Max width of images - does Ning resize to max width 1400px?

Long time, old friends. What's happened to this site? Has it been redesigned by someone at playschool?

Anyway, I see Ning are developing again, which is good to see after years of neglect.

A client got in touch recently to say his Ning 2 site wasn't

Tip: Ning 3.0 Slider – Dynamically Loads Blog Posts

Hi all

I've reworked and old tip from here to incorporate blog posts into the WooThemes slider.

I've posted the tip on my own site and will be supporting it over there so please feel free to take a look.

Here's the tip

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Ning 3.0 Tip: Limit post and discussion title lengths (with counter)

Hi all,

Here's a quick and easy tip born out of a request from Kos to limit the number of characters that members can type into the title box on blog posts and forum discussions on Ning 3.0.

Kos's thinking was that Google prefers shorter titles for

Ning 3.0 Tip: Infinite Scroll for Photos (Loading More Images ... )

Hi all,

I've been playing around with the awesome Infinite Scroll jQuery plugin to get it to work with Ning 3.0 photos.

Tested on V1 Aloe theme and V2 Infinity theme

What does this tip do? Instead of seeing the pagination buttons at the bottom of

Ning 3.0 Tip: Download Button

Hi all,

I've worked on several client projects recently where there was a need for members to easily access downloadable items (PDFS, Spreadsheets etc) in forum discussions.

This simple tip looks for the word 'download' in links within forum discus

Ning 3.0 Tip: Profile Page Photo Slideshow

Hi all,

One of the features currently missing from Ning 3.0 is the photo slideshow.

On Ning 2.0 this is built using Flash, not great if you're an iOS fan as they won't display on your iPads and iPhones. Their is uncertainty over whether the slidesh

Ning 3.0 Tip: Insert Videos and Music Players on Profile Pages

Hi all,

UPDATED 10th Jan 2015 and now compatible with v2 themes, and supported here.

Inspired by the conversation going on over here, I have spent today writing a hack so that members of your Ning 3.0 network can include YouTube, Vimeo, ReverbNatio

Boilerplate: Sign Up / Sign In Box For Ning 3.0

Hello everyone,

Following up from a few comments about sign up / sign in boxes being absent from Ning 3.0, I thought I'd put together a simple boilerplate example for you to use and adapt.

Here's a screencap:

Here it is in action: here, here, and

Simple, Responsive Slider for Ning 3.0

Hi All

Here is a simple tip to get an elegant and responsive slider onto your Ning 3.0 Community.

It is purely image based, so no titles or descriptive paragraphs involved. This might not be for everyone but it does make it very good for mobile dev

Tip: Advert Wrap for your Network. One For Your Site Sponsors!

Hello NCs,

This tip is inspired by Manuel France's request for a clickable background and has been tested in the Design Studio using the Newspress theme.

Tested in Firefox 18.0.2, Chrome Version 24.0.1312.57 m and IE9.

Have you ever wanted to util

Tip: You Might Be Interested In ...

Hi all

Here is a simple tip to insert a "You Might Be Interested In ... " (call it whatever you like really) section at the bottom of all blog posts, sort of like we have Related Videos on the video module.

Here's how it looks:

What does it do? I

Tip: Insert Adverts in Content after the First Paragraph

Hi

This is a simple yet potentially lucrative tip to insert Google Adsense or Yahoo/Bing Ads (or anything really) after the first paragraph (defined by <p> tags) in all content in forum or blog posts (including member posts).

ADS IN BLOGS:

Click t

Tip: Add More Videos for improved SEO

Hello NCs

SEO was not something I knew much about before starting my Ning site. I've picked it up along the way, with help from some NCs here like SoaringEagle, but it's pretty much trial and error and keeping an eye on Matt Cutt's blog over at Googl

Tip: Search Function Like Creators Using Google Custom Search

Ever wanted to use the same search functionality that Ning use here on Creators? ie. to have your Ning search bar use Google's Custom Search Engine?

OK, here goes.

This assumes that you have a Google CSE already set up and have the ID required (bol

Tip: Advanced Featured Member Area for your Home Page

Hi all

Ever wanted an easy way to feature a top member in a bit more detail than the usual Ning member module allows?

This tip creates a neat profile box on your network homepage by taking the Profile Information (questions answered on Sign Up) and

Tip: Insert Paypal Donate Button under Profile Pic

Hi all,

Quick tip in response to the request here: adding a paypal donate button under the profile avatar on member pages. Apologies if this is elsewhere, couldn't find it with a quick search.

Grab your Paypal Donate code from the Paypal page here

Tip: Add 'Follow' Social Icons to Member Account Modules

Hi All

Here is a little tip that will allow members to display Follow buttons for their other social profiles on their Ning profile page.

It works based on Profile Questions and the answers that members give, so, if you set a profile question to be

Tip: Calls to action to members based on Sign-Up answers

Hi all

This tip is kind of similar to Jen's tip on inserting messages to all members on their profile page.

However, what i wanted to do here was target specific member types, in this case Legal Recruiters, with a 'call-to-action' that applied only t

Tip: Style Sheet for some of my more subtle CSS hacks.

Hi All

I thought I'd post a line of script that collates some of my more subtle css changes into one stylesheet.
You can insert into your custom code and save a whole load of space in your advanced css section which, for some reason, is considerably

Insert Social Icons into your Navigation Bar

S'up bitchez?

Here's a little tip to get some social icons inserted into your navigation bar so it looks something like this:

First off you need to find the div ID of the final nav tab in your navigation menu. You can do this using Firefox Firebug