Invision Community 5: A video walkthrough creating a custom theme and homepage By Matt Thursday at 04:02 PM
Management Matt Posted Thursday at 04:14 PM Management Posted Thursday at 04:14 PM Can you start from a stock Invision Community 5 installation and have it themed, customized, and a new homepage built in under an hour without relying on custom templates and coding? Yes, and Jimi Wikman, a long-time Invision Community customer, did just that in his latest YouTube video. Jimi has over twenty-five years of experience in development and twenty years of experience in graphic design. Invision Community 5 has been in testing for a few months now, and Jimi produced this amazing walkthrough of Invision Community 5's new page editor and theme editor while re-creating his own site. Our vision for Invision Community 5 was to put the power into the hands of everyone, not just those who are proficient in PHP, HTML, and CSS. Jimi's video shows this vision as a reality as he moves through the theme editor to create his custom theme, and the page editor to build a custom homepage. Sit back and enjoy watching Jimi put together a new site. Thanks Jimi! If you're interested in testing Invision Community 5 for yourself, just join our Beta Testing Club. View full blog entry Jimi Wikman, Dreadknux, Hatsu and 14 others 13 4
Jimi Wikman Posted Thursday at 04:33 PM Posted Thursday at 04:33 PM It is an honor to give a little something back to Invision Community that has been the source of so many fond memories! I hope it will show some of the many capabilities the amazing team have created for us! David N., Joel R, Marc and 5 others 6 2
Management Matt Posted Thursday at 04:36 PM Author Management Posted Thursday at 04:36 PM 2 minutes ago, Jimi Wikman said: It is an honor to give a little something back to Invision Community that has been the source of so many fond memories! I hope it will show some of the many capabilities the amazing team have created for us! The production quality is as fantastic as the content! Jimi Wikman and Marc 1 1
Marc Posted Thursday at 04:49 PM Posted Thursday at 04:49 PM Nice to see someone doing great things with the new version 🙂 Matt, Jimi Wikman and rastafari 2 1
Marco Junior Posted Thursday at 04:54 PM Posted Thursday at 04:54 PM @Jimi Wikman Amazing your content is very good for the all community. The IPS 5 is truly a machine of possibilities and I can prove it:Â https://community.lightningmu.net/Â Matt and Jimi Wikman 2
MasterOfFreedom Posted Thursday at 04:58 PM Posted Thursday at 04:58 PM This is fantastic. I would love more long form videos of IPS development tips! Jimi Wikman and Matt 2
Jimi Wikman Posted Thursday at 05:19 PM Posted Thursday at 05:19 PM 18 minutes ago, MasterOfFreedom said: This is fantastic. I would love more long form videos of IPS development tips! Just make requests on what you want to see and we'll make them 🙂 I am not the only content creator in the community 🙂 Matt and David N. 2
AlexJ Posted Thursday at 07:27 PM Posted Thursday at 07:27 PM Nice video @Jimi Wikman - Liked the walk through. Matt, David N. and Jimi Wikman 2 1
David N. Posted Thursday at 07:28 PM Posted Thursday at 07:28 PM The video is great. Thanks a lot for your contribution @Jimi Wikman - much appreciated! 🙂 Matt and Jimi Wikman 1 1
Gary Posted Thursday at 09:48 PM Posted Thursday at 09:48 PM I've said it before and I'll say it again, great work @Jimi Wikman! It's a great walkthrough and sheds some light on the endless possibilities of Invision Community. Jimi Wikman 1
MasterOfFreedom Posted Friday at 01:47 PM Posted Friday at 01:47 PM 20 hours ago, Jimi Wikman said: Just make requests on what you want to see and we'll make them 🙂 I am not the only content creator in the community 🙂 I would love a more in-depth view of what pages and extensions can achieve. I was thinking I needed a full application to achieve my goals, but after watching your video, I am starting to question whether I can just extend current behaviors. For example, I want to parse a file upon upload and use the contents of that file to fill a database. It seems I can just create the database now with pages, but I would have to extend (or hook?) into the file upload part somehow to then do the parsing. I am also curious how easy it is to export these pages to reuse on different sites.
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