Quick Tip: Follow Members Privately
Rosemary O'Neill
Crowdstack
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Tips❤️By default, the main navigation menu is displayed ABOVE your site header. It is also full width by default, like so: Below, we will offer some tips for changing the appearance and positioning of your main nav menu. Left Align The Menu To position your menu text so it is aligned left instead, add this CSS: nav#top_nav_bar ul.right { float:left !important; } nav#top_nav_bar ul.right > li > ul.dropdown { left: 0; right: auto; } Your menu will then look like this: Center Align The Menu To...
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TipsHello Everybody, Opening links in new windows is trivial once you know what you are doing. Simply add a target="_blank" attribute to any link (a element) and you have yourself a link that will load in a new window. Example: <a href="http://socialstrata.com" target="_blank">Example</a> So seeing how simple it is you might be asking yourself why do we need a tip? Well its simple, a lot of the HTML for Crowdstack is out of the site administrators direct control. Meaning there will...
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Tips❤️Just as you can use Font Awesome font icons for premium member badges, you can also use them for any permission circle badges, or activity level badges (instead of titles). For purposes of this tip, we will be creating a badge for Activity Level Titles, which can be set via Recipes. First, select the font icon you want from the FontAwesome list of icons, here . Note that while the Solid and Brands icons are free to use, Regular, Light, and Duotone require that you purchase a Pro license.
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TipsThis is similar to the tip about adding a custom icon to Premium Member badges . For this tip, we'll show you how to display a custom icon next to all Member Titles. Note that the same icon will be displayed for all titles in the example, since there is currently no way to differentiate member titles from a CSS standpoint. First, let's see what our sample Member Title of "Dude" looks like without any styling: 1. First, let's focus on simply adding an icon. You can inject a Font Awesome font...
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Tips❤️"How to put a widget in the main left column of the homepage" was one of the first questions I asked Hoop about during Beta, and I have seen many others ask the same question since. Answer: you can't put real widgets there. But I did figure out how to 'fake' one there --which also has the side option of creating 3 columns, if you like that sort of thing. Why? We like the idea of more custom content in the Main Left Column (aka " MLC "), and less of the preset content blocks feeding...
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Tips❤️Here's how to center the main navigation menu: nav.top-bar { text-align: center; } nav#top_nav_bar ul.right, section.top-bar-section > ul.right { float: none !important; display: inline-block; } .top-bar-section .dropdown li { text-align:left; } .top-bar-section .right li .dropdown { left:0; right:auto; }
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Tips❤️One of the new features is support for Font Awesome font icons. The advantage of using font icons is that they can scale to different sizes without distorting whereas using images can't scale without distorting or adding blurriness. New to the applilcation are text-based member badges instead of image-based badges. If you want to add some extra flair to your premium member badge, you can inject a Font Awesome font icon with some simple custom CSS. First, you must select which font icon you...
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Tips❤️Sometimes you want to bring widget content onto the Home page of your community, in the left column. This tip is the step-by-step on how to accomplish that! If you've done this in your community, please share your own hints for making it work here too. In this example, we're displaying forum topics, but you can do this same method with other widget content. Go to control panel, under “manage widgets.” Click the Embedded Widgets tab. Click “add embedded widget.” Select “UBB Forum” in the...
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Crowdstack DiscussionContent Stream blocks seem designed to feature "recent/new" content, correct? I don't see it mentioned in the knowledge base. What can you tell me about them? When setting up a Content Stream Content Block. what is the difference between "general" and "personalized" ? And... is there a way to make an older post appear in the content stream? (i.e. to bring attention to it?)
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Crowdstack DiscussionIn our next major update (likely to be released sometime next week), we'll be removing support for the "activity stream" as both a destination page and widget. We're making this change because the Activity Stream is one of the most underused features in the platform, yet it happens to be one of the most complicated ones to maintain, since nearly every action ties into it in some way. In our research of active Crowdstacks, many had disabled the feature entirely. We are still supporting the...
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Blog Post CommentSo much fantastic information here - thank you SO much, this is going to be really helpful! Look forward to reading more! Morgan
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Blog Post CommentThanks for being part of OUR community Please come back and let me know how things work out as you try out different ideas, or if you come up with some new ones of your own!
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Blog Post CommentWill do! I've basically been encouraging everyone I know interested in my site concept to share it like crazy. Having the support of friends / family with thriving online social networks helps a ton. And I realized that I should sign up for a FB page so I could entice regular FB users BACK to my site by posting news and blog post links there. Learning a lot and loving what you guys are doing! Where are you located? A couple people have asked and I can't figure it out. Morgan
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Blog Post CommentYes, you should definitely leverage your FB presence. That will help you too. The bulk of our staff are in Seattle, WA, but a couple of us are in Charleston, SC. We're in the process of opening a second office here. It's definitely helping us to have folks in two time zones!
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Blog Post CommentCan I do this for our blog/announcements feed?
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Blog Post CommentYou sure can! On your blog page, on the right hand column, you should see an RSS link. Just grab that and feed it into Hootsuite as I described above, and voila. Just let me know if you run into any trouble, and I can help further.
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Blog Post CommentAlso read my post on the topic https://hey.crowdstack.com/s...oop-la-etc-see-links
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Blog Post CommentWill the Recommendation Engine work on the mobile interface?
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Blog Post CommentHi Melanie, We currently do not show any related content on the mobile interface.
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Blog Post CommentRecommendation Engine. Do I have to pay extra for this? It looks useful but surely based on the monthly fee this would be a normal integration as part of the development of the site? Could you let me know?