I'm skint,my site is only 2 months old and i've already spent about £300 on it and i'm not working at the moment.

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http://www.ucsampdoria.co.uk

It's a bit low on the priority list for me, but I definitely will get it fixed sometime in the future.

The person that installed for you did something wrong. The bridge uses vbulletin user table so if a user signs up on the blog they get an account on the forum. Your vbulletin users are also blog subscribers so if you decide to use the WP comment system instead of the forum they will be able to comment. Using the blog for comments is the way to go. I think the person missed a config setting.

Yes, my members become WP subscribers the second they click on the blog. However going to the blog does not make the general public members of my forum. I don't believe it was designed to work that way. At any rate membership is invitation only sos that would only work if you had open membership, no?

What it did do was give them a dashboard that allowed them to submit an entry. I didn't want that and there was no role that was just 'read and comment', so I turned off mapping to every group except Administrators. I want people to be able to READ the comments (in forum) but not be able to comment unless they are members.

I'm kind of hacked that I spent $XX having it installed, for that ONE feature.

Only thing I can do now is a workaround where it posts an excerpt in forum and takes them to the blog for commenting. They won't like all that jumping around though.

I had no luck with it either after installing it, the blog itself was only showing the first 2 lines of a post (if you made it directly on the blog). I am hoping to try and work on it next weekend.

It appears the guy who installed mine missed an important part of the readme. I might be able to get it to work like I want after all if I can get him to make that change.

After all that, I'm now not sure I want to even use wordpress. Now I've given myself a headache!

Ross if you check the thread at vb.org there is a coder named MisterPopularity- he did mine and it works. Just missed a part. If you bat your eyes and ask nicely he may do yours as well. He's done it before.