I recently tested Community with the idea that we could migrate our very large Weebly website to it. But I found some things that are lacking and some that are confusing. I'll share them here with the hope that they'll help:

• Tabs: This was one of the things I missed most as almost all of our Weebly pages have tabs on them. In fact, the browsers we use have tabs and even InVision's own pages use tabs. But here are some suggestions regarding that:

  • Width: Weebly has a fixed width, which limits the number of tabs that can be put on a page. Please allow the width of the tab to be adjusted.

  • Order: Allow the tabs to be moved around once created. There are many times when I get almost done and need to re-arrange the order.

  • Color: I find it very helpful to the user to have the active tab a bright color and the others a different color. But some ability to adjust the colors would be helpful.

• Picture gallery widget: The image widget gives a ribbon of pictures, but not wallpaper. Weebly provides a gallery widget that allows the user to put any number of images on a page with the number of columns being set by the user. So if that feature were to be added to the image widget you'd be there.

• Contact us widget: I realize I could build a form to help people contact me, but they'd have to copy my email address and paste it in their email app. Weebly provides a form that automagically sends an email to the address programmed into the form. That way all contact-me emails come in uniformly and are easily identified - without revealing the site owner's email address.

• Folders/Menus/Pages: The relationship between folders, menu and pages eludes me. At times it is "I got it, I got it, I ain't got it..." For instance, I've found it hard to get a page I created on its own in the menu, but if I create a folder and then a page in that folder theres an option to include that page in the menu.

• Tabs in my browser: This is different than just "Tabs". When I'm editing a page and click "done" it seems to open a new tab in my browser. And after a while I have bunches of tabs open and don't know which one is the editor, which is viewing the result, etc. Maybe it is just me, but it is really confusing.

• Page layout: It appears that the width of a widget is fixed. There's a central column of a page for widgets, but you can't drop additional widgets beside another widget. In Weebly I can drop a text widget in and then drop an image widget in the text widget and have the text flow around the image. Or I can drop two or more widgets of any kind side by side and adjust the width of each of them.

• Documentation: I think someone said you are working on documenting how all of this fits together, although maybe you have and I've missed it.

• Overall look & feel: Community comes up looking like just what its name implies - meant for a community that has news, celebrates members, etc. I'm looking for a place where I can have my forum (already on Invision and loving it) and my documentation. And if we want to expand to clubs or events or articles (whatever they are), or describe our staff we can eventually do that. I realize all that stuff can be turned off in the menu, but there's a fear that in doing so I might not be able to get it back. So, could yours come up with that stuff turned off and yet be able to be turned on? And documentation on how to do that?

• Folder Navigation: I love it! While it isn't a replacement for tabs, it is a good way to create related pages that might be too big if one one page (been there, done that) and let the user navigate between them.

Hope that helps and if you have questions or clarification on any of it please ask.

Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback, @Gary Lewis. It's been great chatting with you while you testing Invision Community as a potential full CMS replacement. A lot of tabs in your browser could be a various number of reasons. For example, Clicking Visit Site from the AdminCP opens the site in a new tab. That's ended up with me having a lot of open tabs in the past. You have a lot of great feedback in here, so don't be surprised if some of this makes it in the future.

Thanks for helping shape Invision Community! 💪

On 11/11/2025 at 9:32 AM, Gary Lewis said:

Contact us widget: I realize I could build a form to help people contact me, but they'd have to copy my email address and paste it in their email app. Weebly provides a form that automagically sends an email to the address programmed into the form. That way all contact-me emails come in uniformly and are easily identified - without revealing the site owner's email address.

There isn't a widget for it but a contact form already exists in our software :) . It is located a {your-base-url}/contact/ (Managed in ACP -> System -> Contact). You could create a WYSIWYG block and then just write in what you want and then link to it if you are looking to drop it in as a block somewhere.

On 11/11/2025 at 9:32 AM, Gary Lewis said:

Folders/Menus/Pages: The relationship between folders, menu and pages eludes me. At times it is "I got it, I got it, I ain't got it..." For instance, I've found it hard to get a page I created on its own in the menu, but if I create a folder and then a page in that folder theres an option to include that page in the menu.

All pages should appear in the Menu Manager, do you have an open support ticket on this or are you referring more towards Folder Navigation that you mentioned below?

On 11/11/2025 at 9:32 AM, Gary Lewis said:

Page layout: It appears that the width of a widget is fixed. There's a central column of a page for widgets, but you can't drop additional widgets beside another widget. In Weebly I can drop a text widget in and then drop an image widget in the text widget and have the text flow around the image. Or I can drop two or more widgets of any kind side by side and adjust the width of each of them.

Some blocks can be side-by-side and others cannot. It depends on the width of where you're dropping it and other factors. There's probably some room for improvement here are better indicating when that is possible.

On 11/12/2025 at 7:49 PM, Jim M said:

There isn't a widget for it but a contact form already exists in our software :) . It is located a {your-base-url}/contact/ (Managed in ACP -> System -> Contact). You could create a WYSIWYG block and then just write in what you want and then link to it if you are looking to drop it in as a block somewhere.

It would really help to have a way to reliably hide the original 'Contact' link. I've done this, but since there are no element IDs in footer links, I used li:nth-child. But if there are changes to the footer list (such as some members having access to more then one theme (this adds the theme switcher to the lost)), it breaks my CSS when using:

.ipsFooterLinks > li:nth-child(2) {
  display: none;
}

It mostly hangs together, but only because I have a single theme.

However, there is a bug too. The contact form page does not include the original contact link, so li:nth-child instead removes my cookies link.

Edited November 22, 2025Nov 22 by Como

4 minutes ago, Como said:

It would really help to have a way to reliably hide the original 'Contact' link. I've done this, but since there are no element IDs in footer links, I used li:nth-child. But if there are changes to the footer list (such as some members having access to more then one theme (this adds the theme switcher to the lost)), it breaks my CSS when using:

.ipsFooterLinks > li:nth-child(2) {
  display: none;
}

Plus, there is a bug. The contact form page does not include the original contact link, so li:nth-child instead removes my cookies link.

Are you actually using the contact form or just want it gone from the footer? If you're not using it, you can just disable from all groups in the ACP -> System -> Contact Us.

Just now, Jim M said:

Are you actually using the contact form or just want it gone from the footer? If you're not using it, you can just disable from all groups in the ACP -> System -> Contact Us.

I created my own Contact page. I outlined it here:

https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/483929-contact-us-new-page/

The stock contact form is far too bare bones. We like to try and direct members to some other methods and resources for contact before using the contact form / email. I used the URL for stock form because I need to make use of Invision's email system and used this for a new footer link. But there is no reliable way to manage footer links.