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.
I just switched host and upgraded everything and now i'm trying to install this bridge from a fresh WP and vB installation.
I'm getting this error:
Code:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin() (previously declared in /home/swtorco1/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php:166) in /home/swtorco1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php on line 33
Well... it seems to be caused by a plugin. I disabled all plugins, then it worked great. Now i'm figuring out, which plugin caused the trouble. Probably wp-cache.
@rcadden I like how you have set that up. It look nice. But doing it this way, wouldn't this give you duplicate content? What I am saying search engines would look at your site and you have the same content in WP as you do in your forums. I've always read that this is bad for SEO?
Thanks. I believe that's right - since it's on the same domain, it's not seen as duplicate. Similar to how category and archives don't hurt you, either.
In any case, as soon as the user id issue is fixed, this'll be the best plugin ever.
If I go to wp-admin/edit.php it shows a list of the posts / authors. All the authors are showing up as the wrong name, but if I click edit, it shows the correct user selected. Is there a fix for this?
Cheers,
Ross
I've seen the same issue on my install. It's not linking the wordpress userid's to the vbulletin userid's properly.
The plugin works fine, but i've some problems..
1) i can't upload image in "Media" and in "Gallery" (nextgen gallery)
2) The authors in the post are random
BIIGG THANKS!! to amjadz4 for helping me to get the mod installed and the the forum wrapped in Wordpress. I suggest anyone struggling to get this wrapped to send him an IM because his prices are reasonable and he's sure to have you up in no time. A worthy investment indeed.
I do have one request on the mod that concerns me now that I have it working. Is there a way to disctate what page appears on the front page? I have a default page I create along with a second one called News that my Posts are pointed to. Now that the mod is installed and working it makes my News page the default showing all of my Posts. While I understand this is a feature of WordPress and a function of the Mod I'd like to change this and have my front page display a different page. Has anyone been able to change this?
The plugin works fine, but i've some problems..
1) i can't upload image in "Media" and in "Gallery" (nextgen gallery)
2) The authors in the post are random
This is a wordpress issue. Not related to the mod.
Quote:
Originally Posted by getfitatl
BIIGG THANKS!! to amjadz4 for helping me to get the mod installed and the the forum wrapped in Wordpress. I suggest anyone struggling to get this wrapped to send him an IM because his prices are reasonable and he's sure to have you up in no time. A worthy investment indeed.
I do have one request on the mod that concerns me now that I have it working. Is there a way to disctate what page appears on the front page? I have a default page I create along with a second one called News that my Posts are pointed to. Now that the mod is installed and working it makes my News page the default showing all of my Posts. While I understand this is a feature of WordPress and a function of the Mod I'd like to change this and have my front page display a different page. Has anyone been able to change this?
Any responses appreciated.
Thanks getfitatl for the recommend! It was a pleasure setting it up for you!
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