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!

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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!

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! 

Nice to see someone doing great things with the new version 🙂 

@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: https://community.lightningmu.net/ 

This is fantastic. I would love more long form videos of IPS development tips!

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 🙂

Nice video @Jimi Wikman - Liked the walk through. 

The video is great. Thanks a lot for your contribution @Jimi Wikman - much appreciated! 🙂 

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.

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.