Do I need a separate website and a forum?

[webMasterKurt]

I am taking over a WordPress site (self hosted) that has a vBulletin forum (self hosted) on the backend. There is very little content on the Front End site, a blog, a few announcements and some ads.

I am considering upgrading to Xenforo and actually thinking I might not even need the WordPress Site. I could just host a few pages on the Xenforo based site.

Does this make sense?

 

[Paul B]

It sounds fairly standard.

If you don't plan to use the features of WP then yes, I would replace it with XF page nodes.

 

[Mr Lucky]

It may be worth getting someone to help import the blog to a thread or article in xenForo depending on how valuable it is to you.

Any other Wordpress pages can be transferred to xenForo pages (html) or articles if you want comments/replies.

But it’s going to be simpler any way to drop the Wordpress and to install xenForo in the root

 

[⭐ Alex ⭐]

It's also trivial to make some html pages in the same web server that xenforo is running in, given that your forum is in a folder such as yoursite.com/forum/. You can have an index.html file which is shown when someone visits yoursite.com

 

[Mr Lucky]

downsides like losing existing WordPress SEO or sacrificing flexibility

Is a xenForo page necessarily worse for SEO than a Wordpress page? If you switch a page from Wordpress to xenForo, provided you keep the URL (or have a redirect), page title, description and content what might make it worse SEO?

 

[jeb35]

Is a xenForo page necessarily worse for SEO than a Wordpress page? If you switch a page from Wordpress to xenForo, provided you keep the URL (or have a redirect), page title, description and content what might make it worse SEO?

This thread is over a year old and that poster you replied to is most likely a spammer with the content he posted.