Xenforo instead of Wordpress?

[Food Paste]

I'm probably about a week away from purchase as I sort everything out with my server host. - I see a lot of questions about integrating with WP, but I was wondering if it's possible to just use Xenforo as the "blog/news" feed on a landing page.

I don't necessarily need all the bells and whistles of WP, I just want to be able to post news each day with images uploaded within the article, a header image and some menu links to social media and a forum index.

Is this something XF can do? Act as a bare bones CMS blog page?

 

[RobinHood]

Yep, they have an article thread feature which is perfect if you don’t need everything else that goes along with wordpress



https://xenforo.com/community/threads/article-thread-and-forum-updates-and-improvements.183723/

 

[Food Paste]

This is awesome and exactly what I was looking for. Now I just need to find out if you can buy the add-on packages at a later date (gallery, search, etc) after purchasing the forums.

 

[jeb35]

This is awesome and exactly what I was looking for. Now I just need to find out if you can buy the add-on packages at a later date (gallery, search, etc) after purchasing the forums.

Yes, you can buy them at any time but they will expire at the same time you bought your license.

 

[Chromaniac]

but if you decide not to renew their subscription along with core xenforo package, you would have to pay the full price the next time you decide to use them. it basically is removed from your license.

about your primary question... xenforo article thread type works well. especially if your primary focus is the forum component of xenforo. if xenforo is to support your blog/cms component, i would still recommend looking into wordpress as the cms/blog component. it just does better in terms of google indexing and ranking.

 

[Digital Doctor]

XenaPorta is a good articles addon

demo: www.8wayrun.com

 

[TPerry]

XenaPorta is a good articles addon

demo: www.8wayrun.com

I'd tend towards @Bob's AMS before XenPorta personally.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I'd tend towards @Bob's AMS before XenPorta personally.

I've heard it's good.