FluentCommunity 1.1.11 Released 🎉

Anri Maglakelidze yes

Rick Heijster It's an significant update to this platform. If your not interested in the updates, you may considering not being a part of this group maybe?

Tanmay Kapse That's a bit harsh, ain't it? If you would rather not receive an email notification, leave the group?

I would like to receive a notification if someone tags me personally, just like you did just now. I'd rather not if someone tags 'everyone'. Perhaps an option in gthe user profile could make this possible.

Rick Heijster I only use everyone tag when I make an important announcement. This is a significant update and that's why I tagged everyone. By the way, you can disable tagging email from Profile -> Notification settings.

Rick Heijster By the way, everyone tag only works for admin/moderator. So others can't misuse that.

Tanmay Kapse Also, an update with a new number after the second dot is viewed as a minor update, not a significant update. That would be a version 2.0, or perhaps 1.2.

Shahjahan Jewel First of all, I appreciate you keeping us up to date. However, using the @everyone too often devalues the importance. This was the second email notification already today. :)

Shahjahan Jewel I would appreciate an option to enable notifications when someone tags me specifically, and a different set of options for when an admin tags everyone. Something for the suggestion box. :)

Rick Heijster I don't know if you noticed this app is still under development. Bug fixes are more important than new features being added. And I have been in the development scene far too many years. I would suggest again leaving the group or muting emails if SIGNIFICANT updates are not important to you. Cheers 🥂

Hope to not spoil this friendship.

Tanmay Kapse dude, what's with the "my way or the highway" stance? Take it easy. I know I do. :)

I'm simply asking to be mindful with using the everyone-tag and/or to give us separate options for notifications for this tag. If you ask me, you should only use @everyone in case of emergency. A critical security update, for instance. Fixes and feature updates are great for a daily digest, a fixed post and/or a newsletter

Guys, let's stop this argument, please. I would appreciate if you both stop this topic.

Rick Heijster Tanmay Kapse don’t you think arguing like this isn’t very productive? Let’s show some respect and avoid asking anyone to leave. I’m sure the WPNinjas team will consider every suggestion that could improve their product and make us happier. However, how we present our ideas and express ourselves might sometimes cause confusion. Why not try to be a bit more polite?

Jennifer Tracy The current deal is an LTD that means, you never have to pay. It's an one time payment. I asked my team to make it more clear.

Shahjahan Jewel ok and to confirm I install this on my Wordpress and it works with my Elementor theme builder?

Jennifer Tracy
1.- At this moment, you can buy it as LIFETIME plan (One Time Payment)
When you arrive to the deal (landing) page, it's marked as default the biggest plan (10 months for 50 licenses), but you can change to one license, if you prefer ✅

Obviously this is strategic to sell MORE, specially for those who are thinking to offer service setting up communities.

2.- Yes! This is a WordPress plugin (you install it like any other plugin)

3.- Shahjahan Jewel said that «FluentCommunity works with any theme or page builder, including Elementor as currently it does not depend on any theme or builders.»

If you didn't purchase your license, yet, I recommend you to grab it NOW! (And if you don't like it, you have the 14 days of refund guarantee).

I hope this is help for you (and other with the same doubts).

Jennifer Tracy FluentCommunity works with any theme or page builder, including Elementor as currently it does not depends on any theme or builders.

Shahjahan Jewel if you follow this link on your mobile phone it doesn’t say lifetime anywhere.

I see it now on desktop but I wanted you to know that on mobile you don’t see this.

Jose Luis Duron this is not on mobile FYI ..

Jennifer Tracy Thanks. I already notified the team.

This is the WordPress way. You can use this custom PHP snippet. It will disable gravatar from your full WordPress site as well as from FluentCommunity.

add_filter('get_avatar_url', function ($url, $idOrEmail) {
    // Return an empty string to prevent the default avatar URL from being used.
    // Or return a custom URL to use a custom avatar.
    return '';
}, 10, 2);

Shahjahan Jewel Is there a filter or hook I could use to modify the avatar meta key stored in the wp_fcom_xprofile table? Just trying to think of a way I can use the meta key I have stored in the wp_usermeta table for each user. I have unique meta key on all of my websites I use to store the avatar URL, its called profile-picture.

Both fields store standard URLs from what I can see. The avatar field in Fluent Community uses a unique folder structure when saving: /wp-content/uploads/fluent-community/fluentcom-[unique file name}

Tony Baker This code may help:

add_filter('fluent_community/default_avatar', function ($default, $xprofile) {

    $userId = $xprofile->user_id;

    $customAvatar = get_user_meta($userId, 'your_custom_avatar_meta', true);

    if($customAvatar) {
        return $customAvatar;
    }

    return $default;
}, 10, 2);

This is the default avatar filter hook when Gravatar does not return any image URL.

Shahjahan Jewel Thank you for the solution! I’ve extended it so that when a user first signs in to the community (or in my case, a multisite network), their Fluent Community avatar is automatically updated to match their locally stored avatar. If no local avatar exists, it falls back to the Fluent Community default avatar.

There’s still a bit more to do here. Ideally, if a user updates their avatar in Fluent Community, it should automatically sync across the multisite (or single site for anyone reading this who considering this for single sites). Similarly, if they update their avatar in their website profile, it should update in Fluent Community to ensure full synchronisation.

I think the best possible enhancement would be an option in Fluent Community’s advanced settings to allow admins to define their own meta key for avatars as an option. This meta key would override the avatar field stored in the wp_fcom_xprofile table, making the setup much more flexible and adaptable to different use cases.

For example, in my case, I store user avatars in a custom meta field called profile-picture. Having the ability to specify this field in Fluent Community settings would eliminate the need for custom hooks or manual synchronisation.

Thanks again for the great support and for considering this suggestion!

Tony Baker 100% agree - i've got some workarounds, but it's not really scalable and the quality of the avatar is an issue; it looks great in WP but in FC it's terrible regardless of the format (tried them all)

Tony Baker This issue should be fixed in core WP as we are using the native WordPress function to get the Gravatar URL. I am not sure why WP core did not fix it yet.
But let's see if we can give a more simple hook to disable it completely.

Thanks Shahjahan Jewel - I looked into the Fluent Community plugin code and couldn't see where the get_avatar hook was being used, there didn't seem to be any obvious relation to Wordpress core for avatars. I also noticed that even with the code snippet which disabled the Gravatar service , the external call to gravatar is still made from Fluent Community as the URL has already been added to the meta key.

I have also added a request for this to be reviewed as the platform isn't GDPR compliant at present. There are two external API calls being made which share PII data. Gravatar and ui-avatars.com to pull the autogenerated initials based avatar image: https://community.wpmanageninja.com/fluentcommunity-roadmp/#/idea/389/

I know you and the team will work on this and i'm thankful for that. But please put this as the priority. New features are great and we all welcome them, but data security and privacy has to be the number 1 priority, especially with a community plugin. We need to know that it is actually private and compliant or it puts us and our clients at risk. Thanks 🙏

Tony Baker We use get_avatar_url

Shahjahan Jewel I see, I was looking for the get_avatar function. Either way, the external 3rd party API calls would need to be optional by the admin to turn off if they want to be GDPR compliant. The same for FluentCRM. Maybe look to add a nice SVG fallback for both that ties in with the Fluent family UI or let admins add their own, something like that would be great.

Moha Alabri We will add a bookmarks feature forthe course as well. By the way, in the courses pages, we have a dedicated page for my courses.

Shahjahan Jewel awesome 👏🏻

Appreciate your work

Elisa Faria We had some color customization issues which we have fixed.

Shahjahan Jewel Was this checked in this update?

Elisa Faria Yes

Andre Gois That's a good idea. Will do that in the next version.

Md Firdous Ahmad the app itself is PWA ready but I think we have to make the PWA manifest work somehow. We will do some R&D

Shahjahan Jewel I ran a quick test and noticed that the manifest file doesn’t load on the community page, although it works fine on other pages outside the community section. It’d be great if you could take a look and fix this. Thanks so much!

Md Firdous Ahmad If you want to load any meta on the head you must have to use our hook described here: https://github.com/WPManageNinja/fluent-community-docs/blob/master/code-snippets.md#add-custom-css-to-portal

as we don's load any plugin or theme assets.

Shahjahan Jewel The Quick View animation for posts is amazing, and the speed is spot on. I did notice one thing - when you scroll down a post, the close icon disappears. It would be super helpful if the close icon stayed sticky at the top, so users can close the post without having to scroll all the way back up.

Md Firdous Ahmad noted. By the way the modal support keyboard key esc to close. Also, if you click outside, it will close too.

Shahjahan Jewel It works great on desktop, but the back navigation seems to have an issue on mobile devices.

Shahjahan Jewel I tried this in a PWA today and it work well. But need to do more testing tomorrow.

Nicole Young You can organize them in the Settings "Space Groups" , them grab the 6 dots on the left and move it around . Its Amazing and more organized.

Sofia Carvalho I’m referring to the main “Courses” section with the course thumbnails (I’m not putting my courses in space groups on the left sidebar).

Nicole Young Oh I understand, sorry about that I dont know nothing :/

Tsitsi Chigumba this would be amazing but also for spaces

Pierre-Marie ACHART, swipe down will scroll popup contents, left/right swipe are better.

Andrey Golovinov left/right could be nice to go to the next/previous post too.

Modals should allow different methods to dismiss it, most important are:

• "x" botton
• ESC button
• Cancel button in this case could also close the modal (it might not be the best solution for all scenarioss)
• Click on overlay to dismiss (more important than the X button for mobile/touch devices)

Andrey Golovinov swiping directions are confusing. I meant holding the finger and pulling down.

Nicolas Daxant a few users have submitted this on the roadmap. Hope they start working on it soon

Sascha Liem I spotted this as well. Both Fluent Community and FluentCRM are making 3rd party API calls containing PII user data (first name and last name) to a service called ui-avatars. The service is not GDPR compliant at all. No policies or any form of disclosure Therefore both Fluent products are not GDPR compliant.

Shahjahan Jewel - I have added this to the roadmap but it should really be a matter of urgency, especially with FluentCRM as one of the main benefits is user privacy. Compliance affects all customers and supersedes all feature developments. Can you check into this with the team?

Sascha Liem Tony Baker 

Naod Debesay From the menu group settings you can hide the spaces if someone does not have access.

Andrey Golovinov great suggestions! Shahjahan Jewel FYI

Ronald There are more and more updates and fewer free features 😅

Hoang Hxn This is extremely inconvenient on Mobile.

Hoang Hxn Totally agree, also the modal feature instead of clicking on the Link is not good for SEO right?

Khoi Nguyen - Cuong Thach What do you think?

Shahjahan Jewel what about putting the modal feature optional on settings, sot that the admin can choose to enable only on desktop, mobile or both?

Tindaro Battaglia that would be perfect

Seb Noted.

Shahjahan Jewel 😏