What changes have you made to your forum so far to get ready for the major changes in Xenforo 1.2?
With
Cool Sci-Fi I was purposely keeping the style template edits to a minimum to make future updates easier. Except for a few add-ons that are using hook locations along with some entries to extra.css that site is ready to go for any XF updates.
I recently aquired
A Walker Bit Me which is targeted at
Walking Dead fans. That site was using a good number of add-ons and I've been working on eliminating as many as possible. For example, it was using XenPorta but only for the slider block, adding a block for TaigaChat, a block for XenMedio, and to give a different appearance to a 'news' forums. It was also using the Widget Framework but only for adding an HTML widget and a random quotes widget. I replaced XenMedio with XenMediaGallery which includes its own method for displaying recent media on the forum home. I replaced the slider with using XF notifications (an uglier way of doing it but it eliminated the need for relying on an add-on). I replaced the block for TaigaChat (only viewable when logged in) with an entry to one of the ad templates (ad_above_content if I recall at the moment). Finally I was able to live without having a different display for the 'news' forum. With those changes XenPorta & XenMedio were eliminated. I replaced the widget for displaying the character images in the sidebar with HTML in one of the ad templates for the sidebar and the quotes add-on had its own way of displaying random quotes also so Widget Framework was able to be eliminated. XenPorta & the Widget Framework serve a purpose but were overkill for how they were being used. The couple of template edits were to just ad templates and not to the core XF templates that display data; even those slight changes will then be replaced with TMC when it is available. The style was a purchased style along with Arty's responsive add-on. It was replaced with a style by Russ that has no template edits; everything is in the style properties and in extra.css. Yes, we lost the responsive ability but it'll be a lot easier now to use the responsive option in XF when it is available. So far about a dozen add-on have been eliminated with only two user impacting changes. There are still some other add-ons in place & being used but as much as possible they also will be looked at to either be replaced or eliminated.
It is a bit of work reducing the existing add-ons while trying not to lose their functionality but I think the efforts will pay off when 1.2 is released as I'll be able to update with minimal hassle.
