Digital Doctor
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Agreed. The layout is very awkward on most sites.The unique problem for me it's the pinterest layout and some elements on the UI.
Agreed. The layout is very awkward on most sites.The unique problem for me it's the pinterest layout and some elements on the UI.
Which addon is this please?Pauls addon is probably the best CMS going for XenForo at the moment.
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/cta-featured-threads-portal.2599/Which addon is this please?
Mike said:A good example is the CMS suggestion. This isn't a feature suggestion; this is a product suggestion, a potentially very complex product suggestion. While XenForo is a framework, it is primarily based around the forum software; that is presumably why you're all here. That is likely to be our primary product for the foreseeable future. While it may be worthwhile for us to create a CMS, this would have a knock on effect on everything else we do so this (or any new product) is not something we could take on lightly. In my opinion, it's unfair to cite the lack of a CMS as a failing of a forum software package. It may be something that you need and it may be provided by others, but it's still separate from a forum and our primary product. If you need a CMS that is natively integrated with your forum, unless there's an add-on that you're comfortable with, XenForo is unlikely to fit that and I'm not in a position to say if or when it would fit that.
Yes.According to untrustworthy sources, the CMS is definitely coming.
looking at your site a few style edits don`t seem to be the only thing you have edited. Looks like you`re running multiple instances of the RM.The Resources can be easily transformed into a nice CMS, with few style edits
My point was: you can use RM as CMS, not how you run it.looking at your site a few style edits don`t seem to be the only thing you have edited. Looks like you`re running multiple instances of the RM.
Agreed.I watched that whole process happen with several pieces of software and not once was it a good result
I say if you want a CMS, get some sort of bridge/glue to bring a cms into your site, and blend it with your forum,
Most big forums and websites out there are using their front page as an article page, not a forum thread page. Thus, if you would like to make your users an easy life and give them a direct and quick platform to content, they would be your users for very long period of time. When you start to point them with gazillion links to many threads in your forum, then this is a problem. They layout of an article isn't the same as the layout of a thread - very long articles couldn't be read easily as a thread while in a CMS there is more flexibility in terms of options and layout. You argument then could possibly include the resource manager and elastic search, as well as the gallery add-on, but I bet you use most of them and they also quite popular around the community. CMS, if it would ever happen, is going to be an add-on or separate product like ES/RM/XG - it shouldn't interfere with forum development.Personally I hope Xenforo never goes to a CMS. this is a forum, and changing direction would do nothing more than cause lack of focus in the forum area. Unless they added a whole new team JUST to do the CMS. There's no other way.
Leave the CMS to CMS software, let's keep this focus on the forum!
I watched that whole process happen with several pieces of software and not once was it a good result
I say if you want a CMS, get some sort of bridge/glue to bring a cms into your site, and blend it with your forum, don't try to do it with just the forums. Doing so keeps you with the best of both worlds. full mature CMS platform and a full mature forum
Such as? I would remind you that most of XF's clients aren't enterprise level customers, so pre-made CMSs that cost ten thousands of dollars is not really an option and thus we ask for a CMS add-on. And don't go to the Wordpress route please..There are PLENTY of very well written and matured CMS platforms out there
Right, and we don't have gazillion dollars to do this - but at the same time, we would also like to share content in the home page of our forum in an article-like style and not a thread style.they're using a cms of some sort and use a plugin or other sort of glue to share the db with their forums and their site
The RM would and could not be a CMS and it doesn't matter how much you would try to edit it.But having things like the resource manager open the door for a developer to build out their own CMS utilizing the forum's db and features.
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