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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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Prior to vBulletin 4, you were able to refer to your plugin's variables exactly as you would refer to them within a standard PHP script. Due to the changes to the way vBulletin's templates work, this is no longer the case.

Once you understand the new vBullein 4 template variable format, referring to your plugin's variables will be simple. Let's take a look at the new variable format by comparing some examples of how they look in vBulletin 3.8.X and vBulletin 4.
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All of us at vBulletin are pleased to announce the release of vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite Beta 3 and vBulletin 4.0 Forum Beta 3, our first public beta release of vBulletin 4.0. We’re extremely excited about hitting this milestone, and we know many of you can’t wait to get your hands on the product and start playing around with it.

Beta 3 is available to all vBulletin 4.0 pre-sale customers. If you’re a pre-sale customer, you can download your copy of Beta 3 from the vBulletin Members ...

First there was the L.A. Times, and news you consume while sipping coffee on a Sunday morning. Then LATimes.com. Much later, Forums and Blogging came around, and the Web blew-up, millions of voices came online, writing their own articles, cultivating myriads of micro-audiences, many of them growing to online publishing powerhouses.

Somewhere in that time-frame social networking also blew-up. Friendster. MySpace. Facebook. Then micro-publishing with Twitter. And statuses everywhere. ...

Since the new CMS went up on vBulletin.com last Friday, we've received a ton of great initial feedback. We're reading every comment and taking everyone's input into consideration as we tweak the CMS. Thanks for the great response, and please keep the suggestions coming!

One theme we're seeing in the feedback is that people are finding our CMS tutorial articles valuable as they explore the CMS. I've just created a new tutorial article on Managing CMS Sections and Content. This article ...