Tigratrus
Well-known member
Actually, if you haven't already looked at it recently, I'd suggest giving XenPorta a really good look. 2 days ago I asked Jaxel about whether we could "Promote" threads to the RecentNews module and he implemented it in just a few hours. Now, you can effectively use any Thread in your XF forums AS an article. The difference is that all the content and the comments are IN the forums, which is a good place for the search engine to go. You get to set the excerpt length, and the output generates a very fast page that gives you a nice, configurable blog style layout. The blocks system makes it easy for even a non-programmer to grab some javascript and create a new block to add functionality you need.I've changed my view on this. I'd like to see Kier and co develop a offical bridge between wordpress and xenforo.
If possible I'd like this to be the next thing they do once xf goes gold, the benefit they'd get from it would be worth them doing it as a priority as then everyone thats currently using IPB or VB with the cms can change over.
I'm sloooowly convincing Susan that she actually may not need WordPress as the home page after all. I think we'll probably still run Joomla! in the backend, just so we can use it to build things like the paid services directory, tricky database driven systems that XF can't easily handle yet (Fabrik is great for stuff like that) etc. If we can figure out a way to build a Category block for promoted threads, and a way to have individual pages to show links to all promoted threads in a given category (Forum Name), we'd have almost everything we need so that we don't NEED a CMS.
Not *totally* sure this is the way we're going to go, but it's got a LOT of advantages.