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.

[edenx]

How can I show the VB userbar inside WP ?

[fmckinnon]

Has anyone else had trouble with the plugin turning itself OFF, randomly? I've not touched the settings, and on 2 occassions now over the last couple of weeks, we've got to write posts, and noticed the forum menus aren't listed at the bottom of the page, and an attempt to save a draft gives errors ... we go into Settings, and the plugin is turned off ... but I didn't turn it off.

Odd.

Are we assuming the original developer has ceased support - nobody has heard from them in a long time, right?

[Reeve of shinra]

Forgive me is this was already addressed and I missed it but --

If I hid / removed the comments from the wordpress side -- can I have the bridge post a link to the thread it created on the forums?

[belindazhu]

Originally Posted by AzzX

I just noticed I have lost the Visual editor in Wordpress with the plugin enabled, disabling the plugin it comes back. See attached image.
I have tried disabling all my other plugins to find a conflict but couldn't find an issue.

The user list in Wordpress shows up as blank invalid users though the bridge is working fine using a vb admin. Is this OK?

Thanks.

I met the same problem with you, the visual editor couldn't show well.
My version is 3.8.3.

So, how you resoved it?

[belindazhu]

Originally Posted by laztrix

That was the same deal with my installation.Another user did report the same issue.
I think that wouldn't be a coincidence.

Originally Posted by WorkerB

Oops - I also forgot to mention that on my Wordpress WYSIWYG editor, I've lost the ability to flip between Visual and HTML. All of the other editor docks that are typically rolled up are expanded as well... anyone else seeing this?

Originally Posted by laztrix

I have silimar issues witht the visual editor.

Also I had to deactivate the plugin - like it say in the readme file! - because when I did activate the plugin the pages went blank.

This time I can not active it either because as soon as I activate it it happens again!

I searched for tables in the database found one in the user table but it was helpless....

Originally Posted by laztrix

I was be able to bridge wordpress with vbulletin but there are some problems:

1. When I turn the automatic integration on, the Visual Editor ( WSIWYG ) disappear! Altought before everything was fine...

2. I'm using a translated version of Wordpress ( Turkish Language ) and some of the special character like ( ş,ğ,?,ı ) are not shown properly.

3.Does not the bridge work with productive websites which had post, users, comments, categories before ?

For example : 500 post, 300 comments , 2000 users, 20 categories

When I try to activate wordpress with a productive website the pages goes blank. Netiher the admin panel is reacheable nor other pages...

Does it always have to be a clean installation ?

So many questions have been posted but the plugins author has not shown up yet!

I hope that he will give us feedback with all the issues that we reported volunteerly...

Originally Posted by Jafo232

By the way everyone, I am basically working on this today/tonight on my day off. Here is what I have fixed so far (have NOT uploaded yet):

• Fixed issue where rich text editor was not being displayed
• Fixed issue where permalinks were not working properly
• Fixed issue where paragraphs where not converting
• Added reset script so admin can turn off integration if locked out
• Made the user interface a bit more understandable, meaning, your off to the VB admincp when adding/editing/viewing users

As for those of you out there who already have a substantial WP userbase and want to convert them to VB. That is not what this plugin does, sorry.

No, nonononononono,
nonono,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still this problem.
Mine is 2.8 and 3.8.3
What is wrong????????????????
Reply me pls.

[Tickhi]

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read() on a non-object in /home/forumzed/public_html/portal/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 475

[belindazhu]

oh, this hack is tooooooooooo bad.. so many problems and fatal error met when installing.
Cost my too much time.

[creativepart]

I'm using this Mod with WP 2.8 (and I did the upgrade with this mod and integration turned on). It worked perfectly at install -- mostly. So, those of you getting install problems I can only assume are not correctly following the directions.

There are many implications to this mod that are difficult to anticipate until you start using it in testing.

My only continuing problem is the "Author" problem. WP expects the Admin account to be #1. But, my VB Admin account is userID=3 and there is no userID=1 in my vB. So, much of the time the "Author" is shown as blank. Well, it shows blank, but it actually has userID=1 in the post, but since there is no #1 it is blank.

If I click on Publish in the QuickEdit section of WP. It will put my correct user ID on my posts. However, if someone else has written the post it also changes the author to me when I publish the post. That's not good. It shows me as the author of everything.

I gave up on trying to get Avatars and such from VB into posts here. I never could get that to work.

I've had some problems with the media upload, but by using the browser upload instead of the Flash upload all is fine.

When setting it up I knew I wouldn't be using the post back to VB option, but I still set it up to do that as per the install instructions and then I just turned that feature off after I was sure it was working.

I posted to let folks know that it does work. And works pretty well. So, keep working on it. It would be great if someone adopted this mod, and took over working on it for the future. WP is too important to VB at this point and time and the two need to REALLY work together.

[rcadden]

I'm to the point where I'm going to just disconnect the forum and blog, almost. Here's my current issues:

1. As mentioned above, whoever live-publishes a post, that person shows as the author (in vBulletin only), not the true author. I have 3 writers, only 2 of which can publish posts, so this is a problem.
2. Scheduled posts now correctly show the author, sort of. When viewing the thread in the forum, it shows MainPage (or whatever I have in the first two setting fields), and registers as a guest. However, when you open the thread, it shows the correct author as the first post. Since I have my vBulletin set so that guests cannot start threads (encourages registration and minimizes spam), this is a major problem.
3. The forum/subforum selection box isn't fully integrated into the Wordpress post creation page, which means it's difficult to make mobile-friendly. Not a big deal to most of you, likely, but a major deal to me.
4. The forum/subforum selection box doesn't save my selection. I.e. if an author chooses a subforum, and then my editor opens the post, that selection is lost, and the editor has to remember to reset it.
5. Unapproved comments show up on the Wordpress site when you've got your comments integrated.
6. With auto-integrate of users turned on, XMLRPC doesn't work, which is again a major ordeal for me.

I really wanted to use vBulletin as my comment engine, as it seems to offer everything I wanted for my community. However, this mod is a royal pain to deal with, and there's virtually zero support for it. I would be willing to donate $50-100 again, but only if *all* of these issues are fixed. I would bet that more people would donate, too, so that we could offer *someone* some real reimbursement.

At this point, I'm investigating converting my forum from vBulletin to phpBB, since that platform has multiple wordpress bridges, both of which are actually updated. That just sucks cause I bought a lifetime license for vBulletin, thinking it was the best. Either that, or I'll just run the forum as a standalone 'feature' of my site, and go back to using Wordpress' built-in comment system. Ugh.

[creativepart]

Originally Posted by rcadden

At this point, I'm investigating converting my forum from vBulletin to phpBB, since that platform has multiple wordpress bridges, both of which are actually updated.

As someone that moved from PHPBB to VB I don't think I'd ever do that just for the CMS in Wordpress. But that was a few years ago and maybe it's different now. Your mileage may vary.