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.

[rcadden]

I'm still using the previous version, with WP2.7 and vB3.8, and I actually turned the user integration off, as I don't have any need to have WP users.

My front page is the wordpress, where I publish new posts, etc. I've replaced the WP comments with vBulletin comments, so there's no need for anyone (other than authors and admin) to login to Wordpress at all.

This works great, except for that pesky scheduled posts bug, which no one has commented on. If you're a blogger and *not* using scheduled posts, you're missing out on a big time productivity helper. Can anyone (preferably the dev) comment on this scheduled posts issue?

[Jafo232]

I doubt I will ever get scheduled posts to work. Sorry for that, but the fact is, I never use them, and I just don't have to time to add/support every little possible addon feature people want.

[Jafo232]

By the way everyone, I am basically working on this today/tonight on my day off. Here is what I have fixed so far (have NOT uploaded yet):

• Fixed issue where rich text editor was not being displayed
• Fixed issue where permalinks were not working properly
• Fixed issue where paragraphs where not converting
• Added reset script so admin can turn off integration if locked out
• Made the user interface a bit more understandable, meaning, your off to the VB admincp when adding/editing/viewing users

As for those of you out there who already have a substantial WP userbase and want to convert them to VB. That is not what this plugin does, sorry.

[laztrix]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

By the way everyone, I am basically working on this today/tonight on my day off. Here is what I have fixed so far (have NOT uploaded yet):

• Fixed issue where rich text editor was not being displayed
• Fixed issue where permalinks were not working properly
• Fixed issue where paragraphs where not converting
• Added reset script so admin can turn off integration if locked out
• Made the user interface a bit more understandable, meaning, your off to the VB admincp when adding/editing/viewing users

As for those of you out there who already have a substantial WP userbase and want to convert them to VB. That is not what this plugin does, sorry.

You're doing a great job Jafo232. And I'm sure everyone aprreciates all the work of yours.

I don't know if someone has noticed that yet but when you turn the auto integration on also all the changes you have made in the layout setting in wordpress admin backend they gets lost too.

I hope there is a logical explanation for it.

[Jafo232]

Ok, I have updated the software. Here are some changes:

• Fixed issue where rich text editor was not being displayed
• Fixed issue where permalinks were not working properly
• Fixed issue where paragraphs where not converting
• Added reset script so admin can turn off integration if locked out
• Made user menu go to VB Admincp
• Added setting for users with UTF-8 forums.

Also, VB plugins are by default disabled when included into wordpress. This does NOT affect plugins on your forum. The bridge will include an instance of VB when integration is on. It used to be that occasionally a VB product might cause issues with the bridge and you could manually turn them off in the Wordpress instance. I have changed this so users have to turn it on if there was ever such a need (I doubt it).

[Mr. Mooney]

Thank you so much Jafo, it works perfectly now on my forum!!!

[Mr. Mooney]

Just a quick question. What would I need to do to setup the blog like this site:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=4070

I like the way it says XX comments on the forum, for each article, and gives a link to the forum page.

Thanks!

[laztrix]

I uploaded the files to the plugin directory.
Activated the plugin and select the UTF-8 Option.

The Visual Editor Came Back This time No Problem! But still having Charachter problems in content posting!

And after posting the post page goes blank !

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4305/68403843.png

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4062/70482045.png

I'm sorry to do all the complaining all the time but the fixes did not helped me out much!

[tjpeople]

Originally Posted by Mr. Mooney

Just a quick question. What would I need to do to setup the blog like this site:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=4070

I like the way it says XX comments on the forum, for each article, and gives a link to the forum page.

Thanks!

Jafo has provided template codes that you need to add to your wordpress theme. Read the readme.

[Mr. Mooney]

Originally Posted by tjpeople

Jafo has provided template codes that you need to add to your wordpress theme. Read the readme.

*Smacks forehead* I completely skipped over that. Thanks!