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Tip: Adding a plus media button to your activity feed

The other day I posted a tip for adding some buttons for adding content in the activity feed, the photo and video buttons was using one of each of the modules add buttons so was a bit restrictive if you had more than one instance of them so here is a

Tip: Remove crop of group cover photo and set a bigger height while making them responsive

As you may or may not be aware the cover photos for the groups headers are cropped to a height of 160px so here is a bit of code to remove the crop so you can have a bigger sized picture, also some css which helps make them responsive.

First we add so

Tip: Adding add content links to your activity feed

This tip will allow you to add some add content links below your status box on the activity feed to make it easier for members to add stuff. Seeing as now Ning haved added a new button on the photos modules we can also use this to our advantage as we

Playing Videos In Activity Feed Tip

I was asked if I could post this tip again so here is the code needed. The tip allows your videos to be played in the activity feed, so when a user clicks on the video it is replaced by the video itself. When a user clicks on the link of the video et

Simple Tip N3: How to Move your Group Description/Follow Box

I was finding the placement of the About/Join box inside groups to be difficult for members to find if they were new to the community.   So I decided to move mine above the banner box with a single line of code added to the Custom Code Bottom section

Ning is on Product Hunt! Help us Upvote it!

That's right!    Ning is now on Product Hunt!    Help us make Ning Great Again!  Upvote Ning and spread the word!

Question about "What's New With Ning" Module

I want to recreate the new modal window that Ning recently put on our site.

I am able to get the HTML part of the modal working on a page in my site however, I am trying to figure out how to generate the xg_token which apparently needed to close the m

Tip: How to change background color of Facebook comments for Dark Themes

If your Ning site has a dark theme, you may be scratching your head wondering how to make the text legible.  Because it is a 3rd party integration, I can't find anywhere the ability to switch the facebook comments module theme from light to dark.  So

Simple Tip: How to Add a Responsive Hero Header to a Page in Ning

I've been creating topics pages inside my community and if you are doing something similar, having a different Hero style header (example). In brief, topics pages aggregates photos by tag or category, discussions by tag or category,videos by tag or c

Website is too slow. How can I fix it?

Hi there,``

My networks are not doing well. How can I fix it? Basically there is just what Ning provides.  Have a Look at the results.

Does anyone has some tip to make the search bar bigger?

I would like to change the size of the search bar in my network but i do not know how to do it.

i would apppreciate some help. thanks.

Blog help needed.

Hi there, 

I would like to align the Text blog with the video on my blog, would be great to have it side by side Text and video. But it does not work. Does anyone know how?

Tip N2/N3: How to add a Linkedin Follow Button to Community pages

The Linkedin Follow Button is back.   It isn't surprising that you might have a hard time finding it because the new instructions are actually on Microsoft website more info here.  

All you need to do is add these two lines of code to a HTML module o

What is your Favorite "Zap"?

I am referring to the new ability to automate tasks on Ning using Zapier.   

Just wondering how other are using Zapier...   My favorite so far is a gigantic boost to my productivity.   It is the Receive SMS messages about new NING members awaiting app

301 Redirect .ning to Subdomain and Keep SEO

In this example I will be using "community" as the subdomain. This will also carry over all your SEO and continue useing second-level domain and subdirectory of your url string after the .com/.

This tip is great for when you already have onther websi

Any Code to make a footer Menu like creators Ning 3

I Was using this tip:

https://creators.ning.com/group/pagansandheathensonning/tips/add-footer-like-creators-3-0

But does not work anymore for me because is not responsible on Mobile devices.

My Network is Ning 3.

Ning3: How to Create a Combined Feed of All Forums Inside Groups

Inside Ning 3 communities, your main community forum is pretty much upfront and center and will be immediately noticable by users.  However, forums inside groups can get buried and sometimes forum posts can go unnoticed.   In this short tutorial, I w

Yet Another Time Saver: Code for Finding Members Anywhere in US

Last Week I showed you this

Another Time Saver: Use Advanced Search for Creating Location Buttons

But now I have a bit of code to share with you for finding members in your community by US State

Just download the following text file > Open it in your te

Another Time Saver: Use Advanced Search for Creating Location Buttons

I've shared a lot of time savers in the past and I see quite a few other NCs using them but never say anything.  If you use this let me know.    It can really enhance your Advanced Search feature.

You may remember this  

Time Saver Update: Your RSS Fee

Time Saver Update: Your RSS Feeds for Location Tags on Ning 3.0

If you are on Ning 2.0, you may remember I posted this waaaay back.

Time Saver: Your RSS Feeds for Location Tags on Ning

This is an update for those who are on Ning 3.0

I hope to save you all some time with this tip.  Below you will find 4 text files, e