vBulletin Blog - How to get blogs in new posts search

Many people are concerned over the lack of integration of the blog system with the main forum software. I see many posts asking "how do I get my blogs to show up in new posts?"

Basically you need to utilise the blog RSS feed and get it to post a blog as a post.

This is how to do it.

From your admincp - RSS Feed Manager
Add a new RSS Feed
Feed enabled: Yes
URL of feed: http://www.yoursite.com/blogs/feed.rss
Check every: 30 mins
Feeds to fetch: 0
Username: choose or make a new one - blog bot or something
Forum: chose an existing one or make a new forum and select options as you see fit, or see below.
Allow Smilies: yes
Display Signature: no
convert html to bb code: yes


Title template: {rss:title}
Body template:

PHP Code:

{rss:content:encoded}
[url={rss:link}]Click here to be taken to the Blog...[/url]
[url="http://www.yourwebsite.com"]Name of your forum [/url] 


In the next sections, pick what you want but also make sure you do the following
Thread action delay 1
Close thread after delay: yes

Making a new forum
When making a new forum for your blog posts, chose the setting your want for other users, but make sure of the following:

Act as forum: yes
Index New Posts in Search Engine: yes
Forum is open: yes

You can chose whether the forum is hidden or visible, but make sure the username you specified above is in a group that can post to this forum.

Permissions

I didn't want others to post so they have no post permissions. To get to the blog, they click on the link in the post and get taken there directly. To be able to see the posts they must have.

Can View Forum: yes
Can View Thread Content: yes
Can View Others' Threads: yes
Can Search Forums: yes


A working version is at www.midlandsweather.org.uk
My blog forum (so that you can see an example of the posts made is at www.midlandsweather.org.uk/mwf-blog


Please click ***install*** if you use this.

[Problemsolver]

Great stuff! Works perfectly (3.7.4)

[Problemsolver]

Wait a second, it shows the full post without letting you know who made the post or actually taking you to the blogpost itself :S?

Isnt there possible to get the robot to post a redirect (if you allow it to use html)?

[wrang]

What is it problem when this came up?
Nytt blogg inlägg XML-fel: not well-formed (invalid token) på rad 483

[breakice]

nice

[breakice]

but how it will work on vbadvanced
what module i have to add so it can show it on my vbadvanced

[optrex]

It comes into vbadvanced automatically on the recent threads module. No further work is needed.

[hotwheels]

Has anyone been able to get this to work on vbulletin 3.8? I really liked this set up, since it would make a new post, and then members could go to the blog. I am not good with rss and this just quit working out of the blue........any help would be greatly appreciated.

[optrex]

Works fine with 3.8.0. Instructions are exactly the same. As its picking up RSS it should be fairly future proof to be honest.

[hotwheels]

shoot, it just isn't working on my site........wierd.

[hotwheels]

Okay, i have it working somewhat. Right now, i have the setting set how they are described in the instructions, but it is only updating posts that i post in my blog. It ISN'T placing other blogs into the forums.

What am i missing?

Title: Insane Blogs

URL of Feed: http://www.mysite.com/forums/blog_external.php

User Name: DugDug (this is my site bot)

Title Template: {rss:title}

Body Template: {rss:content:encoded}
Click here to be taken to {rss:dc:creator}s Blog...
Insanemustangs

Thread Action Delay: 1

Close Thread After Delay: Yes

These are my settings, and i don't have an actual blog forum set up, i have them going to a very busy forum. Do i need to make a blog forum for this to work corretly? If so, i still don't understand how come the bot isn't posting other users blogs....?