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.

[DetroitYES]

Originally Posted by cs_angel

I don't know... I use both on the same database. And this works. Perhaps you test it on the same database. When you check the settings it should work. So test it when both (vb and wp) are on the same database.

greetz cs_angel

Thank you, this seemed to solved the problem...

Also, how are is everyone dealing with the layouts/themes in wordpress? Are you pulling from the vBulletin styles for overall consistency? Or do you just update the wordpress templates and the vbulletin templates individually whenever you need to change something?

[creativepart]

I update each separately. I don't change the Header and Footer all that often. Since my WP theme is fixed and my VB theme is fluid I don't see any way to combine the two automatically.

[DetroitYES]

okay, more trouble shooting, I setup vbridge, and got a successful test post.

Now, when i try to login to wordpress from wp/index.php , it directs me to the user CP of the account I login as (in vbulletin)... I cannot get to the back end of wordpress anymore, is something wrong?

How do i make posts to the blog?

I'm getting: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

[DetroitYES]

Originally Posted by histrung

I installed, test post, worked correctly. Turned bridge on and when I tried to access the wordpress admin account it told me I don't have access privileges. So I renamed the plug in via FTP, still no access, I deleted the plug in, still not access!

I cannot access my wordpress admin account. How do I gain access???

HELP!

This is the problem I'm having too...


Edit:

I just realized that I skipped the crucial step of assigning vb usergroups to wp usergroups. I'm almost certian that is what's causing the problem...

Edit 2:

I've been uploading/calling/deleting resetvbbridge.php in the root and various other sections of the wp folder, but I still can't login to my wordpress admin... suggestions?

What is the best way to uninstall/reinstall wordpress if i cannot access admin? If I delete all relevant files and reinstall fresh ones, will this clutter up my database? Ideally, I could reinstall without deleting the database (which would force me to reinstall vB)... I'm still in development thankfully, so I won't loose any real data regardless of what I do.

[DetroitYES]

Okay, problem solved. First, I went into mySQL database and dropped any tables with the wp prefix (i.e. wp-comments). Once those were cleared, I deleted the wordpress directory from the domain, re-uploaded, and reinstalled. Then added vbbridge. Make sure you map your users in the wordpress user settings before turning auto integrate on or it won't work... At the very least you need to map admin to admin so you can get into the wordpress admin cp and map other users later...

[DetroitYES]

Another note, as far as I can tell, your wordpress directory cannot be within the vBulletin directory for this mod to work. I was hoping to install wordpress under the vBulletin directory so that I could use some of my vBulletin templates in wordpress, no luck.

I tried altering the relative forum path in vbbridge settings to the following

../

../../mb

but unless i have it set as /mb i get an error when i go to the wp-admin dashboard that says:

cannot include /home/virtual/site63/fst/var/www/html/mb/wp/wp-admin/global.php. You should check your path! Turning Plugin Off

I guess this idea is a lost cause... WP works fine when installed in the VB directory, but vbbridge won't post the blog entries to the forum, I didn't bother turning the 'auto intergrate users' setting to on...

[jfu2465]

Hello,

I installed the plugin and it runs goot. But I have one problem:

The templat-Tags wp_list_authors or list_author don't work.

Is this a problem of the plugin or have I made a mistake?

What can I do?

Thanks
Joachim

[Fallback]

Im having the same issue with incorrect authors showing up on the wordpress blog. I switched from the old version of this plugin after recently upgrading the wordpress and vb versions. Not sure if that helps but im hoping for a fix to this author issue so I can re-enable this plugin.

[ashley76]

If only this would do the same as what this guy is using

http://www.genmay.com/frontpage/?p=vB818337

[JBMoney]

Can someone tell me exactly what fields this adds to the WP database so I can manually remove them, and then try to reinstall?

That reset file doesn't help out so well. I removed the files so I can get back into my admin, ran the reset, but re-uploading the files just locks me out again. Probably because of the fields in [wp_options] but I don't want to make guesses.