- Compatible XF 2.x versions
- 2.3
- Additional requirements
- XenForo 2.3.0 or newer and PHP 8.1 or newer (built and tested on XenForo 2.3.13).
No other add-ons required.
- License
- Commercial: one live forum per licence, plus unlimited staging and development copies. Terms: https://erkanshi.com/terms/
- Updates duration
- 6 months of updates and support included. Then €20 excl. VAT every 6 months, renewed automatically; cancel any time and the theme keeps working.
Try it on the live demo
Open the demo forum and pick Robot in the "Try a theme" bar at the top.
Open the demo forum and pick Robot in the "Try a theme" bar at the top.
A complete XenForo 2.3 theme for builders and players: a dark hangar look with amber warning lights, a robot that comes to life in the header, an Ops panel that counts down to the next sortie and a Mech Bay where members put together their own machine. Built on XenForo’s own pages and widgets.
Highlights
- A hangar that moves. The header robot scans, swings its arms and glows; Pause, Reduce motion or the visitor’s system setting stops it.
- Fully responsive. Every page fits a phone, and the editor keeps its main keys on one row.
- One admin page. The Ops panel, the countdown and the theme’s parts are set on the theme’s own admin page.
- Ops panel. Next sortie, every week. A countdown to a weekly time such as Friday 21:00, or to one date, with the board’s numbers and a shortcut to start a thread.
- Mech Bay. Build, paint, deploy. Members swap the head, core, arms and legs, pick a paint job and read the stats of their machine.
- Three forum views. List, Bay and Cards. Visitors switch the forum home between the three views.
- A reply editor on the console. One row of keys and smilies. The formatting keys in one row, three “more” keys on phones and a row of your board’s smilies.
- XenForo underneath. Native buttons and moderation. Report, Edit, Like and Reply are XenForo’s own buttons, and inline moderation works as usual.
Welcome banners
- For guests: The hangar. The header robot, the forum’s pitch and the way in.
- For signed-in members: Back on channel. A member band with their points and quick links.
Screenshots
What members see after signing in — Members are welcomed back on channel.
Thread page — A thread as a mission dossier.
Bay view — The forums as hangar bays.
The second colour mode — The second colour mode, one click away.
On a phone — The forum home on a phone.
The reply editor — The reply editor with its smilie row.
What you get
- Every feature above — there is no paid tier
- The installer creates its own "Unseen Robot" style; your other styles are not changed
- All settings on the theme's own admin page under Appearance
- English plus 12 language packs (Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish), imported from the theme's Languages page
- Two colour modes and a layout that fits every phone
Pricing
€25 excluding VAT for a permanent licence for one live forum, with 6 months of updates and support included. After that, updates and support renew automatically at €20 excluding VAT every 6 months; you can cancel at any time and the theme keeps working. VAT is added at checkout where it applies. Payments are handled by Paddle, our Merchant of Record.
Licence verification (external requests)
The theme works fully without a licence key. Once you enter a key on the theme's Licence tab, the add-on contacts erkanshi.com when you save the key and then about once a week (scheduled task). It sends: your licence key, the product name, a random ID generated on your board, your board URL and board title, the installed versions of the theme, XenForo and PHP, and a one-time random value. Nothing is sent during installation or uninstallation, and nothing is locked if our server cannot be reached.
- Related resources
- All Unseen themes, with a live demo of each: erkanshi.com/themes