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MTGDarkness
06-15-2009, 12:44 PM
I need to do articles on my site somehow. And so far, I've been working with and haven't found a good solution with vBAdvanced, and I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

I need the front page to be a listing of the articles, kind of like the news archive. And I need those listings to link to something kind of like the news module. But here's the issue.
I need the articles to be somewhere off the forum. They readers need to be able to read the full article, and perhaps be linked to a commentary thread added later, but having them on the forum seems kind of inelegant.

I managed this pretty well with a wordpress installation, but I was forced to give that up when I payed for a custom style because I couldn't skin the wordpress to match the forum and I couldn't pay enough to get the wp skinned. So I went with vBA. A similar setup to what I'm talking about can be seen here (http://www.gatheringmagic.com/), albeit without the articles being minimized on the front page.

So what can I do? Can anyone recommend a plugin or something for this? Should I look for another vB integrated CMS?
tipoboy
06-15-2009, 12:47 PM
search for an articles mod by bananalive i'm sure he made a module for vbadvanced IIRC, maybe that might help you :D
MTGDarkness
06-15-2009, 01:13 PM
I saw that. I also saw the notice right under it, "Doesn't work with 3.7.x". :(
ragtek
06-15-2009, 01:30 PM
Gars maybe
www.thevbgeek.com
BlueNinjaGo
06-15-2009, 02:07 PM
I saw that. I also saw the notice right under it, "Doesn't work with 3.7.x". :(

Depending on what postbit you use....
KW802
06-15-2009, 02:19 PM
search for an articles mod by bananalive i'm sure he made a module for vbadvanced IIRC, maybe that might help you :DThe one from Bananalive actually looks pretty nice.
MTGDarkness
06-15-2009, 06:04 PM
Kinda looking for a free option. :(

@Blue: ?
BlueNinjaGo
06-15-2009, 06:37 PM
I use 3.7.3 and it works just fine...Link (http://thesocialrev.com/forum/articles.php?c=396) I just can't use "article postbit", just regular legacy...
MTGDarkness
06-15-2009, 07:03 PM
Well, I just installed it. It doesn't do exactly what I want (that is, have the articles separated, permission-wise, from the rest of the forum), but it's damn close and the best so far. Thanks Blue. :)