My community powered by WordPress with full vBulletin integration

very nice

Hi forcerdj

Wow, great design, very clean and minimalistic.

Congrats for the site!
By the way audioloop has a new follower on twitter ;).

Very nice site! Design is clean and crisp. I’ve recently started learning electronic music production so will definitely keep an eye on your site!

Well, let me be not so optimistic.
If the key point is integration with forum, than everything is great.
But design needs to be reworked.

Thanks for the comments guys ??

Hmmm…I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder! I think it looks nice – the aesthetic matches the function of the site perfectly. Two things:

1. I reckon you could do with more content on the front page, maybe double (or triple) the section with the three images beneath the main top section. There’s loads of room and at present I reckon you’re selling yourself short with just one row of three.

2. I don’t get tag clouds! I gather they’re for SEO purposes but I can’t really see the need and IMHO they needlessly take up visual real estate whilst offering little real value or benefit to the visitor.

These aspects are personal taste though so I guess there’s no real right or wrong, only preferences…

I agree with point 1. I am currently trying to modify the theme to display the blog content as well as titles.

I like tag clouds, if someone stumbles up-on the site and is looking for something specific, they can quickly click on a tag and be presented with all results.

Again thanks for the feedback ??

Really nice!

What did you use for plugin and bridges to accomplish your integration between WordPress and vBulletin. All I can find is a pretty old bridge in this thread https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=205388

Did you use that? What problem did you bump into?

Fredrik, that is the exact wordpress plugin i used, this helps you bridge users and posts if you wish..

I then created a widget using an ‘external login php script for non vbulletin pages’ which allowed me to have the welcome box on the wordpress page.

then used the following script (create a plugin in vb) to call the wordpress header and footer: (note, this is specific to my theme, you will need correct paths to your own theme)

define(‘IN_VBULLETIN’, true);
include ‘../wp-load.php’;

// Nav bar
ob_start();
include ‘../wp-content/themes/arras-theme/includes/nav.php’;
$wp_nav = ob_get_clean();

// Footer message
ob_start();
include ‘../wp-content/themes/arras-theme/includes/footer-message.php’;
$wp_footer_message = ob_get_clean();`

use the vars to include it into vb header and footer $wp_nav $wp_footer_message

this will generate errors bcoz of a conflicting sanitize_url() .. this needs to be changed in wordpress to something like wp_sanitize_url()

very nice

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Hey forcerdj

I tried using a heap of external login scripts for my users to login to vbulletin via wordpress which work but they never show the user as loggin in in wordpress….only vbulletin

did you have this error?

Andy

I like vBulletin, since people are familiar with using it, but have people checked into this forum plugin? https://simplepressforum.com I just started testing it out.

I like it and it has a lot of great features, but I’m concerned about the learning curve for people, since people are used to using vBulletin.

With SimplePress you upload it to the plugins folder, unzip, activate, and then run an install. It customizes the login screen for subscribers. Their accounts show up under the WordPress users section like any other user.

I’m impressed with the features and functionality so far, but I’ve only made a couple of test posts.

So far it appears to have just about every feature vBulletin has.

I liked your Logo and overall header. The sidebar has been carefully designed. One thing I noticed was that the sidebar runs longer than the content.

Please either increase the content or decrease the sidebar. You may also try 2 coloumn sidebar to fit more contents

I like how you manage to integrate them and keeping the look consistent.

I am still waiting for bbpress to be up to par with WordPress. Vanilla is also a nice clean and lightweight forum.

looks very nice,

I managed to do more or less the same, but I have issued getting my full welcome box of my forum displayed in a wordpress plugin.. Ican have a login box that works fine but after a succesfull login displaying a welcome box is something else..

any pointers?

my forum : https://www.pokerclub.be/forum
my fronted = https://www.pokerclub.be/wordpress

the login box is nog on the test wordpress page