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2 Secret Things I learned today about Ning Communities

After over 13 years and experience with all versions of Ning, i too become often reminded that are more things to learn about this platform.  Here are 2 things I learned just today while building out my community's annual event, International…

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Question: Anyone know how to display group subnav as compact with 'More' button?

Scratching my head and thought I had this sorted out once before but I am trying to figure out how to have my group subnavigation display in compact fashion like categories on feature pages..  

Any ideas?…

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WooHoo! Ning Powered Events Group Has Been Updated!

Hey gang.. I am just writing to let you know that I have updated the Ning Powered Events Group and hooked it up with all sorts of cool tools and…

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Ning 3.0 Group members CSV file

I can't believe I am posting a tip/trick as if I am a web developer but here is something I think Creators will find useful. Soon Ning will solve this issue but until then here is a way out.

until NING solves a very needed issue of our…

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Tip: How to Embed Facebook Group Invites Inside Pages or Broadcasts

If you run a satellite group on Facebook for your Ning community, this tip is for you.  You can now grab a embed code for your group and paste it inside a page on your community or inside a message broadcast.  …

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Display all discussion topics and replies from all groups on custom page?

I want to make a page where I can display all discussion topics and replies from all groups. I do not want the feed to display any other activity. Is this possible? 

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Group Tabs?

Does anyone know how to change the font size for the tabs in a group? I looked allover the design studio and couldnt find it. 

Thank you!!

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Trick N2.0 - Add Your Groups To a Facebook Page Tab in 5 Minutes

This is a follow up from my discussion about customizing the Mobile version of 2.0 communities found here:

TIP/Trick/Hack 2.0:…

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How To Create Unlinked Pages In Groups Easily

As we know we can create pages for our main site and can hide them from the main nav menu by placing them in the Unlinked Pages section at the bottom of the Pages list. Now this feature is not added to our groups pages list so here is a way to do…

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How to NOT Display Number of Members in Groups

Quick and simple way to stop showing the number of members inside a group on the main Groups Hub

Add this to your advanced CSS area of design studio and save:

div.groupHub-groupInfo {display:none;}

Let me know if you…

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Tip & Trick: Add under Construction Banner To Groups

This is a simple tip and trick for adding a classy, eye catching Under Construction Banner to any Groups you are working on that are not quite ready for prime-time.  This tip uses no images or javascript...just simple HTML…

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