Eggy Thread Style Studio is a visual thread styling and promotion system for XenForo.
Create distinctive thread appearances without manually building the CSS. Design styles in the Admin CP with a live XenForo thread preview, then apply them directly to individual threads, automate them with rules, or make selected styles available to permitted members.
Styles can be applied simply by pasting a full XenForo thread URL. Eggy resolves the thread automatically, confirms the target and applies the selected appearance without requiring you to find or enter a thread ID.
The styling engine supports far more than simple coloured backgrounds. Administrators can build gradients, borders, glow effects, patterns, accent strips, shadows, rounded layouts, typography treatments and optional animation while previewing the result instantly across desktop, tablet, mobile, light and dark contexts.
Thread Style Studio can also be used as a membership benefit. XenForo permissions allow administrators to decide which user groups may style their own threads, which styles they can use, whether they may customise permitted colours or animations, how many styled threads they may have active and how long their styling may remain active.
This makes the add-on useful for announcements, featured discussions, marketplace listings, VIP sellers, premium memberships, sponsored content and other thread-promotion systems.
The administrator always remains in control of availability, rules, expiry, permissions and overrides.
Built for XenForo 2.3.
Features
VISUAL THREAD STYLE DESIGNER
• Live XenForo thread-row preview
• Desktop, tablet and mobile preview modes
• Light and dark preview modes
• Compare styled and normal thread rows
• Editable Quick Style presets
• Solid and transparent backgrounds
• Linear gradients
• Multi-colour styling
• Pattern and warning-stripe effects
• Border styling
• Left accent borders
• Rounded thread rows
• Shadows and glow
• Glass-style visual effects
• Title and metadata styling
• Optional animation controls
• Replies / Views panel controls
DIRECT THREAD ASSIGNMENT
• Paste a complete XenForo thread URL
• Automatic thread detection
• Resolves and stores the native XenForo thread ID
• Displays detected thread information before assignment
• Apply styles without manually finding thread IDs
• Permanent or time-limited styling
• Manual administrator overrides
• Locked assignments
AUTOMATED RULES
• Automatically style qualifying threads
• Rule priority system
• Sticky-thread rules
• Thread-prefix rules
• Forum/node rules
• User-group based rules
• Reply/view threshold rules
• Manual assignments can override automated rules
• Multiple rule priorities remain deterministic
MEMBER THREAD STYLING
• Optional Account -> Thread Styles area
• Users can style their own eligible threads
• Actual selected thread shown in the live preview
• Select a thread or paste its full URL
• Administrator-approved presets
• Optional permitted colour customisation
• Optional animation permission
• Style quotas
• Maximum active styled threads
• Duration restrictions
• Saved personal styles where permitted
• Users cannot inject arbitrary CSS
XENFORO PERMISSIONS
• Can style own threads
• Can style other users' threads
• Can use thread URL assignment
• Can customise permitted colours
• Can use animations
• Can access premium styles
• Can apply permanent styles
• Maximum active styled-thread limits
• Forum/node restrictions
• Staff override controls
MEMBERSHIP & MONETISATION USE
• Works with XenForo user-group permissions
• Can be used as a XenForo User Upgrade benefit
• Premium/VIP groups can receive additional styles or quotas
• Useful for promoted marketplace listings
• Featured seller appearances
• Premium membership benefits
• Temporary thread promotion
• Sponsored/partner thread styling
• Style-credit system support
• Configurable style availability and duration
ADMINISTRATOR CONTROLS
• Admin CP design studio
• Saved style library
• Thread assignment manager
• Rules manager
• Activity and credit tracking
• Expiring-style overview
• Active assignment counters
• User-style counters
• Audit/history tracking
• Lock/unlock styling
• Extend or remove assignments
CSS OUTPUT
• Reusable generated CSS class
• Generated extra.less snippet
• Copy CSS class
• Copy complete CSS
• One deterministic styling compiler powers live previews and deployed styles
SAFETY
• User styling uses validated visual controls
• No arbitrary member CSS injection
• Native thread IDs used after URL resolution
• Permission and ownership checks
• Staff-locked styles protected from member changes
• Quota and credit operations handled transactionally
COMPATIBILITY
• XenForo 2.3.12+
• Current XenForo 2.3 edition
• Designed to follow the active XenForo style rather than replacing it with a separate frontend theme
Requirements
PHP 7.2+
JavaScript enabled
Administrator access to XenForo Admin CP
Member-facing thread styling requires the relevant XenForo permissions to be granted by the site administrator.
Installation
1. Download the Eggy Thread Style Studio ZIP.
2. In XenForo Admin CP, go to:
Add-ons -> Install/upgrade from archive
3. Upload the complete Eggy Thread Style Studio ZIP.
4. Complete XenForo's normal add-on installation process.
5. Open:
Admin CP -> Eggy Tools -> Thread Style Studio
6. Configure your styles, rules and member permissions as required.
For upgrades, upload the complete newer installer through XenForo's normal Install/upgrade from archive process.
Do not uninstall the existing version before upgrading.
Do not extract and manually copy individual files unless specifically instructed by Eggy Support.