy” one built into word press. Also will it make any difference from an SEO point of view.

Thanks

[rcadden]

Originally Posted by Dr Longhorn

Hi all

My question is what are the advantages and disadvantages of using vbulletin as my comment engine, instead of the ?spammy? one built into word press. Also will it make any difference from an SEO point of view.

Thanks

The main disadvantage is that this plugin is your only option. While it works decently, and I'm certainly not trying to whine (obviously he does this for free), it *is* a disadvantage that this is the only real option for bridging the two.

For advantages, here's how I see it:

1. Using vBulletin, I've enabled my readers to have ongoing conversations with one another, NOT stemming from a post. This enables and encourages a bigger community, as users can pose their own questions.
2. Using vBulletin, I've basically created a socially acceptable duplicate of my content (the wordpress post, which is married to another page that contains the thread). This means my traffic is effectively doubled, and I have a whole new inventory of ad space to sell. That's good for me.

To be clear, though, before integrating vBulletin, I didn't offer readers any 'account' in my wordpress install. The only users I had were me and 2 other authors, plus a few test accounts. I also run it currently with integration turned off. There's no reason for readers to have access to the wordpress backend, in any way/shape/form.

You can check out my integration at http://www.symbian-guru.com.

I'm currently also struggling with the userid matching issue. However, if you have auto-integrate disabled, everything works, but authors are shown correctly (according to the person who clicked the publish button, though, not necessarily the author of the post).

[KevinL]

@rcadden I like how you have set that up. It look nice. But doing it this way, wouldn't this give you duplicate content? What I am saying search engines would look at your site and you have the same content in WP as you do in your forums. I've always read that this is bad for SEO?

[AzzX]

Originally Posted by KevinL

@rcadden I like how you have set that up. It look nice. But doing it this way, wouldn't this give you duplicate content? What I am saying search engines would look at your site and you have the same content in WP as you do in your forums. I've always read that this is bad for SEO?

It is on the same domain so apparently not an issue. Symbian Guru (great site!) has a pagerank of 5

[MadsK]

I just switched host and upgraded everything and now i'm trying to install this bridge from a fresh WP and vB installation.

I'm getting this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin() (previously declared in /home/swtorco1/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php:166) in /home/swtorco1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php on line 33

[star88]

Installed
Great work Jafo, thank you

[lynch23]

Originally Posted by lynch23

hey, i figured out a problem there.

i just want to use this hack to identify my vbulletin users in wordpress. this works fine, but behind every username in the comments there stands "(author")

i tried everything in the Vbridge User Settings, but nothing will change it.

here are 2 screens:





thanks for any help!

anyone an idea?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by lynch23

anyone an idea?

change mapping....... all those of contributors to "Subscribers"

Contributors are authors!

[desi-boy]

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/dpakcocc/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 40

??? can u tell me about this one ???
thnxxx

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

sorry for being the n00b... but I couldn't get past the part testing wp to post in vb:

Warning:  require_once(./includes/class_dm.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/*****/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

Fatal error:  require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/class_dm.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /home/*****/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

the files ARE there. don't know when its not able to open them