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if you've ever built a Ning Landing Page for your community, you know it is a tedious task, only rewarding when the stars align. It's hard work to be constantly aware of it's quirks (if you know them, through trial and error error error), but when
Read moreWay back in 2018, I shared this with you.
Today, I'm going to share an entirely different version which is even easier to manage. This one is great for community announcements.
See the Pen Pure CSS Ticke
Read moreYou may remember the app I built a whie back where I have compiled all of my tips over the years into one place, inside a Ning Tips App. This app was built using Glideapps and I just completed my 200th app built with spreadsheets!
Read moreNothing big here, but helpful if you believe your pagination on social channels pages to be too small..
by default the size is small at 0.78em
Add this to your Design Studio custom CSS to make it larger (change 2 to whatever size you like):
div#fe
Read moreFor years, I have been trying to figure out the best way to embed my Community into other websites. However, Ning "frame busts" so when you normally Iframe your Ning site into other websites, it will not show because it is blocked.
Low and behold, I
Read moreI hope this might be a simple request. Above the Item Move module we need a search feature that will allow us to quickly find the group or place we want to move something.
Just an easy little plugin to add anywhere inside your community in an HTML module:.
Example links to a Codepen to play around with it.
Simply open up a HTML module in the backend or in a Group backend. Paste the following into the HTML view of the e
Read moreSo let's say you have a Youtube Channel for your community and you have a Lot of Videos embedded by members throughout your community. Let's also say that you are trying to get your subscriber numbers up so that you can monetize your Youtube Channel
Read moreYou're gonna say "Duh....why didn't I think of that?"
The truth is... the Photos feature in Ning is by far one of the most powerful tools in your community arsenal and I'm going to tell you why:
The description area is an amazing opportunity to get cr
Read moreI love the language editor on Ning. It is one of my favorite things about the platform.
Say you're having an international virtual event for your community members...and you wanna change this..
To this:
Just go to the language editor and search for ori
Read moreIt would be nice to have some sort of message to be sent when a group member is promoted to admin of a group
sort of like when someone's content is featured... a customizable message autosent...
can we put this on a roadmap wish list?
Thank you..
Read moreThis is a really simple tip for those who want to save some space space and have certain things reveal when you hover over things. Like So:
It's simple. Here is the HTML for a block in your page:
<div id="some-div">
<p>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy
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
Read moreThat's right! Ning is now on Product Hunt! Help us make Ning Great Again! Upvote Ning and spread the word!
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
Read moreIf 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
Read moreI'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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreI 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
Read moreInside 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
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