My stupid question of the day...

[matthewd5]

Ok, so I'm trying to setup/run my vbulletinn forum in a somewhat minimalist way...

I disabled blogging right away and I'd like to make Articles disappear for now

I was able to the articles tab go away pretty easily, but promote to article and other such references are seemingly woven into the vb forums

Are articles something I should suck it up and utilize?

I'm starting up a pretty focused regional special user group and based on past building of many online communities, back before the Facebook founders were even born!

I just feel the need to minimize the content being created to just the forums and the Drive Thru Garage photo gallery, which although it has it's issues, it's as if I had a custom photo gallery written from scratch for my current project...

So are there a couple of checkboxes I'm missing to make articles and article related options go hibernate?

Matthew

[cellarius]

Just go to your addon section in AdminCP and disable the CMS addon (as, presumably, you did with the blog addon? How else would you have disabled it?).

[matthewd5]

I was concerned that if I disabled cms I would be breaking other functionality

Specifically thinks like the drive thru Garage program

Matthew

[cellarius]

I have no idea how that addon works, but if you want to get rid of the CMS completely, you have to turn it off. Why don't you just give it a try?

[matthewd5]

Ok

Thank you

Matthew

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ok so I have the Articles option disabled for now...

not sure if its related or a coincidence, but a third party program that I had installed and it was working fine, and now it disappeared!

basically its gone from the TAB's

all of its info is there in the Administrators controls just fine, I just can't find where to add it back to the list of TAB's...

its called Clubs from Drive Thru

matthew

[cellarius]

Then you need to ask at that program's support place. Turning off CMS is standard procedure, there even is a vB4 version completely w/o the CMS. If that makes another addon vanish, that's an issue of that addon.

[matthewd5]

Originally Posted by cellarius

Then you need to ask at that program's support place. Turning off CMS is standard procedure, there even is a vB4 version completely w/o the CMS. If that makes another addon vanish, that's an issue of that addon.

I have the, the owner is having some personal medical problem and is unable to do much of anything right now

I hope he has a good recovery

I only asked on here because I thought I might have turned it off in someplace that I don't know about, or as a side effect of turning off the articles

Matthew