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Resource Hub

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RaxBoard compatibility: >=1.0.0

Resource Hub turns your forum into a full-featured download and resource directory — the RaxBoard answer to a dedicated resource manager, with categories, versioning, reviews and moderation built in from day one. Every color, star and badge is wired to your active theme, so it looks native on light, dark and custom themes, and ships fully translatable (English + Turkish).

Free
Extension: $0.00/yr
Install via your forum →

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Overview

Features

  • Four resource types in one system: downloadable files, external/off-site links, file-less guides & articles, and commercial/paid listings — each with its own icon and workflow.
  • Organize with nested categories, colored prefixes, tags and admin-defined custom fields.
  • Real release management: per-resource version history with changelogs and update logs, so members always grab the latest build.
  • Multi-author "teams" let several members co-maintain a resource; an optional EULA gate can require agreement before download.
  • Complete star-rating and review system with author replies, reactions and content voting to surface the best resources.
  • Members can watch resources for update alerts, bookmark favorites and receive email digests.
  • Four widgets — New Resources, Top Resources, Latest Reviews and Statistics — plus an RSS feed for external syndication.
  • Serious moderation: approval queue, soft-delete with undelete, hard-delete, feature/unfeature, author warnings, inline moderation, reassignment and a deleted-items view.
  • 26 dedicated user-group permissions so you decide exactly who can view, add, download, rate, moderate and manage.
  • Theme-token-driven styling (no hardcoded palette) and clean install / upgrade / uninstall.

Settings

Everything is configured from Admin → Resource Hub:

  • Listing: resources per page, reviews per page and the default sort order.
  • Uploads: allowed file extensions, maximum file size and maximum files per version.
  • Reviews & ratings: require download before rating, minimum review length, review-required toggle and anonymous-review permission.
  • Resources: enable author teams and allow custom resource icons.
  • Management pages: Categories, Prefixes, Custom Fields and Tags — each fully manageable in the admin panel.
  • Moderation: approval queue, deleted-items view and a moderation log for full auditability.

Requirements

  • RaxBoard 1.0.0 or newer
  • PHP 8.1+
Stable releases
v1.1.6build 11006
Permission-aware Add button

- The "Add resource" button is now hidden from members who do not have the resource_add permission, instead of rendering for everyone and failing with a blank 403 on click.
- Opening /resources/create without the permission now redirects back to the resource list with a clear explanation instead of an empty page.
- Choosing a category you may not post in re-opens the form with a field-level message, so nothing you typed is lost.
- New phrases (EN + TR): resource_error_add_denied, resource_error_add_denied_category.
- Upgrade step 11006 patches the stored resource list template for every style.
v1.1.5build 11005
Resource Hub 1.1.5 — admin translations.

- Fixed: the add-on's admin strings did not follow the platform phrase convention, so none of them appeared under the "admin" group in Appearance > Languages where core admin strings live — each one sat in its own single-entry group instead, adding 145 of them to the group list. All 145 admin strings moved onto the standard admin.* naming, in both English and Turkish.
- Fixed: 21 phrases were defined twice in the language files. The duplicates are gone, and one label that had been showing the wrong text ("Allow commercial (paid) external resources") is back to matching its neighbours ("Allow Commercial External").

Upgrading removes the old keys and reseeds both languages. If you had hand-edited one of these admin labels, that edit is replaced by the shipped text.
v1.1.4build 11004
Resource Hub 1.1.4 — mobile layout fix.

- Fixed: resource pages scrolled sideways on phones and the dark header stopped short of the right edge of the screen. The layout grid was sizing itself to its widest content instead of to the screen, pushing the page about 275px past a 375px-wide viewport. The resource list, the resource page and the add-resource wizard now fit every width from 320px up; long titles shorten with an ellipsis and the sort bar scrolls, as intended.

No database changes and no new settings — templates only.
v1.1.3build 11003
Resource Hub 1.1.3 — the last backend gaps closed.

- Fixed: the daily watch-digest email never ran. It is now registered with the forum scheduler and fires daily, and members can choose "Daily digest" when they start watching a category (one batched email instead of an alert per new resource).
- Added: the moderation log (approve, feature, delete, move, reassign...) was recorded for every action but never shown - moderators can now open it from the resource page.
- Fixed: group-restricted prefixes (for example a staff-only "Official" prefix) were listed to every member and then silently dropped on submit. They are now hidden from members who cannot use them.
- Housekeeping: removed 13 unused internal methods left over from earlier versions.

Note: featuring/unfeaturing a resource already worked from the moderator bar on the resource page.
v1.1.2build 11002
Resource Hub 1.1.2 — backend integration fixes.

- Fixed: commercial price/currency, the external purchase URL, the author support URL and tags were not saved when a resource was created. They are now stored correctly.
- Fixed: the Top Rated sort and the Top Resources widget ranked every resource the same, because the weighted rating score was never calculated. Ratings now rank correctly (existing resources are recalculated during the upgrade).
- Added: watch a whole category for new resources (a button on the category page) plus a Watched Categories list in the sidebar.
- Added: resource authors can now reply to a review, and the reply is shown beneath the review.
- Added: a search box on the resource list.
- Added: admin option controls that existed in code but had no setting - review helpful-votes on/off, updates per page, update length limit, sidebar counts and the guest article snippet length.
- Minor styling and page-reachability fixes.
v1.1.1build 11001
Resource Hub 1.1.1 — maintenance patch.

- Fixed: brand-new (fresh) installs were missing some database columns introduced in 1.1.0, which could cause errors on a first install. Fresh installs now create the complete schema. Existing 1.1.0 sites were not affected.
- Category admin: the discussion forum and its thread prefix are now selected from dropdown menus instead of typing a numeric id.
- The What is New and Featured pages are now linked from the resource list, and the What is New page ships its own styling.
- Review criteria (multi-criteria ratings) now display on rating-only reviews, not only on reviews that include a written comment.
- Version history now lists a version's downloadable files with per-file download links.
- Minor admin-menu ordering and styling fixes.
v1.1.0build 11000
Resource Hub 1.1.0 — XenForo Resource Manager parity update.

- Per-category permissions: restrict view / add / download / review per user group, configured from a permission matrix in Admin -> Resource Hub -> Categories.
- Linked discussion threads: new resources can automatically create a forum discussion thread (set a discussion forum per category).
- Review criteria: define multi-criteria review fields (for example Ease of Use, Support) that reviewers fill in per review.
- Multiple files per version: attach several downloadable files to a single version.
- Report a review: members can report individual reviews to staff.
- What is New page: newest resources, recently updated resources, and the latest reviews at a glance.
- Per-category submission rules: require a prefix, a minimum number of tags, auto-feature new resources, and enable or disable versioning.
- REST API: read endpoints for resources, versions, reviews and categories.
- Improved author update alerts and category-watch notifications.
v1.0.4build 10004
UI polish:
- Bookmark, Watch and review Vote now update in place instead of showing a raw JSON response.
- The moderator "delete selected" confirmation uses the native styled dialog instead of the browser popup.
(Includes all 1.0.3 fixes: legacy permalink redirects, edit-updates-not-duplicates, coloured prefixes, custom fields.)
v1.0.3build 10003
Fixes:
- Legacy XenForo Resource Manager permalinks (/resources/{slug}.{id}) no longer crash on migrated boards — they now 301-redirect to the canonical URL.
- Editing a resource now correctly UPDATES it instead of creating a duplicate new resource, and edited descriptions are saved.
- Prefixes can be styled as coloured badges (new colour picker in Admin → Resource Hub → Prefixes).
- Custom-field values, including multi-select, display correctly on the resource page.