Word Press question.

[Carlos]

Can you give more information on this.

Lets say you posted 3 different articles in your forum (where you're using vba), all of this content is going to stay for at least a week (something like that), but after that, the content is gone. So, after this, your main site looks like there's no content. This is why I wanted a CMS for my forum. Because it STAYS there forever, that is, until you make a new post. From my experience with VBAdvanced, this is NOT the case.

 

[CFodder]

I see that as a weakness. VBCMS allows you to post as if it was a blog (I said "as if" so don't get any ideas). And the "promote to CMS" works for me.

The other weakness is that all the content that you on the site usually disappears after a time has passed.

How does it disappear??? They're forum posts so don't disappear. Advantage is all comments on a particular article go into the forum itself. Disadvantages are you can't promote posts to be an article and they do lack some of the refinements, such as limiting characters, that the VB4 system has ... however I believe the small limitations pale into comparison with VB4's current ones.

 

[CFodder]

Lets say you posted 3 different articles in your forum (where you're using vba), all of this content is going to stay for at least a week (something like that), but after that, the content is gone. So, after this, your main site looks like there's no content. This is why I wanted a CMS for my forum. Because it STAYS there forever, that is, until you make a new post. From my experience with VBAdvanced, this is NOT the case.

No, the content stays there until something newer is posted.

I do agree with you though Carlos, if it could be made to better integrate a la some of the VB CMS features then that would be FANTASTIC.

 

[Carlos]

How does it disappear??? They're forum posts so don't disappear. Advantage is all comments on a particular article go into the forum itself. Disadvantages are you can't promote posts to be an article and they do lack some of the refinements, such as limiting characters, that the VB4 system has ... however I believe the small limitations pale into comparison with VB4's current ones.

Its VBAdvanced, not the forum. VBA has this weird time-limit on posts you made specifically for VBA [frontend].

How does it disappear??? They're forum posts so don't disappear. Advantage is all comments on a particular article go into the forum itself. Disadvantages are you can't promote posts to be an article and they do lack some of the refinements, such as limiting characters, that the VB4 system has ... however I believe the small limitations pale into comparison with VB4's current ones.

I have left the forum posts in the forum for more than a month, and when I enabled vba between the first time I posted it, and the end of the month - its gone from frontend view. That has been my experience with it, so I decided: #*@& it, I removed it from the site, AND my network. I've been looking, looking and looking for the right program for my network. Nothing. Until VBCMS came along, but then falters because the forum software itself is buggy.

 

[CFodder]

Edited my last post as I do know what you meant about the CMS and 'blog-like' content.

BTW, if you don't want articles to just disappear set the cut-off date to 0 .

 

[jonsidneyb]

So in vBAdvanced you cannot promote a tread to an article on the front page. How do you go about having the same content on both?

 

[CFodder]

Well you can do that, but it's not as simple as it is with the VB CMS.

 

[Carlos]

So in vBAdvanced you cannot promote a tread to an article on the front page. How do you go about having the same content on both?

The articles on VBA are like RSS feeds, it takes you to the forum content. At least that's how I remember it.

 

[CFodder]

Yeah, that'd be a good analogy for them

 

[Chromaniac]

http://www.fakingnews.com/forum/

Here is a forum running on wordpress through a plugin named SimplePress.

If blogs is what you are going to focus at and forum is just going to complement it, I suggest focusing on the blogging app over the forum app!

 

[feldon30]

I am not that happy with vB4.

I plan on moving the forum to xenForo. Just need to decide if WordPress or xenAdvanced is the best option for the same effect.

I'm not really sure how a WordPress site is going to be a front end for a store-based site. There are WordPress plugins to do a sort of store ,but I'm not sure it's a replacement for a shopping cart system.

 

[feldon30]

Lets say you posted 3 different articles in your forum (where you're using vba), all of this content is going to stay for at least a week (something like that), but after that, the content is gone. So, after this, your main site looks like there's no content. This is why I wanted a CMS for my forum. Because it STAYS there forever, that is, until you make a new post. From my experience with VBAdvanced, this is NOT the case.

And this time limit is not easily editable? vBAdvanced is built in PHP. I'm guessing the time limit is something easy to edit in a config file.

 

[jonsidneyb]

I have a stand alone store. The front page just has links to the items in the store.

 

[SchmitzIT]

Its VBAdvanced, not the forum. VBA has this weird time-limit on posts you made specifically for VBA [frontend].

I have left the forum posts in the forum for more than a month, and when I enabled vba between the first time I posted it, and the end of the month - its gone from frontend view. That has been my experience with it, so I decided: #*@& it, I removed it from the site, AND my network. I've been looking, looking and looking for the right program for my network. Nothing. Until VBCMS came along, but then falters because the forum software itself is buggy.

We use vBA on vB4, and it simply does not work like you claim.

What we did is set up a specific News forum. Anything posted in that specific forum as a stickyfied post will automatically be on the frontpage. Our own articles are posted there, but also specific news from RSS feeds. Typically, these are downtime messages and we configured the RSS feed to destickify those threads after 1 or 2 days, so they won't clutter out our content.

As long as we do not explicitly de-stickify threads, they will be visible on the frontpage, and only drop down from there if enough new articles have been posted, or if we manually unsticky the original thread.

Of course the key to this is ensuring only a few people can post to the frontpage, so your users do not end up cluttering the frontpage with random threads.

 

[CurveGotti]

There was a mod that was not too bad on vB, for integrating the word press database with the vbulletin one. There were a few bugs, but it was the start of a good concept. I did not use it enough to try and work out the bugs, but what it did was when you posted a wordpress article it allowed users logged into the forums to post comments to the articles. I had it set so only my vB user table members could reply, but I think you could change the options around quite a bit as far as what users could interact. I am sure there will be something simular or much better here in no time.

 

[Carlos]

We use vBA on vB4, and it simply does not work like you claim.

Never used the VB4 version of VBA, so I don't know how it is. It was two years ago when i tried out VBA on my 3.7.0 instance.

 

[Tigratrus]

As I think was noted above, there was a vB mod that allowed you to basically use vB as the comment engine for Wordpress, with a matching thread spawned in the forum. I expect the same thing will be available for XF, in fact it's a major thing I'm looking for... A REALLY effective XF-WP integration will be a world beater combo. I don't really think it's reasonable to expect the XF devs to be able to both continue to develop and maintain the world class forum system that is XF AND expect them to keep up with the HUGE established community of existing CMS systems. WP 3.x with it's multi user blogging out of the box + XF would be a best of breed solution IMO, as long as there is a really GOOD bridge/integration, which clearly is something a lot of people are are pushing for as well.

 

[SchmitzIT]

Never used the VB4 version of VBA, so I don't know how it is. It was two years ago when i tried out VBA on my 3.7.0 instance.

We use the same concept on 3.8.4. Not sure how different 3.7.0 was, as that's before my time, but I really do not recognise the problems you described earlier.

Oh well. It seems as if it is now able to offer what you wanted, so good times The more options we have to choose from, the better.