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Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings
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vB Version: 3.6.8 Rating: (120 votes - 4.39 average) Installs: 1263
Released: 21 Dec 2006 Last Update: 16 Feb 2011 Downloads: 4372
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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











If you install this PLEASE
Click Install.

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 2.5.
  • If your WP login name is the same as your VB username, this user will NOT be ported! If this was the case, you could lose your WP admin rights if there was an error, or if you deactivated the plugin.
  • DOES work for Vbulletin 3.7.
Limitations:
  • 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.
  • If you delete a user, you must do so in both Wordpress and Vbulletin.
  • If you are using XMLRPC to post with applications such as Windows Live Writer, you must change the password of the author in the WORDPRESS admin cp, after the user is ported over from VB. If you are not integrating users, then you do not have to.
  • 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:


    Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)  
    Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

    And uncomment the last line, and change the path to your forums path:


    Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)  
    Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

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 the admin username in Vbulletin is the same as the one in Wordpress (i.e. Admin), that user will NOT be able to login to the WP dashboard.
  • 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.
  • When you create a test user in VB to test mapping users, the test user MUST have an email address. If a VB users email address is blank, they will not map.
UPDATES:

01/03/2007 - Fixed the unlock_tables() issue on some setups.

01/03/2007 - Fixed a bug in the script that if you used a MySQL database prefix, integration would not work. Please see this post for more information! Special thanks to axisoverdrive for giving me access to his server and letting me troubleshoot the issue!

01/05/2007 - Fixed issue where if a user saved (not published) and published later, the post would not be added to the forum.

01/05/2007 - When a post is edited, it will also be edited in the forum.

01/08/2007 - Modified slightly so when posts are edited, so are the titles (if edited).

02/07/2007 - Major modifications to new version (now 2.05). The list follows:
  • Reworked the code so it uses the $vbulletin object throughout the code especially during the bridging process.
  • Users are bridged whether they checked the "Remember Me" box or not.
  • Removed a couple of SQL calls that became redundant.
  • Addressed a bug where if a user logged out of the dashboard, it only logged them out of VB.
  • Added Inline Comments capability. Comments posted to the forum (using VB for comments) will now appear at the bottom of a WP Post when viewing the post.
  • Author user names can now be linked to their VB profile page if desired.
  • Added option to turn off posting to forum. All this really does is remove the "Select Forum To Post To" option when writing a post. (There you go AxisOverdrive )
  • The $vbulletin object should now be available in all templates and most plugins.
  • Fixed a bug where deactivating any plugin would semi deactivate this plugin.
  • With the reduction in SQL calls, and the removal of now unnecessary variables, speed and memory use should be improved.
  • PLEASE READ THE UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS IF UPGRADING!
07/17/2007
  • Fixed problem where upload iframe was a bit mangled.
  • Fixed problem where users had to refresh the dashboard once after logging in.
  • Fixed problem that arose from Wordpress 2.2.1 upgrade that would not allow activation.
  • Fixed logout issue where users would still be logged into Wordpress.
  • When a Wordpress post is deleted, so is the thread it created.
  • Added option to allow thread posted from Wordpress article to be truncated, with a linkback to the article.
  • Fixed issue when user re-activates plugin, and vb_threadid column already exists. Now checks for column first.
  • Removed a stray VB_Init() call.
  • Forums that do not allow threads will not be selectable in the drop down menu when writing a post.
  • Forums are listed out in a parent/child nested pattern.
  • (Note: 367 downloads of version 2.05)
11/29/07 - 3.00
  • Added TABLE_PREFIX throughout the script instead of the get_option('vbb_VBPRX') call. get_option('vbb_VBPRX') is now deprecated.
  • Addressed path issues by establishing $vwd first. If for some reason there are path issues on an install, the path only needs to be manually changed once, at the beginning of the script.
  • Removed call to admin_db.php which seems to no longer be necessary.
  • Changed all queries to the VB database to be handled by the $vbulletin object. This should facilitate multiple database configurations.
  • Added limited XMLRPC support.
  • Had to include a basic copy of the functions_wysiwyg.php file (functions_wysiwyg2.php) with a minor change in the sanitize_url function (now sanitize_vburl) as it conflicts with a new WP function of the same name. Otherwise, this is identical to the VB release. This was necessary to keep formatting somewhat uniform between the two.
  • Removed unnecessary globals.
  • Changed the global.php call so it always loads. $vbulletin should be available throughout the code (via global in functions).
  • Edited some code around wysiwyg functions of VB, and conversions to vbcode.
  • Added "Turn Plugin On" option.
  • Fixed an issue with the forum list on the "Write Post" page. Default forum was not being auto selected in some cases.
  • Modified from BETA so that the new functions_wysiwyg2.php file is loaded using the WP ABSPATH constant. Requires the plugin to stay in the plugins directory.
  • Fix an error message when a post was deleted in VB, then edited in WP.
12/10/07 - 3.01
  • Fixed two <? tags that should have been <?php (pointed out by Amenadiel)
03/31/08 - 3.02
  • Fixed media-upload clash for new version of Wordpress (2.5).
  • Added fix that will now delete threads in VB when the post is deleted in WP and not using Ajax delete.
  • Added code to insert a default email address if VB users email address is blank upon bridging.
04/20/08
  • Fixed a bug in user roles for the new version 2.5.1 of Wordpress.
05/08/2008
  • Fixed issue where CSS was munging scrolling text box when selecting a forum during a post
  • Fixed an issue where content encoding was getting screwey between WP and VP creating a lot of unintended characters (only on PHP installs where utf8_decode() exists (most)).
05/08/2008
  • Fixed issue where post count of a user did not change
Sites Using This Plug-In:(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.

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  #286  
Old 12 Mar 2007, 03:22
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Two things:
I can't edit plugins either.

and

I think it only lets me login into wordpress with my vb username. Does this have to do with the whole level 10 admin stuff?
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Old 12 Mar 2007, 03:26
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If the user has the role of administrator, then the level should not matter.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

Administrator - Somebody who has access to all the administration features
...

the role of Administrator encompasses every possible task that can be performed within a WordPress blog.
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Old 14 Mar 2007, 03:43
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Not to be an ass or anything, but are there any good examples that aren't google ad whores? More ads dne more money.

As far as I can tell, all this does is create wordpress blog posts based on new threads via the RSS and allows members to post comments, right? If that's the case, what's the point?

Is there anything that allows my users post comments directly to the wordpress posts (not a thread in the forum, but just the wordpress comment system), and then adds things like the user's ID name, avatar, post count, etc?

Basically, I have Wordpress; I want my members to be able to post comments to the wordpress entry. I want their avatars to show up along with some other basic user information. Is there a hack that simply does this?
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Old 14 Mar 2007, 04:41
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Originally Posted by Coldhands View Post
Not to be an ass or anything, but are there any good examples that aren't google ad whores? More ads dne more money.

As far as I can tell, all this does is create wordpress blog posts based on new threads via the RSS and allows members to post comments, right?
Not to show you as an ass, but the answer is no.

This post allows you to bridge users from you VB user base to your Wordpress blog. You are free to create new threads from posts if you wish but it is not necessary. You can continue to use WP just as it is, using the built in WP comments code, and only use the plugin to bridge users.
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Old 15 Mar 2007, 18:12
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Wordpress Comments do not show up in forums

Hi, I am excighted about getting this plugin runnning but am having some problems. When I post a comment, it doesnt show up in the forum

Here are the steps I have taken
Wordpress version 2.1.2
http://www.ringerstuff.com/
but the folder wp is in is actually /wordpress
VB version 3.6.5
http://www.ringerstuff.com/forums/
Both installs are using the same db
Only other pluggin active is Spam Karma 2


Ok so I uploaded it into my wp plugins folder and activiated the plugin
then went to vbridge options and entered the following.
VB User ID: 1
VB Username: John
VB Forum ID: 3
Forum URL:http://www.ringerstuff.com/forums/
Forum Relative Path:/forums
Database Prefix:vbulletin_
Turn Auto-Integrate On: NO
Post Articles To Forum: Yes
I posted a test comment and it doesnt post to the forum.

Can someone help
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Old 15 Mar 2007, 18:19
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Originally Posted by GospelLabs View Post
I posted a test comment and it doesnt post to the forum.

Can someone help
Comments wont post to the forum while you are testing. You need to make a test POST in wordpress and see if it posts to the forum. Once you are sure of this, you can finish as it states in the readme.

In the readme, it will tell you what to edit in your template to enable comments.
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Old 15 Mar 2007, 21:22
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Wow, i feel stupid for missing that one! thanks all is good
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Old 19 Mar 2007, 09:56
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Smile

Doesnt work for me. Using latest wordpress and vbulletin 3.6.5.
M facing this issue http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...3&postcount=49

Users including me show up as not logged in even after loggin in from vb. I cannot access wordpress admin panel from /wp-admin/index.php
it takes me to vbulletin instead.

Clean installed wordpress twice for this after deleting the tables in database. Still facing same issue.
Help would be appreciated. I cant start blogging until the integration takes place.
If this plugin works it would surely rock

Regards
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Old 19 Mar 2007, 13:28
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Are you using subdomains? What settings did you use on the options page?
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Old 19 Mar 2007, 13:47
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Yes I am using subdomains. I hard coded the path.
http://blog.mydomain.com is my blog site
http://www.mydomain.com/forum is the forum url


I hard coded
Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)  
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

My posts appear in the forum. The only issue is the integration. Users coming from the forum remain logged out . On clicking the login link in wordpress it takes back to the forum homepage. and I am getting log out error. " There was an error in log out. Please click here to log out " . Also i cannot access wordpress admin through /wp-admin it takes me to forum home page.

As i said earlier, i cannot start blogging till this issue is sorted out. If you want i can reinstall wordpress as no content is present. I have done it twice. deleted tables and reinstalled wp.

If you want to take a look at my site , let me know. I will pm you details.
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Old 19 Mar 2007, 19:05
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As stated numerous times in this thread, this plugin probably won't work with sub-domains. Cookie issues.
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Old 20 Mar 2007, 03:14
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OK, I got all the way to the step where I am told to map my users through the user tab and I get this error:

WordPress database error: [Table 'jalopy.vb3_usergroup' doesn't exist]
SELECT * FROM vb3_usergroup

I have checked and double checked my database prefix in the config.php file and all is cool... What could I be doing wrong?
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Old 20 Mar 2007, 03:18
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What did you enter for the prefix in the options? vb3 or vb3_?
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Old 20 Mar 2007, 03:28
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vb3_
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Old 20 Mar 2007, 03:33
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Just use vb3
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