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So you’re a small/medium sized business who purchased one of our plans and launched a new community. The topics, replies and views will start to rack up any time now, right? Riiight?! Perhaps you’re a major brand wanting to give your customers a place to connect, ask questions and get more information, but aren't sure how to inspire them to join. Maybe you haven’t even pulled the trigger and launched a new community just yet because you fear your hard work won’t be seen so what’s the point? You feel confident nailing down the color scheme, header, navigation and forum categories, but the dreaded “0 replies” is casting a gloomy shadow over your bright and shiny new community. A lack of initial momentum is one of the scariest hurdles a new community builder faces. Here are a few tips to kick off your community in style and start receiving engagement right away. Be visible. As your community’s leader, it’s important to be accessible to your members. Make yourself available to them so they know you’re willing to lend a hand. This helps forge meaningful connections with your community and fosters trust. Being visible looks like creating topics, responding to members’ posts, answering private messages, enabling a contact form and including a profile photo. Use your voice. You can’t expect your members to speak up if there isn’t a community leader or brand ambassador doing so first. Lead by example and use your voice in your own community. This is also a great opportunity to shape the tone of your community, whether that’s informative, casual, snarky or funny. The tone of your community: Sets a precedent for how members respond. Broadcasts your brand’s values. Defines how a member can connect. Inspires guests to silently react. Expressing your community’s tone adds character, helping you differentiate from competitors. Create content that invokes an emotional response. This is one of the best kept secrets! Creating content that inspires a feeling from your members is a surefire way to keep them continually participating and returning. It's one thing to make content, it's another to create valuable content. Value enhances a member’s life, quantified by whether it produces a positive effect. Publish content that invokes an emotional response and watch how quickly your engagement rate climbs. Provide a great user experience. Generally speaking, it’s what’s on the inside that counts, but when it comes to community building, a slick user interface helps facilitate a great user experience. In case you missed our blog post about the importance of your brand’s look and feel, creating an immersive visual experience for your community matters. A few quick design tips: Ensure your navigation is easy to use Employ a beautiful color scheme that reflects your community’s tone Add spacing in between components Include a logo Promote your community You likely have some type of presence on social media. Use that as a tool to drive traffic to your community (versus what most people do: use social media as the be-all and end-all for promotion). If you have a following on platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, you’ll want to entice and mobilize your existing base to join your community. Do this by being visible, using your voice, creating content that invokes an emotional response and offering a great user experience (see what I did there?). How do you engage your community? Drop us a line in the comments. We’d love to engage with you! Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is our March maintenance release. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This resource will set member's signature under review before it shows in topics. Settings: Display a message on board top to the member who has pending signature Display a counter of pending signatures beside notifications icon to inform moderators how many signatures are awaiting for review Records per page on ModeratorCP -> Signature Moderation Groups to apply the signature restriction Workflow: It will automatically set as PENDING all signatures from members of the groups you selected when you change the group setting; so it won't set signatures as pending if you save the settings and DO NOT change the groups. You need to change the groups to fire the action and it runs on a background task so it may take a few minutes in large boards. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This plugin modifies the existing Fosters Bookmarks Application to only support Bookmarks for posts!This will hide the bookmark link in all other content types! Note: THIS ONLY modifies the current application, this is not a stand alone app/plugin! Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Twenty years ago today, Invision Community was founded and within months the first version of Invision Community was released. Little did we know, this would be the start of a remarkable journey spanning several decades. Our first version appeared shortly after we founded the company. It might be hard to imagine a time before social media and YouTube, but when we started out, the web looked very different. The first version of Invision Community was called Invision Board, reflecting the popular term for forums back in the early 2000s. It was full featured and you may recognise some elements that persist today. Like today, it even had a separate control panel where you could create new areas of discussion and customise the theme. Twenty years is a long time and we've continued to adapt with the ever-changing needs of community managers. We've seen the rise of social media impact how people consume content and found ways to compliment Twitter and Facebook by offering a place for long-form permanent discussion. Several elements remain from those early days but the concepts behind the theme have change significantly. New workflows, UI elements and views have helped the platform stay fresh and we've certainly innovated a few features that have since become industry standard over that time. I can't express how proud I am of what we've built together. From those humble beginnings working until 2am to growing a creative and talented team around our passion for community. I'm still as excited today as I was back in 2002. This year will see us build and release new tools to help guide and inform community managers. Our community platform continues to go from strength to strength. Of course, the platform is only one part of Invision Community. Over the last twenty years I've been grateful to get to know many of you and watch your lives unfold. This is as pure as community can get and I'm privileged to be part of it. We have a few other surprises to celebrate our twentieth anniversary. We can't wait to share them! I'd love to hear your memories of Invision Community! When did you first use our products and what was your community for? Please let me know in the comments below. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

An updated version of the old Swiper Slider I will update it in marketplace at some point and set it for free Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

The application updates the Font Awesome version to version 6 without destroying the icons embedded in IPS version 4. Something's not working? Clear the cache via AdminCP by Get Support! Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Simple plugin which implements the theme template edit I suggested in the following post: Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This application makes it possible to allow different file types or file extensions for different groups, when uploading attachments. This is useful in many scenarios, such as letting normal members only upload images while staff members or other groups can upload all file types, or to allow members of a VIP group to upload images while normal members can only upload text files. When installed, the application will add a new tab named Attachments to the group settings. There you can configure which file types or file extensions the group is allowed to upload. By default the global settings for attachments, configured on the Posting settings, are used. The group settings will take precedence over global settings, except if the global setting is set to “none”. In this case, attachments are considered disabled and no one is allowed to upload anything. Just like the rest of my files, this plugin is and will always be completely free. All I ask in return is that you leave a review below if you find this plugin useful. Known issues As of version 1.0.0, there are no known issues. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Easily create and manage tabs Very useful for your site If you’re looking to add custom tabs into your design this Plugin will help. It’s one design trend I always recommend to people who want to create multi-tabbed widgets. DEMO tabs-widget.mp4 Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

⭐Sendo Theme⭐ ( IPS version 4.6 ) Template with a choice of ( White/Dark ) color versions. Colors and sizes using CSS Vars. Choosing the font color, the theme has many settings and can be fully customized. It's perfect for all forums, beautifully displaying all site content. Possibility to change header, slider, navigation, popus, forms, comments and much more.. Permanent support - Write me a private message and you will receive the rank of customer on the codebite.dev/ips You can buy (50$) a plug-in to remove copyright from the footer. ( private message ) (click) View demo (click) Login: demo Password: demo Theme by ? CodeBite.dev Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Do you have a forum and/or forums that do not get the deserved attention from your members? Then this app can come in handy as it will help you with that. It will force your members to visit a particular forum and only then can they proceed with visiting the rest of the forums. All content is hidden in the activity and search pages for members till they visit the forum set as must visit. You can exclude certain groups from being forced to visit forums. You can also enter a custom error message to be displayed to members when informing them that they must visit first the forum set as must visit before they can enter the rest of the forums. All the options are set at the app 's settings page. Each time a member will visit the forum that has been set as must visit, the action will be logged and be available to the admins so they can keep track of things. The log can be searched for members and timeframe of forced forum visits. If you want a particular member to re-visit the must visit forum, all you can do is delete their visit forum entry from the logs. Or you can delete the whole log for a do over of forced forum visits again. Logs can be kept permanently or prunned after a certain amount of time. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is our February maintenance release. Key changes include: Support for IndexNow, a new way to inform search engines of new content. New Webhook trigger points. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

By default, Pages databases work best for articles. This template sets puts the Record Image field front and center. As a result, Pages categories can now be turned into beautiful & minimalistic galleries, where each record represents one image (with a title and description). All Pages functionalities like comments, ratings, reviews and custom fields are also available. The original idea was to create a template set for online art exhibitions, but the template set has a wide range of possible uses. Any kind of content centered around images can be improved by this plugin: How-to guides using images. A travel blog. A designer’s portfolio … This product is not meant to replace the Gallery app. It’s a way to create galleries as part of the editorial content on your website. The record display view has 3 possible layouts which can be applied automatically: portrait image, landscape image and “no image”. The latter creates a center column with content from the editor field, which can be used for an introduction, chapter dividers and so on. A bonus feature is limiting the number entries guests can view (starting from the first record in a category). This can be used to encourage guests to register. LIVE DEMO What’s required: The Pages app What’s included: A category index template (with support for Pages Category Image) A listing template A record display template A plugin with settings (see below) Detailed feature description: Global settings: Item background: dark or IPS default box Limit number of entries guests can see. Yes/No Number of entries a guest can see Listing settings: Thumbnail fill type: contain or enlarge to fill Use black&white effect Display settings: Image column aspect ratio: portrait only, landscape only, dynamic (based on the image) Allow Lightbox Yes/No Show creator on record view Show creation time on record view Use image effects (shadow/rounded corners) Notes: The templates can be used for multiple Pages databases, but the plugin settings will apply to all databases at once. The ordering comes from the Pages database ordering settings, as with any Pages database. There is no drag-and-drop ordering of the images. For ordering, a stock field like record ID or title can be used or a custom ordering field can be created. However, the ordering field needs to contain unique values. Fields like “rating” or “views” cannot be used. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Login Page Message This plugin will let you add a message, including an optional title, to the login page. The message will appear over the login form, and you can easily change the text being shown as well as the font sizes for both the title and message text. You can style the different message elements using CSS, giving you complete control over the visual aspects. For more information about this, see the Additional information tab. Just like the rest of my files, this plugin is and will always be completely free. All I ask in return is that you leave a review below if you find this plugin useful. Known issues As of version 1.0.0, there are no known issues. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

FX Pages is a free collection of Pages templates to create different sections in your community within minutes. Features Documentation (or guides, books etc.) News (or blog) TOC (Table of contents) from subheadings within a record Image caption from alt tag of the image displayed below the image Record feed block with images Demos Documentation News Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Webhooks allow other services and applications to stay in sync with your community data or to perform an action after a specific event occurs in your community. Webhooks are a performant alternative to continuously polling for changes to the IPS REST API. For example, a webhook can notify your service when a new topic is created so that your app can perform then any further actions. Webhooks can also be used to connect your community with Zapier, IFTTT or Integromat, so that any event which is covered by webhooks can trigger any further actions. Common webhook use cases Sync your member base with 3rd party newsletter lists Sync your Event RSVP with your Online Ticketing System Update your inventory after a purchase was made You can find the webhook functionality in the AdminCP, under the API section. There is also a useful webhook reference built in. Setting up a webhook Setting up a webhook is straightforward. Log into your AdminCP, then navigate to System > API. The target URL would be defined by the application you wish to fire events to. For example, in Zapier, you can set up a trigger to listen for a webhook event via a custom URL. Once you have entered the URL, simply check which events you'd like to fire to that URL. Zapier will ask you to test the URL, so to do this simply invoke the action which fires the webhook event, such as creating a test topic. Documentation If you are looking to add webhook events into your own custom code and applications, please see our documentation here. Webhooks will be implemented in 4.6.10 and will be enhanced frequently. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is an easy to use application that allows you to display your contact information simply and neatly! All data is added in the ACP. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Branded communities mobilize your impassioned fans and customers. If you’re even a little familiar with community building, you’ve probably seen marketing jargon about why owning your own community (and not exclusively relying on social media) is absolutely imperative for growth. Relying on social media is a gamble. At any given time the social media giants can take away your platform and following you had spent years building. Meaningful ongoing conversations aren’t really a thing. No customization; your social account won’t have different functionality than everyone else (there’s a few exceptions with Instagram, but it’s based on follower count). With a community, you can grant your members far more flexibility and power. Companies that thrive know of social media’s limitations. They opt to also include a community component to their brand because it’s a serious advantage. They use social media as a tool to drive traffic to their community and get to know their clients/customers on a deeper level. Owning your own branded community... Strengthens brand identity. Duh, but not really. I’d say most companies fail to establish a real look and feel. This is done by evoking an emotion in the customer through an intentional balance of visuals (colors, logos, fonts) alongside experiences the company, along with the community, creates together. Builds trust with the consumer. Getting digital face time with your customers, sharing content and offering value on a consistent basis are the building blocks of trust between company and consumer. Gain this, and become an authority in your industry. Provides a deeper understanding of customers' needs. Save money on market research. Tap into your audience's needs free of charge. Encourages an open dialogue. Customers want to feel heard! Create an environment that's a two-way street so their thoughts and feelings don't fall into the Internet abyss. Creates visibility. At the heart of any business are the customers. Show them your true colors. Your brand’s look & feel matters Now that we’ve nailed down the ‘why,’ let’s touch on the nuts and bolts, err… colors and fonts. Don’t underestimate the power of a cohesive and imaginative visual associated with your brand. When you think of McDonald’s, does your brain fire off a pair of golden arches and a ketchup red color combo? When thinking about Coca Cola, maybe a cursive font bubbles up. Apple is internationally admired for their visuals and product presentation. These aren’t accidents. Companies spend millions of dollars on marketing to perfect the brand’s look and feel. Your community should aim to feel as immersive as possible through its branding. Your community, powered by Invision Community, was designed with that in mind. In the admin control panel, community leaders can design their own theme, including colors, fonts, headers, footers and logo. Take a look at how some of our clients transformed their communities into something extra special: Squarespace Fiverr Corsair Those communities enlist our enterprise services. However, if you don’t have the marketing budget just yet to create a totally custom look and feel, we have a new option at your disposal starting today. We just launched a theme service available for all Invision Community clients on our standard plans. We’ll create you a theme based on certain criteria and keep it updated throughout future platform updates. If that’s something of interest, please visit this new page on our website and reach out to us to get started. Design your new theme today. Owning a branded community doesn’t need to be complicated. If your idea is solid, and your intentions are to unite and connect like-minded people, then you’re golden. Are you interested in a branded community? Do you have a community that could use some extra attention? Are you ready to launch a new community but don’t know where to start? Drop us a line in the comments and we’ll respond to you. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This resource will give staff the ability to prevent members from posting (create topics or reply in topics) in specific hours. Requirement: Forums app. Setting: Groups that can be restricted Moderator Permission: Can set time to prevent members from posting Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

What does it do? This app will give your members, with the appropriate permissions to block other members from viewing their topics and profiles. Personal Messages are not included since they can be blocked if you ignore someone. When a member blocks someone, they can enter a reason as well. This is to server as a reminder if you will will, as to why that member has been blocked. They, blocked members, will not see it. Group Protection Member belonging to certain groups, like admins and moderators for example, are unblockable. Blocked Members Log A complete overview log of who is blocking whom is available in the Admin Panel and Mod CP. The latter is accessible only to groups with the appropriate permissions. Both logs have a search option as well. Forced Blocking Admins can force block members from the admin panel. Moderator Log Whenever someone adds a member to the their blocking list, removes someone from it, is logged in the Moderator log page. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Build a trust relationship with your users by allowing them to earn points by reporting content. These points can be used towards automatic moderation or group promotion so you can change automatically the group of member based on their reliability or even set an automatic moderation based in the rating points. Settings: Rating points for: AGREE status NEUTRAL status DISAGREE status Fontawesome Icon for: AGREE status NEUTRAL status DISAGREE status Moderator Permissions to: Set status to a report Unset status of a report You can also view a list of all members with their ratings on a specific module on Admin CP. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This app will allow the admins and your staff, with the approrpiate permissions, to change several topic data such as views, author and start date. Permissons You can set the permissions at the app 's settings page which can be found at your Admin Panel->Community->Manipulate Topic Data. Members with the permissions to change topic data, will see 3 new links added inside the Moderation Actions drop down list. The are as follow: 1) Change Views. When clicked upon it will display the current views for that topic with the option to add to them. 2) Change Author. When clicked upon it will display the topic author with the option to select a new author. After the changes are saved, the topic info will be updated accordingly to reflect the new author. The new changes will be updated in the search and activity page as well. You have the options to descrease old author 's post count and increase the post count of the new author. 3) Change Start Date. When clicked upon it will display the topic start date with the option to select a new date. After the changes are saved, the topic info will be updated accordingly to reflect the new start date. The new changes will be updated in the search and activity page as well. Moderator Log. All the aforementioned topic changes will be logged in the Moderator Log page in the admin panel. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

NiceGreen Theme -No copyright*Low Price* IPS 4.6.* DEMO This template is prepared in two modes, Dark and Light customization options: Tob Bar-Social icon-Message Box-Navigation icons-Forum Icons-Footer Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This adds a widget to show online users in a chat room on a matrix.org server (tested with Synapse). For more details or to submit issues please follow this link to github. The widget is very similar to the one for Rocket.Chat - just displaying the same information for Matrix.org rooms. Some instructions on how to setup a matrix (synapse) server and connect it to your IPB can be found in the Setup & Guidance section: Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu