Are there any good content managment systems?

[Zachery]

I've spent the last few hours looking..

All of them either seem so overly complicated that its insane to think anyone is going to use this, or so bare bones basic I might as well get a blog of some sort.

I tried Joomla / Mambo and it feels very... complicated to seem the least, so many things must be chmod'ed to even start the installer process, huge lists of files and folders to upload, and finally after poking at it for awhile, the templates contain php (really annoying for me). I was going to try typo3 but again.. overly complicated, they even have like 6 differnt downloads that all require an original download...

Why can't everything be as good and simple as vBulletin ;_;

Anyway open for CMS suggestions..

[Brad]

Same thing in my experance, honestly it seems coding my own content manager is the better option no matter how many CMS scripts I try.

[smacklan]

Have you ever looked at SubDreamer?

[Revan]

I remember your CMS, the one released on April 1.... :p

[TruthElixirX]

subDreamer is a plug-in manager with a news system built in. Its the best thing I could find.

www.subdreamer.com

The only proiblem is it doesn't run on tempaltes. PHP and html is integrated and a lot of stuff isn't CSS based. But otherwise it is excellent. They have an admin demo for you to try out. They have a free and paid version. It integrates with the vbulletin database or has its own independant database.You can only have one member selectable skin unless you purchase this skin selector mod (http://www.subdreamermods.com/forum/showthread.php?t=355) only certain skins are compatible though.

Check it out for sure.

[Guest190829]

I remember your CMS, the one released on April 1.... :p

Yes, I suggest Loo CMS to everyone who needs a fantastic CMS.

[Brad]

I remember your CMS, the one released on April 1.... :p

Remind me never to do that again, I had hate mail in my inbox for weeks due to that one :)

[Zachery]

subDreamer is a plug-in manager with a news system built in. Its the best thing I could find.

www.subdreamer.com

The only proiblem is it doesn't run on tempaltes. PHP and html is integrated and a lot of stuff isn't CSS based. But otherwise it is excellent. They have an admin demo for you to try out. They have a free and paid version. It integrates with the vbulletin database or has its own independant database.You can only have one member selectable skin unless you purchase this skin selector mod (http://www.subdreamermods.com/forum/showthread.php?t=355) only certain skins are compatible though.

Check it out for sure.
If I want php in my templates I'll go with Joomla :p

For as big as a market as it is, I'm very suprised theres nothing even close to the quaility that vBulletin offers via their forum scripts.

[xscape2me]

Yes, I suggest Loo CMS to everyone who needs a fantastic CMS.

Do you have a link for Loo CMS? I'm doing a search on yahoo and nothing is coming up.

[Zachery]

Do you have a link for Loo CMS? I'm doing a search on yahoo and nothing is coming up.

It was an april fools joke by Brad here :p

[bigcurt]

*cough* maybe suggest vB CMS to Kier and everyone else *cough *cough :) Come on zach, you got the inside info :-D haha.



~curt

[Suiko Jin]

Try the e107 one. Pretty easy to do... If I can do it... you sure can.

Here is the theme page if you do try it out.
e107 Theme (http://e107themes.org/download.php)

But yeah. My main site is runing on e107 and it was easy to install and works good for me I think. I haven't done much custom modifications to it yet though.

[Raitsa]

E107 is quite excellent, but you can try out all the available CMS?s as an admin at http://opensourcecms.com/

[Princeton]

What features are you looking for besides the....
- no php in templates
- no multiple downloads?

[TruthElixirX]

For as big as a market as it is, I'm very suprised theres nothing even close to the quaility that vBulletin offers via their forum scripts.


You're finding my exact problem. I couldn't find anything that even cost to do what I wanted. Subdreamer was as close as it came. (Not trying to push it on you still.). I hadn't heard of Joomla until recently. Looks a lot like Mambo (MAde by same devs right?). Umm..evoarticles is decent from what I remember but costs 265$ or something.

http://www.evo-dev.com/products/evoarticles/

Thier tempalte system is identical to vBulletin (To the eye anyways.). The admin panel has a ton of vBulletini nfluence. I didn't go with it because of the pricce though.

[Snake]

I would go for a custom CMS because I can have what features I want and what not. Pre-made CMS's aren't that much good. They sell it for a high price but they lack in the features and options.

[Cole2026]

I've spent the last few hours looking..

All of them either seem so overly complicated that its insane to think anyone is going to use this, or so bare bones basic I might as well get a blog of some sort.


I tried Joomla / Mambo and it feels very... complicated to seem the least, so many things must be chmod'ed to even start the installer process, huge lists of files and folders to upload, and finally after poking at it for awhile, the templates contain php (really annoying for me). I was going to try typo3 but again.. overly complicated, they even have like 6 differnt downloads that all require an original download...

Why can't everything be as good and simple as vBulletin ;_;

Anyway open for CMS suggestions..

If pMachine could come up with some 3rd party forum integration, instead of giving us only an option for theirs, ExpressionEngine would be one of the best out there.

http://pmachine.com/

[silurius]

I too think Joomla may be the leading CMS in this realm, for those of us who are firm on vBulletin for forums and don't want multiple userbases of course.

Maybe part of the problem is too many people are easy on their forums requirements and haven't seen the wisdom of vBulletin yet?

I'm reasonably certain that Joomla will get there within a few months. With the impending multi-db release of vBridge, it's already almost there now, just need to pick up the pace on overall features development. The latter problem is actually what led me to this thread, as I really worry that I won't be able to do much with Joomla at this time.

And conversely, Drupal has huge potential in my opinion, but the technical obstacles to integration are NOTHING compared with their closed-minded attitudes towards vBulletin. Tragic, really.

What about vbPortal? I haven't really looked into that much yet.

[Zachery]

What features are you looking for besides the....
- no php in templates
- no multiple downloads?

Ease of use and customization that vBulletin offers out of the box.

I'd also prefer not to have to chmod every file and folder just to run the damned thing.

[silurius]

What features are you looking for besides the....
- no php in templates
- no multiple downloads?

Ease of use and customization that vBulletin offers out of the box.

I'd also prefer not to have to chmod every file and folder just to run the damned thing.

For me, in addition to this, I would look for:

- full visual and userbase integration with vBulletin of course (or at least, something like vBridge (http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,194.0.html))
- community events calendar in CMS tied to vBulletin threads
- automatically spawn vBulletin threads from CMS blog/article posts
- decent commerce system
- decent a/v streaming
- and something very similar to the Mambo Community Builder (http://mamboforge.net/projects/userextras/) module.

[Xtrato]

I say you should go Joomla

First the vBridge is getting more easy to use and it intergrates joomla and vb

second its fast loading

third its free ^_^

[Quillz]

Will Jelsoft ever make their own CMS? It could use the plugin system of 3.5.0.

[scotsmist]

I too think Joomla may be the leading CMS in this realm, for those of us who are firm on vBulletin for forums and don't want multiple userbases of course.

Maybe part of the problem is too many people are easy on their forums requirements and haven't seen the wisdom of vBulletin yet?

I'm reasonably certain that Joomla will get there within a few months. With the impending multi-db release of vBridge, it's already almost there now, just need to pick up the pace on overall features development. The latter problem is actually what led me to this thread, as I really worry that I won't be able to do much with Joomla at this time.

And conversely, Drupal has huge potential in my opinion, but the technical obstacles to integration are NOTHING compared with their closed-minded attitudes towards vBulletin. Tragic, really.

What about vbPortal? I haven't really looked into that much yet.

if you would like to know more about vbportal, send me a pm

[Matafleur]

I'm currently looking for a CMS that has user database integration with vBulletin, as well as some form of multi-site deployment capability.

I run gaming news and community websites, on separate domains, but all sharing one forum. What I require for these different sites are shared content, shared users, and the ability to control which content appears on which site/domain, as well as individual themes for each site.

Seems like I'm asking for too much, can't find any CMS that supports these requirements.

Currently I'm running Mambo, and the obvious choice would be to upgrade to Joomla. However I find the article categorization system too clumsy and inflexible (section > category > article). There are workarounds, but then it doesn't become intuitive to new staff writers. Furthermore, there's not much to speak of in terms of user group control. Although the developer of vBridge has said that it is possible to sync multiple copies of Joomla to one vBulletin, I suspect that is an unwieldy solution.

The other CMS I've been investigating is Drupal. I've only started to look at it about 3 or 4 days ago, and I'm quite impressed so far, especially with Taxonomy, the module which control categorization. It's ideal for my needs as a news site. I've not yet tested out the vB bridge for Drupal (no local box to test it on, and I've got only one license), and I've also have no clue how to get the multi-site deployment up in my case, so it's on hold here.

Does anyone else have any suggestions for a good CMS that fits my criteria, or could give me some help with Drupal?

[Chris M]

Will Jelsoft ever make their own CMS? It could use the plugin system of 3.5.0.

There are plans in the works, and as Kier said in his interview with TAZ now that 3.5 is here it will be easier for them to develop secondary products to vBulletin for "plugging in" ;)

Chris

[MGM]

You're finding my exact problem. I couldn't find anything that even cost to do what I wanted. Subdreamer was as close as it came. (Not trying to push it on you still.). I hadn't heard of Joomla until recently. Looks a lot like Mambo (MAde by same devs right?). Umm..evoarticles is decent from what I remember but costs 265$ or something.

http://www.evo-dev.com/products/evoarticles/

Thier tempalte system is identical to vBulletin (To the eye anyways.). The admin panel has a ton of vBulletini nfluence. I didn't go with it because of the pricce though.

Oh wow, that template system is really similar to vB's.... that alone has got me interested....

MGM out

[TruthElixirX]

Yeah, but I found it to not be very feature full or cost to what you get ratio very good. =/

[Blam Forumz]

Try vBDrupal. it rocks

[Hanif]

Hi it depends what you want to do, but Joomla is easy I must say.

Very fast, free and a good support forum.

Any probs let me know.

Ta,

Hanif

[Clayton]

If pMachine could come up with some 3rd party forum integration, instead of giving us only an option for theirs, ExpressionEngine would be one of the best out there.

http://pmachine.com/

this looked a real interesting product

[Staxed]

wow...that was a huge bump...but i liked this thread...gave me a question...

with all the super coders around here...why hasn't a team been made to create a CMS specifically for vbulletin...for free or a payment option...i know i would pay for that...having tons of features (but making sure they are all optional)...would be awesome...

i know if i was a good coder that would be the first thing i would start working on.

[stinger2]

i was asked by some friends to find out about a good CMS for their bussiness. containing the usual news....weather....currency modules...and a good AD system....plus an e-commerce plus an eshop

somthing to show their product and a user managment system were they are able to manage his payments .....multiple

plus a discussion forum

was looking for about a week....found nothing impressive.....either products to buy with very poor demo system that i dont know how it works...

or open source that is soo difficult to manage.....if i find it difficult ..how about them?

that is a real question here...if i look at what does it take to make a good CMS with the vbulletin ability and power.........i dont think its so difficult for all these great coders

[Gregman]

Really, if you are looking for a powerful CMS, Drupal is the way to go. Over the summer, IBM choose Drupal from all the open-source CMSs as the best suited CMS out there.

The vbDrupal product (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=124889), creates commen sessions and login between Drupal and vb, and includes tie-in such as forum blocks, profile links, calendar blocks and the ability to display drupal elements around the vb forum.

Also, the Drupal community is strong and going, with new modules coming in every week (over 300 total extra modules). Come support the vbdrupal.org (http://vbdrupal.org)project, instead of starting from scratch.

[Clayton]

Gregman

I am now playing around with vBdrupal, have ordered 2 Drupal books from Amazon to speed up my learning curve

so far it has been pretty easy to install .. I have had a few 'bugs' popup but I believe it is due to me and not the product

Look forward to receiving the books and learning more

[Gregman]

Great. There are tremendous ecommerce, article posting and community building opportunities that Drupal can open upon for a forum site. vbDrupal (http://vbdrupal.skejo.com) opens up all those opportunities to vBulletin site owners.

[webgeek247]

well out of all the CMS’s I’ve used I’d say e107 is the best. Shame it cant work with vBulletin though!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just about to try vbdrupal, downloaded the script then tried to register on the site but getting an error message. so straight away that's not a good sign heh. when using vbdrupal does vbseo still work?

[Clayton]

djpassion try again ... register with vbdrupal and ask the question there