New Article feature coming soon for 4.0

[Beth n Rod 1,279]

This information was prepared by VBulletin and describes the new Article Feature we are adding with our 4.0 Upgrade. Please read through it and if you have questions once the feature is turned on, let us know.

Beth

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Here's a quick visual guide on how to create a new article with the CMS.

1. Create New Article Button: Navigate to the section you want the article to be published in. Click on the “Create a New Article” button. This will open an article form.

2. Article Title: In the "Add/Edit Article" screen, enter the title of your article in the “Title” textbox.

3. SEO URL: Put in SEO-friendly URL in "SEO URL Alias" field. After entering the article title and SEO URL field is blank, the system will auto-fill the SEO URL based on the article title.

4. Article Text: Enter the body of your article in the WYSIWYG editor.

5. Image Settings Pop-up: Clicking on the image in the WYSIWYG will bring up the "Image Settings Menu" that allows you to set Image Alignment, Size, Title and Descriptions, and even enter CSS Style.

6. Publish Status: Enable article to be published or un-published.

7. Publish Date/Time: Ability to set a future publish date and time.

8. Comments: Enable/Disable User Comments for this specific article.

9. Permission Previews: If this article is to be published in a permission-secured section, you can still allow an article preview to be viewed on the homepage or public-accessible sections.

[Beth n Rod 1,279]

Move info from VB about articles....

Beth

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Promoting Articles from the Forums

One of the innovative new features on vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite is the cross-publishing "Promote to Article" functionality.

In the spirit of promoting content discovery, we wanted to create features that will allow content to flow between Forums, Blogs, and Articles. For example, there might be a really popular post in the forums, but unfortunately it is buried inside page 13 of a thread. We will now have an option (if you have permissions) to “promote” a forum (or blog) post as a new article on the homepage.

Here's how it works:

1: Users with permissions to publish a forum post into an article will see the “Promote to Article” button on each forum post. This user can push the button which will then bring up the “Add/Edit” article screen in the Content Management System.

2: In the “Add/Edit Article” page, the user will notice that the Article Title and Article Body is pre-filled with the information from the Forum Post .

3. Also note that the original author of the forum post is attributed as the new article author. Clicking the save button will save the new article publish it live to the CMS powered website.

4: After clicking “Save” the user will be taken to the Article View page. In this screen, visitors of the website can view the article and also leave a comment about the article.

5: Please note that at the end of the article, there is an attribution that this article was:

a. Originally published in a forum thread (with hyperlink) started by a user (with hyperlink).

b. And there is a hyperlink to the original forum post.

6: The article is also published on the front page of the CMS-powered Website.

[Beth n Rod 1,279]

Bump.......

This is a great new feature. Read and enjoy!

Do you remember making long posts that got very favorable responses and became hot threads? Go back and make them articles!

At the bottom of each post in the lower left corner it says...Promote To Article. It's easy!

Beth

[Ronw 14]

Looks nice.