I've searched for a couple days now for anyone getting the specific answers we need to complete the integration between WordPress 2.8.3, aMember 3.1.8, and vBulletin 3.8.3, along with the vB and WP plugins. Here's the setup: a. WordPress is open to the public and serves as the home page. b. aMember manages monthly paid subscriptions to an advanced "mastermind" forum. c. vBulletin is protected and can only be accessed by paid subscribers. Our issues: 1. We need to embed the ENTIRE aMember login form into a sidebar on WordPress pages - the MembershipAcademy plugin doesn't seem to work. The forms to capture username+password, lost password, and link to the Signup page, all need to be visible in the WP sidebar widget. The goal is to eliminate the need for the login.php page altogether. 2. When an existing user logs in successfully from the WP widget, they need to be sent directly to vBulletin. 3. Logged-in users need to be able to switch back and forth between the forum (protected) and WP (unprotected) without losing their session. 4. New subscribers should be able to reach the normal signup.php from a link in the WP widget, then - assuming everything checks out - are transferred directly to vBulletin. 5. If a forum user logs out, they should be logged out of aMember, as usual, and redirected back to the WP "home" page. Could somebody please let me know how to make the plugins work, or suggest specific code changes that would make this work? If we need to pay someone for this, please let us know. It just seems silly to pay for plugins that are 1) outdated and 2) don't actually integrate the sessions and user-flow between the systems. Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks, Dan
Umm, actually, those plugins should work just fine... you might need just a few tweaks to that amember login sidebar widget to display the "lost password" form too. And all of the above you mentioned can be set up just fine with the plugins you're given, just with a few tweaks and customizations here and there.
The key word is "should" - and the plugins just don't behave as expected, nor as we need them to. If you happen to know what those "tweaks" are that you mention, I'd like to know. Meanwhile, we have abandoned the AmA widget for one of our own that provides two buttons, one for existing members to login, the other for new sign-ups. Both buttons open aMember pages (login.php or signup.php) in NEW windows, starting sessions that carry users seamlessly into our private vBulletin forum. During this time, WP remains open in its own browser window, but it's public anyway, so no problem. Dan
I do, as I set these things up for clients like yourself almost every day... this will just take a bit of time to go through in detail, so if I get some free time this week I'll write up a step-by-step list for you. Or you could always hire me to do it for you, as writing up instructions on how to do it takes way longer than just doing it