XenForo Cloudflare Setup: What to Turn On and Leave Off
A plain checklist for putting Cloudflare in front of XenForo 2.2 or 2.3: real visitor IPs, safe caching, and what to do when changes don't show.
Tutorials
6 postsStep-by-step guides for setting up, speeding up and maintaining a XenForo forum.
XenForo Image Optimization: Shrink Uploads, Keep Quality
Set file size and dimension limits in the Admin CP, use small thread thumbnails and offload files when the disk fills up. Steps for XenForo 2.2 and 2.3.
How to stop XenForo spam posts from members who got past sign-up
Sign-up checks stop most bots, but XenForo spam posts often come from accounts that already got in. The settings and add-ons that catch them.
How to see what a member sees in XenForo, without their password
A member reports a problem you can't reproduce. How to see their exact view, from permission checks to a logged, time-limited way to impersonate a user in XenForo.
XenForo Email Setup: SMTP, SPF, DKIM and Bounces
A step-by-step XenForo email setup for 2.2 and 2.3: transport, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, the outbound test and bounce handling, so member emails reach inboxes.
Free up XenForo disk space by moving attachments off the server
Attachments are usually what fills a forum's disk. How to see what uses your XenForo disk space, shrink new uploads, and move files to cloud storage.
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