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[Suki]

Hi Ricky,
Yes if seen that here about the bridges ( duo login )
The thing is that nobody seem to get it to work,and i am scared to ruin my wordpress site.
the bridges i found are at least 2 years old
If maybe you know a bridge that wil give me that dual login posibilty then GREAT !
I can then make smf look like my wp site.
Hope you or anybody can help me out with this
Cheers,

Well, you can make a back up of your site and work on it on local, the very few bridges I've done I made them it with http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3008

Sure, its 2 years old but that doesn't mean you can't give it a try, it is for WP 3.0 and you don't mention what WP version you're using or eve what SMF version you're using so even if I want to help out, I can't because I don't know all the details. All I know is that mod works with SMF 2.0.x and will most likely work with 2.1 with a few changes.

Matching themes is as easy or complicated as you want it to be, I've been porting WP themes to SMF for my own use and most of the time I only use the header and footer from the WP theme (and maybe its css rule for things like buttons, textareas, lists, menus, etc), the rest is just adjusting the colors and backgrounds in the SMF theme to match the one in your WP.

[pokercapo]

Hi Suki,
Thanks for your replie
my wordpress version is 3.7.1 and i did try that BlogBridge plugin with a new 2.0 RC5 smf version

The thing is that i got a few errors like

1 - Existing WP users aren't added to SMF
2-  When i try to install a new template i get an error saying ( An Error Has Occurred!
Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again )
3 -SMF login is not redirecting back to wordpress

Im trying now again with a fresh smf install and hope it works now.



Cheers,
Erik

[Arantor]

Also, SMF 2.0 RC5 is now several years old with a number of security holes in it (there's a reason 2.0 and 6 subsequent patches came out)

[Suki]

Hi Suki,
Thanks for your replie
my wordpress version is 3.7.1 and i did try that BlogBridge plugin with a new 2.0 RC5 smf version

The thing is that i got a few errors like

1 - Existing WP users aren't added to SMF
2-  When i try to install a new template i get an error saying ( An Error Has Occurred!
Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again )
3 -SMF login is not redirecting back to wordpress

Im trying now again with a fresh smf install and hope it works now.



Cheers,
Erik

Well, the mod can be used on a 2.0.6 or later SMF installation by using How can I install a mod that doesn't work in my SMF version?

As for the errors, existing users are only added to SMF when they log in again, in theory, all your users needs to do is log off and log in on your wordpress site.

2.- I've seen the session error before, do you use WP and SMF both on subdomains?

3.- This is new, is been a while since I looked at the code but I'll check it out again to see what I can find.

[pokercapo]

Hi Suki,
i use WP in my main root casinocribs.com [nofollow]
and i placed smf in a folder called casinocribs.com/community [nofollow]

It''s not easy to fix this i gues
Cheers,.
Erik

[Suki]

Hi Suki,
i use WP in my main root casinocribs.com
and i placed smf in a folder called casinocribs.com/community

It''s not easy to fix this i gues
Cheers,.
Erik

I will check it out to see what I can find, in the meanwhile, try the attached package found in the last reply to its support topic: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=434738.msg3635126#msg3635126 (the mod itself is licensed as MPL 1.1 so redistribution is absolutely OK)

[pokercapo]

Thank you very much Suki,

[Draffi]

@Suki: Are you sure, this version of the mod is "safe" (The author has only one post...)

At all the discussion, all the people here forget something important: the user !!!

First you need to know, that i`m usinf SMF since 2008. Last year i was changing to vB 4.2 - And i was terrible dissapointed - from the ACP...to complicated, to much settings....sure, it is powerfull but i never was lucky with this desicion as an Admin.

Furthermore, there was no good portal outside (until today, is not) and the Support in the community was (is?) more than terrible. Good was only, that the Modification was installed AFTER a new template/theme was uploading...

BUT:

My members was happy! The editor was easy and great and when they search something, they found ALL (Blog, Gallery-Pictures, Articles). The profile Page is super, Buddy/Groups was creating easy and out-of-the-box. GREAT

Sure, for you (sorry: SMF-Nerds & Geeks...all the Pros) it is easy to make this, but for the "normal" admin it is far away to archive this:
I can install Gallery, Download and Blogs, Articles-System, a WIKI-Bridge, and...and...and... But for ALL OF THEM I HAVE AN SEPARATE SEARCH-FUNCTION !!!

This make every SMF-powered page looking like....No, better is write "amateur"

Anyway - after 6 month i was converting back my board to SMF, but for only 4 reasons:
1. Before i have an working Send PM with Attachment-Modification
2. It was more easy for me to change small things in the templates-files, what was not so easy in vB.
3. The Portal-Function from SimplePortal
4. I was missing the "clear" (and simple) ACP

All what i have now is the wish, that SMF have Gallery, Download, Article, Link-Directory System inside out-of the-box, with a search function for all of them and a better looking, real WYSIWYG editor. And a better profile-page with a more cleaner design. Not for me, i wish this for my user !!!


At least: content, content, content is important (maybe i forget a "content"...)- so the possibility to write some articles (for SEO-purposes) its now important for me.
And yes, i know, i can do this with SMF, but this is nothing more than an Article-Board inside the forum, showing with a Portal-mod on the starting page...HarHar...great Joke. What happends with Pictures inside the text? oh...sure, i can install ILA-Mod or use a gallery with IMG-Tag....Great solution !

BTW: the new page http://www.cms2cms.com helps, to switch easily between the different CMS-Systems...enough money in the pocket is required...

[Arantor]

All what i have now is the wish, that SMF have Gallery, Download, Article, Link-Directory System inside out-of the-box,

Never going to happen. Most users do not want all those functions.

[Draffi]

yes, sure...the user HERE.

I was talking from the user (member) of a board.

i see many user (here) what have a Board (Forum) for a couple of years, month. When i look thru the "Showcase" here (or in SP.net) a lot of forums are closed and gone.

Why?

Today it is not enough to offer only a forum. We are living in times with facebook, twitter, google - the user (from boards) want to share something (impressions, story, coding, what ever...)

This is the reason, why vB or IBP or Kunena (together with joomla) have more success and used by big pages/sites: they can share and offer CONTENT.

When i see big SMF communitys, they have gallery, arcade, Downloads, Articles and... furthermore, they are often bridged (or behing Wordpress/Joomla/something else...)

Thats my personal opinion.

[Kindred]

See, I disagree with you here, Bloc...

I agree that those "features" should be available - but I think they should almost definitely ALWAYS be mods.

I run several sites... every one of those "features" listed has been used on one or more of them... but none of those sites use ALL of those listed items....
and by forcing the MAIN script to have ALL of them, you have now increased the code by a large factor, including points of failure  --   for a low return, over all.

Where-as, if those "features" are offered as MODS, then the admin installs the ones he WANTS only... thus allowing SMF to be kept slim and sleek... with a lower count of possible failure points and a higher probability of identifying and fixing issues that arise fomr the mods rather than the core code.

[Draffi]

After the last weeks i was checking many Forum and CMS-Software.

Starting with Joomla and Wordpress, going thru phpBB and vBulletin, not to forget Xenforo and IPB, i was taking a decession.

Since my Board have more than 80K postings and 5K Members, i was looking for a "complete" solution:
- a search function what integrate all (not a Search in Download, Search in Members, search in Gallery-Solution on every single page...)
- a content solution, what gave me the possibility to write articles WITH pictures inside
- an easy system for Modifications (without manually edit some kind of files)
- and a cleaner, more WEB 2.0 based layout
- ...

I found IPB !!!

At this stage, i want to say thank you for all the Support here and for this nice, lovely community - I`m, sure, that IPB have not this kind of Community, since it is a commercial Software.

T*H*A*N*K    Y*O*U   !!!!

(and good bye... )

i will look sometimes later here, for to see how SMF will going...

This was my short 5-years-storie with SMF

B*Y*E

[Ricky.]

Thank you that you came here and gave your time to tell us about your final decision.

[Raths Rants]

I think (myself included) why people want a bridge for Joomla and WordPress is because they look prettier out of the box with little to no effort. They want the look of Joomla or WordPress but the functionality of SMF.

I have fiddled with all the major CMS software out there and keep coming back to SMF.

Would be nice if someday SMF wouldn't quite look like forum software while keeping all the awesomeness it has

[Arantor]

Except a bridge won't solve any of that.

[Armada]

Let's forget visual (theme) integration between SMF and Wordpress just for a minute.

Let's say we have an established SMF forum.
Let's say that we have a front-end to the site that we are happy with too.

OK, so let's say that we also want to use Wordpress in a subdirectory somewhere, and we want people who are logged into the forum to also be able to contribute articles.

How would that be done?

[Mike L]

I found IPB !!!

T*H*A*N*K    Y*O*U   !!!!

(and good bye... )

B*Y*E

Recently made a similar journey but in the other direction. No regrets here 

[Frantix]

Let's forget visual (theme) integration between SMF and Wordpress just for a minute.

Let's say we have an established SMF forum.
Let's say that we have a front-end to the site that we are happy with too.

OK, so let's say that we also want to use Wordpress in a subdirectory somewhere, and we want people who are logged into the forum to also be able to contribute articles.

How would that be done?

I'm 100% with you on this and the previous post about it being "prettier out of the box".  I'm not looking for something to revolutionize the world.  I simply want a unified method for logging into both so that I can have people seamlessly manage one account.  I don't want it to convert the theme, create a theme or cook me dinner, just unify my login.  I had this previously w/Joomla and ended up going with something else, which could, for multiple forums so people could manage one account.  You probably only see the people making comments that have forums up, those who can't find anything in the early stages more than likely move on without spending too much time here.  Maybe it's not clear that people are looking only for seamless login between products?  I'm in process of resurrecting something and I need to do it in the next few months so we'll see.  I had started it at another time and did my own SMF to PHPBB port that went fairly well but I've lost the thought process at this point but may still have my notes.  Odd, seeing some of the responses here reminded me of similar combative responses in the past. 

[Armada]

Hey Frantix,

Did you get anywhere in the end in your journey to find an unified way to stay logged in when using Wordpress with SMF?

Armada