XenPorta is an article system with a widget framework; one that most people will probably use as a portal. Using XenPorta, you can more easily promote valued content on your forums, as well as manage fully modular widgets around your website.
It's taken me quite a bit to get this addon out; and for that, I sincerely apologize. I want to thank everybody who supported the crowd-fund; but most importantly, I want to thank the following people:
- HitArrowLegend
- Shane DeRidder
- Sunlab GmbH
- Paul Buonopane
- Ability to promote content from your forums into "articles".
- Ability to promote content from your forums into a feature slider.
- Articles can be promoted in the "future"; then will only appear when the time has passed.
- Auto-promote threads based on their parent forum.
- Promotions can have unique content from the thread itself.
- Promotions can have thumbnails sourced from various attachments.
- User alerts for when threads get promoted into articles.
- Articles index featuring paginated articles and features.
- Articles index supports Desandro's Masonry for multi-column layouts.
- Articles index supports Paul Irish's Infinite Scroll for endless pages.
- Articles index can have it's own forced skin.
- Articles index has it's own "Home" navigation menu.
- Special article view to look like news content, instead of a thread.
- Articles can be categorized and tagged with custom keywords.
- Author byline system with extended author information.
- Categories, Tags and Authors have their own articles list page.
- Users can "exclude" categories that may not interest them from the articles index.
- Each category and tag can have their own forced skin.
- Users can re-arrange the articles index with preset widgets to more personalize their portal.
- Support for local, Disqus and Facebook comments.
- Support for various social media icons through "Add-This".
- RSS feeds for the index, categories, tags and authors.
- Widget framework can be extended into ANY view within XenForo.
- Layout system has built in hierarchy based on priorities.
- Widget "duplication" is possible with custom option sets.
- Widgets are very easy to create using built in XenForo interfaces.
- Over 30 included widgets.
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- Articles (Main) - the article list
- Articles Random - a random article within the past X days
- Articles Simple - a simple inline article list
- Attachment Slider
- Author Related - displays the current linked author (article view and author view pages)
- Countdown Timer
- Facebook Like Box
- Features (Main) - the feature slider
- Forum Statistics
- Google Adsense
- Keywords (Categories) - a list of categories and the number of articles belonging to it
- Keywords (Tags) - a tag cloud
- League Rotation - displays the currently free champions in League of Legends
- Live Feed (by Milano) -Live Feed
- Poll Block
- Raw HTML - an empty block where you can use HTML
- Resources Featured - XenForo Resource Manager
- Resources Top - XenForo Resource Manager
- Share Page
- Status Updates - for XF1.4+
- Status Updates (Legacy) - for XF1.3
- Tag Cloud
- TaigaChat (by Luke Foreman) -TaigaChat Pro - Realtime chat/shoutbox
- TaigaOnline - shows members currently in chatroom
- TeamSpeak3 Server - displays a TS3 status widget
- Threads Recent
- Threads Tabbed
- Today's Birthdays
- Today's Top Posters
- Twitter Timeline
- Users Active today
- Users Online
- XenAtendo: Upcoming Events
- XenAtendo2: Upcoming Events
- XenCarta: Navigation
- XenMedio: Cloud
- XenMedio: Recent Media
- Xeno: Live Streams
- XenTorneo: Rankings
- upload the contents of the attached zip to your XF root
- install from file on server: "library/EWRporta2/addon-EWRporta2.xml"
- set options for the portal in administration control panel
- set user-group permissions for administration rights