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This block displays promoted items from the section "Our Picks" throughout the site in random order. It does NOT use carousel. The block is made of grid columns. Features: Horizontal and vertical blocks are included Reusable on the the same page Translatable title of the block Show/hide the title of the block Number of items to show in one block Number of columns (1, 2, 3 or 4 columns) Show default cover if image is not available Show/hide more than one image (if more than one is added to the pick) Show/hide meta description Truncate description text by lines Show/hide reactions and comments Show/hide "Promoted By" line Show/hide "View All" link Limit by number of days (or unlimited) Responsive mobile design Supports lazy load View the full article

Send a personal message to members for selected moderator actions to their content. Such as locking a topic, featuring a calendar event or deleting a forum post. Features Select which item moderator actions a PM will be sent for. E.g. locking, unlocking, hiding, unhiding, deleting, pinning etc.. Select which comment moderator actions a PM will be sent for. E.g. hiding, deleting, moving etc... Various quick tags to use in the personal message template sent out. Set a custom message for the move moderator action to include the new item location. Set a custom message for the hide moderator action to include extra details like the hide reason. Set a custom message for the delete moderator action to include the original delete item or comment content. Keep up to date with DevFuse mod development and releases. View the full article

This plugin will allow quick search pop up menu to pop up when user clicks search icon in mobile view... Plugin demo: View the full article

Quickly add video widgets with embed support, description and link to a topic for discussion. Supports internal IP.Board oEmbed video sites. Features Responsive video widget that supports both sidebar and horizontal widgets and mobile friendly. Support for internal IP.Board oEmbed video sites such as Youtube & Vimeo. Optional description field to describe video. Optional linking to a forum topic to discuss video. Keep up to date with DevFuse mod development and releases. View the full article

If you're reading this blog, then it's likely you already have a community and have been running it for some time. I'm going to go further and say that you've done all the right things; you've set it up correctly and themed it, so it matches your site. Once you have built your community and watched it spring into life, it's easy to think that you have done all you need to do. However, there are three simple things that you're probably not doing that is curbing your potential growth. Promote your community No matter how well you have set up your community, if you're not regularly promoting it, then you are limiting your potential audience. Look for ways to promote your community to a new audience. If you regularly write blog posts or a newsletter for your existing customers, then make sure you write about your community and encourage people to join. If you have a presence on social media, then share links regularly. Even adding a link to your community in your existing email signature will catch a few more clicks. Get creative! One community owner I know went through Apple's rigorous verification process to post quality articles from their site to Apple's News app. Why not sign up to HARO (Help A Reporter Out). This is a free email sent daily that contains requests from reporters looking for sources to quote in articles. The email is broken up into sections so that you can find relevant stories for your niche. It's a very simple way to get quoted in other publications with a link back to your site. Think about how you can promote your community to a wider audience. Post great content Do you take the time to create great content and post it to your community regularly? By great content, I mean a piece that encourages in-depth discussion, shows that you are a leader in your niche and sets the tone for the rest of your community. With the rise of social media, we're often fed a diet of disposable content such as "Motivation Monday" which may generate likes, but it does nothing to connect with your audience. You could use the Blog app, the Pages app or post in the relevant forums within your community. Try and encourage discussion and ask them to share their thoughts and experiences too. People love to share what they do and talk about their experiences, so it shouldn't be hard to get people active on your topic. Reward contributors Way back in the dark ages, a high post count was the only badge you needed to show others that you were to be feared and respected. I still remember joining some communities in the early 2000s and was in awe of members with 10,000+ posts. In today's more sophisticated times, we need a little more to keep us involved. There are a lot of tools you can use to reward your members. The simplest is the group promotion tool which automatically moves members based on specific thresholds. You can give your members elevated permissions or special badges to show to others that they are more experienced. If you have a more active community, you could consider rewarding your most engaged users with a prize. This prize could be a free subscription, a discount code for your products or even a small Amazon gift voucher. These are just a few things that you can incorporate into your workflow to help further build your community. I'd love to hear your tips too, please share them below! View the full article

This plugin will give members the ability to follow specific user content from other members. This will make the user to receive only notifications of content of interest. View the full article

Allow your members to buy or send virtual gifts for their profiles using their members shop points, you can create unlimited gifts for members to redeem Main Features Adds a new tab to members profiles for the gifts to be shown / seen Create categories to place gifts in These categories will be shown in the members profiles in the order of them in the ACP Create gifts for members to have on their profiles All ACP created gifts will be shown on the members profiles with the images in Grayscale Once a member redeems a gift the image on their profiles will be shown in full colour If a member has redeemed more than 1 of the same gift it will show how many they have in a little notification bubble Shows random gifts on the members posts / topics in the forums You can disable this via the ACP settings You can set the amount to show in the ACP settings All images use the lazy load setting if you have enabled lazy load How To Use Once installed go to the members shop tab in the ACP and select the profile gifts > category & gifts link Click the create new button and add a category Now click the add gift button and create a gift adding a name and uploading a image Repeat for all your images / categories Go to the members shop items and add a new item selecting the profile gift item Fill in all the details as you would like any other item There will be a new setting showing all your created gifts select one of them from the list to use If you want the gift image to show as the item image you will need to re-upload that image for that item ( I will be looking into it doing it automatically but will need to edit members shop for this ) The item will now be available to purchase with-in the members shop application Requirements Members Shop 1.2.4 or above View the full article

Whether you call them Champions ?, Advocates ?, or Superusers ?, every community contains an elite group of members that carries ? the community. They don't just drink the kool-aid ?. They mix, chug, and swim ?‍♀️in the community kool-aid. Learn ? four community management concepts about Superusers in less than ? four minutes. 1. 90-9-1 Rule (aka "1% rule"): The 90-9-1 principle refers to the lopsided inequality of user engagement that 90% of users are lurkers ?, 9% of members contribute from time to time ?, and 1% of users ? account for almost all contributions. Superusers are the 1%. 2. Intrinsic Motivator: Motivation that comes from internal motivation?, rather than any external rewards. This could be a sense of satisfaction ?, pride ?, ownership, loyalty, friendship ?, or other emotional and internal motivator. Long-term superusers ? are wired to intrinsic motivation. Tapping into intrinsic motivation is key to providing new motivation for superusers. 3. Spiral of Silence: Be careful ⚠️, however, that your superusers don't overwhelm ? the conversation which can lead to the Spiral of Silence: a theory that as the vocal minority becomes louder ?, other members adopt the same views or fail to share opposing views. You'll need to privately manage this vocal minority, especially if they're negative ?. 4. Work Out Loud ?: An engagement practice for superusers to visibly share ? their work online in your community. It offers opportunities for superusers and members to openly share ? their knowledge, generosity, purposeful discovery, and growth ✨. Usually entire point ✴️ of communities of practice. View the full article

Sort a forums topics by the most reactions it has received. Select which forums or member groups support reaction counts. Features Set which forums support sorting. Set which members groups can sort by reactions. Display reaction counts next to each topic row. Count reactions from the first post or all posts within a topic. Keep up to date with DevFuse mod development and releases. View the full article

Display a summary of topic details at the top of every topic. Including first and last poster, views, number of attachments and who posted in the topic. Features Select which forums support a topic header. Select which member groups can view the topic header. Display first poster, last poster, views, number of attachments, attachment upload size and who posted. Topic attachment popup to display a topics attachments. Who posted popup to display the top posters of a topic. Keep up to date with DevFuse mod development and releases. View the full article

Send inline notifications to members when they are selected as a past leader in the leaderboard. Set the task run time and timezone to match your leaderboard. Features Inline notification sent to member who are saved as a past leader. Email notification support NOT included. Set the target time and timezone when to send out notifications. Notification option for members to enable or disable leaderboard notifications. Keep up to date with DevFuse mod development and releases. View the full article

With this modification you may display build in adverts by a language of the member. Works fine even if user didn't selected own language and has default set. View the full article

This plugin will force member to confirm email address by setting them as a validating member to change their email. This is not an automated process for bounced emails. Links will be added in: Profile Profile card (when you hover a member link) Admin CP profile to set the member as validating Only ADMINs with no restriction to edit members on ACP will be able to use the resource in front-end. View the full article

This is new version of Classic Blue using simple style make your site look different and stand out from the rest this has dropdown menu's that hover over and clean lines this uses all css and very little template changes. View the full article

Sign Up Message For Quest Members Beautiful Box For All Communities (If color settings are not applied ->After saving the settings, Disable and re-enable the plugin ) Demo View the full article

Works with the latest versions of these applications: IP.Board 4.4.x Admin Control Panel IP.Commerce IP.Pages IP.Downloads IP.Gallery IP.Blog IP.Calendar Chatbox Clubs Subscriptions & More! Included in the download: - Skin XML file for installation - Matching Admin CP Theme - All fonts used throughout the theme - logo.psd - team-icon.psd - IBTheme copyright and license agreement - Links to purchase add-ons like installation, copyright removal, logo text change, etc. View the full article

Works with the latest versions of these applications: IP.Board 4.4.x Admin Control Panel IP.Commerce IP.Pages IP.Downloads IP.Gallery IP.Blog IP.Calendar Chatbox Clubs Subscriptions & More! Included in the download: - Skin XML file for installation - Matching Admin CP Theme - All fonts used throughout the theme - logo.psd - team-icon.psd - IBTheme copyright and license agreement - Links to purchase add-ons like installation, copyright removal, logo text change, etc. View the full article

Works with the latest versions of these applications: IP.Board 4.4.x Admin Control Panel IP.Commerce IP.Pages IP.Downloads IP.Gallery IP.Blog IP.Calendar Chatbox Clubs Subscriptions & More! Included in the download: - Skin XML file for installation - Matching Admin CP Theme - All fonts used throughout the theme - logo.psd - team-icon.psd - IBTheme copyright and license agreement - Links to purchase add-ons like installation, copyright removal, logo text change, etc. View the full article

Works with the latest versions of these applications: IP.Board 4.4.x Admin Control Panel IP.Commerce IP.Pages IP.Downloads IP.Gallery IP.Blog IP.Calendar Chatbox Clubs Subscriptions & More! Included in the download: - Skin XML file for installation - Matching Admin CP Theme - All fonts used throughout the theme - logo.psd - team-icon.psd - IBTheme copyright and license agreement - Links to purchase add-ons like installation, copyright removal, logo text change, etc. View the full article

Works with the latest versions of these applications: IP.Board 4.4.x Admin Control Panel IP.Commerce IP.Pages IP.Downloads IP.Gallery IP.Blog IP.Calendar Included in the download: Theme XML file for installation All fonts used throughout the theme logo.psd team-icon.psd IBTheme copyright and license agreement Admin CP is themed to match forums View the full article

Will remove the admin emails/mailing list option from all locations in IP.Board. Keep up to date with DevFuse mod development and releases. View the full article

This application will allow your members to upload music tracks to play on their profiles with a nice tidy custom audio player Features Adds a custom javascript / jquery / ajax music players added to users profiles ( if they have uploaded tracks that is ) Allow your members to upload multiple music tracks to their profiles Adds a playlist with all their uploaded music allowing to switch tracks easy Easily edit the track names by clicking and holding the track name in the playlist without having to reload the page Easily reposition the tracks by dragging them and dropping them into your chosen positions Audio player has 4 buttons Repeat ( this will repeat the playing track ) Next ( skip to the next track ) Previous ( go to the last track ) Volume ( toggle through mute / half volume / full volume ) Easily delete each track without having to reload the page ( this will show a pop up asking to confirm the deletion ) Admin Settings Choose what groups can upload tracks Select the maximum upload size per track Select the maximum upload limit per batch of uploads What's to come Lot's gimme some ideas on the support topic ? View the full article

Adds search options to the reported content area in the moderator cp. Search by report author, reported member or report text. Features Search by which members submitted a first report. Search by which members are the report content author. Search by topic title, topic post contents or report text. View the full article

Adds the captcha check to the default contact us form for selected member groups. View the full article

Think about all the different touchpoints where you try to connect with members: forum discussions, blog comments, personal messages, email newsletters, weekly meetings, and perhaps offline events. You write witty and clever messages. You dedicate an entire section of your community to welcome and hello topics. You spend enormous amounts of time trying to elicit engagement from members. What if I told you that there’s one touchpoint that you consistently overlook where members reach out to you, some for the very first time? You receive messages every day and every week from users through the Contact Form. It’s one of the most common touchpoints that you’ll ever experience with members. Unfortunately, most admins gloss over messages through the contact form, because we think it’s secondary to the activity in the community. That’s not true! As a touchpoint to your community, the interactions through the Contact Form are as important as any other user-facing activity. In fact, because members proactively reach out – some for the very first time – this is likely one of the biggest opportunities where you consistently under-engage. It’s time to fix this gap. Here are examples on how to effectively respond to 2 different types of messages from the Contact Form. Let’s look at some sample responses with a fictional online community “Toronto Birding Society” (Note: I know nothing of birdwatching or Toronto). Responding to Guidance Questions Many questions you receive through the Contact Form are “guidance” questions. These are questions that ask about function and features such as “how to?” and “how do I?” The tone is usually neutral, and the intent is positive (eg. to learn). These questions are easy-to-answer and the responses usually involve instructions, step-by-step details, and screenshots. If you only respond to the specific inquiry, however, you miss out on all the potential of member growth: to affirm the relationship, recognize his contributions, instill community culture, and ultimately encourage the member to contribute in a more meaningful manner. Example: Responding to Negative Sentiment Questions The next type of question you receive through the Contact Form are questions of “negative sentiment.” These are questions that ask to cancel, terminate, or suppress various functions because the user would like to disconnect from the community. Even though the tone is neutral, the intent is negative. Just like before, the questions themselves are easy-to-answer. However, if you took the inquiry at face value and answered the specific question, you end up losing the member! Your goal instead should be member retention: to investigate why he wants to leave, to re-affirm the strength of the relationship, recognize his past contributions, invite the member to revisit, and ultimately deflect the original inquiry. Conclusion Busy communities receive messages through the contact form daily and weekly. They’re a recurring part of our community management that we consistently overlook. It’s one of the greatest touchpoints you will ever have with a member, since the member is actively seeking growth (or regression) with the community. Your responsibility is to nudge them in the right direction. My recommendation is to write two templates: one for guidance questions, one for negative sentiment questions. This allows you to quickly provide a framework that can be filled in with personalized details. Use your replies to contact form messages as a way to not only answer the specific question, but grow the member and progress them along the member lifecycle journey. View the full article