Today we're announcing the availability of vBulletin 4.0.1 Maintenance Release of vBulletin Publishing Suite and vBulletin Forum. If you have an active vBulletin license, you can download your copy of 4.0.1 from the vBulletin Members Area at: http://members.vbulletin.com .
4.0.1 fixes more than 200 bugs since the release of 4.0 Gold.
Highlights of what’s fixed in 4.0.1:
• [Tab Ordering] Added Tab Index Ordering
• [Search] Added Search Results by Relevancy
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Editing vBulletin 4.0 default graphics to match your customized style with the 4.0 GDK is very simple. Here are a couple example cases of graphic customizations you can make on Adobe Photoshop (I'm using version CS4 here).
Single-layer monochromatic icons
This includes the single-color and single-layer icons found in /buttons, /site_icons, etc. A simple Color Overlay changes the colors of
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As implied by the name, vBulletin 4 Friendly URLs allow you to use 'friendlier' URLs for the links on your Forums, Blogs and CMS. Instead of a script name followed by obscure resource ids, friendly URLs are more informative to your users and give more clues to search engines about the nature of your content.
I wanted to provide everyone with 3 updated PDF documents:
Forum StyleVar Visual Dictionary 2.0
CMS StyleVar Visual Dictionary
Blog StyleVar Visual Dictionary
The StyleVar (style variable) Dictionary is a complete visual reference guide aimed at understanding how and where to use each StyleVar for advanced skinning/theme customization.
Based on overwhelming customer feedback and suggestions, we have added quite a lot more StyleVars to Forums.
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As several of you know, I've been promising to blog on how to write your own CMS Content type. The ability to do that was one of the requirements for the new system, and it's real. For a number of reasons it's available now.
I've attached a zip file with the code and a Word file that includes everything from here down. You can download that and skip everything from here down.
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We have created 2 new PDF documents that empower customers and our developer community to make advanced customizations to their vBulletin 4.0 powered site.
1). Forum Templates Visual Dictionary
2). CMS Templates Visual Dictionary
These Templates Visual Dictionary documents will help you "visually" identify templates used on each page or module. By understanding a template structure for a given page/module , you will be able to control the layout and
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To help accelerate learning and mastering the CMS features in the vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite (beta 3) product, we put together an updated set of "Getting Started with CMS" documentations.
There are 5 PDF documents and I think this might be the right order to read them:
1. CMS_Sections.pdf (spilt into 2 pdf files)
2. CMS_Permissions.pdf
3. CMS_Articles.pdf (spilt into 2 pdf files)
4. CMS_Widgets.pdf
5. CMS_Grids_&_Layouts
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As we continue to introduce to our new vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite, we would like to share our broader vision and answer some questions about where we are headed.
First, our vision. We believe that both content and community are king. Launched in 2000, vBulletin has grown to become the leading and most powerful forum management software in the world, with considerably more than 100,000 copies sold. If you combined the traffic of all vBulletin sites, they would easily rank in top
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