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Finally, at last, it’s here.  And now, on to 2.8.  There were several areas that we didn’t have time to re-design for 2.7.  2.8 will focus on making the media and widgets UI as good as the rest of WP.  There will be a few new features as well.  Theme browsing and one-click theme install is a likely one.  After a short rest to recover from 2.7, we’ll start brainstorming new features and put the results on the 2.8 codex page.

We’ll likely do the usual .1 release in a month to address any bugs that slipped through the 2.7 beta…

vBulletin.com Announcement: vB4 Alpha Update
Author: Steve Machol
Published: 08-28-2009 09:45 PM

I just wanted to provide a quick update on the status of the vB4 Alpha testing program.

We have already released Alpha 2 to the test team. As you would expect this version provided a number of bug fixes and incorporated some of the very useful suggestions coming from the testers.

To date most of the reported bugs have to do with relatively easy-to-fix template issues. However as with any Alpha version there have been a number of code bugs uncovered. To that end we have set up a bug-scrubbing…

I just wanted to provide a quick update on the status of the vB4 Alpha testing program.

We have already released Alpha 2 to the test team. As you would expect this version provided a number of bug fixes and incorporated some of the very useful suggestions coming from the testers.

To date most of the reported bugs have to do with relatively easy-to-fix template issues. However as with any Alpha version there have been a number of code bugs uncovered. To that end we have set up a bug-scrubbing operation to help identify, prioritize and streamline the debugging process.…

I just wanted to provide a quick update on the status of the vB4 Alpha testing program.

We have already released Alpha 2 to the test team. As you would expect this version provided a number of bug fixes and incorporated some of the very useful suggestions coming from the testers.

To date most of the reported bugs have to do with relatively easy-to-fix template issues. However as with any Alpha version there have been a number of code bugs uncovered. To that end we have set up a bug-scrubbing operation to help identify, prioritize and streamline the debugging process.…

We hit an important milestone this morning, with the vB team publishing the first alpha release of vBulletin 4.0 Forums to the alpha team.

The alpha cycle is special in that it is released far earlier in vBulletin’s development cycle than betas, the goal being to get more eyes on the product and get it running in more environments as soon as the product is installable, well before we reach the beta stage.

As soon as it is ready (in a few weeks), we will release the alpha version of vBulletin 4.0 Suite to the alpha team, and I’ll keep…

vBulletin.com Announcement: Alpha testing has started for vBulletin 4.0 Forums
Author: Ray Morgan
Published: 19th August 2009 08:07 PM

We hit an important milestone this morning, with the vB team publishing the first alpha release of vBulletin 4.0 Forums to the alpha team.

The alpha cycle is special in that it is released far earlier in vBulletin’s development cycle than betas, the goal being to get more eyes on the product and get it running in more environments as soon as the product is installable, well before we reach the beta stage.

As soon as it is ready (in a few weeks),…

vBulletin.com Announcement: Alpha testing has started for vBulletin 4.0 Forums
Author: Ray Morgan
Published: 19th August 2009 08:07 PM

We hit an important milestone this morning, with the vB team publishing the first alpha release of vBulletin 4.0 Forums to the alpha team.

The alpha cycle is special in that it is released far earlier in vBulletin’s development cycle than betas, the goal being to get more eyes on the product and get it running in more environments as soon as the product is installable, well before we reach the beta stage.

As soon as it is ready (in a few weeks),…

We hit an important milestone this morning, with the vB team publishing the first alpha release of vBulletin 4.0 Forums to the alpha team.

The alpha cycle is special in that it is released far earlier in vBulletin’s development cycle than betas, the goal being to get more eyes on the product and get it running in more environments as soon as the product is installable, well before we reach the beta stage.

As soon as it is ready (in a few weeks), we will release the alpha version of vBulletin 4.0 Suite to the alpha team, and I’ll keep…

In my last few announcements I’ve reported the team’s progress on the last few remaining tasks, particularly porting templates to the new CSS-based markup and some additional enhancements and debugging in the new CMS.

I’m happy to report that, barring any surprises, we’re still on track to start alpha testing the Forums product next week. All of its templates have had their rough conversion done, and more than 95% have been integrated. After the last few templates are integrated, we’ll do a quick round of regression testing and fix whatever showstopper-level bugs we find, then alpha testing can begin.

A few…

vBulletin.com Announcement: vBulletin 4.0 Development and Alpha Testing Update
Author: Ray Morgan
Published: 14th August 2009 10:25 PM

In my last few announcements I’ve reported the team’s progress on the last few remaining tasks, particularly porting templates to the new CSS-based markup and some additional enhancements and debugging in the new CMS.

I’m happy to report that, barring any surprises, we’re still on track to start alpha testing the Forums product next week. All of its templates have had their rough conversion done, and more than 95% have been integrated. After the last few templates are integrated, we’ll do a quick round of…

vBulletin.com Announcement: vBulletin 4.0 Development and Alpha Testing Update
Author: Ray Morgan
Published: 14th August 2009 10:25 PM

In my last few announcements I’ve reported the team’s progress on the last few remaining tasks, particularly porting templates to the new CSS-based markup and some additional enhancements and debugging in the new CMS.

I’m happy to report that, barring any surprises, we’re still on track to start alpha testing the Forums product next week. All of its templates have had their rough conversion done, and more than 95% have been integrated. After the last few templates are integrated, we’ll do a quick round of…

In my last few announcements I’ve reported the team’s progress on the last few remaining tasks, particularly porting templates to the new CSS-based markup and some additional enhancements and debugging in the new CMS.

I’m happy to report that, barring any surprises, we’re still on track to start alpha testing the Forums product next week. All of its templates have had their rough conversion done, and more than 95% have been integrated. After the last few templates are integrated, we’ll do a quick round of regression testing and fix whatever showstopper-level bugs we find, then alpha testing can begin.

A few…

vBulletin.com Blog Entry: Widget Programming
Author: Edwin Brown
Published: 14th August 2009 05:01 AM

<div>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 the CMS system, which will be part of the suite. Soon, but…

vBulletin.com Blog Entry: Widget Programming
Author: Edwin Brown
Published: 14th August 2009 05:01 AM

<div>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 the CMS system, which will be part of the suite. Soon, but…

Jelsoft has just released vBulletin 3.8.4 to fix issues with php 5.0.3.

No template changes are required for our vbulletin skins Existing customers do not need to upgrade

New customers, please choose to Ignore Style Version when importing the .xml’s file of your new style.

On a side note I’m looking forward the fast approaching beta testing of vbulletin 4 so that I can start coding some new skins

I will shortly upgrade our shop and help desk to fix some recent incompatibility and problem with the ticketing system.