Integration with vBulletin - WP Integrate - Send vbulletin posts to wordpress

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This plugin makes it possible to send your forum posts to wordpress and automatically post them there. Its perfect for posting news etc.

It works together with Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge. But its not needed. You can use this mod without it.

Installation:
1. Upload the included folder (wp-includes) in the root of your wordpress installation.
2. Then import product-postwordpress_(versionnumber).xml in products at vbulletin.
3. Change the settings at Vbulletin Options

3.1 Since version 1.0 of this plugin the values of "Wordpress Categories" and "Vbulletin Forums" are linked together. This means value 1 of Vbulletin Forums post to value 1 of Wordpress Categories.

So if:
Vbulletin Forums = 1,2,4,4
Wordpress Categories = 11,12,13,14

Forum 1 posts to WP category 11
Forum 2 posts to WP category 12
Forum 4 posts to WP category 13 and 14

So if you want to post multiple categories you have to set them independently for every wordpress category


Upgrade:
1. Uninstall the previous version.
2. Then import product-postwordpress_(versionnumber).xml in products at vbulletin.
3. Change the settings at Vbulletin Options
4. Overwrite the files in the wordpress root.

Troubleshooting:
For wordpress 2.8 users
for the people having troubles install your original formating.php
then open the file and search for:

function sanitize_url

and change it into:

function wp_sanitize_url

If you can't find it you don't have to change it. This should do the trick.


Requirements:
* 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 2.7.1 (didn't test with 2.7.0 or lower)
* DOES work for Vbulletin 3.8. (not tested with 3.7. or lower)

Limitations:
* Posts won't get deleted in wordpress when you delete them in vbulletin.
* Posts won't get edited in wordpress when you edit them in vbulletin.
* You need the have the charset synced between vbulletin and wordpress.


Updates:
Changelog is included in download, here is the most recent changes:

10/19/2010 - Version 1.3
* Update for wordpress 3.0.1

6/23/2009 - Version 1.2
* Update for wordpress 2.8

5/11/2009 - Version 1.2
* Attachment Support Added. (It will post the link to the attachment)

5/5/2009 - Version 1.1
* Fix for the 'sanitize_url' error that people had when posting comments with the Wordpress comment system.

5/4/2009 - Version 1.0
* You can select Multiple WP Categories for every forum. This is a quite difference with how it was working before. So please read the installation howto above!!!

4/8/2009 - Version 0.4
* Complete Support for WP/vBulletin bridge added.
* Changed to Stable release.

3/27/2009 - Version 0.3
* Support for multiple forum categories added.
* Support for multiple wordpress categories added

3/4/2009 - Version 0.2
* Added BB tags support.

3/4/2009 - Version 0.1
* First released version (alpha)


Special Thanks:
Pirat3

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:

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[dancue]

Will a REPLY in the forum post to the blog?

Also, I'm having an issue with the forum post not submitting the entire post to the blog. Why is that? I'm only getting about 40-60 words.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[cooltechie]

By using this plugin, wouldn't it be flagged as double posting or duplicate content by search engines?

[robertjandreu]

well it works as a news post plugin. I'm not sure about google. And danque I will look into the 40 - 60 word error.

[robertjandreu]

Skindu: Use ../blog and please make sure the blog and forum map are in the same directory. Some control panels put them in way different directories.

M4GN3T: No there is no option like that yet.

Arny: Yes it posts from 1 forum to 1 category. You will need to set the username for now trough the config by setting a users ID. And no it won't post a avatar.

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by robertjandreu

Arny: Yes it posts from 1 forum to 1 category. You will need to set the username for now trough the config by setting a users ID. And no it won't post a avatar.

Thanks!

Can you actually set multiple categories and have specific forums (1 to 1) post to those categories? Or, is it only 1 category and 1 forum?

[robertjandreu]

you could have read that in my main post. for now its 1 on 1

[onehost]

I installed, everything seemed fine, when I tested the first post in the right forum, this is what I got when I clicked to submit post.

Warning: include(../wp-blog-header.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/newthread.php(271) : eval()'d code on line 18

Warning: include(../wp-blog-header.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/newthread.php(271) : eval()'d code on line 18

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '../wp-blog-header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/newthread.php(271) : eval()'d code on line 18

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_insert_post() in /home/getpaida/public_html/medicalbillingcodingandcollections.com/newthread.php(271) : eval()'d code on line 26

when I go back to the forum, the post is there, nothing on the blog...

no issues when posting in other forums, only the forum that is set to work with WP.

ideas?

I think this hack has some very good potential...It would be good if posts can be made via multiple forums and into multiple WP categories...maybe even useful that when a post does arrive into WP then a link is place on exactly where the post come from..sorta like a linkback to the forum.

cooltech does make an interesting point about double content. what is the point of having the same content
on the forum, and the blog also...I would think search engines are more into unique content.

maybe a better
idea would be to import the title only in a clickable link into wp rather then the whole forum post, this way the entire post in the forum is not duplicated into wp, just a title that a user that visits the blog can click on and reach the entire post on the forum via the forum link that is in WP. even the title maybe considered duplicate since it would already be on the forum, rather then the entire duplicated post, sorta like a live site map being posted into WP.

this is an awesome concept, and once again you face a duplicate content issue, if you could get around
that and it was unique content posted, then forums/blogs would explode. no one wants to be flagged as
having duplicate content, serves no real purpose.

[robertjandreu]

The duplicate content only counts for the same content on different sites if I'm right. I'm using this plugin myself to post my news on the main site.

Also the reason the you get that error is because your path isn't set right in options. Just look around earlier post to find the solution.

[onehost]

Originally Posted by robertjandreu

The duplicate content only counts for the same content on different sites if I'm right. I'm using this plugin myself to post my news on the main site.

Also the reason the you get that error is because your path isn't set right in options. Just look around earlier post to find the solution.

ok

the forum is on:

www.domain.com

and the blog is on:

www.domain.com/blog

I changed the path too:

../blog/

and now I get a single line error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare sanitize_url() in /home/getpaida/public_html/blog/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 1177

anything that says fatal must not be good.

[robertjandreu]

well you should read the install guide for once. That mean you didn't upload the edited files for WP right. Also you shouldn't use a trailing slash