Portal / Homepage Add-on

[tlatch89]

Hey everyone,

I'm new here, a friend of mine has a Xenforo license and I may get to poke around with it a bit on a testing server. I've used IPB forums and VBulletin in the past, but never Xenforo.

I was wondering if anyone could point me to some of the best (up to date) widgetized portal / homepage add-ons for this forum software? From what it looks like is that it is all 3rd party add-ons.

One more question.. how does the theme structure work? Say I use a theme, can I create a child theme for customizations? Or will I have to go in and edit the live theme's css and php files?

Thanks!

Taylor

 

[Paul B]

There are various third party portal add-ons available.
You can check them out in the Resources.

Yes, you can create child styles and in the case of third party styles, that is the recommended practice.

 

[tlatch89]

Thanks for the quick reply Brogan.

I'm just a little worried of purchasing a 3rd party plugin that could possibly be outdated and may not work correctly with the responsive framework.

I'm not sure if you're allowed to point me in the direction of a few that you would use, but if you could that would be cool.

Thanks again for the quick reply I'll be getting my hands dirty soon.

 

[Paul B]

There is always a risk when using third party add-ons but all you can do is weigh up the pros and cons and make a judgement call.

It's a bit tricky for me to recommend a portal as I wrote one myself, which I naturally use on my own site, but here's a list of the more well known ones.

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/cta-featured-threads-portal.2599/
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/extra-portal.2321/
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/8wayrun-com-xenporta-portal.90/

 

[tlatch89]

Thanks again Brogan.

I'll be having fun with this soon.

Have a good day!

 

[Martok]

@tlatch89 I can highly recommend CTA Featured Threads & Portal. Brogan has worked very hard on developing this in the last 6 months since it was released and it just gets better and better. His support for the add-on is one of the best I've seen.

This can also be used in conjunction with Widget Framework if you are looking to use that for widgets rather than the standard sidebar.

 

[Gazhyde]

+1 on what Martok said!

I've been using Featured Threads Portal as our forum home page since ditching our WordPress front end a few months ago.