Forum Layouts

Coming soon

[MC] Forum Layouts expands XenForo’s default forum index with two purpose-built forum layouts: Fluid view and Card view. These are directly inspired by Invision Community 5’s forum layouts

Two additional forum layouts:

• Fluid view: A live-filtered, paginated (or infinite-scrolling) feed of threads aggregated across the forums a member chooses. Designed for members who want "show me what's new" rather than "let me pick a forum first."
• Card view: Forum cards with cover images and latest-topics preview. Categories become section headers rather than full node rows.

Fluid view:

• Forum filter: Click a forum to narrow the feed; click a category to select all forums underneath. State persists via cookie, so the feed is the same next time members visit.
  • Collapses into a single button and overlay modal upon responsive breakpoints.
• Includes four navigation styles:
  • Pagination
  • Load more
  • Load more with pagination
  • Infinite scrolling
• Pinned stickies: Three handling modes; pin every sticky at the top, feature only admin-selected stickies per-forum (others sort inline), or ignore sticky flags entirely and sort chronologically.
• Density: Compact renders default thread listing, while comfortable expands the layout for more readability.
  • Optional unread indicator for comfortable density
• Supports FontAwesome Node Icons by Xon, overriding default squircles.

Card view

• Per-forum cover image upload,
• Subforum Displays: Three modes for how a forum's subforums render inside its card: dropdown, inline or grid.
• Latest topics preview: Each card surfaces the most recent N threads inline
• Link forums render as cards with an explicit “Visit” button.
• Page forums render as cards as well
  • Includes an advanced option to render HTML inside a page forum’s card.

Other features:

• Can choose default layout on forum index
• Includes a front-end layout toggle to choose layout, which can be disabled
• Users can also define their layout preference inside their account preferences, if you choose to not allow the front-end layout toggle.
• Includes user group permission for who is allowed to change their layout. Default layout overrides this.
• Full style properties for customizing each layout.