[8WR] XenPorta (Portal) PRO

Unmaintained [8WR] XenPorta (Portal) PRO 1.2.2b

No permission to buy ($40.00)

Reviews 4.59 star(s) 51 reviews

I'm missing the Raw PHP widget. Besides that I love it. It has no issues with most themes. Lifetime support and works just flawless. Does exactly as it promises.
Quality - A+

Have no issue installing and/or using the add-on. Work's as mentioned and updates are perfect. I get auto email notification on each update.

Features are well mentioned in the description and it work's as expected.

Now my only wish is add-on should have one link for credit and not 2. Currently one URL points to this add-on page and another to his website. Please if possible make one link.

Also while using teamspeak block it says "Provided by InstantTeamspeak.com". Would be nice not to have that since my teamspeak isn't from them. It's just one kind of advertising through the block.
Jaxel
Jaxel
The teamspeak widget is provided by InstantTeamspeak. If you dont want to see their text, then don't use their widget.
I have bought this, but i can't find the download for it? It just says purchase at top.. Anyone got an idea why?? I need to download it :P And great addon anyways.
Jaxel
Jaxel
After you purchase, the addon is emailed directly to you.
Software is excellent in the end. Learning curve is more than it should be and the FAQ could be updated. Seems fast and strong from a technical standpoint. Support seems it comes with a bit of a rough edge, but like the software eventually gets the job done. Would get a 5/5 if I could count on better documentation/support for customizing and learning. Remains the best portal add-on at the time of writing this in my opinion.
This is a really good system for forum article and layout management. It offers functionality that other plugins just don't match.

The article/feature system offers a great way to highlight content in visually appealing wrappers. It can be a bit confusing to use at times as there are a lot of controls, but the controls are good.

The layout management is robust. It would be nice to have some more customization of positioning, but for what it offers, as visually as it does, this is amazing. No other plugin matches how easy this is to use, with this flexibility. That being said, it would be even more awesome if the configuration were streamlined a bit more - but as it is, it offers a lot of functions.

Some of the styles may appear a little strange with some XenForo themes. It would be nice to see a style properties panel added to the XenForo admin cp. For example, on my forum there is a difference with hyperlink styling in messages and the color palette styling, but XenPorta only recognizes the palette styling.

I'm sure people who could code, or are very familiar with CSS can go beyond what XenPorta can offer. But for those who are not, or who are looking for something useable, stable, robust, and flexible, XenPorta is it.

The last thing I would as for, is better written documentation. There are several videos on YouTube by jax (which are not even linked here), but written documentation would go a long way too. -- that gives me an idea, maybe i'll try to help write stuff up.
Good functionality, not so easy to setup if you're not a XF/addon veteran. A Widget Framework style FAQ would go a long way into making it a bit more pleasant to administer.
Front end looks and works brilliantly.
Admin, especially the widget setup seems a tad too convoluted for what it is - install a widget, add options sets (name confused the heck out of me and it turned to simply mean widget instances), link it to the layout, then edit within the layout. That's 4 steps and an awful lot of clicking needed on per widget bases.
Would love to see ability to link the raw code widget to a template, again WF style - makes things so much pleasant to work with and keeps the code tidy and in one place. Even in the event of addon failure or user screw up you don't end up with missing bits and having to do a full backup restore. If the option is there, I've missed it.
Definitely worth the money if you have the time or knowledge to make it work.
Very nice Article System & Widget Framework. Is worth the money, especially if you have some skills to customize the addon yourself.

The support is okay, when it comes to fixing bugs and quirks, but not like Russ-level of support, for those of us used to that. Updates are a bit slow, and no new features/very few widgets have been added since release.
Jaxel
Jaxel
Its FAR easier to give support for skins than it is for actual PHP code. Updates are slow right now because there are no "urgent" updates required. And the lack of "new" widgets included since release is irrelevant. No other widget framework comes with over 30 included widgets... there are really very few "must-have" widgets that need to be included anyways.
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