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.

[Shadawg]

I have installed this into WP 3.0.3 and VB vBulletin 4.1.0 Patch Level 2 and am having a strange problem. Posts are going over but new user registration in WP is not. Also for some reason the side bar content is now blank. We had several side items that disappear when the bridge is active and if i turn it off or deactivate it the content reappears. I would appreciate it if anyone has had this problem or knows where to start looking to let me know.

Thanks

[jacobomoya]

Originally Posted by Shadawg

Posts are going over but new user registration in WP is not.

The WP user system is completely disabled with this plugin, it uses VBulletin's users and user registration.

Originally Posted by Shadawg

We had several side items that disappear when the bridge is active and if i turn it off or deactivate it the content reappears.

Sounds like you're not mapping users properly and those side items disappear because your usergroup doesn't have the required permissions to use them.

[Shadawg]

I tried setting all users to administrators on the vb map users page and the sidebar content still gets knocked out. Also i don't see anything that is saying that sidebar items have user permissions. Is there someplace specific to look for that?

If anyone would like to take a look at my development site email me at jcollins@collinssolutions.com and i can give you a temp account.

[Shadawg]

Also i am to the point where i am willing to pay someone to get it working.

[Deimos]

Originally Posted by Rohan95

I'm having a bit of a trouble in using vBulletin for comments. I can't seem to find the comments.php file. Where is the file located?

I found the comments file in the wordpress-3.0.3\wordpress\wp-includes\theme-compat

Directory, but, it doesn't match the bits you need to edit (Only the first 2 sections match)

So when a user replies to a post on the WP site, it doesn't add it to the Forum post

Like wise, comments in the threads, don't get posted on WP.

[MumDadBaby]

Has anyone heard anything from the developer?

[MumDadBaby]

I've tried to contact the developer here, and also at his own website. It would appear that this plugin has been abandoned.

[Shadawg]

we managed to figure out one problem is that the addon gets confused on where to pull information from. Its looking for wp tables in the vb database.

[Deimos]

Oops, that can't be good hehe

[John Stone]

I had this pretty much working, but ran into some issues (I won't rehash them, as they've all been mentioned in this thread). After about 2 days, I had to abandon the effort.

It's a shame there is not a more simple WP/vB user sharing project available. There seems to be no way to simply allow my vB users to comment on WP posts without creating a separate WP account.