Download Vbulletin 5 Connect Nulled
Takako Dito
It looks like vBulletin are doing the same as they have just launched the latest version of the script: vBulletin 5 Connect. This is a major update of their best selling software and it has a lot of great features that might entice users of other forum software to switch over.
On the surface, the vBulletin design looks like an evolution rather than a revolution. Those of you who have previous versions of vBulletin would be able to see a forum using vBulletin 5 and know instantly that it was using vBulletin. This is no bad thing. The design has a clean professional look, which makes browsing threads a pleasure.
There seems to be less distractions than last versions of vBulletin. The whole system seems to have been simplified, which can only be a good thing as many people take a while to get used to the way forum software works. One of the things I love about the new design is the forum room headers. The discussions are listed under a tab called Topics. In the same menu, users can view the latest activity, their own subscriptions, and display photos that have been attached in the forum.
vBulletin 5 Connect has everything you would expect from leading forum software. In addition to discussion forums, the software also includes blogs, polls and groups. It has been optimised for search engines too.
They have finally changed their vBulletin template system that so many of us were familiar with. In its place is a modern site builder that allows you to drag-and-drop things to the place you want. You can also edit parts of your design in-line. The filtering options have been greatly enhanced too. You can now filter results to only show photos, videos, links and polls.
Stupidly, many customers like my purchased vBulletin 4 anyway, despite it costing hundreds of dollars. For want of a better description, it was a piece of crap. The CMS element of the software was promoted as being revolutionary but it felt like a CMS from several years before. To do this day, the way Internet Brands handled existing customers is something that still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
However, as a website owner, I cannot let things like that hold me back from using vBulletin if it is the best software out there. Due to the course case with Internet Brands, the development of XenForo has been incredibly slow, which has been the most disappointing part of using the software. Though they know how to look after their customers and that means a lot when you are spending hundreds of dollars on software.
vBulletin 5 retails for $249.00. As an existing customer, I can get the software for $209.00. The vBulletin Mobile Suite add-on costs an additional $150 if you purchase it at the same time as the core version and $199 if you upgrade later. That offers native iOS and android apps, native responsive design, and permits users to connect to your forum using Forum Runner (a service Internet Brands now owns). Removing the branding of vBulletin costs $169.
So for the forum software and the mobile suite, new customers will have to pay $399.00. That is not the biggest issue for me. The biggest issue is support. As long as I can remember, vBulletin offered forum and premium ticket support for one year for new customers. Existing customers could get ticket support by renewing their license for $30. Not any more. New customers only get 30 days of ticket support. After that, they will have to get help in the public discussion forums. Should you need premium support, you need to pay an additional $199 per year or $49 per month.
That is something that is going to put off a lot of potential customers. It essentially pushes the price of vBulletin up to $598, with yearly support after that costing $199 every year. In contrast, Xenforo costs $140 to buy and $40 per year to get the latest version; and that includes premium ticket support. Therefore, vBulletin is around 4 times as expensive. It is hard to justify that kind of expense.
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Before installing vBulletin, you need to login to the members area at and edit your license. The main thing is to set your correct forum URL. After submitting, you can download the forum files, then unzip them.
Use an FTP program such as FileZilla to upload the files from the vbulletin/upload folder to the folder on your server. In this example, we are uploading to the root public_html folder. If you are using a CMS such as WordPress in your root folder, you can create a subfolder and upload to it. Call it something appropriate for your forum. Forum is fine, but you can also use words like community, support, or club. Ideally you want a word that not only works for those people using your vBulletin forum, but also works as a good SEO keyword to help bring people to your site.
Make sure the path you set for your forum in the vBulletin members area matches exactly the path you are uploading to. If they do not match, go back and edit to make it match. This will prevent you from having any licensing issues.
NOTE: If you do not have cPanel access, you will need to have the person who manages your domain setup the database for you. Have them provide you with the database name, database username, and password, and skip down to the file prep section, starting with editing your .htacess file.
Go to your forumroot/core/includes folder and change the permissions on your md5_sums_vbulletin.php folder to 444, removing all write access to it. This can be done many ways through your cPanel. In the example below, I am using FileZilla to change permissions.
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