Blogs for vbulletin

**prabh** · 09-12-2009, 11:58 AM

Hi All,

Iam looking to add blogs for our users on the forum what would you suggest would be the ideal platform, iam looking for something that will integrate with vb

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-12-2009, 11:58 AM

something like this?
vBulletin Setup - Blogs

**prabh** · 09-12-2009, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

something like this?
vBulletin Setup - Blogs

yes Brandon..something like that would be super cool

**KevinL** · 09-12-2009, 12:06 PM

That is just the vb blog addon. You can buy it from vbulletin

**prabh** · 09-12-2009, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by KevinL

That is just the vb blog addon. You can buy it from vbulletin

ahhh well are there no other alternatives ?? I dont know if its worth sinking 60 bucks into a blog solution which may not get utilized to its full potential...though my members are asking for this iam really not sure how many of them will actually end up using it....id be lucky if i could get 6-blogs going one of which i suspect would be mine

**Glitto** · 09-12-2009, 09:38 PM

You can buy that blog addon, no matter how many members use them but it gives them one more feature to use anytime they want

I am also using it on my forum. You can see not all members are using them but some of the members have got very nice posts on their blogs

**Mikey** · 09-13-2009, 02:36 AM

There WAS vblogetin, but thats discontinued now, so unless you find some makeshift way ( like zoints local 2.0) then vBBlogs are the best for the job

**prabh** · 09-13-2009, 05:04 AM

thanks guys - i guess you are right...ill probably have to go in for vb blogs

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-13-2009, 07:28 AM

I would be careful getting the vb blogs
when 4.0 comes out, you'll have to buy the whole crappy suite if you want to upgrade it.
Not sure if I'll do that, because project tools is a joke, and I have no need for the new CMS

**prabh** · 09-13-2009, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

I would be careful getting the vb blogs
when 4.0 comes out, you'll have to buy the whole crappy suite if you want to upgrade it.
Not sure if I'll do that, because project tools is a joke, and I have no need for the new CMS

hm mm but then there doesn't seem to be any alternate solution...tried playing around a bit with WP mu but gave up on it...its really funny though no one seems to have got their heads around a proper WP-mu and vb integration wonder why that is ??

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-13-2009, 11:42 AM

Here is a thread where one of the dev's posted on vBSetup
premium wpmudev

**bobdebilder** · 09-25-2009, 09:00 AM

how come no one mentioned vbDrupal | The best CMS combined with the most popular forum

Drupal comes with quite a nifty blog system and can be seen in use here

vbDrupal Blog in action

and its cost is learning how to configure it

enjoy

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-25-2009, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by bobdebilder

how come no one mentioned vbDrupal | The best CMS combined with the most popular forum

Drupal comes with quite a nifty blog system and can be seen in use here

vbDrupal Blog in action

and its cost is learning how to configure it

enjoy

that looks nice Bob

**bobdebilder** · 09-25-2009, 09:28 AM

Brandon I slowly but surely tinker around with all the different aspects

vB is the platform I use and then look to integrate everything

Drupal is undoubtedly the CMS that is going to make the biggest impact once it goes mainstream and this is expected with the launch of Drupal 7

vbdrupal is a bit slow in keeping up but el M works steadily towards things, systematically and without the hoo ha

there is also Drigg which can integrate with vBdrupal

as well as numerous other mods in dev

the future looks nifty

I also use wordpress integrated however that is for the single user

and some of the eCommerce work being done with WP opens up a whole different avenue there

onwards and forwards

**prabh** · 10-01-2009, 08:25 AM

What about Zoints Local ?? Anyone has any experiences with it ?

**bobdebilder** · 10-01-2009, 09:00 AM

Zoints was one of the first with the social networking aspect and attitude

if we look back now it shows they were pretty forward thinking

I never used it as I am more interested in niche social networking

where people socialise in a specific area of information the site covers

**MissKalunji** · 10-01-2009, 08:14 PM

One question that i have been wondering for the longest.

Doesn't blog remove the whole "discussion" point of a forum?

I mean most of these "blogs" shouldn't they be posted in the forum / sections?

I'm just wondering i've been toying around with the whole adding blogs but everything stop myself thinking that i would loose the activity in the "forum" itself....

**MissKalunji** · 10-01-2009, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by prabh

What about Zoints Local ?? Anyone has any experiences with it ?

I've used Zoints, and even paid for it to remove the "linking" to them.

It was okay at first but i thought it was poorly integrated with vbulletin but i believe that was the whole point so it could be use with other forum software.

They have a lot more options when it comes to profile set up, it really did bring the whole "profile social networking" facebook type, they had a few addons to perfect it. But i haven't use the 2.0 version maybe that one's better. I gave up on it once i found out the license i paid for few months before wasn't supported with 2.0 because of change of owners and i do believe people stopped making mods for it as well...

**prabh** · 10-11-2009, 12:33 PM

thanks for all the feedback guys. I finally took the plunge and installed VB Blogs

...I had another question ii noticed earlier (though its gone now) that there used to be a latest blog entry on the top of the post for the user ...its gone now but id love to figure out how it was done....

**MissKalunji** · 10-11-2009, 06:40 PM

are the blogs worth it?

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-11-2009, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by prabh

I had another question ii noticed earlier (though its gone now) that there used to be a latest blog entry on the top of the post for the user ...its gone now but id love to figure out how it was done....

Add your blog feed to your post!

it's on the "to do list" from the server moveS

**prabh** · 10-12-2009, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

Add your blog feed to your post!

it's on the "to do list" from the server moveS

thanks Brandon - I have it running now

BTW is it possible to turn on HTML only for the blogs ??

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are the blogs worth it?

They are decent enough, cant of course compare to Blogger or WP but i guess it'll do

**MissKalunji** · 10-12-2009, 07:18 AM

Uhm i see Thanks

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-12-2009, 10:38 AM

I'm not sure on the html, I would think so.. it has usergroup settings
as far as the question on their value.
I think the blog product alone is great, that's why I bought it. I'm not really happy with the 4.0 version that is included with PT and vBCMS, we'll see if I renew it in the future.

**prabh** · 10-12-2009, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

I'm not sure on the html, I would think so.. it has usergroup settings
as far as the question on their value.
I think the blog product alone is great, that's why I bought it. I'm not really happy with the 4.0 version that is included with PT and vBCMS, we'll see if I renew it in the future.

hmmmm reason i asked was that couldnt think of any other way to embed flash videos on this..One of my bloggers is a trainer by profession and creates all his material using swf...