Wordpress and vBulletin

Hi there,

Hoping this is the preferred method for trying to start a new topic.

In Nick's post here:

We have the same setup. Wordpress is the main "site" and the rest is at the forum.

What I would be interested in hearing about is how other manage this configuration?

Nick, how do you avoid duplication of content or do you care?

I am going to join your forum to see how it is done.

I am just curious how others do it.

We are also adding vBA as a bridge for those members who want to "join" the fanclub.

Frankly, I am tearing my hair out right now trying to figure this all out.

 

Do comments also get posted as replies on the forum?

 

Right here brother:
Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings - vBulletin.org Forum

 

I use wordpress and vbulletin in 2 different ways and for 2 different sites. 1 is a landing page for my forum and the other is a portal to my forum.

Example 1 - Elite Gamers

Instead of being able to post a comment, there is a link to where people can go to the thread in the forum. The forum and the wordpress page are on the same domain name


Example 2 - Survival Gear Reviews and Forum

Which is on a separate domain name as my related topic forum.

In example 2, that site is my forums #1 source of targeted traffic with only a 12% bounce rate.

 

We have the forum up and running and also want to add wordpress as
1 the home page
2 for content such as articles, profiles.


Im presuming it should be ok to install on the same database as v.bull? it wont conflict whilst setting up?

I also read somewhere that it needs to be in same folder as forum to avoid cookie issues even with the bridge???

I have fantastico on my server, so can use that for installing it with.

 

I would be sure to use a different table prefix doodles, but other then that I don't see why having them in the same database wouldn't work. (Now watch Wayne Luke come in to post some good reasons not to do this, hehe)

 

lol.

Ok thanks Soliloquy