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:
Code:
## 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:
Code:
## 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
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.
Do you get a blank page or does the dashboard just reject your login? Are you sure you're using the forum username/password? Remember the WP users no longer matter once integrated. Have you tried different forum accounts from different usergroups?
You have to manually choose the forum you want each post published just like you choose the category.
Its rejecting my login...
I think I realized the problem, would it be that my Wordpress Username matches my Vbulletin Username, and thats causing some sort of issue?
Hmm, it shouldn't cause a conflict since it no longer takes in account the WP users. Anyway, you should create another account on your forum and map its usergroup to, I don't know, editors, then try to login with that user, that'd at least help us localize the problem.
Hmm, it shouldn't cause a conflict since it no longer takes in account the WP users. Anyway, you should create another account on your forum and map its usergroup to, I don't know, editors, then try to login with that user, that'd at least help us localize the problem.
Ok, so I tried it again. here's what's happening. I login with my admin info, and it directs me to a blank wp-login.php page. Then I tried creating a editor user, and it takes me to the same blank page. Any ideas?
That's a reported 'normal' occurence, keep trying to connect into the wp-admin page and you'll eventually succeed. Clear your browser's cache/cookies, also, try it with/without the "www" in the url (like, if you're using http://gunshadow.com/wp-admin, try http://www.gunshadow.com/wp-admin) if you still can't.
You have to manually choose the forum you want each post published just like you choose the category.
I see the option to choose a forum, but I don’t see where you select which wordpress category you want to be posted to that forum, don’t I have to link the one to the other. Basically what I want is all posts that are made in a certain wordpress category to be automatically posted to a specific forum.
That's a reported 'normal' occurence, keep trying to connect into the wp-admin page and you'll eventually succeed. Clear your browser's cache/cookies, also, try it with/without the "www" in the url (like, if you're using http://gunshadow.com/wp-admin, try http://www.gunshadow.com/wp-admin) if you still can't.
Ive tried all of that. Everytime it either says, "Username field is empty at the login page", or it give me a blank screen
I see the option to choose a forum, but I don?t see where you select which wordpress category you want to be posted to that forum, don?t I have to link the one to the other. Basically what I want is all posts that are made in a certain wordpress category to be automatically posted to a specific forum.
Thanks
I'm afraid there's no such option. But the forum you choose in VBridge settings is just the default forum all posts will be published if you don't specify one. When you're writing a new post, look below for a new dropdown list with all your forums, you'll have to manually select the forum for every post with that.
Quote:
Originally Posted by GunShad0w
Ive tried all of that. Everytime it either says, "Username field is empty at the login page", or it give me a blank screen
Hmm, disable every other WP plugin and try it again from scratch. Might have a conflict going on there.
I'm afraid there's no such option. But the forum you choose in VBridge settings is just the default forum all posts will be published if you don't specify one. When you're writing a new post, look below for a new dropdown list with all your forums, you'll have to manually select the forum for every post with that.
Hmm, disable every other WP plugin and try it again from scratch. Might have a conflict going on there.
Ive been placing the vbulletin in the same database as wordpress, maybe I should try putting vb in a separate db?
EDIT: Ok so I tried a separate DB, and now its letting me login to the Wordpress dashboard with my vBulletin login details, but now when I login to vbulletin, it logs me right back out and I can't access the admin panel on vb...
Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings Details »»
About Developer
Visit Web Site
DB Changes 
No support by the author.
11-29-2010, 12:02 PM
