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.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by PlayersBay

I have tons of error messages when I turn the plugin on.

All I did was the following:
1. FTP the documents to the wordpress plugins folder (not in a subdirectory, straight in that folder, as told in the read me).
2. Turn on plugin

The plugin doesn't seem to know which databases to use for WP and which for Vb my developer says.

I haven't read the entire thread but I somewhere read that you need to tell it (somehow) how user levels correspond in WP and Vb. I am not sure this is before turning the plugin on or before turning auto-integrate on.

Is there someone here who I can pay a small fee to look into the problem?

Check PM.

Originally Posted by rrudeboy

would it be overkill to install thus purely to have it post your WP blog articles to a vBulletin forum ?

Nope, you can do that.

[PlayersBay]

Originally Posted by PlayersBay

I have tons of error messages when I turn the plugin on.

All I did was the following:
1. FTP the documents to the wordpress plugins folder (not in a subdirectory, straight in that folder, as told in the read me).
2. Turn on plugin

The plugin doesn't seem to know which databases to use for WP and which for Vb my developer says.

I haven't read the entire thread but I somewhere read that you need to tell it (somehow) how user levels correspond in WP and Vb. I am not sure this is before turning the plugin on or before turning auto-integrate on.

Is there someone here who I can pay a small fee to look into the problem?

FYI my problems are solved now thanks to the help of user Amjadz4.

Can recommend him! I had a plethora of WP plugins installed and he indicated where the conflicts where, how to substitute the plugins or to correct the errors, and also gave the solution on how to set up the databases correctly. All of this at a fair fixed price!

Will definately use him again.

Edit: Also a huge thanks to the makers of this fantastic plugin!

[ALBCODERS]

I have deleted it from ftp because did not function on my Site.I'm using vbulletin 3.8.4 and wordpress 2.8.3 on www.albcoders.com but today when I woke up I tried to open my Site and I saw that categories were deleted.
Now can you help me? where is the Problem I cant read any post ,when I click on posts I take 404 error .
And when I want to enter in wp-admin I see this text ;
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

[wicked80]

Originally Posted by AlbCoder

I have deleted it from ftp because did not function on my Site.I'm using vbulletin 3.8.4 and wordpress 2.8.3 on www.albcoders.com but today when I woke up I tried to open my Site and I saw that categories were deleted.
Now can you help me? where is the Problem I cant read any post ,when I click on posts I take 404 error .
And when I want to enter in wp-admin I see this text ;
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

I am successfully using it with VB3.8.4 with WP 2.8.4, and it works for sure

Regarding your login to wp-admin, you can remove the plugins folder and it should allow you to login i guess .because it would deactivate this plugin or the hardway would be to directly go into wp-options and disabling the plugins..

[ALBCODERS]

Yes I understand you.But I can not enter in wp-admin and I cant modify nothing.I removed this plugin with filezilla.Because I had path error and I couldn't move.But I cant Understand Why the categories are removed.My categories that I had yesterday now do not egsist.Because of that the links of Posts do not function ,I take 404 error.I need to do something.My Site does not function you will see if you click on a post. its like this >

[Scooty]

Let me start by saying this is a cool mod and amjadz4 is a great person to work with. I recently changed my hosting account from shared to VPS now the plugin is making site blank and I don't know why.

Same host, simply just upgraded my account to VPS, all login info the same. Any suggestions?

[ghealy44]

can someone please help me out?

this mod generally seems broken to me as I followed the instructions perfectly yet there are massive errors.

here is the one I currently have: Warning: require_once(/home/content/g/h/e/ghealy44/html/forums/includes/functions_misc.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/g/h/e/ghealy44/html/twitchthesticks/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 702

when I click on any link after turning this plug in "on" this is what i get:

cannot include /home/content/g/h/e/ghealy44/html/forums/global.php. You should check your path! Turning Plugin Off

any help would be greatly appriciated, I currently have no idea where to even start in fixing this mess.

[ghealy44]

Anyone have any ideas that can help me?

[rob01]

can we use diferente databese names?

[ghealy44]

does anyone have any other sites that may offer support?

I hate to come off as a whiney dude, but Ive been sitting here yesterday stuck with this thing. I bought this forum specifically for this plug in and its not working and I have gotten no suport with it.

please, anyone.

Latest error: Call to a member function query_read() on a non-object in /home/content/g/h/e/ghealy44/html/twitchthesticks/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 475

this is on my add new post wordpress page at the bottom also:

Warning: require_once( /home/content/g/h/e/ghealy44/html/twitchthesticks/forums /includes/functions_misc.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/g/h/e/ghealy44/html/twitchthesticks/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 702