I went with Xenforo many years ago. Started with nukephp then moved into IPB but moved to xenforo after their release just because I liked the community and how helpful they were.
I stayed because the forum is easy to use for the end users and the 3rd party devs tend to be VERY good.
@Bob has the addons you are looking for!
https://xenaddons.com/
The blogs and article addons would suit your needs well. Might also like the review and showcase addons with what you are doing.
Thanks to a bunch of people here figured out what was going on. SOme server settings needed to be readjusted do to the # of permissions I can flag.
So increasing the max_input_vars and post_max_size with in the server setting fixed the problem.
I get a message saying "Oops! We ran into some problems. Please try again later. More error details may be in the browser console." when attempting to set group permissions.
~ I have disabled ModSecurity
f12 info below.
core-compiled.js?_v=a5c8dc1b:43 PHP: <!DOCTYPE html>
<html id="XF"...
Depends on what you want for your site. Probably I would say Articles as that is the most important public-facing resource for me, but personally, I like Blogs as I enjoy doing my own blog. As a whole, I have not had many takers doing their own blogs.
@mazzly My addon has not been working for a while, however, I changed my host and URL and was thinking that might be the cause. If I remember right the key is attached to the URL. If so is there any way to fix that? I just bought an extension for more add-on checks with my original key.
I use FP pages. I have one that I paired with my forum and I also use the articles and such I write and tag them into my posts on FB with the pages I either admin for or am just a member of.