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Hi,
My client requires the site to have a forum and blog. Normal registered users can create entries to the blog and others (even non registered users) can comment to the blog. The admin have the ability to monitor and approve the blogs . So once submitted the post would be published only after reviewed by admin. Both the forum and blogs can have only one common login. Well, on searching the module lists I came up with "blog made simple" and "forum made simple". Since both are part of the cmsms I think I can provide a common login field but I am not sure if I can have all the required functionality as said above. After installing and checking the blog made simple it seems that the blog post can be added only by an admin. I am also not sure if the forum is a advance forum like this forum. Is there any way out or should I go for some other blog and forum? If so which is the best forum and blog project for CMSMS? I hope there would be someone who had such similar requirements and was able to solve it. Thanks

Greetings,
FWIW I'm dealing with a similar situation and will be posting my progress in a sort of "Diary" fashon
here:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 697.0.html

HTH and Good Luck!

Greetings Unknown,
Thanks for pointing me to your post and from your post it feels UNB (I admit I am hearing UNB for first time)is better for integration with website. Well I bookmarked your post and hopes to find a solution soon from your entries. In the mean time I will also try the integration part if successful i will post it here . Any idea of better blog that seemingly integrates with other sites and forums?  Thanks

jst4fun wrote: Any idea of better blog that seemingly integrates with other sites and forums?

I'm gonna have to leave this one up to you. I've spent several months evaluating CMS's - 160 of them to date.
During this time, I've also been on the development team for a couple of them (MODx was the last one).
But I'm afraid I haven't spent any of that time evaluating Blogs. So, I'd be a pretty darned poor judge, I'm afraid.
But good luck to you jst4fun! I hope you'll find solutions soon. Hopefully, I'll be able to provide you one of them
in a timely fashion.

jst4fun wrote: Thanks

You are quite welcomed.