Invision Community offers fantastic ways of customizing the user experience for your members, and today, we’re excited to introduce some new and really simple ways of customizing Invision Community 5 even further using our new icon tools.

 

Icon Picker

Lets begin with our brand new icon picker. Containing both Font Awesome icons and emojis, the new picker allows you to easily search and assign icons to specific areas throughout your site. Lets take a look at some examples!

 

Navigation icons

Adding icons to the navigation list has been a highly requested feature, so we're happy to announce that you can now use this new picker to do exactly that, for both the horizontal and vertical navigation panels, without needing to modify your theme.

 

Forum icons

Uploading forum icons is a great way to personalize individual areas of your community. In the past, these icons have typically been images, uploaded via the admin panel. In addition to the upload form, the icon picker now makes it a breeze to assign icons to forums - and if a Font Awesome icon is chosen, it'll even inherit the featured forum color.

 

Forum Feature Color

We have brought the existing forum feature color to feed view allowing for a flash of color and personalization that helps associate a color with a specific forum. The feature color pairs really well with the card image to lift the forum display.

 

Icon creator for badges, ranks and reactions

Creating unique badges, ranks and reactions is a great way to boost activity within your community by encouraging members to share more engaging and frequent content - but designing these icons from scratch using a graphics program often comes with hurdles of its own.

With our new icon creator, you can now design your own custom icons for badges, ranks and reactions straight from your Admin panel, using a combination of colors, icons and shapes.

 

 

We think this new icon creator will make the rank, badges and reactions features even more accessible for everyone, allowing you to create a user experience that is uniquely yours. With Invision Community 5, bringing in customization and personalization moves beyond adding new themes.

We're excited to see how you can take advantage of these new tools, and we look forward hearing your feedback in the comments below!

 

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Holy sh*t. This is amazing. Awesome job team. Especially @Matt Finger

I understand everything, although for me there is no such thing as impressive, but I want to say that it would be good at this point if they released at least an Alpha version for users like me, for example, which would be good to experience from now on. We are almost eating the Christmas pabo and there is still nothing

 

I understand everything, although for me there is no such thing as impressive, but I want to say that it would be good at this point if they released at least an Alpha version for users like me, for example, which would be good to experience from now on. We are almost eating the Christmas pabo and there is still nothing

The release estimate for anything at all was late 2023 to early 2024. So while I understand its "Still nothing" there. Its exactly what we expected 🙂 . I assure you, you should be eating your Christmas dinner before you get hold of one 😄

We 'may' have something people can see for themselves this year, but it certainly wont be something people can use on their own sites.

 

The release estimate for anything at all was late 2023 to early 2024. So while I understand its "Still nothing" there. Its exactly what we expected 🙂 . I assure you, you should be eating your Christmas dinner before you get hold of one 😄

We 'may' have something people can see for themselves this year, but it certainly wont be something people can use on their own sites.

How great and funny. What a pleasure to have chosen Invision for my community. I hope that within two weeks we will have something to try. My pleasure and thank you

Do we get…

This topic has been showing up as unread for the past ~10 days in the Unread Content stream. Can you do something about it @Matt?  The new blog entry you just posted disappeared properly. 😅

 

It's not on our roadmap at this point, it'd be tricky given how we load the icons.

Regarding FontAwesome Pro, is it too early to ask for details on how icons are loaded? The preferred way if you ask the vendor is to use their kits, and icons can then simply be referenced by using the corresponding `fa-icon-name` class.

I'm not necessarily asking for nitty gritty technical details, but could you extrapolate a bit on what system you use to load icons and why providing our own kit url would not work?

I understand if a lot of this is still under wraps given the status of IC5.

@Foxtrek_64 Font Awesome 6 Free is used in version 5, hosted locally on your own domain for optimal performance.

There isn’t currently a way to swap this with your own Font Awesome kit, but it’s certainly something we can look into if there’s enough demand for it.