Integration with vBulletin - Wordpress vBulletin integration

Integrate your vBulletin forum with Wordpress.

The lite version of this Wordpress vBulletin bridge allows your Wordpress posts to be posted to vBulletin.

This is a Wordpress plugin that facilitates this functionality. Just install it in your WP plugin folder and set up the path to your vBulletin installation. As long as the forum is on the same server, this works well.

No need to combine the databases. No need to modify core WP files.

It's that easy!

All of your Wordpress posts will be posted in your forum. You will designate a forum to take these posts. If you have sub forums that match the name of the category of the Wordpress post, this plugin will automatically put the post there.

The full version, available at wp-vb-bridge.obscurecloud.com// allows more functionality to fully integrate your Wordpress and vBulletin including:

Wordpress->vB features:

1. *Registration sync - new users created on WP are automatically created on vB
2. *New post sync - new WP posts are intelligently posted to the matching forum. There are some controls on which forum they are posted to.
   Options:
   - Posts can be attributed to the user posting or
   - All posts can be attributed to a designated user
3. *Comment sync - new comments made on WP are posted to the synced forum
4. *Login sync - when you login or logout of WP, the vB session is created or destroyed at the same time
5. *Avatar sync - vBulletin avatars are used on WP comments (requires user-photo WP plugin)
6. *No modification of core WP files!
7. *No modification of WP config file!
8. *100% plugin setting based - install the plugin, set your forum path, activate the features you want, enjoy!

vBulletin ->Wordpress features *NEW*

• *Registration sync - new users created on vB are automatically created on WP
• *New thread sync - new vB threads are intelligently posted to the matching WP category.
  Options:
  - Only post to designated category
  - Try to match forum name (or any of its parents) to a WP category then post to the designated category if no match is found.
  - Try to match forum name (or any of its parents) to a WP category then create a new WP category
• *Reply sync - replies made to synced threads will have replies posted to the matching WP post
• *Login sync - when you login or logout of vB, the WP session is created or destroyed at the same time
• *No modification of core vB files!
• *No modification of vB config file!
• *100% plugin based - this plugin will create the vB plugins needed through the WP plugin settings page!

This is still a work in progress so the code will be updated often.

Feel free to let me know how it works, additional features you'd like, and if you have any problems.

Here is a guide from a user:
Thanks a bunch for putting this together BAJR
Quick Guide.

First unpack the folder into plugins, where all the files and sub folders should reside in [wb-vb] folder.

now in Wordpress Plugins, activate the plugin and then go to Settings --> WP Vb integration


Essentials are as follows: (everything else you can play with!)


1) Path to vBulletin. / means the Vbulletin Forum is in your root folder. ie www.mysite.com/
/forum/ means the Vbulletin Forum is in a folder called forum. ie www.mysite.com/forum/
ALWAYS add the trailing /


2) Activate login sync feature [check box]


3) Activate post sync feature [check box]

4) Forum ID - this is the NUMBER of your desired linked forum ( sub forums are added from this) so look at your vbulletin URL

http://mysite.com/forumdisplay.php?6-The-Forum the ID would be 6


5) vBulletin user id to assign posts to - this is numerical as well. so ID number of who you want to add these too.



6) vBulletin -> Wordpress Settings

Add vBulletin plugins ... click add


7) go back up and click [TEST] - if all is well you should see... vB loaded Plugins - 1|1|1|1|1|1|1



8) SAVE CHANGES...

[dougdirac]

Back on topic:

What affect does this duplication of content have on SEO?

[ozzy47]

Perhaps this may help.

http://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content

[obscureclouddon]

Originally Posted by RobAC

I have a video web site that currently uses a crappy bridge between the video software and vBulletin.

I am seriously considering converting to WordPress with a video theme - and purchasing the professional version of this plugin.

However, I want to make sure that other folks here have this plugin and that it is working correctly with vBulletin 4.2.1 or 4.2.2 and at least PHP version 5.3.x.

Can anyone at least respond here and let me know that they have it up and running without any issues with the setup I listed above??

While it may not be as helpful coming from me, i would be happy to point you to some sites that are using my plugin. Aside from the stupid error that just popped up from a WP plugin update, you can also see it in action at its website.

Thanks.

[TheSSDReview]

The duplicate content was our concern as well and, in fact, has kept us from using this. To the author, if you could change the software so that it created a post in vBulletin using say, just the opening para from the main article, it would be much more acceptable to Google.

Our goal is to post articles from the main site and then to have people visit the forums for detailed conversation on the articles...

[akademikper]

Originally Posted by akademikper

Hi, thank you for plugin. But wordpress db set is utf-8, vbulletin db set is iso 8859-9 and some special characters corrupted when i post the article.

Any idea?

[Joe Blow]

Am very interested in this plugin as the vBulletin CMS is woeful.

I am primarily interested in integrating forum content into a Wordpress CMS.

Can you easily incorporate content such as forum login box, forum statistics, who's online, recently updated threads, new threads etc. into a Wordpress based CMS?

[obscureclouddon]

Originally Posted by TheSSDReview

The duplicate content was our concern as well and, in fact, has kept us from using this. To the author, if you could change the software so that it created a post in vBulletin using say, just the opening para from the main article, it would be much more acceptable to Google.

Our goal is to post articles from the main site and then to have people visit the forums for detailed conversation on the articles...

When I get some spare time, this will be the next feature i implement.

[obscureclouddon]

Originally Posted by akademikper

Any idea?

Have you tried changing the vb db to utf-8?

[obscureclouddon]

Originally Posted by Joe Blow

Am very interested in this plugin as the vBulletin CMS is woeful.

I am primarily interested in integrating forum content into a Wordpress CMS.

Can you easily incorporate content such as forum login box, forum statistics, who's online, recently updated threads, new threads etc. into a Wordpress based CMS?

This plugin does integrate forum content into Wordpress very well.

It does not have options for who's online and that stuff. There are other WP plugins that do that part.

[obscureclouddon]

Also, for not real good reason than I can, I've decided to take Bitcoin for the plugin