⚠️ Improvements in next versions FluentCommunity
It’s incredible how much FluentCommunity has grown over the past few months. It has gained a huge number of features, and I really love seeing the ecosystem of products evolving across WPManageNinja. Huge thanks to Shahjahan Jewel for everything you do for users.
That said, I’d like to highlight a few things that I really miss directly in the plugin settings.
Login form
Tt works very well, but feels a bit clunky in terms of design, and the “forgot password” flow redirects to the default WP form. It would be amazing to see a major update here, because the login page itself is fantastic and almost visually (and partially technically) separates users from WordPress, which is great. This also ties into better two-factor authentication settings and the ability to completely block user access to the WP admin via standard routes. If there’s one area that deserves a lot of attention, it’s this.
Spaces
hey work great for structuring main topics, but why should users have to join them? If I’m using FluentCommunity as a community platform, I want new users to automatically have access to selected categories without any extra clicking or joining. It would be great to have an option to mark entire groups or individual spaces as permanently open to all users, without the ability to join or leave. For an open community, the only entry point should be registration, nothing more.
Feed and renaming
I noticed that it’s easy to rename it in the menu settings, but if I remove all other items, the word “Feed” comes back, which is incredibly frustrating. Please give us a simple way to separate and lock the menu label so it stays fixed.
Gutenberg template integration
it works well, but not perfectly. As seen on the official FluentCommunity forum, the layout with Gutenberg templates differs slightly, which is distracting, spacing shifts a bit, emojis behave differently, and rendering varies. It would be great to refine this further.
Email template manager and notifications
his is something I really miss. I’d like to manage all email templates from one place and fine-tune their design, add links, adjust elements, and so on.
That’s everything that currently bothers me about FluentCommunity. To be honest, the first two points are absolute must-haves for me to move back from Flarum to WordPress. I really hope this will happen soon and that FluentCommunity continues to grow with many new features. I’m convinced it will, because the team is putting an incredible amount of work into it.
I’d also like to mention that some of these features already exist in a hybrid form through hooks or other plugins from the same ecosystem. So there’s no need to point that out, I’m aware of it! :D
It would be great to have these features readily available without complicated setup or configuration.
I highly support this :
Spaces
It works great for structuring main topics, but why should users have to join them? If I’m using FluentCommunity as a community platform, I want new users to automatically have access to selected categories without any extra clicking or joining. It would be great to have an option to mark entire groups or individual spaces as permanently open to all users, without the ability to join or leave. For an open community, the only entry point should be registration, nothing more.
Lucie Tosakova , Nicolas D : Regarding spaces, it's actually already possible! You don't have to wait for a future version. The official doc explains exactly how to use mapping via FluentCRM to automate all of this: https://fluentcommunity.co/docs/access-management-through-fluentcrm-tags/
Basically, once you've enabled the module in your access management, you just link your CRM tags to your groups. As soon as a member signs up and gets their tag, they’re dropped straight into the right spaces without having to lift a finger. It's completely seamless for them.
Just a heads-up: I've noticed that if you want the tag removal to also automatically unregister the member from the group (two-way sync), you probably need the Pro version for that.
One last thing: while the system handles the automatic entry perfectly, it still gives members the freedom to leave a group if they want to. You can't really "lock" them in, but it’s probably for the best to keep the community filled with people who actually want to be there.
Claudy Scoufy Yep, that’s exactly why I’m specifically pointing out, for people like you, that many of these things are already possible, but only under certain conditions, like installing additional plugins and so on! :)