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barnettgs
03-16-2007, 02:18 PM
Macrumours.com site displays the posts in homepage...and when you click on news title, it brings you to single article page which is also nice.

How to do this? I have looked at the bottom of page to see if they're using any altered version of vbulletin but no...
weeno
03-17-2007, 04:04 AM
MacRumors.com uses a custom front end. The front page/article pages are not vbulletin. they are a custom script.
barnettgs
03-19-2007, 04:49 PM
MacRumors.com uses a custom front end. The front page/article pages are not vbulletin. they are a custom script.Right, that means we can't do the same as them then?
WEBDosser
03-19-2007, 05:24 PM
of course you can!.. it's just a template.
barnettgs
03-29-2007, 07:59 AM
Oh great! :rolleyes:

I have posted it here, expecting some helps and it seemed to me that no one cares to shown me how it works etc.

Lack of supports from vbulletin.com/vbulletin.org that is bugging me and I am sure I have seen much better supports elsewhere with open source products!
magnus
03-29-2007, 10:30 AM
Telling you how a custom modification works on another site is what you'd expect from a volunteer community, let alone the software developer? The only 'support' you're entitled to is setup and installation -- and that's at vbulletin.com.
barnettgs
03-30-2007, 03:22 PM
Brilliant...if you don't have any answer to my question then why posted it here? I have seen plenty of questions unanswered here, thats telling me something about vbulletin.org!
weeno
03-30-2007, 05:33 PM
Brilliant...if you don't have any answer to my question then why posted it here? I have seen plenty of questions unanswered here, thats telling me something about vbulletin.org!

It's been answered. The answer is that it is a custom script. That means you have to 1) write one yourself or 2) hire someone to write it for you. There is no simple answer, otherwise.

It's not otherwise available for you to install on your own site.
barnettgs
03-30-2007, 06:33 PM
It's been answered. The answer is that it is a custom script. That means you have to 1) write one yourself or 2) hire someone to write it for you. There is no simple answer, otherwise.

It's not otherwise available for you to install on your own site.Thanks, just the answer I want.

But not quite! Can it be obtained anywhere on internet or is that a wishful thinking? :p :D
superguy
03-30-2007, 06:46 PM
It isn't a custom script. The URL of the article and the comments page (forums) are different. The homepage is just made to look like the forum. The staff can just copy+paste into the forum, what they did on the site.
weeno
03-30-2007, 07:01 PM
But not quite! Can it be obtained anywhere on internet or is that a wishful thinking? :p :D

Not that exact script. There may be similar scripts around. see http://www.vbadvanced.com/

It isn't a custom script. The URL of the article and the comments page (forums) are different. The homepage is just made to look like the forum. The staff can just copy+paste into the forum, what they did on the site.

So you think the front page is a static .html file that the staff edits by hand and then copies and pastes into the forum? And also updates the comment count regularly so it has an up to date count?

It's a CMS script that integrates into vbulletin.