I think that there is no comparization, not in the meaning that mine is best or something like this, but because these are totally different modules. WebTemplates (as the name says) are mostly templates where you can add anything you want. vbArticles has specific scope which is Rating and Reviews, or Articles, which means that someone posts something for Rating.

No, current version of vbArticles is NOT vbSEO friendly, and there are only very FEW chances to add it in the future. The reason is simple. I can't add third party code in my code, when I'm not sure what this code is doing there. I admit that I'm totally novice in everything about search engine optimazition.

And why vbArticles isn't Free? Believe me the Free version contains nearly 85% of the commercial's version features.

I have the same problem with the date format
I think this is better 2006/02/10
I haved send you a email

best regards from sweden

Fantastic mod, will definitely use it if could somehow set up an RSS feed for it?

Would if be possible to create an RSS feed displaying all the articles? if so, how would I do it?

Thanks.

I don't like to give promises on the air or to appear as the super coder, so it's not bad to admit that I'm totally novice on how RSS system is working, so no chance to include something like this at least in the near future.

I think Maria's priority would be to enhance this great product rather than sort out RSS. Remember that RSS is fairly new and a lot of people just don't know what it is. Only three browsers can read RSS at the moment anyway, otherwise you need a Feed Reader.

You would be better off creating your own. Something like this

Save it as articles.xml and put the link code in your header.

Just add more <item></item> as you need to. There are some nifty RSS feed generators around like FeedForAll

Bob

Hey Maria, some questions

This hack doesn't to BBcode and Smilies for Articles ?
The editor is your's, no vBulletin's ?

thank you very much ;) it's working now .. but i'm wondering where the german translation file has gone?

greets

I noticed that META Tags and title are not updated according to the article you are viewing. Is this active in the full version? It is important for search engines.

I'm interested in this too, thx

is it possible to show fraction of the text to users, whole text to SEs and full text for members only?

Guys ............ i need help....

I did this step and i lost all of the articles posted before... anyone can tell me what to do? :(
Helppppppp....

And now if i want to add a new article, the Full article area is gone :(:(

??? How you lost the articles while you haven't been able to install it before?:confused: I wrote you uninstall the product (which means loosing any data), because you had problem on initial installation.

I have installed this great mod.......it looks fab and i know will come in handy on our new forum.......but i am scratching my head here? why do i keep getting a box show " Not Enabled in free version"?

i thought everything works...excuse my ignorance?

also i have done a test and added a picture through the browser button and it aint showing the pic.....sorry to be a noob and all but advice would be very much appreciated :D

Unfortunatelly the editor is a commercial one and it's lincence prohibits to be including in a free software. The reason is simple. You can't include for free something that is selling for $99. Finally in a special agreement with it's author I got permission to include it with some limitations like prohibited uploads (only).
As for the pic, are you sure that you've set 777 permissions to directories:
/photos
/tmp
/thumbs (under photos)
??

thanx for letting me know........ pics sorted...was my fault :D

*bump* ;)

*bamp* *bumb* :) I found the French transaltion. Most probably you dont need it:D I'm trying for the German one.

final issue before I make myself pay money for this mod. Can I upload powerpoint presentations as attachments?

what about flash movies?

Attachments (of any type like .zip, .pdf etc) will be available on version 1.6 which means by the end of March. But till tomorrow there is a promotion to those who will buy vbArticles to get for FREE vbNews which is a clone of vbArticles for News Publishing. Get an idea at:
http://www.madebymary.com/forums/vbnews.php

Maria

I'm VERY intersted in vBNews, but I'm unclear as to how it is different (or works with) vBArticles...

BTW, vbClubs? PLEASE create this mod! PLEASE!

So what is the scoop? You don't respond to the threads on your own site that identify problems with the editor on the free version, theres many people that are having trouble with the editor, and now you say you have updated the zip file but yet the version nuber remains the same?

If there are problems with your code and you make corrections you need to update the version numbers. How else can people tell if they have the most current version of the zip file or not??? Should we constantly download it and run comparisons of the files to find out on our own?

PRE-SALES QUESTION

I am interested in purchasing the full version. My biggest issue is when you create a review, the VB 3.6.4 breadcrums, title and META Tags is not reflecting the category or article names. These are critical to me for search engines and would be required for me to invest in this script.

1. Does the full have this working?
2. If not do I have permission to modify the tags to include that info?
3. How much flexibility to I have to make changes which would not be distributed, shared and used only for my own personal use?
4. I have one forum where I store game reviews. I have hundreds. Is there a way to port them all into this script and retain author names without manually doing it one by one?

With the bugs in this program and the price she is charging I would steer clear of this until it is working. Even then $37 is a lot of money for a mod that is in reality still in development.

According to this msg, there should be a special "promotion" at your site TODAY (see date of quoted post + date of THIS post) -- but I see nothing.

How can we buy vbArticles + free vbNews if you do not show this on your website on the day YOU say there will be a "promotion"? :confused:

Is this your real problem? The version number? I've updated the zipfile and after it I sent update via the system to those who have installed it. And when I didn't respended to my forums?

Why you care so much while you haven't installed my mod? And why you spent your valuable time talking for something that you're not using?

Can you count these "bugs" my dear? And then I can count for comparization all new features that I've added in just 3 weeks. The only "bug" which found it was the editor which didn't worked in Mac with FF and finally it was a setting that has to be turn off on the browser. The 2nd "bug" was that some users couldn't uploaded images as they have forgotten to cmod the directories. And finally the 3nd and last bug was because a user have upload the file in wrong directory (in forums/includes instead vbarticles/includes).
So can you tell me which of the above is real bug?

As I've wrote in my forums, I'm developing mods having in mind communities operating for fun and not for business, that's why Meta are not important for me. If you check my site, I haven't even add meta to my own site. That's why if you're seeing it as an investment, my opinion is not to buy it.

Sorry, No

You've my permission even for the Free version.

As long as it's for your own use, you've full control and permission even in the free version.

If you sent me the structure of the table, I can help you to port them, even for the Free version.

Sorry, it was my mistake this post here. Promotions are valid only for my site's member, whose I have informed by email for this promotion. I apologize.

Looks sweet! Im going to check it out! Thanks Mary.

ok.. let me clarify.. so basically vbarticles was working for me. when i updated it, the full article space disapeared and then i couldnt submit any article... so i decided to follow the procedure of uninstall/reinstall... obviously this was a mistake and i lost all of my articles...

I accept this fact...

Now can anyone solve the new problem... the space for the full article disapeard... how to get it back?

Can you give me your installation URL?

sure.. the link is: http://www.gossipdubai.com/forum/vbarticles.php

For testing purposes you can use the account: test123 password test123

Thanks for your help. i apreciate it...

Inside vbarticles directory there is subdirectory "editor". Are you sure that you've uploaded it? I tried to fetch it by direct linking to it:
http://www.gossipdubai.com/forum/vba...class.rich.php
and I got error 404 page not found.

Maria

So even if I go register right now, I can NOT get the promotion of "buy vbArticles and receive vbNews free?"

If you register now and buy vbArticles with invoice date 14/2/2006 you'll get vbNews for free as all the others.

Maria

No, I think that is going on through Feb 14th.

If you guys are looking at asking for features, I created a feature request page for the next versions of VBArticles. I think this is an excellent start to a great mod, Give credit where credit is due. 37$ is a drop in the bucket when you see all the stuff you get with it.

http://www.madebymary.com/forums/showthread.php?t=216

We should be encouraging people to create new modules for VBulletin paid or not, it gives all of us more choices. If you don't want to spend the money then don't but don' t put an author down after they have spent lots of time and energy creating something like this for the community. The pickings are slim for true Articles hacks... this one has a lot of potential!

Hello?

The game reviews I have are in no special mod, they are simply normal VB Threads. So all i need to be able to do is port the threads into your system. Basically Title, Author(that keeps the memberid for linkback to profiles) and Post body.

Sorry. My eyes stayed at your comment for vbClubs and I didn't seen your question about vbArticles. Well vbNews is a clone of vbArticles. The main difference is that vbNews is targeting to News Publishing that's why it will not have rating, just comments and also it should support subcategories. Also there are no Top Authors.
Most of the parts in main page are configurable by admin. Finally unlike my other modules vbNews can be install in any directory and the main file itself (vbnews.php) can be rename to anything you want (even index.php if you want to use it as your index page).