How customizable is xenforo?

[Phaedrus]

I have a modded vbulletin forum. How easy is it to either write or add mods to customize xenforo?

Should I decide to go this route are there modifications available?

 

[Phaedrus]

I have nearly 2 gigs of data to convert, would it convert that easily?

 

[wang]

There are some very good documentaions here that make things very easy. I have been using Ipb before, and I am familiar with the OOP and Zend Framework. So for me anyway it should be easy to code for xenforo and create styles for it. At least I hope so. I found these guides today that were very helpful. I hope that they will be helpful to you too.

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/creating-an-addon.5416/

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-to-add-more-actions-to-an-existing-controller.11202/

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/understanding-the-xenforo-class-proxy-system.2080/

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-to-use-template-hooks.13167/

https://xenforo.com/community/resou...beginners-best-practices-tips-and-tricks.975/

 

[Paul B]

It will be a bit of a learning curve coming from VB to XF but most competent developers find it doesn't take them long to get up to speed.

The built in importer works for any sized forum, but the more posts there are, the longer it takes.
How many members, threads, and posts do you have?

 

[Phaedrus]

1,483,240 posts, about 725 members, 62,301 Threads....

 

[Jake B.]

1,483,240 posts, about 725 members, 62,301 Threads....

We recently did a migration from vb3 to XF. The board was a comparable size, around 100k threads, 1.6m posts, and 20k users. Only took a couple hours I believe.

 

[Jake B.]

It may be a good idea to contact @Slavik to do the migration for you if there's anything in particular you're worried about

 

[Phaedrus]

It doesn't appear as if you have a blog feature. Would the blogs just disappear on the migration and leave the data in the dbase?

 

[Paul B]

Any content which isn't supported won't be imported.

The pre-sales FAQ in my signature lists what is imported.

 

[Phaedrus]

And finally, well for now.... I've been having issues with the scripting with vbulletin, it isn't very efficient. Is the load time here indicative of a more efficient scripting, or do you just have a more powerful server than I am using?

 

[Paul B]

Our server is nothing special.

What you see here is typical performance.

 

[Phaedrus]

Excellent. Looks far more efficient. Is there a place where y'all publish mods to share around?

 

[Paul B]

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/

 

[rv65]

It doesn't appear as if you have a blog feature. Would the blogs just disappear on the migration and leave the data in the dbase?

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/th-xenblog.4317/

Might want to look into that if you need a blog feature and might be able to be imported from vB3.

 

[rv65]

I definitely recommend Xenforo and you won't regret switching to it. I wished I had done it sooner when I converted from MyBB 1.8 to Xenforo.

 

[Phaedrus]

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/th-xenblog.4317/

Might want to look into that if you need a blog feature and might be able to be imported from vB3.

Unfortunately since I do not own a license I cannot see that. LOL. That's probably why I didn't know it existed.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Unfortunately since I do not own a license I cannot see that. LOL. That's probably why I didn't know it existed.

Even if you have a licence you won’t see it as it is gone. That’s a post from eight years ago.l and the link is dead.

 

[Phaedrus]

It's been a while. I got busy and distracted. I simply updated the freakin' software I was using and continued on with the status quo. It is now time to actually make that change. And Xenforo is in my top 3, and is the most likely software I'll be buying.

 

[qazwsxedcrfv1234]

It's been a while. I got busy and distracted. I simply updated the freakin' software I was using and continued on with the status quo. It is now time to actually make that change. And Xenforo is in my top 3, and is the most likely software I'll be buying.

What are the other 2?

 

[Suzanne O]

It's been a while. I got busy and distracted. I simply updated the freakin' software I was using and continued on with the status quo. It is now time to actually make that change. And Xenforo is in my top 3, and is the most likely software I'll be buying.

I read your first post and then thought i'll read a bit. However, i see that you're back again. So i'm going to suggest this.
You're going to need to either upgrade your GB plan you're on or use nearly all of it.
Because it sounds like you're about to have a major problem with not having much free space which will help you have room to do more customisations.

Buy the software and gain a license.

Then what you need to do is either ask one of the staff here via a ticket to help you migrate your forum over here.

Then when you've got the software you can easily sort it out with all the things you need.

Just a quick one to ask, does your host have a good cpanel?