Frank Wulfers

I understand uploading of a zip file is not possible with the current version of IPG.  But the flash uploader for multiple images works just fine for me.

I would like to specify one common title, description and tags for multiple images in a single upload.  These can be set on the Review and Publish screen for each image but having to do that for every single image is very time consuming.  Can this be done in a different way?

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That worked and I can download now.  Thanks!  

Our car site is about 2 years old now and we're thinking of expanding from a single car brand to a more general automotive site.  vB5 is supposed to come out in 2012 but it will be a completely new system and all add-ons will have to be rewritten.  I imagine it will take at least a year after the initial release of vB5 before many sites will be able to upgrade.

So it seems instead of waiting and going through the painful process of upgrading, perhaps now is a good time to switch to IPS.  vb4 is finally stable and has some good features, it still feels a bit old when it comes to the user interface.  CMS content is also a pretty clunky system and confuses search engines with duplicate content.  There are a great number of add-ons for vB4 but integration can be clunky, developers come and go and there still isn't a good classifieds system available.

Because I am not very familiar with IPS, I am looking for some more information.

1. Will IPS meet our needs?

Our site would need these features:

• Community and personal blogs
• Garage
• Gallery
• Video sharing section (YouTube, Vimeo etc)
• Downloads
• Classifieds / Marketplace

From what I have seen so far, all of this is available with IPS.  I understand the Garage, DownloadsII and Photopost Gallery and Classifieds on our current site will not convert over to IPS, sometimes to have to take a few steps back to make a larger leap forward for the longterm future.

2. What would be the best upgrade path?

1.  Move our existing site content and current domain name (saabworld.net) to IPS and get that to work properly first.  When everything is all set, change domain name to automobileworld.org.

2. Switch to the new domain on our vB4 site first and then move the site to IPS.

We use vBSEO on out site and it ranks pretty good in search engines.  I am sure it is obvious but we really would like to keep the good search engine rankings.

3. CMS content

When you promote a personal blog article or forum post to a CMS article on vB4, you can choose to dupliacte the content or move the content from the forum to the CMS. Neither is perfect. Is this any different with the IPS software?

Any info will be greatly appreciated!