Congrats and thank you. :)


Wordpress bloggers flooding Lussumo site in 3, 2, 1...

Too bad I need it going the other way, using the Vanilla user table to authenticate in WP. :D

@Bergamot: That would require changes in Wordpress - which I don't really have any control over being a Vanilla developer :)

Surely the Wordpress developers have come up with some methods for integrating into other systems?

The login function for wp seems to be "plugable".

It is just a guess - I don't know anythink about plugin in wp -, all the fonction to set the cookie, login, etc... are in wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php.

whoa, i was just going to update my vanilla install (which happens to be one directory below my wordpress install)

weird.

Thanks, Mark!

I truly appreciate the time you took to make it happen.

http://digg.com/software/Wordpress_Vanilla_Integration_Guide

any example?

Engin: Read the document that was linked in the blog entry.

Fantastic stuff! This will teach me a lot of php and sql! Thx

This is going to save me a tonne of time, thanks!

:)

ok thank u for this great release but have you any xample of use because i use Xd forum (Rewrite just come to be implemented) for wordpress. So what is the best forum plugin for wordpress. I am searching it.

I have no examples, no. You might have some luck asking on the community forum - some of the members may have implemented it.

http://www.firefighterwebmaster.com

i am still building the site, so it is bare, but i have implemented it and it seems to be working fine.

Awesome guide

You are amazing! Thank you so much!

That's awesome, Mark. Thanks! :-)

Great, can this be done with Movable Type to ?

@Pera: Movable Type (I believe) is written in Perl, so it depends on how they handle their sessions. If they use cookies like wordpress, then yes. Otherwise I'm not so sure.

Thank you soooooo much for this post. I don't need it now, but am planning on creating a nifty vanilla community shortly and this is going to make my life so much easier! Sorry, I meant to say possible.

Very nice doco on integrating WP and Vanilla! I have done this with success. Now i would like to integrate my theme with Vanilla. what i would like is this; if you goto www.mytimewithgod.net/xdforum you will see exactly what i want to do with Vanilla. Notice the "forum" is in the middle of the page (sidebar on left and right with header and footer on top and bottom). Now, if you goto www.mytimewithgod.net/forum you will see Vanilla with its own "style". I want Vanilla to look like (in style) the xdforum page. Can someone help accomplish this? I have tried a number of things but did not work.

Wow, armageddon has finally arrived, now I can stop feeling guilty for continually asking about WP integration.... nice wan Mark!

I've followed the guide but I get an error:

Error Message
An error occurred while retrieving discussions.
Affected Elements
DiscussionManager.GetDiscussionList();

The error occurred on or near: Table 'wordpress.LUM_Discussion' doesn't exist

Any idea whats up?

It seems pretty obvious to me. Take a look at your database and verify that the tables exist. If they don't, maybe you're linked to the wrong database.

Yeah, i found it too :

Error Message
An error occurred while retrieving discussions.
Affected Elements
DiscussionManager.GetDiscussionList();

The error occurred on or near: Table 'wordpress.LUM_Discussion' doesn't exist

i think this is a bug

It's not a bug. The message is clear. Make sure that the LUM_Discussion table has been created in your wordpress database. If not, then you've done something wrong or missed a step somewhere.

If've setup wordpress & vanilla, follow the steps, but it don't will work.
The Problem is, that if I logged in in wordpress, I dont logged in in Vanilla. But if have follow the step 100% right.
What can I do to search the error?

Got the same problem as Christian... Vanilla does not realize that i am logged in in wordpress already...

Thank you Mark for the time spent on this article. It has helped me integrate Vanilla with a custom application with total ease :)

i know this is late, but i wish this article was reversed. wordpress login using vanilla database.

I know this is forever and a day after the original post was written, (Very good directions btw, I'm pretty new to this and was able to get most of it working) I did run into a bug where I was unable to upload the database.php file but I ended up just deleting the one on the server and replacing it w/the edited one (I was getting permission errors). But that's not my question...

I'm on the last step where you make the extension and when I create the folder w/default.php in it named WordpressIntegration and go to Settings/Extensions it is not listed there for me to enable it. I even tried editing the extensions.php to add it and it still didn't work. What am I doing wrong? Also for this extension, does it allow one to register using either the wordpress form or the vanilla form? Thanks in advance!