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$25 |
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webmaster@vbportal.com |
| Description |
vbPortal is the ideal cms portal solution for vBulletin sites. The goal is to give you options and features to seperate your forum from the rest and make it broad enough to attract more visitors and users.
Create multiple faced portals tied to vBulletin usergroups.
Not only can the user join a sub-usergroup and have a whole sub-set of forums they can now have a whole set of portal modules assigned to that usergroup alone and a completely diverse style set for each one. |
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Anonymous |
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| Published on: |
16 August 2005 |
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| This has been read: |
75 times |
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| Recommended: |
Yes |
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vbportal is really a content management system that allows you to set each group to have their own homepage, it allows members to submit reviews, web links, upload files that other users can download, submit classified ads, and articles and allows you or co-admins with the right permissions to manage this from the portalcp. Some duties can also be performed inline by module moderators. You can add frequently asked questions in addition to your forums faqs, encyclopedia's, users can keep journals and it has an extensive bug reporter (similar in nature to vbulletin's). There's also extensive statistics throughout, such as top posters, top forums, top threads, as well as detailed statistics from the classifieds, reviews, link, downloads, content modules and of course your forums. You can pull news from multiple forums and display a preview of the first post in a centre (or side) block in any module you choose, the news block also displays the first image attachment as a clickable thumbnail. vbPortal also comes with a very extensive Latest Threads module and blocks. From the latest threads module, you can view every single thread from all forums you have permission to see. In addition you can specify forums to exclude from the latest threads or choose not to use the forum permissions at all and simply show everyone a link to everything (as a teaser) or just those forums you specify. All of the modules allow you to set how far back to go when listing threads/articles, such as the last day, week, month, etc - just like you do with your forums.
Every module in vbportal (there are 23 core modules at present) allows you to display different side and centre blocks. You can have the latest thread and news sideblock in the left column of one module, in the right column of another, in fact you can configure each module to display any of the existing 70+ blocks to-date. It also supports a sidebar in your forums. You can't select all 70+ blocks for your forums sidebar though, just those that are considered to be side blocks. As well as displaying side blocks in your modules, you can also display centre blocks. In addition, you can configure how many items are displayed in each block. If you want to show your last 10 reviews but only the last 6 web links, you simply change the display limit in the blocks properties. If you want to display 5 items from a newsfeed in the left column of a module but only 4 in the centre column of another module you can do this.
All of the modules use options and permissions to determine who can do what in each module. You can for example allow registered users to start their own articles and reply to their own articles (links, reviews, classifieds, etc), but not reply to other members articles - much like you do with your forums.
You can add unlimited categories and child categories, with no limit to the depth and you can also configure each module to use a different theme. |
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