[XB] Tours and Hints: Interactive Onboarding & Guided Walkthroughs

[XB] Tours and Hints: Interactive Onboarding & Guided Walkthroughs 2.3.1

No permission to buy ($35.00)
Compatible XF 2.x versions
  1. 2.3
License
Single Use License (may be used on one website)
Updates duration
6 months ($25 renewal) / $45 - 1 year ($35 yearly renewal)
Visible branding
No
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Create contextual hints and interactive guided tours to help members discover your forum's features and workflows.

This add-on allows administrators to display targeted hints next to page elements or guide users through multi-step tours, making onboarding and feature discovery simple and engaging.



Features:​

  • 💡 Contextual Hints: Display a clickable hint beside any page element with a custom HTML message.
  • 🧭 Guided Tours: Highlight page elements step by step to explain workflows or interface features.
  • 🎯 Targeted Display: Use XenForo user criteria, page criteria, and permissions to control where hints and tours appear.
  • 📅 Scheduled Visibility: Configure optional start and end dates for hints and tours.
  • 🔁 One-Time Display: Prevent hints or tours from being shown again after dismissal or completion.
  • ▶️ Automatic Tour Start: Launch eligible tours automatically when users visit matching pages.
  • ➡️ Multi-Page Tours: Continue tours across multiple pages using configurable next-page URLs.
  • 👤 Member Preferences: Allow users to enable or disable hints and tours from their account settings.
  • 🎨 Display Styles: Choose between Modern and Simple themes.
  • 🔗 Element Targeting: Attach hints and tour steps to any page element using CSS selectors.
  • 🖱️ Element Picker: Select a target directly on a public page, validate selector uniqueness, and review automatically refreshed broken-selector indicators in the ACP.
  • ↕️ Display Order: Control the order in which hints and tours are shown.
  • 🗂️ Categories: Organize tours and hints into shared categories with translatable titles, category-level user criteria, conditional visibility, and ACP grouping.
  • ♾️ Unlimited Hints & Tours: Create as many tours and hints as needed.
  • ⚙️ Dedicated ACP Management: Manage hints and tours independently with drag-and-drop ordering.

Permissions:​

  • 💡 View Hints: Control which user groups can see hints.
  • 🧭 View Tours: Control which user groups can see tours.
  • 👤 Show/Hide Hints: Allow members to manage hint visibility in their account preferences.
  • 👤 Show/Hide Tours: Allow members to manage tour visibility in their account preferences.

Useful for:​

  • 👋 New Member Onboarding: Introduce new users to your forum.
  • ✨ Feature Discovery: Highlight new tools and interface changes.
  • 📖 Workflow Guidance: Explain multi-step processes interactively.
  • 🎯 Targeted Help: Display context-sensitive assistance only where it is relevant.

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Author
Painbaker
Views
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First release
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Ratings

1.00 star(s) 1 ratings

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Latest reviews

I don't like giving such low ratings, but this addon just isn't ready for production websites. There are a list of issues I've brought up (look at posts #38-41 of the discussion thread) that have not been addressed and don't look like they ever will be. There's been no considerations made for mobile users, so out of the box you'll have a big crazy looking button taking up real estate space from this addon. The code is also broken and doesn't track html elements properly so the 'hints' don't appear where they are supposed to if you move the screen even the littlest bit, it breaks completely. With all due respect to the author of this addon, I can't recommend anyone use this, much less pay $30 for it. I've removed it from my website since my user retention has actually tanked by 50% since I started using it, since it seems to bring up more roadblocks than it solves.
Painbaker
Painbaker
If you really think it deserves 1-star, I respect your opinion. Thanks for your review. (but about forgetting the posts: that's expected. Chances are a lot to forget posts when they are all here. That's why I created a dedicated forum for each product. As you see, I never keep the bug reports open for as long as I can: https://xen-pro.com/forums/ha-site-tour-and-hint.8/) - first 1-star review after 6 years. (4 years ago, I received my first 3-stars review, and that also was by you) So in my 6 years activities in XF, among around 80 reviews I received, I think I only have these 2 non-5-stars only (maybe only 1 4-stars as well. and that's it). Anyways I always appreciated the time users/customers spent sharing their experience.
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