Posted 2 weeks ago #
My website shows good demonstration on integrating Word-press and Vbulletin forum's.
It's a music production community
- You can login, logout and view the welcome box from any Word-press page.
- vBulletin database is used for users (using vbulletin/Word-press bridge)
- Comments system is still controlled by Word-press
- Wordpress header and footer is used for vbulletin for seamless design 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 ;).
Posted 2 weeks ago #
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!
Posted 2 weeks ago #
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.
Posted 2 weeks ago #
Thanks for the comments guys :-)
Posted 2 weeks ago #
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...
Posted 2 weeks ago #
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 :)
Posted 5 days ago #
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 http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=205388
Did you use that? What problem did you bump into?
Posted 16 hours ago #
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()
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