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.

[caracena]

Originally Posted by kersti

If the thread is going to it's own forum then you can set those to be closed in the forum setup. I don;t think you can do it on a thread by thread basis

Hmm you are right. I didn't think of this. Thanks a lot

[euantor]

This doesn't seem to work with the latest wordpress? It's trying to find global.php, but wordpress comes with no such file... Here is what I get:

cannot include /home/sites/360elites.net/public_html/sample/global.php. You should check your path! Turning Plugin Off

[caracena]

Originally Posted by euantor

This doesn't seem to work with the latest wordpress? It's trying to find global.php, but wordpress comes with no such file... Here is what I get:

cannot include /home/sites/360elites.net/public_html/sample/global.php. You should check your path! Turning Plugin Off

Hmm I'm using WP 2.9.1 and it runs smooth with it. If yours it's a fresh install, delete everything and start over even from the WP installation. If you follow the steps inside the readme file that goes with the files for the script, you should have no problems at all.

[Radjedef]

Thanks! WP 2.9.1, works fine.

There is just one problem with german chars. Instead of "ü", "ö" or "ä" there is something different. The UTF-8 option is turned on.

Any ideas?

[Quantnet]

I wonder if anyone get the avatar to work if they move avatar to file system instead of the default database.

[Radjedef]

Originally Posted by Radjedef

Thanks! WP 2.9.1, works fine.

There is just one problem with german chars. Instead of "?", "?" or "?" there is something different. The UTF-8 option is turned on.

Any ideas?

Problem fixed
vBulletin was ISO instead of UTF-8.

If you have char problems, try this:http://www.vcharset.com/

Thx for the plugin, love it

[caracena]

Hi all,

Has anyone been able to pull vBulletin stats into WP? I would love to have a little widget in WP with:

Registered Users
Total Threads
Total Posts

Thanks!

[Radjedef]

*uninstalled*

Too much bugs with nextgen gallery. Fix it and I will install it again.

[Gandham]

My posts are without author.
I disabled vbbridge and added new admin account and set the account from which I made the posts to author. Still i my posts are without author.
Also my gravatar is missing in comments
Does this plugin make modifications to core wp-functions like get_author??

[lycheepassion]

So does this link the blog to the forum better? WP is on the root then forum is /forum.. RIght now I just have a page redirect to the forum, probably not the best.. Will this help me?