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First, a huge thank you for all the great feedback on the 4.0 product from both the Alpha group and customers on vBulletin.com.

vBulletin 4.0 is right around the corner and we're eager to deliver it to you as soon as possible. To that end, we've decided to release a Beta version of Forum and Suite. If you have access to download Forum 4.0 or Suite 4.0, expect the Beta to be available in the member's area no later than mid-November.

And stay tuned in as next week we'll ...

The new vBulletin 4.0 boasts a lot of new changes such as CSS-friendly styles, multi-content search and other various new features. The biggest improvement in vBulletin 4.0, however – is well hidden under the hood and it is the actual changes to the database storage mechanism. While there are exceptions, this change improves the way vBulletin sites scale upwards to serve more visitors and more content without sacrificing performance. As a preface to my blog post, allow me to please explain its purpose. ...

In the spirit of providing more documentation to our customers and developer community, we put together two PDF documents and an example style. The first is "vB4: Skinning Your Forum in 10 Easy Steps." This is a step-by-step guide on how to customize the main areas of your vB4 Forum.

The second document is the vB4 StyleVar Visual Dictionary. The StyleVar (style variable) Dictionary is more of a complementary reference guide aimed at understanding how and where to use ...

I spent quite a lot of the last few months working on the vB4 style. Obviously, there was a lot of HTML to convert to the proper semantic style. Kier converted a lot before he left and I was assisting him in that process.

There was just too much HTML to convert for one person so Alpha is very much an alpha in terms of the style. It is very rough around the edges and usability is being worked on.

A few days ago I added a popup to the editor that allows a video url (youtube, ...

Widget Programming

Introduction
This is intended for reasonably experienced PHP programmers with some experience in vBulletin programming. You should have at least a basic understand of the vB templating system and phrasing. If you don’t, I strongly recommend you do some homework before trying to program a widget. I will use as an example the static html widget.

It's very early to be writing this, I know. I can't say exactly when alpha testing will start on ...