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Quick Tip: Tool to Edit Your Ning Archive JSON in Browser

So, you've downloaded your Ning archive and would like to modify it for other purposes.  There are many JSON editors out there to download and try, but over the past week I began using  JSON.Browse to edit the files inside browser.

What tools do

Hack Tip to Embed Document Library Bookshelves

Ok, so you would like to embed a cool bookshelf, but would rather not have to buy and then learn some expensive software to make your bookshelf.  This hack will allow you to embed an entire folder of PDFs/PPTs/eBooks into any page on your network.

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How To Add Member Count Modules

DEMO PAGES: http://bizzssite.ning.com/        LAYOUT EXAMPLES: http://bizzssite.ning.com/member-count-modules-demo-page

Demo image

This little tip will provide you with a way to add member counts to various places around your site. I have added a

New Feature On My Demo Site: Filtering The Activity Feed

I tried to do this some time ago but couldn't figure out how to get the 'More' items when they show up to take on the scripts on the older items added. I have added a post about this so hopefully Ning will get this fixed up. But since I seem to have

How To Change A Multi Category Select Box Into A Single One

This small tip you may find useful, while setting up a page I wanted categories but I only wanted the member to be able to select one and not any others and so this is how I came to write this tip.

What it does and how you may find it useful.

When

Is This A New Feature ?

If this has been added by the new Ning team then this is great and thankyou!

In all the years I have been with Ning I can't remember seeing this, now it just might have been there all the time and I never really noticed it but if it is new it's grea

How To Add A Popular Blogs Module ( ver1 )

Demo On Home Page, look for the popular blogs module on the right: http://bizzssite.ning.com/

This little tip will give you the chance to add a popular blogs module to any page, a bit like the ones we have for latest activity etc. If you visit my sit

Enhance Your Social Channels Player ( All code I have used on my site )

View Demo Here : http://bizzssite.ning.com/star-wars

When you add a sociall channel page and you click a video to watch it you get just a small video at the top of the page. I decided to have a much bigger video player to fill the screen so here is a

Why I Have Been Adding A Lot Of Photos To My Site

If anyone had been visiting my site over the past week or so then you may have noticed I have been adding a lot of photos. There is a reason for this as I have been testing a way to be able to add photos via the activity feeds, members page and any p

Activity

Hello I am new to the community. My name is Art. I was wondering if anyone knew how to add an activity feed to groups that would only be specific for that group. I like the way that when you post a link in the activity feed you will see the corespond

Changing Your Feature Button To Reflect The Item Has Already Been Featured

This is just a small tip for Admins as they are the only ones who see this but you may find it helpful

Sometimes you may been looking at some posts that are in a featured list or you may have opened a post that has been featured already but when you

How To Add A Scroll To Top Button

Here is a little tip for those who would like to add a scroll to top button when scrolling. There are two parts to the code, Custom Code to go in your site & Pages custom code end of page section and some CSS to go in your custom css section of the d

How To Make Your Feature, Add, Edit Buttons At The Top Of Pages Stand Out Better (Updated 08/01/17)

In the past when I ran a full member network the most common questions I got asked were how to add a photo or edit a photo, same for forums blogs etc, so here is a litttle tip which helps make those stand out.

In the design studio there is an option

How To Make Some Design Changes To Your Sub Menu's ie Categories etc And TabContainers

In our design studio we can make just about every change to the menus and links we need all that is except for our sub nav menus. These menus are thing like the categories above a page, group nav menus and also in our email. The other area we can't m

How To Add Missing Blog Filter

One thing that is missing in the blogs pages is the chance to filter by Newest, Most Popular and Latest Activity, this is available in forums but not blogs so here is a way to be able to add one.

Maybe this is something the new Ning team could add bu

Little enhancements for the Like, Comments icons for the activity feed

These small bit sof code will give you a few little changes to your like icon and comments icon plus a small separator for when someone replies to a comment etc this is explained better in the images below.

Here is the after view from adding the cod

All The Code I used To Create My Social Channels Player

Here is all the code I used for changing how my social channels player looks. Rather than open a small player at the top of the site I created a much bigger player that covers the screen, also when viewed from a social channels page rather than one i

Testing New Tip For Viewing Items From Activity Feed Without Leaving The Page

This is a tip I have re-written, still tweaking a bit before posting the code, that I thought you might like. Basically when you or a member posts a status on the activity feed and then other members comment on it the comments can get quite long, als

How To Get The Social Channels Working In Tab Containers

Let's say you have some social channel pages but you would like to add a TabContainer on another page for example and that by using the add content insert certain social channels into a tabContainer. Now that is all pretty easy to do as it's just lik

How To Move the 'More' categories link back into the navigation menu

Small tip here to help those who have a lot of categories which will make the 'More' link show up. When it does it tends to sit right out to the right hand side away from the main categories menu. This line of code will bring it back into the categor