Hi everyone, I have spent the last week running lots and lots of tests with SpaceEvents and feel confident everything is working, so I have decided to skip beta-3 and go straight to Release Candidate 1 🎉

I'm just updating the documentation, but the latest version is available today — the first year discount is also still available.

Whats new!

• Recurring Events: Events can now repeat on a schedule, choose from daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly patterns — or pick specific dates manually for irregular schedules. You can also exclude specific dates if required.
• Auto-Save & Unsaved Changes Protection: Both the Create and Edit event forms now have an auto-save and will warn you before closing if you have unsaved changes.
• Attendee Check-in & Waitlist Management: Space Managers and Event Organisers can now check-in attendees and manage the waitlist directly from the community portal. Also improved CSV and PDF export.
• FluentCRM Automation Triggers: Five new automation triggers are available in FluentCRM, letting you build workflows around your events.
• Cover Images & Event Attachments use FC Media Storage: If you use cloud storage (S3, DigitalOcean) the cover image and attachments are saved there.
• Language, RTL & Translation Support: SpaceEvents is fully translation-ready. All user-facing text uses WordPress translation functions, and also supports RTL (right-to-left) layout.
• Improved Category Filtering: Category filter on the Events tab has been redesigned making it easier to browse events by category across all event listing pages.
• Extra Event Reminders for Virtual & Hybrid Events: Virtual and hybrid events now have an optional 1-hour reminder email.
• Address Autocomplete: The location search now supports Photon and Nominatim (free) or connect Google Places or Mapbox by adding an API key in SpaceEvents settings (may incur costs depending on usage).
• Better Mobile Experience: Event pages now adapt better on mobile devices.
• WordPress Admin Improvements: The WordPress admin settings and event editor have been updated.
• Security & Compatibility: Maps and Geocoding load from local rather than an external CDN. Useful if you use CSP on your hosting.
• Lots of bug fixes and minor tweaks.

Any questions, feature requests or issues, please let me know 🙏

Hi Shahjahan Jewel,

There are two major issues with Bunny.net video embeds inside Fluent Community:

1. FluentPlayer is not applied
   Bunny videos are showing their default player instead of FluentPlayer UI - this breaks consistency across the platform.
2. Multiple videos play at the same time
   If I play Video 1 → then Video 2 → then Video 3…
   All of them keep playing simultaneously (no auto-pause).

This creates:

• Overlapping audio
• Poor learning experience

👉 Expected:

• Bunny videos should use FluentPlayer skin
• Playing a new video should auto-pause previous videos

This is a critical issue for anyone using Fluent Community.

Would love to see this prioritized

I noticed that the user search function inside the Chat feature allows any member to look up and list all community users: even when "Only allow moderators and admins to initiate chats" is enabled.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set chat permissions to "Only moderators and admins can initiate chats"
2. Set all profile visibility options to private
3. Have the community set to private
4. Log in as a regular member
5. Open the Chat section and use the search bar
6. All user profiles are searchable and visible

Expected behavior: Regular members should not be able to search or list other users if chat initiation is restricted and profile visibility is set to private.

This is especially concerning for communities with strict privacy requirements.In the case of private communities, and after the latest GDPR-related update I configured all profile visibility settings to private as well. Despite this, the chat search still exposes the full member list if you use the search bar.

This feels like an oversight: the chat search doesn't seem to respect the privacy/visibility settings applied elsewhere.

Thanks for looking into it!

cc: issue related to Gee Adriaansz 's post : https://community.wpmanageninja.com/portal/space/community-meta/post/privacy-issue-with-profiles

If someone can check this on their side too...

If not multi-reactions, at least let's have the option to change the heart to thumbs up.

Hi Shahjahan Jewel 👋

First of all - amazing work on what you’ve built. Fluent Community is easily becoming one of the most powerful and flexible community platforms out there. The UI, control, and ownership it gives creators is on another level.

I’d like to suggest a feature that could massively accelerate growth for every community built on Fluent Community:

Allow Members to Invite Other Members

Right now, the invitation feature is limited to admins only.
But imagine what happens if every member gets the ability to invite others…

Why This Matters

People naturally share what they love.

When someone finds value inside a community, they don’t keep it to themselves - they want to:

• Invite friends
• Bring in like-minded people
• Share useful spaces with their network

By unlocking member invitations, you turn every user into a growth channel.

The Impact

This single feature can transform communities from static platforms → viral ecosystems

1. Organic Growth Explosion

Members become ambassadors.
Instead of 1 admin inviting 100 people…
👉 100 members can each invite 5 people.

That’s how communities scale naturally.

2. Higher Engagement & Retention

People are more active when:

• Their friends are inside
• They feel ownership
• They helped grow the community

👉 Invited users are also more likely to stay and participate.

3. Stronger Network Effect

Every new member increases the value of the platform for others.
This creates a compounding growth loop: Invite → Join → Engage → Invite again

4. Reduced Marketing Cost for Creators

Community owners won’t need to rely only on ads or external traffic.
👉 Growth starts happening from within the community itself

Suggested Implementation (Simple & Controlled)

To keep things safe and flexible:

• Admin can enable/disable member invitations

• Option to limit number of invites per user

• Invite via:

  • Email
  • Shareable link

• Optional: Reward/track top inviters (future feature 👀)

Big Picture

This isn’t just a feature…
It’s a growth engine built into every Fluent Community site

It aligns perfectly with what Fluent is already doing: 👉 Giving creators ownership + control + scalability

Final Thought

If Fluent Community adds this, it won’t just compete…
It will outgrow many existing platforms in terms of organic community expansion.

This is one of those small changes that can create massive long-term impact.

Thank you again for building such an incredible product Shahjahan Jewel and team.
Really excited about what’s coming next!

 Changelog — Course Certificates for Fluent Community

 Version 5.0

Release Date: April 2026

 New Feature: FluentCRM Certificate Trigger Integration

• Added a new FluentCRM automation trigger: “Student Gets Certificate”
• Trigger fires automatically when a student earns a course certificate
• Integrated under Course Certificates category in FluentCRM funnels

 New Features: Admin Email Notification System

• Added Admin Email Notification System

  • Automatically sends email to admin when a student receives a certificate

  • Includes:

    • Student name
    • Student email
    • Course title
    • Completion date
    • Certificate download link

  • Certificate PDF is attached to the email

• Introduced Admin Email Toggle

  • Enable/disable admin notifications from Email Settings page

• Uses configured From Email for admin notifications

 New Features:  AJAX Live Search (SPA Experience)

•  AJAX Live Search (SPA Experience)

  • Added real-time search for students and courses
  • Instant results without page reload
  • Debounced input for better performance
  • Integrated seamlessly inside modal and shortcode output

 New Features: Overview Dashboard

• Added Overview Dashboard as the first admin submenu page.
• Introduced Top 10 Courses Analytics based on generated certificates.
• Integrated Line Chart visualization for certificate trends per course.
• Added Pie Chart visualization for course distribution insights.

 Improvements

• Improved data reporting system
• Optimized database queries for top courses and time-based analytics
• Enhanced admin UI with modern card-style layout (white background, shadow, rounded edges)

 Enhancements

• Better data visualization for course performance tracking
• Clear insights into certificate generation trends
• Improved admin experience with clean and structured dashboard layout

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In FluentCommunity, I can assign someone as a Course Instructor for a specific course and this person is then displayed next to the coruse content. However, some courses are created by two people, and at the moment I can only select one instructor. I would really like to be able to assign multiple instructors to a single course.

In the Managers settings, I can give someone the role of Space Moderator or Course Manager, but these roles apply to all spaces and all courses across the entire platform.

What I need is the ability to assign someone as a manager only for specific spaces and specific courses, not globally. When I co-create a course with someone, including the space that belongs to that course, I want that person to have the same permissions I have to manage both the course and the space. But only for that particular course and space.

Right now, this isn’t possible.

is there a member setting that allows a member to make a new space? only his/her space. i now only see an option where a user has full access.

I’ve been spending time exploring different community platforms lately, including Circle, and I just want to say this clearly…

Fluent Community is seriously on another level.

From the UI to the flexibility and overall experience, it’s obvious a lot of thought has gone into building this. And the fact that it comes at such an accessible price makes it even more impressive.

👏 Huge respect to the team behind this. You’re building something special.

Also, Happy New Month everyone!
April is another chance to reset, refocus, and execute.

Let’s keep building, testing, and actually taking action 💪

Wishing everyone results, growth, and wins this month

I'm looking for the QR code for validating the mobile app. Where does this exist in the wordpress/portal settings please? Thank you!