An adequate CMS integrated with vBulletin has always been a desire for any webmaster to extend content beyond a vBulletin forum. Even after all the products and plug-ins, there are many content management concepts that are found lacking in a stand-alone vBulletin setup.

vbDrupal offers that bridge between a high-caliber CMS and vBulletin. Drupal is considered by many as one of the best, most robust, secure, extensible content management system out there (deemed best open-source CMS by IBM).

Originally post at vbDrupal for vBulletin Forums, used with permission.

The Drupal Advantage

1. A superior CMS
2. Collaborative ‘books’ of contributed articles
3. Advanced content publishing options, user submitted articles, with free tagging or hierarchical categorizations
4. Version controlled submissions
5. Extensive Blogging options, with permalinks
6. RSS/ATOM news aggregation and syndication options
7. Completely configurable blocks, regions, views and other layout options
8. Extends your presentation possibilities
9. Robust, well documented, open-source code
10. Developer and extensible friendly hook system, with active volunteer support
11. Hundreds of 3rd party modules covering file/image hosting, User Groups, eCommerce solutions, Printer Friends or Forward page options and many others

For a more complete picture of possibilities using Drupal, check out its Features and Is it Right for You.


What vbDrupal Offers

With Drupal and vBulletin brought together in vbDrupal, there is full user integration, Drupal blocks in vBulletin forums, and vBulletin thread and PM content in Drupal regions. Also, included is the ability to map vBulletin user groups onto Drupal roles to further integration user permissions and access control from inside of vBulletin. Also, all vBulletin products and plug-ins will continue to function with vbDrupal.

Join the vbDrupal growing community in these forums. vbDrupal 5.0 is in development now, so give your input on how you want it to turn out.