- Compatible XF 2.x versions
- 2.3
XenFeeds — Content Discovery, Reimagined
XenFeeds gives your community a modern, filterable content feed that puts users in control of what they see — and gives admins powerful tools to surface the content that matters most.
For Your Users
Every user gets a personalized feed experience. Filter by content type, forum, thread prefix, time range, and sort order. Toggle between threads, posts, profile posts, and media. Hide content you've already read. Show only threads from users you follow. Set minimum thresholds for reactions, replies, or views to cut through the noise. Save your favorite filter combinations as reusable presets that persist across sessions.
For Your Admins
Create unlimited feeds — one for each community, topic, or audience. Define automatic promotion rules that surface high-performing content based on heat score, reaction count, reply count, or view count. Manually promote or pin individual entries. Set up aggregate feeds that pull from multiple source feeds into a single unified view with built-in deduplication.
Monetize Your Feed
Sell promoted placement directly to your members. Create boost packages with configurable pricing, duration, and styling. Members pick their slot from a visual calendar, pay through XenForo's built-in payment system, and their content gets promoted automatically. A revenue stream that didn't exist before.
Smart Scoring
Every feed entry gets a heat score calculated from reactions, replies, and views with configurable time decay. Hot content rises naturally. Stale content fades. The half-life is fully adjustable per feed — tune it for fast-moving discussion boards or slow-burn knowledge bases.
Feed Types
- Latest Discussions — newest threads across selected forums
- Latest Posts — individual post-level entries
- Trending — sorted by heat score, surface what's hot right now
- News & Articles — prefix-filtered threads for editorial content
- Social — profile posts and community chatter
- Media — XFMG gallery items
- Aggregate — combine any of the above into a single unified feed
User Filters
- Content type multi-select (Threads, Posts, Social, Media)
- Forum chips
- Thread prefix chips
- Time range (Today, This Week, This Month, This Year, All Time)
- Sort by: New, Hot, Top Rated, Most Replies, Most Views, Last Reply, Oldest
- Minimum thresholds for reactions, replies, and views
- Hide read content
- Following-only mode
- Show/hide first-post snippets
- Show/hide attachment thumbnails
- Saveable presets with localStorage + cookie persistence
Admin Tools
- Promote / Demote / Pin / Unpin any entry
- Automatic promotion rules with configurable criteria
- Paid boost packages with calendar slot booking
- Configurable heat decay half-life per feed
- Snippet length control per feed
- Cron-powered ingest, scoring, orphan cleanup, and boost processing
- Trending sidebar widget
