vBulletin Plugin Installation Guide
- Download Social Login plugin for vBulletin and extract the zip file.
- Upload the plugin files via FTP to your website.
- Login your vBulletin site's admin panel .
- Then go to Plugins & Products-> Manage Product section and click on [Add/Import Product] after that install the Social_login_vbulletin.xml file.
- After successful installation. Now, proceed with configuring your plugin!
Plugin Configuration
- To configure the plugin, click on Social Login And Social share on left pan in your vBulletin admin panel. Now, you can see tabs for each features with configuration settings.
- To activate the plugin, create an account with LoginRadius and get API Key and Secret to insert under Social Login. Help - How to get LoginRadius API Key and Secret?
- Manage social network from your LoginRadius account.
Further Help:-
Where to look user details in your database:
User details are stored in the “user” table and “loginradius_user” table:-
user table:
| username | Name of user that display |
| Email address of user | |
| birthday | Date of birth of user |
loginradius_user table:
| userid | ID of user |
| loginradius_id | Login Radius Id of user |
| providername | Name of the Provider |
Short code help:
You can enable social login, sharing and counter anywhere in your website page using shortcodes. Just place following shortcodes where you want to show interface
Shortcode for Social Login –
{vb:raw template_hook.lr_interface}
Shortcode for Social Sharing –
{vb:raw template_hook.lr_share}
Shortcode for Social Counter -
{vb:raw template_hook.lr_counter}
How to work with field mapping in Social Login:
- Login to your admin panel.
- Navigate to User Profile Fields Manager under User Profile Fields .
- Find out the field numder and copy the field number. .
- Navigate to Social Login under Social Login And Social share.
- Paste Field number into LoginRadius Data.
How to uninstall the module:
- Login to your website admin panel.
- Then go to Plugins & Products-> Manage Product section and uninstall the installed products Social Login.
- Go to your FTP.
- Remove the folder /root-dir/sociallogin
Troubleshooting:
CURL and FSOCKOPEN troubleshooting
There is a button “ Verify API Settings ” in the API Settings section of the plugin. you need to choose one of following options
- FSOCKOPEN requires allow_url_fopen = On and safemode = off in your php.ini file.
