Since we already have this option working beautifully in FluentSupport to display and manage it within FluentCommunity, could we extend the same capability to FluentCart, FluentForms, FluentBoards, and the rest of the Fluent ecosystem? This would allow everything to be accessible directly within FluentCommunity, creating a consistent user experience, a unified interface, and a centralised management hub where users can manage all Fluent products from a single location.
Hi everyone,
I'd like to suggest a feature that would improve communication and member engagement within the community: a popup modal system for announcements and updates.
This is similar to what platforms like WhatsApp or Facebook use when introducing new features or important updates.
Primary Use Cases
- Announce new features, bug fixes, or community updates.
- Broadcast important reminders or urgent notices.
- Guide members or encourage specific actions (e.g., completing an incomplete profile).
Key Technical Specifications
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Admin Dashboard & Management
- A dedicated admin dashboard to easily create, edit, configure, and manage popup announcements.
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Seamless Integration & Native UX
- Native compatibility with Fluent Community's UI.
- Full Dark Mode support (automatically adapting to the user's selected theme).
- Standard closing behavior: Closeable via a "X" button, an action button, or by clicking outside the modal (overlay click), matching Fluent Community's existing modal behavior.
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Display Behavior & Frequency
- One-time display: Once dismissed by the member, it won't pop up again for that specific notice.
- Versioning / Announcement ID system: If an urgent fix or new update occurs, creating a new modal (or updating the announcement ID) triggers it to display again for all relevant members.
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Targeting Options (Essential)
- Ability to target display based on member profile criteria (e.g., incomplete profile, missing avatar, specific user roles, new members, etc.).
- Option for global display targeting all active members.
What do you think? This would offer excellent visibility for crucial updates without cluttering the main activity feed.
This one is actually about this community. Like the tittle says: I keep recieving e-mails even though I disabled every single one of them. There's no other way to opt-out.
How do I stop receiving those mails without leaving the spaces?
Hello. Is there a way to display the number of articles and comments an author has posted on their author page, either through FC or with a plugin?
Can dev team consider adding feature which will open always Modal Login / Register form instead of redirecting on separate pages? Imo is better keep user on same page and provide login / registration here.
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to find out how you handle videos that your members upload directly in their posts, without relying on a YouTube link or another platform.
What matters most to me is the member's experience: a setup that asks as little as possible from them (no extra account, no need to compress files themselves) and that stays reliable, especially from a phone.
If you've found a configuration that works well in this regard, or on the contrary pitfalls to avoid, I'd love to hear your feedback.
Thanks in advance!
A real app for your Fluent Community, in the App Store and Google Play under your own name. We built it to hand you control, not to rent you a platform.
A real app, not a web page in a wrapper
The feed, spaces, chat, courses and profiles are native React Native screens. Anything custom on your site, like a landing page, a form or a checkout, still opens inside the app with the member signed in. Members install it from the store like any other app, instead of following browser steps to save your site to their home screen.
Not new, and you can have all of it
We've run this app on our own communities for years, and it has shipped white-labeled under other communities' names for a while now. It's about 290,000 lines of code: roughly 110,000 in the app, 100,000 in the WordPress plugin, 50,000 in the build dashboard, and the rest in add-on modules and four languages. With the Dev Bundle, every line of it is yours.
No code needed
You set it up from a panel in WordPress. The one thing it asks of you is patience with Apple's and Google's reviews. If you'd rather not deal with that, we do it for you.
Two ways in, and you can switch
- Managed, $33 a month. We build it, publish it to both stores on your own Apple and Google accounts, and keep it updated. Cancel anytime and your published app keeps working.
- Dev Bundle, $399 once. The full React Native source and a browser dashboard for builds, store submissions and over-the-air updates. It's yours, with no ties to us. Core updates are $50 a year if you want them.
Start on Managed and buy the source later if you want to run it yourself.
Build Fluent Community sites for clients?
With the Dev Bundle you can supply apps to your own clients: one license per site, each white-labeled to the client, all run from one dashboard.
How to start
- Download the free plugin and install it on your site.
- Open your Apple Developer and Google Play accounts. The plugin's setup panel walks you through both, and Apple's approval can take a few days.
- Choose Managed or the Dev Bundle when you're ready to submit.
Want to see it first? Our demo app is in the App Store and on Google Play. It opens our own community. Yours would open your site.
Everything about the app: twobirdscode.com/the-app
A free plugin for Fluent Community sites: sign in as any member from their profile, and switch back from the header.
Switch user, on the profile
The free User Switching plugin from WordPress.org lets an admin sign in as another user and back again, but its buttons live in WP Admin and the toolbar, and the Fluent Community portal hides the toolbar. This plugin puts a Switch user button on member profiles. Click it and you land on the same profile, signed in as them, so you see the portal exactly as they do.
Switch back, from the header
While you are switched, a Switch back button sits in the portal header on every page. One click returns you to your own account on the page you were on. Hover it to see whose account that is.
Nothing to set up
User Switching keeps every permission check and cookie, so the rules match WP Admin: on a standard site only administrators can switch, and members never see a button. The plugin's Overview page shows whether User Switching is active and installs it for you if it isn't.
What you need
- Fluent Community, free or Pro
- User Switching, free from WordPress.org
- A free licence key from our store, which turns the buttons on and brings updates
It's free: https://www.twobirdscode.com/blog/item/tbc-web-user-switching/
Full details and screenshots: https://www.twobirdscode.com/blog/free-plugin-user-switching-for-fluent-community-1-0-1/
If you also run our TBC Community App, the app shows no switch buttons. This one is for the website.
Tell us what you'd like us to build next.
After 6 years of using learndash as my primary LMS, I migrated 100% to FC. I am very pleased with the decision. Besides having a much modern look, the ability to customize FC using Claude was something which I found invaluable. Also wp is much faster without LD. For anybody thinking about it, just building the migration scripts with Claude is very easy. At the beggining both LMS convived, till I finished my migration, it took about 2 months since I was paranoic in each step. Feedback from my customers telle me I took the right decision. Having a tool like Claude/Codex, etc makes it very easy to switch between different plugins. I am no programmer at all. For example I built my own certification plugin which FC has not got natively.
Hello All,
I just activated and installed PWA of my community on IOS. I wish to launch the same for my community. Before I do that, if someone can share your experiences of using FluentCommunity on PWA, any best practices and any challenges that you experienced. Thank you in advance for helping a fellow community builder.