U really do have the idea :P

I want this soooo bad. I am using miraserver, which seems to be a dead project. It has great integration, but has zero add-ons. They are fairly easily coded, but I would love a great out of the box solution. I am not a programmer, and don't want to be. An official vB solution would be best, but a good integration would work too.

Drupal is more of a blog than a true cms.

the admin system of phpcow looks good, but they aren't really integrated with vB, just can share user database, like the Joomla patch.

Please vB, will you release a CMS and put us all out of our misery?

If anybody would be interested in coding something like this in a months time with me let me know.

Anybody have any idea where there is a good resource for cms systems? www.opensourcecms.com is good, but I'm interested in paid solutions as well. Just need to find the best one. Then we can try to integrate it.

amykhar; I don't mind of the cms is made by a third party or by jelsoft, so along as its a quality product. invision's power dynamic looks good, I'm sure I saw a quicktime movie showing you could have articles etc

The screenshots look impressive, and it's far along in the development stage. I don't want to switch to Invision, but if it lives up to the hype, I might be tempted to jump ship. It looks like a full-featured CMS, not a portal hack like vBportal, vBadvanced or vBindex.

I have noticed some animosity of CMS developers towards vBulletin, because it's not open source. There's plenty of integration mods for other content management systems and phpBB, Simple Machines and the like, but those asking about vBulletin usually get a response in the spirit of a Slashdot post about Microsoft. "Use phpBB, comrade!" "Start coding and improve our crappy forum module!" Sigh.

Interesting idea ... how does cross-posting work on other CMS applications?
Do they give the user the option to insert in multiple categories (could get ugly if many categories exist)? Is it automatic? Or, is it a search query that displays the titles?

Right away, I see a few problems on all the above options but it could be possible. It's just a matter of looking for the most economical and optimized route.

any comments?

Drupal does it better than any I've other seen. When a user makes a post, they are presented with a list of categories. They can select from those categories - more than one of them.

If you look at my site http://othehorror.com you'll see how the stories are sorted into appropriate places. A review of a Stephen King book shows up under Stephen King and under book reviews. If it happened to be a ghost story too, it would show up there.

that's what I figured ... can you provide a screenshot of editing area (as stated above)?

Personally I think vbadvanced has the potential to do everything you've stated in this thread. It simply lacks the right people working on it. So far its um .... Brian.

Yeah I think thats it. If there were 10 of him writting modules it could be as great as Amy here has been talking about.

IMO.