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.

[alkolyok]

[GagaDaily]

Is there a way to do the following...

When writing a post, instead of creating a new thread on VB forum, add a link to the existing thread?

And when clicking on "% comments" open that thread?

Thanks in advance!

[Clayton]

I gather jquery conflicts with Featured Content Gallery

or has there been a patch for this, please?

[hiphopargentino]

Still Have problems with Featured Content Gallery and I don't know how can i Map my WP Users to VB! Please Help!!!

[rrudeboy]

so i only want to use this for posting articles to my forum... it works (sweet, i can even designate a sub-forum to post to..) anyway, one major issue... when i try to insert a image in WordPress i get the usual popup window, but now it just says:

"Are you sure you want to do this?

Please try again."

when i click Try again it opens another new article window.

(only thing i did not but will try in a minute here is turning on 'Auto-Integrate'.

any help ?! tks...

[alanshort]

Hi, thank you for a great plugin, i've just installed it and am trying to get it working...

I have almost 15,000 members in my wordpress site and have just added the VB forum...

is there a script available that i can run which will copy these users into the VB db ??

Thank you
A

[rrudeboy]

Originally Posted by rrudeboy

so i only want to use this for posting articles to my forum... it works (sweet, i can even designate a sub-forum to post to..) anyway, one major issue... when i try to insert a image in WordPress i get the usual popup window, but now it just says:

"Are you sure you want to do this?

Please try again."

when i click Try again it opens another new article window.

(only thing i did not but will try in a minute here is turning on 'Auto-Integrate'.

any help ?! tks...

nobody ?!

[hiphopargentino]

Originally Posted by alanshort

Hi, thank you for a great plugin, i've just installed it and am trying to get it working...

I have almost 15,000 members in my wordpress site and have just added the VB forum...

is there a script available that i can run which will copy these users into the VB db ??

Thank you
A

I have the same issue... someone who could do this?

[rrudeboy]

c'mon girls & boyz.. nobody can help me here ?

[AndyAA]

Just like everyone else I am desperate for the following:

* a piece of code to help avoid the Featured Content Gallery jquery conflict
* a wordpress plugin or piece of code that will let my users login from my wordpress sidebar and remember them...showing their forum stats would be a bonus like this mod:

I currently have tried all the external login mods and they all work when i test them on my site outside or wordpress but the second I try them in wordpress I get errors and they don't remember my cookie

I am willing to pay money for these things