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Thanks, J.C., I agree, and I don't know why anyone wants their community to be like a gulag, either! They need more .
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Blog Post CommentClean, simple, and with effective meaning. Also fitting on any site's theme, as it's cyan is never too dark nor too bright. And the text color appears to change to white or black by itself depending on page background? Nice touch!
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Blog Post CommentIs there a way to disable the " Unified Posting Button on Home Page"?
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Blog Post CommentHi jpmfan, Yep, you can do that with custom CSS. Just add this code to the Custom CSS section on the Display Settings page in your control panel: #overviewPostingOptionsButtonWrapper {display:none;} Hope that helps, Brian
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Blog Post CommentHi Jon, This release went out to all Hoop.la, UBB Forum, and QuestionShark customers. We've had numerous requests for slideshow functionality over the past year or so (I don't have an exact figure to give). We support slideshows now via the Clips widget Ted mentioned as well as on the Clips page itself. Hope that helps, Brian
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Blog Post CommentAlways appreciate your releases but disappointed you've stopped giving them creative names. We implemented your suggested CSS code to suppress the new Post Content button. Our Reason: at our site it would likely invite too many improperly located or duplicate topics. I do like the idea of encouraging posts, however, so I'm wondering about a widget that features the current "hot topic" (as determined by activity/views/whatever) and has a 'reply now' button to catch interest on the home page.
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Blog Post CommentHi Julia- Even though your attachment is broken, I think I know what you are asking. By default, we setting the dropdown menu option on that page to "Search Wordlets". There are thousands of wordlets, so we default to "search" to make it easier for you to find the word/term you are looking for. To see all wordlets, or only the customized/uncustomized wordlets, you can change the dropdown menu on the right side of the page.
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Blog Post CommentUnder Manage Content -> Search Content, search for the topics you want to re-open. Select the topics (across all pages, if that's what you want), and then choose the "Open: Accept New Comments" option in the action dropdown at the bottom of the page.
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Blog Post CommentHi Ricks- We already supported liking content in general.. this release simply adds support for liking comments and replies. Thus, you can now like the primary content itself, as well as any comment/reply. To like "the initial post", click on the like option in the right column near the top of the content page.
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Blog Post Comment200 members is great but how many are free and how many are paying? What business model was used as far as pricing was concerned? The standard $25 a year? Or a larger monthly fee etc? I never watched the video, so sorry if it is mentioned there - 3am here I am too tired.
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Blog Post CommentHey Danny! I just thought I'd pipe in on this as I got the email notification that you'd responded. The video is before I had set up premium memberships and more focuses on things that I had learned about bringing new members to the site in only a couple of months and keeping them engaged. I've since set it up and do have maybe 5 paying members currently (at the standard annual rate) but I really operate the site for the love of sharing my interests with others and learning from one another...
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Blog Post CommentBrian, it warms my heart to see someone like you, who is very knowledgeable about the tech side of things on the internet, and who is much younger than I am, do something like this. The issues you raised are spot on and have motivated me to do the same thing. I got a Faceplant page about 2 years ago solely for family purposes. I think I have 8 "friends." My daughter was posting pics of the grandkids there at the time. However, due to the privacy concerns you linked to in your post, she has...
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Blog Post CommentThe confusion surrounding social marketing is palpable. Whenever I speak with folks they believe it's only about posting to Facebook and Twitter. No one really knows how to engage customers. Now that I am blogging and writing social media posts for clients, it's a longer haul to earn traction. People and companies are so behind and had they engaged 3 years ago when everyone was excited to like, share, follow it would be easier today.
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Blog Post CommentP.S. Can I share this on LinkedIn? Or are you not there?
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Blog Post CommentLinkedIn share button is coming...meanwhile, you can copy paste the URL into the LinkedIn post box and it should work fine (should you be so inclined). And I totally agree that confusion is rampant right now. Seeing the data from this study really gives perspective on how many folks are still figuring it out as they go.
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Topic ReplyThank you for the quick response. I believe you are correct, as this issue began when I added a new 'module' to the navigation. I also discovered that when I scroll-down, the navigation expands to full-page thus revealing the menu items I couldn't see. I'll try the css bit. I'm sure that will work. Thank you!!
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Blog Post Comment"Message Variables" isn't a clickable link in my browser (Chrome for Windows). Do you have a web page that lists/explains all the variables and codes?
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Blog Post CommentHi Ted, I didn't realize that I needed this until just this past weekend. This is terrific as we stratafy [sic] features to align with incentives. Congratulations on the new logo. I wish we still had the "powered by" image selector for themes." We'd be much happier with a black or dark gray icon to go with our overall grayscale aesthetic. ST
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Blog Post CommentHi @Cissy ! The social integrations are enabled at the top community level in the control panel: Basics > Social Networks. For each social network, you can choose Sign-in, Member Profile Links, and/or Social Feed, depending on what's available to us from that social network (every API is different). If you choose member profile links or social feed as an option, your members will see a prompt banner at the top of their profile the next time they go that page, saying something like,...
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Topic ReplyHey Dave. How can I control the WIDTH of the sticky topic? I don't want it to be full page, but rather, restrict its width to the container.
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Blog Post Comment❤️Will there be any posssibility to mix and match? I like the card idea for our clips, for instance, but want to keep our carefully-curated 'front page' which weights different elements differently.
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Blog Post CommentAgree with Paul's comment below - a more modular approach to rolling out this feature would be preferred. I don't want to alter my home page, but might want to use this feature in the Clips or other areas (depending on how it looks and works, and how long it takes me to reformat it to fit the branding of my site).
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Blog Post Comment❤️Thanks for the resources and links. The "planner" offers some good reminders. My Wish: That CrowdHoop would incorporate CM tools and reminders/metrics into the actual interface (rather than on paper). Seems like a logical development since it's the community interface where we spend our time. I'd start with optioning the "calendar" module into a "planning and scheduling tool" for community managers and their team (and not open to everyone). Each day/week/month could incorporate certain...
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Blog Post Comment☝️Thanks Rosemary. I like the image of FB as a "feeder outpost." That's how we use it, though as a "Page" instead of a "Group." In our experience, having a "page" on FB is even less of an outpost than it used to be. Over the last two or three years, we've seen them severely limit the amount of "organic" (unpaid) "reach." New posts to our Page used to get seen by half of our followers on FB, but now we're lucky to get 20% reach into the newsfeeds of those who ASKED to follow us. Reason: FB...
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Topic ReplyHi Neil! The Content Stream content block brings in all new content (including topics, blog posts, clips, etc.). The general scope is just a feed of everything, without regard to the logged in user who's viewing it. The "personalized" scope will display a feed that's specific to the person viewing it (so it will show things you're following). Personalized version looks different to every person viewing it. If there's a specific post (blog post?) you want to highlight on your home page in a...
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Topic ReplyThanks ROSEMARY! re: Noodling... yes! I have a volunteer who is going to "dig for hidden treasures" on our site to bring them to people's attention. Our site has a lot of good older content, and such things can easily get buried. What I WISH was that there was some way to "mark" certain posts and topics so that they would appear in a custom content stream to only displayed those marked items. Another way to "sort of" do this is to create a topic dedicated to displaying links to "highlights...
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Topic ReplyOk, interesting idea....I've got a couple of possible solutions. 1. Create a "Best of" forum (and don't allow regular members to post or comment in it). Move your "best" topics to that forum. Create a Content Block for that forum and put it on the home page. 2. Create a Custom HTML content block (one time) that contains 3-5 bullet point links and nicely formatted text paragraph (or sentence). On a weekly, monthly, or other basis, just replace the links and paragraphs with the new topics you...
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Blog Post CommentWhether this can be called an "improvement" or not depends on your definition of "improvement." This was definitely not an improvement on our site. Many of our members are now seeing a red banner at the top of the page that blocks the menu toolbar! That is not an improvement.
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Topic ReplyHi, Amy! In your control panel, look for Subgroups, and choose the Manage link. Find the subgroup that you want to delete, check the box next to it, and scroll to the bottom of the page. From the dropdown, choose "Delete Subgroup(s). You'll be presented with a confirmation popup. Note that all the content from the Subgroup will also be deleted. Hope that helps! Lori
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Topic Reply👍Yes, you're right that the replies don't display formatting on the main page. I'll take this as a suggestion for the future! Meantime, for spoilers, I'd just artificially bump the spoiler text with asterisks or line returns so it doesn't appear on the main page.
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Topic ReplyThanks for your prompt reply. I think what you're referring to is when a user logs in to Crowdstack and to redirect this user to us for authentication. But what about if the user logs in to our site and we want it to automatically log in to Crowdstack and probably bring out a page on our site. Do we send an AuthnRequest for that? Is the possible? One other thing that I'd like to clarify regarding the basic flow you mentioned above, where is Crowdstack going to send the AuthnRequest? where do...
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Topic ReplyHi, Derek! In your control panel, go to Navigation Menus (under Design). On the right you'll see a link marked "Add Menu Item". If you click that, you'll get a popup, and you can add your title and the URL for the page itself (which you can get on the actual custom page). Once you've added them, you can move your menu items around by using the arrows on the left. Let me know if you have any questions! Lori
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Topic Reply@Brian Lenz Thanks so much for all your help. But what if I want to change the IDP I set up earlier. I can no longer access the Settings page for me to upload another metadata xml. I set up single sign on earlier however, I got an error after logging to the idp, please see screenshot below: So I'm exploring other options and I have another metadata xml that I would like to upload but I couldn't get to the page because of the error above. Appreciate all your patience and help in all these.
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Topic ReplyHi @neil , I think all of the details you're looking for are already available in the Settings > Permissions > Topics section of your control panel: /cp/permissions/topics That page gives you a breakdown of all categories and forums, along with their permissions. It's not exactly the format you're describing, but it contains all of the info you're looking for. Note that it's a single page with all of your forums listed, so if you have a large number of forums, you'll have to be patient...
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Topic ReplyThanks. That's a helpful reminder... but it's definitely a lot to wade through and not quick to get through and scroll down through. Whereas, as seen in the screenshot below, you have given us this other ubiquitous link to a "Configure..." our categories and forums --that leads to a much better/easier page layout of the categories and forum to manipulate and also lets us change permissions. I use the ubiquitous link almost every day, which is why I wish it has the existing permission info...
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Crowdstack DiscussionHello Crowdstack, Looks like my community has two different <H1> tags on each page. <h1 class="title" <h1 class="pageTitle" Bing SEO tools are complaining "Remove redundant <h1> tags from the page source, so that only one <h1> tag exists." Bing lists this as a High Severity issue. My site has been dropped from indexing by Bing. Is there a way to keep <h1 class="title" and replace <h1 class="pageTitle" with something else? Thanks