A few questions before purchasing
 

Hello,

I just want to say that I am really excited by the new 4.0 publishing suite. When I considered vBulletin a few years ago I don't remember the publishing suite being available, but it looks like it might fit my needs perfectly.

I am wanting to make a website that has a forum (obviously!), but that also allows members to have a page that's "theirs," such as www.website.com/member, where their information can be displayed and they can write blog posts (think facebook). I also want members to be able to write articles for the website, kind of like how contributors on a WordPress website can (e.g. I want them to "own" the article -- it being associated to their account, them being able to edit and delete it, etc..). Finally, I need members to be able to upload files so that my website can have a sort of "file repository." Does vBulletin have these features built-in, or available as plugins?

I have been researching the possibility of integrating WordPress with phpBB to accomplish all this, but if vBulletin now has these features, I would much prefer to purchase an already built and tested product.

Thanks for your advice.

I think out of the box, it does most of what your looking for, here is my profile page on a VB forum that has the blogs on it, you can see there is a blog tab. I think this is a little different looking in the current version, you can try the demo on the main vb site.

I think this will do what you want for the downloads.

Jamie

Thanks for your response. As far as the CMS goes, is it easy to change things like links on the menus and the content shown on the front page?