vBulletin 5 Connect Demo

Well playing with the CMS and again you can only choose one category for an article why not multiple categories.

 

To be honest i would rather not play with it ..

 

Concerning multiple categories for an article- this was raised previously in JIRA and this was the response from Kevin, the lead developer-

 

Why was it never considered in the first place to allow this? Some one that developed the CMS should have known that this would be a option that people where interested in it's even in Jira. Now its develop and release like this and later when it happens because there many features and improvements in Jira hope that it get multiple categories.

@AWS Is the vBulletin 5 demo running on the same server as this forum?

 

Well i presume the new server is faster then this one because the CMS of vBulletin 5 is very slow.

 

Well that figures, loading time is around the 9 to 10 seconds and this site that has more on it loads very fast. If its going to that server this forum it would be awesome.

 

I quoted Kevin's answer exactly so you know as much as I do- it seems they intend for tags to replace categories.

 

Well tags can be useful but when done wrong not all content will be found.

 

Thanks for the demo ..

The CMS look most unpleasant. I don't like it

 

I agree, it's truly dreadful and currently full of bugs.

 

The UI of the CMS is hideous why would anyone make an section like this (see below)



The title is not prominent enough in this, the created by is like they see the CMS as part of the forum should say Author: <name> and published should never be dates like yesterday, today, minute or seconds ago but full date and time. The reason is that its a article and not some random post on a forum. The whole section of Created, published,views and comments is IMHO wrong its irrelevant information you come for the article it self not the stats or who wrote it.

When viewing the article its much better but a lot of white space and the title is not prominent enough.



I would also give the option to show avatar or not but default it should be turned off its a article system not a forum post. I would give the writers of an article an option to include on the side something like this (see below)


Then there is no need for clutter at the title and you can provide more information. The email address is an image done for scrappers. You see username and what his function is below that. This option could be made very fast and when they post an article they can either turn it on or off but default should be on.

The CMS is just basic as it can be you can't alter the layout like in vBulletin 4 its now one column the splitting of the screen what you could do in vBulletin 4 is gone i cant find it.



Above this is the options you have in the 5.1.0 beta 1.

While i presumed that the CMS would be similar like vBulletin 4 it is not at all options in the AdminCP are missing or gone (either of the two). The CMS is now just a very very basic article system that has issues, the editor is not good with importing from other sources it removes the markup of the text while this can be maintained.

Sorry to say but how this is made it looks like a intern worked on this and got the order to make an CMS for vBulletin and build this. You are better off making a bridge for Wordpress because it looks better and you can do more with it. This looks like a script that was taken from a script website and altered to be included in vBulletin.

 

Here you can find the most powerful CMS of the world today !

vB CMS is - Unfortunately - much less successful than :

• Drupal
• e-majine
• eZ Publish
• Joomla!
• Magento
• Prestashop
• TYPO3
• WordPress
• Ametys
• Rubedo

also in vB CMS there is no slideShow like that :

http://www.templatemadesimple.com/tms_beserious/template_made_simple/tms_tools/tms_slideshow.html

http://www.web2do.be/Module_Showtime

In Jira

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-6207

 

To bad i can't understand French so the article for many is not readable without translation.

I really like EZ Publish but its very hard to install correctly. e-majine never heard of it searched for it but looked like French language only. Joomla can do nice stuff to same as Wordpress, Drupal. Typo3 never liked that one its to work intensive when i looked at it. Magento is more for stores then for normal websites but very good what i heard. Prestashop, Ametys and Rubedo never heard of those.

 

@we_are_borg So do you think that vB CMS is much less powerful than other CMS scipts ?

 

Yes the CMS in vBulletin is childish it shows that vBulletin has no clue what so ever how to make a CMS. The vBulletin CMS is something you start with when you just have your site and are learning the ropes, but after sometime you know there are far better systems and cheaper solutions out there.

Look at something like this

http://ez.no/Products/Demos-Videos/eZ-Flow-Video-Tutorial

This is how content should behave and the timeline is great, it shows that they know what people need.