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Hello everyone,
I completed the mainframe of my newest project - MyBB CMS addon.

There have been a lot of requests for a CMS in the past, with a lot of different opinions how the CMS should look like and which features it should have.

One thing before I start to go into my current CMS- this is of course NOT so advanced as other CMS like Drupal, Joomla or Typo3.
It is designed to fit into MyBB and it does integrate 100% with MyBB as all of my addons do.
It is designed to expand your forum with custom pages in various ways and not to be a stand-alone CMS.

I would really like to hear your suggestions and ideas now - at the moment the CMS is fairly advanced but still easy to modify so I can really take new stuff in.

Allready implemented and working features:
- Creating unlimited pages with eighter text only, BB-Code (WYSIWYG editor included) or HTML (WYSIWYG editor included), you can choose that via plugin settings (MyBB ACP). Demo uses BB-Code everywhere at the moment.
- Create unlimited categories with introduction page (additional text). You decide not only who can create, edit or delete categories but also who can write articles in this category. Settings via MyBB usergroups.
Creation, editing and deleting done via built-in admin interface within two mouseclicks.
- You can create and delete unlimited subcategories for every category
- Rating system (5 star rating), switch on/off in plugin settings
- Comments on every article/page, can be switched on/off in plugin settings
- SEO ready - does not use ID's primarily but uses the names in the URL. Also comes with meta description (first 150 chars from text) which can be turned on/off in plugin settings
- Permissions via plugin settings - which group can post new articles, are users allowed to edit their own articles, which groups can modify articles written by other people (edited by will be shown then), which groups can add/edit/delete categories and subcategories and which groups can even see pages / articles inside the CMS
- Multilanguage support
- Users can report articles and admin can hide articles with one click (backend done, frontend missing)

Planned features:
- Show latest articles on forum index (on/off in plugin settings, settings for how many articles to show)
- Show latest articles by user in profile (on/off in plugin settings, settings for how many articles to show)

I think the design is nice, it should fit MyBB. Comments on it are welcome though, I'm a better coder then designer.

Beta versions for testing on your own local testforum can be given to subscribers of MybbAddons.com by PM request.

LIVE DEMO

Live demo uses custom design, here are some screenshots with the default MyBB design:
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Index - the start page for the CMS. At the moment it does only list the latest articles and the categories but it also could list random articles or best rated articles.
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Category view including all options for editing and deleting category and adding an article to it. Please note the text of the category and the subcategories at the left side.
[attachment=14751] Editing category with some more text
[attachment=14748] Finally the article itself with comments & rating.
[attachment=14750] Let's edit the article / page!

Please test and comment this addon
Thank you all very much
Lennart Sauter

this is cool~

but I can't add new articles.. maybe you forgot to allowed usergroup

Looks more like a Simple Blog than a CMS, but if we consider is the first release is good. An Advance for MyBB

Good Luck.

(2009-07-17, 04:03 PM)kaixer Wrote: [ -> ]this is cool~

but I can't add new articles.. maybe you forgot to allowed usergroup

Damn, I really forgot the subscribers group... especially this group - sorry mate. But it shows that the permission system is working fine.
You should now be able to post in the game and car category (other cat is for staff only)

(2009-07-17, 04:15 PM)rafaweb Wrote: [ -> ]Looks more like a Simple Blog than a CMS, but if we consider is the first release is good. An Advance for MyBB
Good Luck.

Hmm, it's not a blogging system... it's also not a release, it's public beta
If you have any ideas how to improve it or if you can describe why you'd call it a blog please share your thoughts with us.

Thank you and kind regards
Lennart Sauter

Is it possible to add custom html / php code to blocks ?

Good job, as a suggestion it would be nicer to use stars for ratings rather than selecting 1-5 though but perhaps that's just a personal preference so maybe this should be an option rather than a default setting.

(2009-07-20, 05:35 AM)Vapor Wrote: [ -> ]Is it possible to add custom html / php code to blocks ?

You can use HTML in your postings of course.
I don't know what kind of Php you'd like to add but you are allowed to modify this addon for personal use if you bought a subscription.

(2009-07-20, 08:20 PM)PwnEm Wrote: [ -> ]Good job, as a suggestion it would be nicer to use stars for ratings rather than selecting 1-5 though but perhaps that's just a personal preference so maybe this should be an option rather than a default setting.

I'm working on AJAX star rating for the CMS

is this addon still in beta?

Yes it is, I don't push very much in the development at the moment because nobody seemed to need it urgently.

If somebody needs this as a final I'll finish it within days.

Hey just a suggestion, can it have a feature where in ACP, categories can be organized by category ID(creation date) or category name or something else. Also, for articles can this be sorted by publish date or subject name or something else.

Just to confirm, does this parse html in article? because this mod would be best suited for video streams and novel/cooking guides.

And if the gallery had same functions like this where categories were on the left including sub categories + mass upload of photos would be awesome.