XF 2.1 Setting up Xenforo 2.0 as a website?

[Thabass]

Hi all!

Apologies if this is not the right place! Just a quick question. I'm looking to starting a website for gaming and wanted to know if I could leverage Xenforo and use it as a website for news, reviews, and things of that nature.

Any and all help is appreciated!

 

[Robust]

Many do use XenForo as their entire website and not just their forum. Often sites can set a news page or similar as their actual homepage, which will just be a page provided by an add-on.

There are a few ways to do news. If you want to showcase posts only you've written, you'd put them in a forum. You could also set up an RSS poster to post threads from an external news source into a forum. Then you can use an add-on like XenPorta to display these threads nicely, and set that as your home route. For basic needs, there's actually also the add-on in the XenForo dev tutorial which (iirc) displays threads from a forum on a separate page.

I don't think there is an add-on for reviews, though.

In general, you can definitely use XenForo as a website. For specific features, you'll need an add-on providing that functionality of course.

 

[Thabass]

Many do use XenForo as their entire website and not just their forum. Often sites can set a news page or similar as their actual homepage, which will just be a page provided by an add-on.

There are a few ways to do news. If you want to showcase posts only you've written, you'd put them in a forum. You could also set up an RSS poster to post threads from an external news source into a forum. Then you can use an add-on like XenPorta to display these threads nicely, and set that as your home route. For basic needs, there's actually also the add-on in the XenForo dev tutorial which (iirc) displays threads from a forum on a separate page.

I don't think there is an add-on for reviews, though.

In general, you can definitely use XenForo as a website. For specific features, you'll need an add-on providing that functionality of course.

Oh this sounds great. Thanks for the info.