News from vBulletin?

Hello,

We're looking to change the way the news stories are handled on our website. Currently, we're using a custom developed program, but we'd prefer to place as much within to vBulletin as possible.

I have a few questions --

1. Is it possible to have the newest post from X forum within vBulletin be considered the news headline on our front page (outside vBulletin)?
2. Is there a modification or a possible way to assign an image to every news story? Our current system has a way to upload an image to display along with each headline.
3. If we can display our news externally on the non-vBulletin parts of our website, can we make each posting display X words with a "read more" link to the entire article?
4. If we have a "Read more" link, can we display an entire article with an assigned image on a regular HTML or PHP page outside vBulletin?
5. Is it possible to display the latest poll in X forum from vBulletin somewhere outside vBulletin? We'd like to move our poll system to a regular forum poll in vBulletin.
6. Is there a modification out there that facilitates all of this? With Invision Board, several years ago, we used a modification called SSIplus+, which allowed us to customize a template and then include it anywhere.

Thanks for your help! I'd really like to get the most out of vBulletin as possible. :up:

Our Current Website - Vidane Racing

Regards,
Steve

Any ideas? Surely there should be a way to pull news stories for external display from a specific forum inside vBulletin!

Bump...

It's quite simple... http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/rssfeed_manager

funny that someone used one of my modif from my IPB period..

[Saviour]

Steve...

Look at vBAdvanced.com...CMPS.

Originally Posted by nexialys

It's quite simple... http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/rssfeed_manager

funny that someone used one of my modif from my IPB period..

Thanks for the recommendation. This will be nice to pulling external feeds onto my vBulletin forum, but I'd like to do something different: have my posts in forum X go to an RSS feed, which I can include on my non-vBulletin web page.

Saviour, I have considered vBadvanced CMPS. I'll look into it more closely this weekend. I mainly wanted to use my regularly designed web page and simply integrate vBulletin posts and polls, if possible, while avoiding the usual look/feel of a 3-column canned CMS.