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FluentCommunity Biggest Release 🎉 🎉

So it's Monday and here is the biggest update of FluentCommunity. I made a video to show all the cool things we shipped in this update.

Exciting Things:

  • NEW: Secure Documents Feature for Spaces
  • NEW: Secure Documents Feature for Course Lesson
  • NEW: Added new member list/grid layout
  • NEW: Invitation Links for Spaces
  • NEW: Robust Access Management with FluentCRM tags
  • NEW: Improved Auth Pages UI & UX & better integration with FluentAuth
  • NEW: FluentCRM triggers for Course / Space left
  • NEW: Contextual Smartcode for FluentCRM Automation
  • Lots of improvements and bug fixes.

@everyone Please watch the video and let me know what which new feature will be the most useful for your use cases.

If you have not gotten FluentCommunity yet, what are you waiting for?

https://fluentcommunity.co/discount-deal/

Bryan William

Nice one... lets go there

Linda Rando

Amazing!

John Coonen

Nicely done, Jewel. Appreciate you doing the video too! Watching it now. Last week, I asked Jack at WPFusion, and he says they'll be integrated with FCom before January 1, for ACL and Automation. I assume you two are working together on this, for Membership access controls? Or do you have another recommendation?

Shahjahan Jewel

John Coonen Jack will add a great integration. we are in touch.

Fadel RM

Shahjahan Jewel how about with uncanny?

John Coonen

Shahjahan Jewel Excellent, and great that FluentCRM is doing the tagging for ACL.

Darius Dumitru

This kind of videos are really helpful! Thank you!

Gerard Godin

YES!!!

Mithyll Dave

This is brilliant...thank you

Mat ‎

OMG. This is a Crazy Sick aka Super Awesome update!

Document Library and upload access control - WOW

Members Grid View - Yeah!

Access Managemet with Tags - Yummi

FluentAuth improvement - Boom.. Oh yes!

Thank you for the Amazing update!

Thank you so so much!

Shahjahan Jewel what's about BudyBoss 1 click migration feature? Thanks

Hello,
Thanks for these nice updates
I can't update the pro plugin.
The @everyone tag is still not working....

I noticed that on the Shahjahan Jewel 's post as well.

Shahjahan Jewel

Jéjé immobilier Would you please click on the check update and then try to update again?

Shahjahan Jewel

Jéjé immobilier Would you please download and update manually please. I will investigate this.

Shahjahan Jewel what about the tag @everyone?

Debo Ogunrinde

Jéjé immobilier you may want to check your pro license is properly applied.

Alexander Bruton

Hi there. This is a fantastic release - thanks for all the work!

The "@everyone" tag is still not working for us the way we would expect. Doesn't appear when typing it. Then appears when backspacing to it. Then doesn't seem to work correctly. Please see below and thanks for any help!

Alexander Bruton

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Shahjahan Jewel

Alexander Bruton if you have @everyone in a status and you are an admin then the email will be triggered. Also it will show a confirmation when you click "post"

Alexander Bruton

Shahjahan Jewel Thanks. Is the behavior in this video as expected?

https://vimeo.com/1039755063/0ba06f19e6?share=copy

Shahjahan Jewel

Alexander Bruton I will take a look. But the suggestion is just for the frontend. On the backend, we search for @everyone tag and if found, the email will be scheduled.

Shahjahan Jewel Not working with me. I tried everything

Alexander Bruton

Shahjahan Jewel Thank you. Yes, I believe it is a frontend issue - meaning that getting the @everyone tag to stick is a challenge in the way shown in the video. This is separate from the email sending.

Shahjahan Jewel

@websiteserviceswe & Jéjé immobilier  have noticed the everyone tag issue. We already fixed on the dev branch. We will release an update later today.

Alexander Bruton

Shahjahan Jewel Thank you!

David Churchill

Great updates 👍

Shahjahan Jewel can we assign multiple tags to enroll users to the same course in different membership?

just checked, no. So there's the same problem with course bundle. What if I wanna give access to course A and B for an offer and for a membership? without Course groups that's not possibile. U have to give access both on course and course groups, plz see here https://community.wpmanageninja.com/portal/space/community-meta/post/fluent-community-has-a-big-pro

Debo Ogunrinde

Tindaro Battaglia with the latest update, will applying the same tag to both not work to give access to both course A and B? OR give course A and B different tags and apply these tags to a contact in Fluentcrm as contacts can have multiple tags or am I missing something?

Debo Ogunrinde yes but that's not the same scenario we can manage with course groups.

Imagine this.

Course A is sold individually and in membership. How can u manage this with this today's update?

u can't.

If u have course groups instead, the same course can be in different groups (group A for course A and group "membership" for the same course") so giving access to the same course on membership (and when membership payment fails the course is not enrolled anymore) or with one time purchase

Debo Ogunrinde

Tindaro Battaglia it depends on what you're using to "sell" the course (which payment gateway/lms, fluentforms, etc). The lms can add/remove tags based on payment/subscription independent of fluentcommunity. Fluentcommunity will grant/remove access when tags are applied/revoked. This is my understanding.

Pierre

Access management by tags.... YES !!!! Awesome feature !! And thanks for the video ! It's very cool that you take time to show the features one by one, and their use !

Aaron Liang

Great release!

Question about Access Management with FluentCRM tags. We can grant and remove access to a space by adding and removing a tag in FluentCRM. Does it also work the other way around? When a member choose to join and leave that space, will the same tag be automatically added and removed in FluentCRM?

Shahjahan Jewel

Aaron Liang ⭐ yes, it’s two way sync.

Mike Fury

Shahjahan Jewel Your plugin problem with uploading picture still exist. I could not upload any picture it shows this message "Error File not found". Please let me know what can i do

Shahjahan Jewel

Mike Fury we are investigating the issue. Would you please update manually for now.

Mike Fury

Shahjahan Jewel Yes i just updated your lastest version sucessfully few minutes ago but the problem still exist. Everything works fine except uploading picture for both local server and Cloudfare R2

Mike Fury

Shahjahan Jewel i would like to update as below:

  • i found out that i could upload Webp picture format but not PNG or JPEG and JPG format (Error File not found)
  • Chat message could not upload any type of picture format
  • I can not write any reply or comment when using my phone or handheld device such as ipad (even for this post i have to use my macbook to write reply to you)

Elisa Faria

Without a doubt, this is one of the best updates so far. Congratulations! I was just waiting for this update to fix some strings that are showing errors, as I explain in this post. Another point is that it’s still not possible to edit the entire community icon set, as Shahjahan Jewel mentioned in this post, and "Ctrl + K" is still the chosen shortcut for search, which conflicts with Chrome, as shown in this post. Will this be addressed in future updates? Either way, thank you so much for this amazing update!

Karl Emil Nikka

Thanks. Are you planning on releasing a Pro version of the Fluent Auth plugin with support for common 2FA methods, e.g., Authenticator apps (RFC 6238), and the modern phishing-resistant login method WebAuthn (used by both security keys and passkeys)?

Shahjahan Jewel

Karl Emil Nikka we don’t have any plan for the pro version but we want to add those integrations.

Karl Emil Nikka

Shahjahan Jewel Glad to hear. Is there an ETA for the features?

Ramsis Kasis

thanks for the update but why is the eye preview or the lesson preview is not working? Shahjahan Jewel 

Mat ‎

Couple of questions:

  • Can we organize docs library files in Folders (Course/Space name = folder name or not needed?) or sort them A-Z Z-A, by Date, by File Type (or maybe even by File Size) and filter them by Space, by Course. If we dont want to use folder then we could have a column showing where the file belongs to.

  • Can we see somewhere how many times the Space invitation link was used vs the limit (if applicable) - currently I can see only one value and I am not sure if this is just the max limit or limit-usage Can we see in the invitation link usage a list which users used this link invitation? Pretty awesome feature!

  • Menu: Documents link/lib is missing for Courses and it would be easy for the Admin and/or student to find all files in one place to files the user has access too (files could be stored in a Folder = Course Name)

    Regular user/Student could not see the Document menu link - Admin can enable/disable the link. In Courses Documents library Admin can see all files attached in all courses (per course/folder view) and delete selected files in bulk)

  • when Docs Library is set to Public it doesnt mean it is Public for not logged users right? (case where fCommunity is configured to Logged In users only).

    It could be really useful if we could also share a link externally to a document when fComm is not Public. Unless Public (for the Document Library) means that all users in a community can have access to the file (but not any external visitors - users who dont have any access to the community)

  • can we change the file: "Permission Denied" and/or "Document not found" screen to a custom one or redirect users to the login form and then redirect them to the file location for download/file preview. It happened when a Community is configured to Logged In users Only but someone share a link externally then the Permission Denied or Document Not Found message is displayed.

  • files cannot be added to comments - this is a bug or a feature? Just wondering..

Barnabas Chris

Mat ‎ Documents for courses would be nice. One option is to render a list of all documents uploaded to individual lessons as well as the ability to upload any extra support material that concerns the whole course. And display all these on a Documents screen for each course Shahjahan Jewel 

Barna Buxbaum

Great update, highly needed file/access features, congratulations!

Any chance to add this to the next update please? :)
- course re-arrangement option (as right now it is in order of creation)

Sella Yoffe

Amazing update! I love your excitement with every video you share. The tag integration with FCRM is impressive. Thank you for all you do!

Vibe Code

some typo: Select which spcaes this automation funnel is for. (just discovered as I was making new polish translation). PS. PL language uploaded to WordPress https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fluent-community/stable/pl/default/

Shahjahan Jewel

Tom Robak noted

Nue Mute

This is great Shahjahan Jewel, thank you. Meanwhile, what's your plan for course certificates, and the fluent Player?

Also do you hope to integrate with other LMS plugins like TutorLMS?

Gregory Storm

Shahjahan Jewel NEW: Rebust Access Management with FluentCRM tags. Did you mean NEW: Robust Access Management with FluentCRM tags?

Shahjahan Jewel

Gregory Storm You are right. My bad. Fixed.

John Coonen

Shahjahan Jewel Rebust is robust x2.

Karol Rolewicz

Shahjahan Jewel  I really like your happiness when you talk about the speed results. :D

Shahjahan Jewel

Karol Rolewicz I am obsessed with performance and speed!

Sombri Luna

I do not understand the invitation links please someone explain me ?

Shahjahan Jewel

Sombri Luna Let's say you have a private or secret space and want to invite someone via a link (similar to WhatsApp, Slack, or Discord). So you can create a link and then share with someone who can then signup/login and they can join directly.

Liam McDonald

Can we do the Access Management without FluentCRM?

kyler boudreau

Liam A McDonald it appears they are pretty integrated. But you can use the free version of Fluent CRM for this. And side note: Not sure how many CRMs you've used but Fluent is mind blowing. I can't image WordPress without it now. And this is saying something because I had my own CRM plugin for WordPress at one time. Not what you asked, but just my two cents.

Shahjahan Jewel

Liam A McDonald Sure. You can always add or remove members manually.

Liam McDonald

kyler boudreau completely understand... my current crm is intergrated with my funnel, automations all set up, has great deliverability, has 200k contacts in it and im pretty happy with it, as its runs the most profitable channel for me, (email marketing)

so i dont want to fuck with something thats working.

it wouldn't be an issue, if i was starting fresh.

it just seems like they are putting all the useful features integrated into fluentCRM, when alot of the other products in this space run independently. Like a Tag and automation feature is available within circle without needing an external product.

Liam McDonald

Shahjahan Jewel how can you automate it without fluentCRM

I want to run my lead magnet inside of fluentcommunity and then upsell to a paid community. Manually doing for this 100’s of leads a day sounds like death.

kyler boudreau

Liam A McDonald oh right on man. Got it. Then yeah...kinda sucks to have it integrated. Unless you can mentally "ignore" the fact that it's a CRM and just look at Fluent CRM as an "access control add-on" for the community. It's not gonna conflict with anything and you don't have to use it for anything else.

Lee Busch

Shahjahan Jewel Is there a listing somewhere of what functions free FluentCRM provides, and what functions are only in paid FluentCRM pro?

Jagan Mohan

Wow, I just got up to this fantastic update and my coffee just got tastier.

The Secure Documents Feature for Course Lesson is going to help me a lot!

kyler boudreau

WHOA! Freaking amazing. I love the new course and space access control!!!!

Manoj Sharma

Love it!

Hoang Hxn

Shahjahan Jewel How to remember this setting when editing a post with a link, if you select "Remove Preview" so that next time you edit it, you don't need to repeat this action

Khoi Nguyen

Nang Ha

Hoang Hxn +1 | I also often have to "Remove Preview" when editing posts with Links. Very annoying 😅

Hoang Hxn

Shahjahan Jewel In this update you tagged @everyone but I did not receive the notification email

Shahjahan Jewel

Hoang Hxn Noticed it and I am working on it right now. Will release an update later today.

Hoang Hxn

Shahjahan Jewel Another reason is, with many different languages, users from many countries will not be able to tag @everyone every time they want to notify because of the intuitive option.

Was going to work on creating a new login page because I noticed some bots were getting through the default registration form.

The update with FluentAuth looks promising and came at the right time.

Gonna try it tonight.

Julian Song

This is amazing!

Sella Yoffe

Shahjahan Jewel, can I do the same deeper integration with Magic Login Pro as you do with FluentAuth?

Shahjahan Jewel

Sella Yoffe You can actually use a customized login page and use custom URL in the general settings.

Sella Yoffe

Shahjahan Jewel thank you. I'll try that.

Christian Anderl

Love it!

Christian Anderl

Honestly love the video and to see how playing around with these new features makes you almost giggle in bliss and happyness :D Thats why the product is so good, because it is made by someone who actually loves it :)

Amazing update! Thank you for this and congrats to the team! ♥️

🔹 it will be possible to display docs on list and grid view ?

🔹 Would love to have the option to have a more graphic way of showing docs/resources like chance to add a thumbnail

#featurerequest

Paul Hopkins

Paymattic is now listed in the advanced features and addons. Is it now fully working as a paid subscription management feature or is that yet to come? Does it mean that for lightweight situations it will be enough and fluent forms /fluent forms Pro is not needed? Is it able to tell when someone has cancelled their subscription and trigger an action in FluentCRM to remove them from having access?

Alex Donega

Shahjahan Jewel 

I Just Watched Your Video About the Fluent Community Benchmark

I just watched your video where you talk about the Fluent Community benchmark, which costs around 30 dollars per month. I found it impressive how the system performs with such a large volume of users.

I have a question: if I were to use the entire Fluent family, including FluentCRM for automations, and considering the same user volume presented in the benchmark, what would be the estimated total cost?

The courses would be hosted inside Fluent Community, and the videos would be hosted externally.

The plugins I intend to use are:

Fluent Plugins

  • Fluent Community
  • FluentCRM Pro Plugin
  • Fluent Forms Pro
  • Fluent SMTP
  • Fluent Snippets
  • Fluent Auth
  • Fluent Booking
  • Fluent Support

Other Plugins

  • WooCommerce
  • WooPayments
  • WP Rocket
  • Elementor Pro
  • Rank Math
  • Cartflows PRO

I would like to understand the estimated cost for this setup, especially considering performance with a high volume of data, as shown in your test.

Looking forward to your response! 😊

Is Fluent Auth the only Security plugin are you guys using on your sites? No Wordfence or firewall? Shahjahan Jewel 

Mat ‎

Jorge de los Reyes they use FluentAuth and Cloudflare (+hosting config) and I don't see any other "security" plugins (but might be hidden/custom haha).

ps. Unless xcloud magic login = security plugin.

Shahjahan Jewel , is there any documentation on the FluentAuth and FluentCommunity integration? I’ve installed the FluentAuth plugin, activated and configured it. I can see it when I use the default Wordpress login page but I don’t see it in the default FluentCommunity login page.

Do I need to do an additional step to have FluentAuth on the FluentCommunity login page?

Andrey Golovinov

All translation strings for the new document feature are present, except for the menu item itself.

We are still waiting for the possibility of translating "Total", "x/page" and "Go to" strings on pagination bar.

Shahjahan Jewel, thank you!

Shahjahan Jewel

Andrey Golovinov The "Documents" string is available on the Pro version.

Shahjahan Jewel

Andrey Golovinov Just to let you know, I have added the pagination strings to translation as well.

Andrey Golovinov

Shahjahan Jewel thank you! Now I found it!

Nicolas Gramnea

Amazing update. Very neat.