vBulletin 4 Series Development Update

**bobdebilder** · 09-28-2009, 07:52 AM

OK .. I will attempt to give this a bash

CMS - Content Management System

when a client wants a CMS system they want something where they can control and categorise their data easily..

Create a document - add images to the document often via a WYSIWYG manner

align text around images etc

They would then like to be able to place this data into the category of their choice so that the category TRAVEL would have all the articles created for this category listed under there

Each category should open to its own presentation page

It will also allow for the ability to change and manage the content by the various users

so this comes to user management and the ability for them to be able to modify said content easily

here is an example of how I would like the data to be displayed

Global-Travels - News

personally I would like to have achieved this via vBdrupal however I have not made the time to develop that aspect. vB4 is most interesting to me but can't comment on it.

and yes, I use vBadvanced extensively but certainly not as a standard CMS

I hope this helps put across why I don't consider vBadvanced as a CMS as it truthfully is 'lightweight'

then there is always using Wordpress as your frontpage and making it a CMS while using the vbulletin bridge

**v7web** · 09-28-2009, 08:43 AM

Anyone used subdreamer CMS?
I just visited their website and it looks to have been upgraded since I last looked a few years ago.

**Rocket 442** · 09-30-2009, 10:38 AM

I'll continue to use Wordpress as a CMS since its the most flexible of them all.

**v7web** · 09-30-2009, 10:23 PM

Great site Rocket 442
Love your design.

**bobdebilder** · 10-01-2009, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Rocket 442

I'll continue to use Wordpress as a CMS since its the most flexible of them all.

Rev Pro I presume Watson

rocket have u meddled with Drupal much? It is very very powerful

if not wander over to vbdrupal.org and download vbdrupal and start playing it is well worth getting to grips with that (this is the vbulletin integration for drupal)

just a thought

**2dub** · 10-01-2009, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by v7web

Anyone used subdreamer CMS?
I just visited their website and it looks to have been upgraded since I last looked a few years ago.

I used it for a while, have been toying with the idea of going back. It is a pretty user friendly CMS along the lines of what bobdebilder mentioned a CMS should be.

IMO one of the biggest down side is that the user community isn't as strong as vB's or Joomla's.

Also note that when they mention skinning your forum to match the site, they mean putting your header and footer on the forum, not necessarily full integration. But It's still good.

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-01-2009, 08:49 AM

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Just a quick update to let you know that we have released Alpha3 of vB4 to the Alpha testers along with the first Alpha version of the vB4 Suite (which we are calling an 'alpha3' version because it contains the latest fixes to the forum functions as well.)

As most of you know the Suite contains the new CMS. Since this is a first look it understandably has some rough edges but the Alpha testers are already providing useful feedback regarding this

source by Steve: vB4 and vB4 Suite Update - vBulletin Community Forum

**Rocket 442** · 10-01-2009, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by bobdebilder

Rev Pro I presume Watson

rocket have u meddled with Drupal much? It is very very powerful

if not wander over to vbdrupal.org and download vbdrupal and start playing it is well worth getting to grips with that (this is the vbulletin integration for drupal)

just a thought

I played around with it a bit a few weeks ago. It is very nice, but the community and development of Wordpress is just too good for me to move from. Besides, I'm using a Wordpress VB Integration as well (not the one on .org, haven't tried it).

**ohiosweetheart** · 10-01-2009, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

source by Steve: vB4 and vB4 Suite Update - vBulletin Community Forum

We're up to Alpha 4

**smacklan** · 10-10-2009, 10:03 AM

Just to let everyone know, the team now has Alpha 5 of the Suite as of yesterday

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-10-2009, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by smacklan

Just to let everyone know, the team now has Alpha 5 of the Suite as of yesterday

Thanks for the update John

good to see new versions being pushed out to the pre-release team

**2dub** · 10-13-2009, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Rocket 442

I played around with it a bit a few weeks ago. It is very nice, but the community and development of Wordpress is just too good for me to move from. Besides, I'm using a Wordpress VB Integration as well (not the one on .org, haven't tried it).

Rocket, what is it you use for your intigration?

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-13-2009, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by 2dub

Rocket, what is it you use for your intigration?

I think it's a custom mod

**Code Monkey** · 10-25-2009, 04:33 PM

It will be nice to get rid of VBA. Anyone know if the CMS will have author profiles and such?

**2dub** · 10-26-2009, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ohiosweetheart

I'll share anything that I'm not bound to keep silent about.

As a designer (if you can say) how soon do you think it will be before we start seeing some good vb 4.0 themes?

**smacklan** · 10-26-2009, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by 2dub

As a designer (if you can say) how soon do you think it will be before we start seeing some good vb 4.0 themes?

I'll chime in here although Peggy has her thoughts on this as well I'm sure. I will not be doing any porting of or creating for 4.0 until it is at least further in the beta process. vB is already publicly stating that there are still design changes to come to the current version and I also expect to see some changes to what we have on the backend (in regards to the template system) as well. Too early in the game to be thinking about producing skins for it yet.

**KevinL** · 10-26-2009, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by smacklan

I'll chime in here although Peggy has her thoughts on this as well I'm sure. I will not be doing any porting of or creating for 4.0 until it is at least further in the beta process. vB is already publicly stating that there are still design changes to come to the current version and I also expect to see some changes to what we have on the backend (in regards to the template system) as well. Too early in the game to be thinking about producing skins for it yet.

Which I am sure could continue through the entire 4.x branch since the code is going to be changing with each release..correct? Doesn't this put designers and coders in a very hard place? You will have to be re-writing the same thing over and over...

**smacklan** · 10-26-2009, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by KevinL

Which I am sure could continue through the entire 4.x branch since the code is going to be changing with each release..correct? Doesn't this put designers and coders in a very hard place? You will have to be re-writing the same thing over and over...

Possibly but the new template comparison/merge feature in 4.0 is supposed to make this easier...we'll see.