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...

[obscureclouddon]

Originally Posted by NguReaper

Really need to figure this facebook thing out. :\ Will you have time this week or weekend? Thanks

Yea, sorry, I'll look at this one tonight. Sorry.

[obscureclouddon]

Update just released. I also reset the downloads. Feel free to go grab the new version.

v0.3.3 release notes:

Fixed error when Facebook was active on vB
Verified plugin works with Facebook integration on vB.

Optimized user sync for users who were having issues
Cleaned up the user sync results display.

[BAJR]

This reminds me... the chaacter issues - which must be something to do with utf-8 any ideas?

[obscureclouddon]

Originally Posted by BAJR

This reminds me... the chaacter issues - which must be something to do with utf-8 any ideas?

Ive tested a variety of scenarios and all seem to display properly on both vB and WP (I have some code in there to parse bb code tags so WP doesn't strip them and it's not formatting very well. But the non English characters do display properly). My WP db is UTF8.

http://wp-vb-bridge.obscurecloud.com...emo-post/page2

[BAJR]

for me it seems to be " ' and the like that causes the issue.

[obscureclouddon]

Originally Posted by BAJR

for me it seems to be " ' and the like that causes the issue.

That's actually a different issue, shouldn't be too hard to fix.

[richardnguyen]

Originally Posted by obscureclouddon

vb 4.x

i don't know what the minimum version of WP would be, but it does work with the most recent version of WP.

both scripts do need to be running on the same server.

can you be more specific? on the same server mean same machine or same cpanel account?

for example: i have 3 different cpanel account a, b, c respectively.
vbb is installed on a url: avbb.com/forum
wordpress is installed on b url: bwordpress.com
wordpress2 is installed on c url: cwordpress.com

i want to link bwordpress.com and cwordpress.com to avbb.com/forum

will this plugin work in my case?

[obscureclouddon]

Originally Posted by richardnguyen

can you be more specific? on the same server mean same machine or same cpanel account?

for example: i have 3 different cpanel account a, b, c respectively.
vbb is installed on a url: avbb.com/forum
wordpress is installed on b url: bwordpress.com
wordpress2 is installed on c url: cwordpress.com

i want to link bwordpress.com and cwordpress.com to avbb.com/forum

will this plugin work in my case?

This will not work. If the sites are on different servers, it cannot sync them without some other considerations.

[LuDawgs]

Can anyone confirm that this should work on vb 4.1.7?

[richardnguyen]

Is there a way to make it work on my case? I'm willing to pay if it require custom coding. Can u give me ur Skype or something so I can contact u?

All the sites r on the same server, same ip. Just different domain name.