XModPro

A New Discussions Module

Kelly Ford Kelly Ford posted Mar 12, 2026
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At the end of January, I mentioned that as part of our move away from Evoq and back to DNN Community, we'd be rewriting a number of Evoq modules using XMod Pro — eating our own dogfood, as it were. We replaced the Answers module with an XMP version on February 11th, and yesterday (March 11th) we released the XMP version of Discuss. As with Answers, the necessity of conversion became an opportunity to see what XMod Pro could really do. My primary goal was to eliminate Fiddles — the workaround I created to get around Evoq's refusal to allow code snippets in posts. The new Discuss module now supports **Markdown** syntax. Markdown lets you insert `inline code` by wrapping text in single backticks. For multi-line code, you use what Markdown calls "fences" — three backticks on their own line, followed by your code, closed by another line of three backticks: ```html <xmod:Template> <ListDataSource CommandText="Select 1 FROM SomeTable" /> <ItemTemplate> <h3>This is an XMod Pro Template in a code block</h3> </ItemTemplate> </xmod:Template> ``` In the above snippet, I actually used: **```html** to open the block in order to get the syntax highlighting for HTML. If you use GitHub, you'll already feel right at home. We've also made tagging much easier. A dropdown shows the most-used tags for quick selection, but start typing and it will search for matches — so no more tag chaos like `xmod`, `xmp`, `XModPro`, and `xmod pro` all meaning the same thing. There will inevitably be rough edges to smooth out, but this should make it significantly easier to post questions and answers that include code and basic formatting. All of this is part of the broader migration back to DNN Community, which gives us far more flexibility to add content and features going forward. One more thing: **XMod Pro v5 is on the horizon.** I'm still hopeful for a release by end of month — though that may be an alpha or beta. The feature set is complete; we're currently hunting bugs, polishing the UX, and rounding out the documentation. Enjoy the new Discuss module, and let me know what you think. Thanks as always for your support of XMod Pro. Best, Kelly

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