vBulletin blog close to launch
For those who have been hiding in a cave the last 10 years, vBulletin is a PHP bulletin board and argubly the best discussion software available on the internet. I have been using it since around 2001 for building communities. I read about vBulletin building a blog into future versions of their software a while ago but I assumed that it was still quite some time away from launch.
I received an email from them today about the release of version 3.6.8. In the email they noted that
vBulletin 3.6.8 was recently released as a maintenance release to improve the stability of vBulletin and provide compatibility for the upcoming vBulletin Blog addon. The Blog will therefore require a minimum of vBulletin 3.6.8.
You can see a live version of the vBulletin blog here. This news might not interest some bloggers but it is big news for forum owners who have been looking for a good bridge between their forums and their blogging databases. Infact, I upgraded my forum’s blog to the latest version of wordpress a week or so ago but I found it very difficult to integrate the forum and blog design together. Not to mention the fact they both use different databases for member information. This could be the answer I am looking for.
You can see the official announcement from vBulletin regarding this here.
Mike Olbinski | July 30th, 2007 at 5:23 pm #
I run a massive Arizona Sports forum (ArizonaSportsFans.com) and we have vBulletin. Before I knew about their blog development, I tried Textpattern, then just switched to Wordpress…
I wonder if vBulletin will give the ability to import content. I really like Wordpress and I can’t decide if I want to switch a FOURTH time (Also not sure I want the blog and forum connected)…but if I do, I hope I can import stuff.
Kevin | July 30th, 2007 at 5:26 pm #
I haven’t tried out vBulletin’s blog yet but at the moment I would still suspect that wordpress is better. However, vBulletin have a lot of top guys in their team so I’m sure it will be tweaked a lot. Plus you will have the added benefit of the blog being integrated with your forums member database
More Merchant | July 31st, 2007 at 12:20 pm #
vBulletin is one of the best for sure.
I have ran some pretty successful blogs in amount of people, but always made more money in blogging.
What about you?
The Buxr Widget | July 31st, 2007 at 1:08 pm #
I run a decent sized forum also.. This is very interesting news - I wonder if they will offer conversion from Wordpress?
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Brandon | January 30th, 2008 at 10:21 pm #
oh, I should of read this post first.
Anyways.. I really dig the blog, but hope the vb devs add some customization options for the users.