Title: vBulletin integration? drawbacks?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# vBulletin integration? drawbacks?

 *  [jefferisp7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jefferisp7/)
 * (@jefferisp7)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vbulletin-integration-drawbacks/)
 * Hi folks, I am interested in the real world experience of people using vBulletin.
   the makers are now offering an entire CMS with membership integration, but I’d
   have to switch out of WP and be in proprietary environment. Not my ideal.
    But
   for high traffic sites, vB Forum has been recommended to us by research and other
   users. My question is about integration into a WordPress site. I can’t find much
   in search about this. 3 main issues: 1. I want to be able to maintain the design
   theme of our site with vB. Is that possible with WP templates or do we need to
   design a template specifically for the vB area? 2. Can you, or how can you, link
   within the WP pages’ menu to the vB area of the website? I’m using permalinks
   right now and I had trouble trying to use SMF in the same root folder as WP because
   the menu links would rewrite and I couldn’t get a direct link. 3. How reliable
   and easy is it to integrate memberships in the forum to overall WP site memberships
   and privileges? Thanks Jeff

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 *  Thread Starter [jefferisp7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jefferisp7/)
 * (@jefferisp7)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vbulletin-integration-drawbacks/#post-1714097)
 * I know there is a bridge, but it was written for vB 3.8 and v.4 is now the standard.

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