Is more than one CMS per forum possible?

[seriousrat]

Is there anyway to have more than one CMS article page, each with different IP's, linked to a single forum page? We would like to have separate areas on actual different websites for reading and search purposes, but only have one discussion/comment forum.

Anyone?

[HM666]

If you plan on using vBulletin for that you would have to have a legal license for EACH domain name that is included in this integrated CMS. Quite honestly what you are asking would probably be seriously costly and just a plain PITA to deal with.

[RichieBoy67]

I also do not think there would be much benefit if any at all.

[TheLastSuperman]

Check this out, might be similar.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=251149

[seriousrat]

Thanks, read that and have a few concerns about using a mod that no one in the thread seems to have perfected.

Multiple licenses doesn't bother us, and frankly was expected to be a requirement. In the past we used Wordpress before there was a decent CMS, but the hackers were too good for the links between to stay anywhere close to safe in the long run. Hurt badly. That's why we want to stay only with vb for all sites.

Anyway, as an example;

Three CMS's, each with their own IP and license, same membership list. You click to go to the forum page in any of them, it goes to only one forum. You click to go back to individual CMS's however. We want the CMS content to be specific to a particular segment of a market. Like if it were dogs, (used this on the Vbulletin.com as an example), one CMS would only have stories about hunting dogs, another about small lap dogs, another about big outdoor dogs. That way you are not subject to articles about something you have no interest in. But, when you click to go discuss a story on the CMS link for that article, there is only one forum serving all three CMS article/magazine pages.

I see no way to separate out the CMS pages with only one license, so that was a conclusion we had already decided we would have to do.

On here it would be something to separate stories, if anyone ever wrote any, about vb3, vb4, vb5, etc. I would have zero interest in reading a story someone wrote about how vb3 was modified to do xyz. In the forum part of the website it doesn't matter, just scroll right on past it to the section you are interested in. But in the CMS there is no way I want to look at pictures and scroll past articles to see what I am interested in. vb4 with possibilities for vb5 someday. The CMS is the replacement for buying a magazine off the shelf. You don't buy a magazine about vb3 if you're using vb4. You may discuss vb3 with someone because you worked with it in the past, you just don't go read articles about it.

Hope that helps a bit to explain what and why. It may still be stupid, but it's almost like the links setup to go back and forth to facebook or youtube. But the membership etc would be controlled at the forum level I think.

[HM666]

That is going to be quite a lot of work. I don't think its possible to separate the CMS from the forums. its all pretty much integrated so that might be tricky at best if its possible at all. Honestly I think the Wordpress idea was a better one. Did you ask at Wordpress.org about the problems you had?

[seriousrat]

So you don't believe there is a way to run multiple CMS's to one forum. I was hoping it was just a link between the CMS and the forum like our old Wordpress was. I hate to go away from the vbulletin cms after all of the work we did to convert from wordpress to vbulletin.

Anyone else have any idea, or worked with the ibautocommunity mod linked by thelastsuperman?

[HM666]

Here's one for vB4 maybe it would be better or closer to what you want.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=254197

[seriousrat]

Well, everyone I've chatted with says the Wordpress route is the best way to go. So, if it were you who were going to buy and link a Wordpress CMS to an existing Vbulletin forum, (that also has a Vbulletin CMS), how and who would you use to go about it? Have any of you done it before, or know someone who has?

[HM666]

That will depend on what you want to do exactly. Some bridges only link member accounts and give you one login where as I know in the past some have allowed members to also post in both Wordpress & vBulletin although I'm not sure of the likelihood of that being the case as of late. There are a couple of them out there.

There is this one: http://vbsocial.com/wordpress-vbulletin-bridge/ This one I have tried in the past. It seemed to work pretty good although I do remember a bug or two, but I do not remember what the problem was off the top of my head. I also remember that they were pretty easy to fix though so that is actually a good thing in the long run. The support over there is pretty good. If you go this route and get the VIP membership keep in mind that its reoccurring.

Then this one: http://codecanyon.net/item/vbulletin-connector/4126499 I've never tried it, but it looks pretty good, you would have to read it and read the comments to see if its what you would need.

Then there is this one: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=270517 I also have not tried this one either.