XenForo Hosting

What is XenForo?

XenForo is a commercially based forum software solution that is written with Zend Framework. XenForo has a number of SEO features built right into the software helpful in driving more users to your community. You’ll be able to customize your forum to your exact needs with a wide selection of add-ons. You can also customize the appearance of your forum very easily with XenForo’s styling and user-friendly color changing features. Your users get the benefit of custom alerts so they can stay current on posts they are most interested in. Users can also see the most current updates in the recent activity stream as well.

XenForo Features

• Search Engine Optimization Tools – What better way to attract new visitors to your forum than with free search engine traffic? XenForo is loaded with SEO tools including microdata that has already been embedded and human-readable links. Easily organize your site so that the search engines will love you! With user generated content, you won’t have to worry about building great content, your members will already do that for you. Just focus on building your user base and moderating your forum.
• Appearance Customization – You have a specific goal in mind for what you want your forum to look like! XenForo won’t stand in your way and in fact offers a number of intuitive styling tools to get the appearance you want. XenForo offers an easy to use color changer that you can use to update the look of your forum. You’ll also find a style editor where you can change the appearance, or you can make edits using your favorite CSS or HTML tool if you prefer.
• Personalized News Feed – There are too many places where we can get information. The sites and resources that quickly help us get the news we’re looking for without the noise are the ones that ultimately succeed. XenForo offers you the tools to ensure your users get just that. They don’t have to click from thread to thread or category to category to get that information. Instead they can view the personalized news feed to see the content most relevant to them as well as a recent activity stream of the latest happenings.
• Extensible Forum – Just as you want your forum to have a specific appearance, you’ll also want it to have the exact functionality of what you’re looking for. XenForo is completely extensible with a large selection of addons found in your resource manager. Prefer to add your own functionality? This won’t be a problem when you use the XenForo framework.
• Custom Alerts – Searching through a customized news feed of updates is one way to stay current on the latest happenings in a forum. Your users can also get alerted whenever there is a post that is relevant for them. Your visitors can be notified whenever their post is replied to or another member quotes them. Your forum members will keep coming back for more!

Support For Your XenForo Forum

While A2 Hosting and our expert Guru Crew are an excellent resource to contact for your hosting needs, XenForo offers a number of support resources when you have specific questions about their software. The XenForo community offers:

• Extensive Instruction Manual – From adding plugins to upgrading your forum, the XenForo manual will walk you through a number of important features.
• XenForo Community – What better way to get support for your forum than by interacting with other actual XenForo forum owners as well? Get answers to your questions from actual XenForo users themselves!
• XenForo Support – You can also contact XenForo directly to get support from one of their team members.