In the beginning, XenForo Enhanced Search (XFES) was intended to be a simple drop-in replacement for MySQL full text search, primarily aimed at large forums whose operation would potentially suffer when attempting to search very large database tables.
As a drop-in, XFES only made use of the enhanced search index and speed for the formal search system, but with version 2.2 we are starting to leverage more of the power afforded by the Elasticsearch back-end.
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News aus der Forenwelt
When we first announced support for article-type threads and forums, we noted that this was an initial foray and that revised styling was in the pipeline.
Today, we can show you some of those revisions and the options that come with them.
Revised article styling
Firstly, we have some updates for the main article thread page.
The author section at the bottom of the article has had some attention to visually separate it a little more from the...
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So you've got people to register on your forum and they've made their initial contribution, but once they've done that, how do you keep those members engaged and coming back to your forum? It's an age-old problem. A user registers, they may participate for a while if you're lucky, and then it's really a toss-up as to whether they will stay and become a semi-permanent fixture of your forum, or you never see them again.
Of all the challenges facing forum owners, this...
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We're fast approaching the time where we're able to unleash XenForo 2.2 on this very forum but, before we do, we wanted to tell you about a few slightly more miscellaneous features that we've been keeping under our hat.
Advanced options switch
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have already spotted some hints about this in some of our earlier screenshots. 🤫
XenForo has an ever-increasing number of options and then by the time you put add-on options in the mix, the...
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In our second updating about template improvements, we're focusing on tools to make it easier to keep your changes up-to-date and to see what changes you've been making.
Template Merging
First up is the ability to merge changes into templates after upgrading XenForo, an add-on, or a distributable style.
This is done via the existing outdated template interface:
You have the option to automatically merge changes if possible. This will merge any updates...
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Not so long ago we showed you the new progressive web app functionality coming in XF 2.2 and since then we've added a couple of related bits which we are including as of XenForo 2.2 Beta 2.
PWA setup helper
There are a number of requirements you need to meet before a PWA becomes installable by most browsers. Some of these requirements are server config related, others are options, some are language based and some are style based.
While they're not...
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Everyday administrative housekeeping often requires direct interaction with your server's file system.
Installing or upgrading a style, switching out logo graphics and other images on your forum you will invariably require a dust-off for your rusty old FTP client and an exciting adventure into arcane directory structures in order to upload them manually, while desperately not trying to overwrite the server's kernel or otherwise accidentally lunch the normally smooth operation...
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The previous "have you seen" threads for 2.2 have generally been focused on what the changes mean to admins and end users. While we have made reference to some of the internal technical elements and what add-ons can do with these features, today we want to do a deeper dive into some of these changes from a development perspective.
What we're going to cover today is not an exhaustive list. No doubt you'll find other changes scattered throughout. Today we're just going to focus...
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XenForo 2.2.6 Released
XenForo 2.2.6 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
One-click upgrade to XenForo 2.2.6
Directly from your admin control panel
Some of the changes in XF 2.2.6 include:
Adjust file copying order of the one click upgrader to reduce issues with page breaks....
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XenForo Insights Episode 7 - Communicating with your users is now available to view at our usual YouTube channel.
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Over the past ten years, XenForo has grown its market share consistently, helping all-new communities to spring forth and giving those previously running on other software platforms the opportunity to migrate and take advantage of the stability and rich functionality offered by our platform.
But there has always been a barrier to entry. Prospective community managers had to organise their own web hosting, manage the download and installation of the XenForo software and supervise any...
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The next XenForo Insights episode, on the subject of Communicating with your users, will be live at 9am Central | 3pm UK | 1400 UTC on Thursday, June 24th 2021 via Zoom.
Please do come and join us live on Thursday 24th if you can.
Episode 6 - All Things Add-on is now available to view at our usual YouTube channel.
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For many years, XenForo has used reCAPTCHA as its default CAPTCHA provider to help mitigate spam and bot actions without requiring our customers to go through additional configuration. However, we have recently been informed that restrictions may be placed on the reCAPTCHA key included in XenForo. This may lead to CAPTCHAs not being enforced or failing to validate.
If you have not changed the default CAPTCHA method, to avoid disruption, we urge customers to take one of the actions below to...
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XenForo 2.2.5 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
This release changes the default CAPTCHA method from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha. If you were using the default CAPTCHA settings, you will automatically be switched over to hCaptcha. If you provided your own reCAPTCHA keys or chose a different CAPTCHA method, your existing CAPTCHA...
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The next XenForo Insights episode, on the topic of All Things Add-on, will be at 9am Central / 3pm UK time on Thursday, May 6th 2021 via Zoom.
Please do come and join us live on Thursday 6th if you can.
In the meantime, you can now digest Episode 5 - Community Management Part 2 at your leisure.
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The next XenForo Insights episode, continuing the topic of community management, will be at 9am Central / 3pm UK time on Friday, April 2nd 2021 via Zoom.
Please do come and join us live on Friday 2nd if you can, but if you can't, you can catch up with what's been discussed when the episode is published to YouTube, as episode 4 now has.
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XenForo 2.2.4 Released
Exactly ten years and a day since the very first stable release of XenForo, we are happy to present a new release to increase the reliability and performance of XenForo.
XenForo 2.2.4 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
One-click upgrade to XenForo 2.2.4
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The next XenForo Insights episode, covering the topic of community management, will be at 9am CST / 3pm GMT on Thursday, February 25th 2021 via Zoom.
These are the details for the webinar:
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The edited recording of XenForo Insights Episode 3, the subject of which was Monetization, is now available to view:
XenForo Insights
Here, you will find recordings of all our previous Insights webinars
xenforo.com
We'll post details of the next episode here soon.
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XenForo 2.2.3 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
One-click upgrade to XenForo 2.2.3
Directly from your admin control panel
In addition to the usual bug fixes and improvements, there is a database schema change which, in some circumstances, may take time to perform. If you are running a version of...
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