Major Additions - vbNews by Mary

vbNews
News Publishing & Book Library System
by Mary
http://www.MadeByMary.com

REMOVED BY THE AUTHOR

[b65ran]

I love this. Thanks for sharing. I am having some problems and questions.
1. My latest articles are not showing in vbnews.php
2. How do I add articles under Editor's Choice and Important News sections.

Thanks

[TheBlackPoet]

mary... you kick ass baby!!!!! imma buy this hack as soon as i got the money!!!!! your work is phenomenal for forums....

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by b65ran

I love this. Thanks for sharing. I am having some problems and questions.
1. My latest articles are not showing in vbnews.php
2. How do I add articles under Editor's Choice and Important News sections.


Thanks

Hello,

1.- Latest news, do you mean the listing in category's blocks (down of the page)? If yes that's strange. By mistake in my first release I had them ordering oldest first, so it was logical that they didn't appeared. But from version 1.1.0 I change the ordering to newest first. Please check that in case that approval is on, does these articles have been approved? Only active (approved) articles are appearing there.

2.- With 2 ways. If you have approve articles on, then at the bottom of the article there are checkboxes for all options. Second way is when you read (at site frontend) the article, there are options (checkboxes) on the left side.

[b65ran]

I checked the box to show it in the frontpage and editor choice. But it doesn't show that there for some reason. I dont know what I did wrong.

Thanks

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by b65ran

I checked the box to show it in the frontpage and editor choice. But it doesn't show that there for some reason. I dont know what I did wrong.

Thanks

Have you approved the articles? By default the option "Approve articles" is On. So you must approve them at admicp->vbNews->Approve listing
If it dosent solve the problem I wand the url of your installation to give a look.

[b65ran]

I sent you my forum info to your pm. Please take a look.

Thanks

[Doc31]

This looks cool , might have to have a look at it tomorrow , Great stuff

[Jessi]

OK, So how do you pick a news editor or how does someone become one? Ive looked through everything.
And can I remove the icons from the editor that says,"Feature only available in paid version". I would like members to try it before I cough up $42.50. Or change it to the VB's editor as it has more working functions compared to the free version of "VBNews"
I can tell you right now, if someone does a news article and has to jump through hoops figuring out which buttons actually work without getting, "Feature only available in paid version", it won't be used and it won't be worth getting the paid version as by that time it will be completely ignored.

Thanks for any input.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Jessi

OK, So how do you pick a news editor or how does someone become one? Ive looked through everything.

Who should become editor is not controling by vbNews. Which usergroup can post news in specific category is what it's controling. eg You can have a usergroup "Politics" whose members can post on "Politics", another usergroup "Sports" which can post in "Sports" etc. Who will become members in these special usergroups its up to you.

Originally Posted by Jessi

And can I remove the icons from the editor that says,"Feature only available in paid version". I would like members to try it before I cough up $42.50.

HTML editor is a 3nd party commercial product and I got the authority to include it in the Free version with disabled uploading: Audio/Video. It's author didn't told anything about removing buttons, so I think that there is no problem to remove them.

Originally Posted by Jessi

Or change it to the VB's editor as it has more working functions compared to the free version of "VBNews"

Are you kidding? Can you list some of the features that vbEditor has and the HTML editor (even in the Free version dosen't). eg Has vbEditor ability to design special pages by use of tables, or does vbEditor supports page breaks?

Originally Posted by Jessi

I can tell you right now, if someone does a news article and has to jump through hoops figuring out which buttons actually work without getting, "Feature only available in paid version", it won't be used and it won't be worth getting the paid version as by that time it will be completely ignored.

Only 3 buttons doesn't work. Audio upload, Video Upload and YouTUBE which actually is my own custom addon. So, where you found tha "had to jump throught hoops".?

And just for your information, as I dont want you to waste your time, except that it's a bit complicated to change editor, you must keep in mind:

1. That changing editor you're loosing combatibility with the commercial version, in case that someday you'll decide to upgrade.
2. Prepare yourself for many crashes, as I'm using editor's functions throught my code.
3. Last but not least, by changing the editor, you're breaking the rules of my copyright, which clearly states that the mod "can't reproduced"

[dizzy100]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Only 3 buttons doesn't work. Audio upload, Video Upload and YouTUBE which actually is my own custom addon. So, where you found tha "had to jump throught hoops".?

Mmmm not entirely correct here mary. Heres the buttons that flag up as disabled in the free version

• Text Color
• Fill
• Create Image (fundamental to any article)
• Create Flash
• Create Video
• Create Anchor
• Paste From Word
• Insert Char
• Create Table (rendering all the other table buttons completely useless)
• Find&Replace

The editor is so crippled its a joke to be honest and why include both a video block and a video tick box if the free version can't use either ?

Its a valiant attempt but its just too crippled i think. You can't even include a good sized picture in the news body and have to approve everything (even as admin). Add to that that featured articles and promotions to the front pages are incredibly confusing, having to disable one for the others to replace and it all works to something that's insanely strange and difficult to use.

It has huge potential and the front end user interface is nice but needs some refinements.

Why cant the last 3 articles posted in a category be the featured articles on those category locations ? Also the last posted should be the featured main article or better still, rotate the last 3 there so its constantly changing as the featured article. This way you take away the work of having to do it manually whilst still retaining a great user front end.

Also, what is the forum option for per category ? I enabled that and assumed it posted a thread to the forum within, but nothing appears, Very confused.

BTW, i also, to be frank here, much prefer the functionality of the vbulletin editor. The members are used to that and introducing a second system just confuses them.

What has stopped me buying any of your hacks is the constant use of a third party editor. I think, if your going to market at commercial you should use the built in vbulletin editor or if your really against that, have a switch toggle for both.