A lot happens on a forum, or even to a forum, over the course of years. The history add-on helps you to keep track of events and milestones that occur, and when they occurred. This is useful for nostalgic reasons, and informative reasons. You can record an event that may consist of hiring your first moderator, and who it is, or why you let a staff member go, or when you merged with a forum, or even keep track of warnings for troublesome members, etc. And more importantly this add-on may encourage your members to engage in your forum more when they notice, for example, that your forum is only 800 posts away from reaching that 100,000 message plateau. And if you like, when that milestone is reached, create a new event (or edit the milestone) that states whom made the 100,000 message, and what was the message they posted. Record any event you feel impacted your forum, and helped shape it into what it is today.
Live demo
EAE Add-ons, select the History tab. You may also find more information about the add-on within the posted events.
Features
Live demo
EAE Add-ons, select the History tab. You may also find more information about the add-on within the posted events.
Features
- Supports the following milestones: number of posts, threads, members, and the anniversary date of when your site went live. It also supports the number of resources (if the resource manager is installed), and the number media items and albums (if the XenForo media gallery is installed).
- Milestones are recorded automatically via cron that runs four times a day.
- Events can be added, and may include attachments. Events can be made private, so that only those with the permission can view them. Events may also be set to display on a future date.
- Events and milestones may be edited, and their types changed, i.e., a milestone changed to an event, or a public event made private, etc.
- Events may be reported. Milestones can not be reported unless they have been edited.
- Events and milestones are searchable. Note, this has not been tested with enhanced search.
- Members may be mentioned in an event. Members will only be notified that they were mentioned if they can view the event type, i.e. if a mentioned member can not view private entries, and you mentioned the member in one, they will not be notified.
- Milestone markers can be changed from the default ones on install. This may be useful for large forums that already have hundreds of thousands of posts, or threads, etc.
- Supported milestones can have their next marker value changed from within the admin control panel. This is useful if, for example, the next marker for posts is set at 1000, and the current number of messages is at 700, you may want to record when you achieve 750 posts.
- Supported milestones may also be removed from within the admin control panel. If you remove one, it will stop recording for that milestone, and any milestone markers achieved will stay visible on the front side. If you add it back, it will continue where it left off (with the exception of the anniversary milestone, it will begin at one year again, so you will need to edit it's next marker value, or remove all recorded anniversary dates from the front end before you re-add it).
- Supports inline moderation, approve\unapprove, delete/undelete.
- Sitemap generation. Private entries and future entries are not included in the sitemap.
- Some elements of entries may be styled via style properties.