Is there any way to follow a post that another person has created? For example, I might want to receive notifications when my admin creates a post and follow that automatically and then any comments that are on it.

A big update for FluentCommunity today.

This one is focused on the things community managers actually do every day, getting people in, talking to them, and helping them find their way around. Two new features I am excited about, plus a real polish pass on navigation and the editor.

Here is what is new in 2.4.0:

• Bulk Add Members from multiple sources. No more adding people one at a time. The new Add Members drawer supports four sources: WP Users (free), cloning from another Space or Course (Pro), CSV import with auto-create for missing users (Pro), and pulling everyone with a specific FluentCRM tag (Pro).
• Group Messaging in FluentCommunity Chat. You can now start conversations with multiple people at once. Same real-time delivery, same read indicators, same notification preferences as direct chat. Perfect for cohort discussions, project teams, support pods, anything that does not belong in a public Space. Update the Chat addon to enable it.
• URL autolink in the post editor. Paste a URL, it becomes a live link automatically. No more selecting text and pressing the link button. Small thing, but you will feel it every time you write a post.
• Default-collapse sidebar groups. New admin setting under Customization. If your community has many Space Groups, you can now have them all start collapsed on page load. Especially nice on mobile. Members can still expand them manually and their personal preference is remembered.
• Sidebar auto-expands the active group. When a member navigates into a Space, the sidebar opens up the parent group and highlights where they are. No more wondering where you are in the tree.
• Create Spaces from a slide-out drawer. No need to leave the page anymore. Open the drawer right from the sidebar, set up the basics, save, keep working. Better validation and friendlier error messages too.
• Fluent Player share links in community media. Drop a timestamped video link in a comment or message, and the player opens at exactly that moment. Really useful for pointing learners to specific parts of a lesson.

Plus a solid round of fixes and security hardening, rate limiting, tighter CSS sanitization and input validation across moderation endpoints, fixed Approve Post errors, multiselect profile fields no longer wiping on save, mobile footer rendering on block themes, and a bunch more.

Full changelog with screenshots: https://fluentcommunity.co/blog/fluentcommunity-2-4-0/

If you run a community with cohorts, courses, or just want to onboard members faster, this update is worth grabbing today.

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I am really not understanding why people prefer gutenberg editor as email editor. I think the preference for it comes down to familiarity rather than merit? With 8 years in email and automation, I've seen this industry go through a lot of changes, some great, some not. Gutenberg as an email editor falls firmly in the latter category.

I'd question whether the majority actually prefer Gutenberg, or if it's just the loudest voices in the room. I for one hope FluentCRM keeps their current pre-gutenberg editor around. It's genuinely great. My only real gripe with it is the inability to create rounded template edges. Fix that, and it's pretty much perfect editor.

Hi everyone,

I'd like to customize the color of the email notifications sent by FluentCommunity (new comment, new reply, etc.).

By default, links and buttons are blue. I'd like to change their color to match my brand.

A few questions:

1. Is there a native setting in FluentCommunity to change the email primary color?
2. If not, is there a PHP filter/hook available to override it programmatically?
3. Which file in the plugin handles the email template, so I can identify the right hook?

Thanks in advance!

If I select the bunny CDN to change my media location, will it upload the contents of the library and rewrite any existing media, or is it that anything moving forward only is affected? I want to make sure I don't have any broken images making the change.

Is there a way for me to disable people from being able to select or change their username? I have a bunch of users that are creating usernames like "hey" or "me" etc.

Is it only the files (media, pictures, images, videos) and such that are uploaded by me when I set up my Community and the stuff uploaded to the Community by the Community Members in different posts and comments?

Or is it all media on my website including everything mentioned above and everything in the "Media" folder in the backend admin dashboard?

Built this for our own site and mobile app — figured I'd put it out free in case it's useful to anyone else.

It's an Uncanny Automator add-on that adds a "Send a notification to a specific user" action. When the recipe runs, the user gets a real native FC bell notification — optional bold title, optional click destination (a space, post, course, lesson, or profile), and you pick who shows as the sender.

Things we use it for:

• Course completed → notification with a link to the next module
• Order paid → quick thanks linking to a space
• Welcome flow → friendly nudge with a profile link

https://www.twobirdscode.com/blog/item/tbc-automator-send-notification/

Curious what people would build with it.

I recently bought FluentCommunity and I'm setting it up on a staging site. It's going well except that when members post in the main feed, instead of just having the posts appear in the main feed, they get an error message telling them they have to select a space. This adds quite a bit of friction and complaints because they're in the main feed, so they expect their posts to just appear in the main feed, like in any other community. I can't find a setting to fix this.

While waiting for WPMN to fix this properly, here's a temporary CSS workaround for two issues with the image preview modal in the messaging area:

1. Images open full size inside the chat widget, making the close button unreachable
2. In dark mode, the close button is invisible (same dark color as the background)

Add this to your FluentCommunity custom CSS:

/* ===================================================
   Image preview modal - fix image size in chat widget
=================================================== */
.chat-widget-wrapper .image-preview-modal__content img {
    width: auto !important;
    height: auto !important;
    max-width: 400px !important;
    max-height: 500px !important;
    object-fit: contain !important;
    display: block !important;
}

/* Dark mode - close button */
.dark .chat-widget-wrapper .image-preview-modal__close,
[data-theme="dark"] .chat-widget-wrapper .image-preview-modal__close {
    background-color: #ffffffcc;
    color: #000000;
}

/* Dark mode - close button hover */
.dark .chat-widget-wrapper .image-preview-modal__close:hover,
[data-theme="dark"] .chat-widget-wrapper .image-preview-modal__close:hover {
    background-color: #ffffffcc;
}

/* Dark mode - close button full page view */
.dark .fluent-messaging .image-preview-modal__close,
[data-theme="dark"] .fluent-messaging .image-preview-modal__close {
    background-color: #ffffffcc;
    color: #000000;
}

.dark .fluent-messaging .image-preview-modal__close:hover,
[data-theme="dark"] .fluent-messaging .image-preview-modal__close:hover {
    background-color: #ffffffcc;
}

Note: the max-width and max-height values on the image are sized for a standard 400×550px chat widget, adjust if yours differs.

This is a DIY workaround; I am not a developer, but it works on my end.