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PRBLEM Live Forum Statistics

A modern, permission-aware live statistics panel for XenForo with trending discussions, activity states, popular forums and contributor rankings.

Current release v1.6.2 View changelog ↓
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What it does

Turn your forum homepage into a compact activity hub with Latest Threads, Trending content, Pinned discussions, HOT/ACTIVE/NEW states and Top Contributors.

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  • • Modern live forum statistics panel
  • • Latest Threads tab
  • • Most Replied threads
  • • Most Viewed threads
Version1.6.2
UpdatedSep 12, 2026
RequiresXenForo 2.3+
Package24.8 KB
Product brief

About this product

PRBLEM Live Forum Statistics transforms the XenForo forum homepage into a compact, modern and activity-focused content dashboard.

Instead of forcing visitors to browse through multiple forum sections to discover what is happening, the add-on brings important forum activity together in a fast and responsive statistics panel.

Visitors can instantly browse the latest threads, most replied discussions, most viewed threads, most reacted content and trending topics. Sticky threads can be presented separately, while intelligent activity states help distinguish new, active and hot discussions at a glance.

The integrated sidebar adds Popular Forums and Top Contributors without requiring separate widgets. Contributor rankings can highlight the top five members with distinct static ranking colors, helping encourage participation without distracting animations.

PRBLEM Live Forum Statistics is designed to feel like a native part of XenForo. It respects forum visibility and thread permissions, supports light and dark styles, provides responsive mobile layouts and can be positioned directly from its own Admin CP settings.

Administrators can control the number of displayed threads, pinned threads, popular forums and contributors, configure activity thresholds, choose visible tabs, exclude forums and select where the statistics panel appears on the forum homepage.

No XenForo core files are modified.

Capability map

Features

+• Modern live forum statistics panel
+• Latest Threads tab
+• Most Replied threads
+• Most Viewed threads
+• Most Reacted threads
+• Trending threads
+• Dedicated Pinned Threads section
+• HOT, ACTIVE and NEW activity states
+• Distinct activity-state colors
+• Configurable activity thresholds
+• Popular Forums sidebar
+• Configurable Popular Forums limit
+• Top Contributors leaderboard
+• Distinct static colors for the top 5 contributors
+• Configurable contributor limit
+• Thread-state icons
+• Last poster avatar and username
+• XenForo thread prefix support
+• Configurable thread row count
+• Configurable pinned-thread limit
+• Excluded forum support
+• Tab visibility and ordering controls
+• Manual AJAX refresh
+• Optional automatic refresh
+• Compact and comfortable display modes
+• Responsive mobile presentation
+• Light and dark style support
+• XenForo permission-aware results
+• Managed forum homepage placement
+• Duplicate widget detection
+• XenForo-native Admin CP configuration
+• No core file modifications
Safety boundary

What this tool never does

  • PRBLEM Live Forum Statistics does not modify XenForo thread content, replies, reactions or member statistics.
  • It does not artificially increase thread views, replies, reactions or engagement counts.
  • It does not change forum or thread permissions and does not intentionally expose content that the current visitor cannot access.
  • It does not modify XenForo core or vendor files.
  • The add-on does not require an external API, remote JavaScript dependency or cloud service for its core functionality.
  • Removing or disabling the add-on does not delete XenForo threads, posts, members or forum content.
  • Activity labels such as HOT, ACTIVE and NEW are presentation states calculated from existing XenForo activity; they do not modify the underlying discussion data.

Installation

  1. Download the latest PRBLEM Live Forum Statistics ZIP package.
  2. Open your XenForo Admin Control Panel.
  3. Go to:
  4. Admin CP → Add-ons
  5. Choose Install/upgrade from archive and upload the ZIP package.
  6. Complete the XenForo add-on installation process.
  7. Open:
  8. Admin CP → Setup → Live Forum Statistics
  9. Configure the displayed tabs, thread limits, pinned threads, Popular Forums, Top Contributors, activity thresholds and refresh behavior.
  10. Select the preferred forum homepage placement and save your settings.
  11. The add-on creates and manages its primary forum statistics widget automatically. Creating an additional Live Forum Statistics widget manually is normally unnecessary.
Release history

Changelog

v1.6.2

License, updates & privacy

Privacy

  • PRBLEM Live Forum Statistics processes forum activity using data already available within the local XenForo installation.
  • The add-on does not send thread content, member information, forum statistics or visitor activity to PRBLEM or any external service.
  • No analytics, tracking pixels or third-party advertising systems are included.
  • Public results respect the current visitor's XenForo permissions. Threads and forums that the visitor cannot access are not intentionally exposed through the statistics panel.
  • AJAX requests are used only for local tab switching and statistics refresh operations on the XenForo installation.
  • The add-on does not require an external API or cloud service to provide its core functionality.

Usage / shortcode

No shortcode is required.After installation, open:Admin CP → Setup → Live Forum StatisticsFrom there you can configure the forum statistics panel, including:• Thread rows per tab• Maximum pinned threads• Visible statistics tabs and their order• Popular Forums display and item limit• Top Contributors display and item limit• Top 5 contributor color highlighting• HOT, ACTIVE and NEW activity thresholds• Forum exclusions• Compact or comfortable display density• Forum homepage placement• AJAX refresh behaviorThe add-on automatically manages its primary forum homepage widget. You do not need to create another Live Forum Statistics widget manually.Forum homepage placement can be changed directly from the add-on settings.
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