Why so little attention towards CMS integration?

[vcruiser]

Call it a blog, call it a CMS, call it a portal, call it what ever you want. Millions of users, WordPress! You can make that thing do just about anything and its so easy to use. It has a static front page so it's a portal. Visitors and members can post to it, it's a blog by definition and you can manage that information so it can be used as a CMS. Thousands of themes, many are FREE! Why re-invent the wheel? Someone with the right skill set can get this and vb integrated perfectly I am sure.

Check this out: click here ...

It doesn't get better than that. I wonder how they integrated their forum?

Food for thought.

Wordpress Competition Is Right Now

[jhei21]

Originally Posted by vcruiser

Why re-invent the wheel? Someone with the right skill set can get this and vb integrated perfectly I am sure.

There are a lot of people (like me) out there who dont have the skills and thats why there needs to be more integration.

[Joe Blow]

Originally Posted by Cyburbia

When I look at open source content management systems, many offer integration with phpBB and SMF, but vBulletin and Invision Power Board integration is almost nonexistent. Message boards on CMS portal sites are often filled with requests for vBulletin integration, with responses usually falling into three categories - "me too". "if you want it so bad, go code it yourself" and "out of principle, I won't code it, even though I could, because it's not open source"".

A common theme in many posts here and at vbulletin.com is content management system integration. There seems to be a huge demand for vBulletin/CMS integration, but there are so few projects out there; the excellent Drupal integration effort, a bridge for Joomla (which doesn't offer true integration), and that's about it.

"Check out vBportal/vBindex/vBadvanced." While I respect the effort that went into vBindex and vBadvanced, they aren't true content management systems. They serve mainly as portals or entrance pages to a forum-dominated site.

"Buy Subdreamer/Storyteller/Miraserver/Virtuanews/vgPortal/PhpCow/NePHP." Again, they're probably all good programs, but they have a limited userbase compared to the open source content management systems. Some of those programs are one-man projects, development is slow or stalled, and their future is uncertain. Except for vBulletin integration, they usually don't have the feature set or extensibility of most open source content management systems.

[nasal_voice]"Well, go code it yourself!"[/nasal_voice] The typical response from the Slashdot/ponytail-and-neckbeard types. Unfortunately, most of us aren't expert PHP programmers. The majority of us probably can't program, period. If we were, we probably would have coded our own message boards instead of paying for vBulletin.

"vBCMS is coming Real Soon Now."
So are flying cars, universal health care in the United States, the Second Street subway, discovery of the Oak Island treasure, Godot, the revitalization and gentrification of Detroit, and Duke Nukem Forever.

With the outcry of vBulletin users begging for a CMS, why are there so few CMS integration hack/mod projects? Is there even a demand for integration with open source content management systems?

Sadly, this post is just as relevant today, eighteen months later.

Any advances on the vbulletin/CMS front?

[WEBclay]

Good thread, exactly what I would have posted *g*. I am currently building our mainsite for a online graphical/digital painting community. I need vB to be integrated in the mainsite for displaying the news, articles and everything else like polls, authors, tutorials and more. I have done a big research on every cms that could handle vB as integration.

I think I give wordpress a go along with the bridge for vB. The main reason I choose this is that wp allows you to display a thread as a newspost on the frontend and all comments belong to this posting will be done in the forums as discussion

I didn't spent that much hours to have a look how drupal handles all this. But for me wordpress is way easier to modify my template than drupal does.

Bad thing about vbAdvanced is the lack of 3rd party programmers who could do a paid job to get my style working along with this

[AntiThesis]

I keep checking back here in the vain hope that something has been done/something new has come up. Every time nothing.

And vJoomla has been shut down due to some random exploit. Don't know when/if they'll be back.

Looks like I'll just be coding my own portal that will only work on my site. Lovely.

[towermatt]

I think vBadvanced works a treat!

[RedGTiVR6]

vBadvanced is not a viable solution for a lot of people. It doesn't present the professional apperance many of us are looking for. Joomla and many other CMSs do.

[towermatt]

Sure, that's a perspective. I believe the fact that it is so user friendly and customizeable makes it a perfect solution.

Since Joomla is MIA--might be something to think about is all.

My Comics News page looks as professional as any I have ever seen.

^biased

[joshbond]

I'm trying to integrate vb with joomla. What are the best ways of doing that that are currently out there?

[Ascor]

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