Your Pages expert for Invision Community
I am a German web designer and web publisher working in this field since 1999. I am using the Invision Community software for more than 10 years. My specialty is customizing Pages databases within the community suite. ”Pages” is an extremely powerful application to create pages and databases with data and information from the niche your community is about. But making full use of Pages often requires expert knowledge to set up the databases and to create custom templates around the content you want to show. This is where I come in! I am providing stock templates for Pages databases and I am available to create custom templates specifically for your community.
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Invision Community users (including myself) have asked for conditional fields for years. It was finally added, but almost secretly without any proper announcement or documentation. And since the feature is not added to the field settings, users will not even stumble upon it by accident. You actually have to know where to look. In this article I take it upon myself to explain this feature so you can make use of it.
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By default, Pages databases work like a blogging system. You just add a title and a body text to each record. But with custom fields, you can present any kind of content. It’s an extremely powerful and versatile system to collect and show data around your community topic. But as you might have found out already, the styling options for custom fields are limited and often you will have to turn on the “Custom listing/display view format” options and write your own HTML code. This article is a coll
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When you start a new Pages database, you have to make a foundational decision: How to structure your content in such a way that users can easily find the content they are looking for. Pages databases come with both categories and filters for this purpose. Understanding their pros and cons is important before setting them up. Here is everything you need to know.
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There are a lot of changes between Invision Community 4 and 5. IPS has announced significant changes on their blog, but there are also changes that are so far unannounced and undocumented. Here is what changed in the Pages app.
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Invision Community currently comes with a choice of seven webfonts in the default theme. If you want to use different fonts, you have to customize your theme. This article explains, how this is done.
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Invision Community 5 makes much better use of Pages record images for your articles. These images are now shown in various aspect ratios throughout your community using the CSS “cover mode“, so parts of your images will simply be cut off! I created a Photoshop template (and PNG image as alternative) to create and test suitable cover images before uploading them. The template shows a pixel-perfect preview for all relevant aspect ratios that Invision Community 5 uses.
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Running online communities will often feel like parenting. You have to settle disputes, ask your members to behave and even punish them when necessary. There is just no way around it. If many people get together in one place, there will be conflicts. And as community owner, you have no choice to step in, even though it will often feel like you will be the ‘bad guy’ no matter what. If you don’t step in, your members will complain about that and things will probably escalate. And if you do step in
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In this bonus lesson I explain how I built this very section on opentype.space, where database records can be accessed by anyone, but only paying members will see the actual course content and everyone else is encouraged to upgrade their account to get access. Background With Pages databases you can easily set custom permissions on the category level to offer content exclusively to certain member groups, like your paying members. But there is a problem: if you remove the access for guests and r
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Community admins always want to improve their website and there are typical areas of concern like ‘search engine optimization’ and ‘page speed’. But often, when I see websites running the Invision Community Suite, I see an area that is needlessly neglected, even though it would be easy to improve and changes could make a huge difference: the menu! Think about it: It’s one of the most important parts of your website, because it is what users interact with the most when they browse your website.
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