David N.

Is it possible to have a sidebar on the search results page?

Ok great, thank you Jim. 

When I have a tab open displaying a topic, sometimes I get a black banner at the bottom that says "John Doe has replied. Show reply."

However clicking "Show Reply" does nothing visible because the reply it displays is further down the page, hidden offscreen. Shouldn't it scroll down the page in order to actually show the reply?

Thanks!

Great, thank you Matt, I'll check that out. 

If I am reading a blog article on my community, or if I've started typing a post or a response in a browser tab, and I get a push notification for example that someone sent me a message, then when I click the notification, the page I was reading or typing in reloads with the content of the link in the notification. That means I lose track of what I was doing in that tab, or I lose the text I was typing. 

Instead, I wish it would open the notification link in a new tab. 

19 minutes ago, Sonya* said:

Choose another template for the Articles template under Homepage Options:

AAaaah! Now we're getting somewhere. Thanks a lot @Sonya* !

Thank you! However that gives me only one column? I meant a blog view like https://invisioncommunity.com/news/ with 2 or 3 columns, one box for each article with a featured image. 

Thank you both. I'm disappointed to see how difficult it is to create a wordpress like blog in Invision Community. Seeing the blog on this site I assumed that I would get the same functionality and look from the Invision software without too much tweaking or 3rd party plug-ins. 

So I'm going to try to use the default "Articles" page I suppose but creating a blog-like home page with boxes representing each article (rather than a forum-like list of articles names) is a little more challenging that it would seem. 

🤔

I'm trying to set up a simple blog. I am the only writer for now and perhaps I'll invite guest writers in the future. Similar to the Blogs on this site:

https://invisioncommunity.com/news/ 

I'm not sure if it's best to do it in Pages or Blogs?

I've tried doing it in Blogs however it seems there's one level I don't need in the hierarchy (the possibility to have multiple blogs), and it confuses me?

Let's say I want two categories, News and Tutorials. It seems like now I have to create a blog inside the category, and then an entry inside the blog, so the tree structure is:

domainname.com/blogs/category/blog-name/entry-name

The breadcrumb is (I've named both the category and blog the same thing, not knowing what to name the blog):

However I want a single blog with multiple category, and I'd like to see this:

domainnamecom/blogs/category/entry-name

Just like on this site for example:

invisioncommunity.com/news/community-management/what-successful-communities-do-r1241/

PS: And how do I rename "blogs" to "news" or something else? Thanks!

On 5/10/2022 at 8:20 PM, virap said:

A lot of language for the plans are almost religiously mysterious like media. It took me several emails to gain some vague description of what that is, how we measure our current 'media' usage and even now I am not sure the explanation I was given is accurate

The way I understand it, "media" is another word for "disk usage", meaning the amount of disk space you're going to take on the servers. Most hosts have a maximum disk space you can use and if you go over you have to upgrade to the next plan. 

On 5/10/2022 at 8:20 PM, virap said:

Another one is page views and so on.

Page views are the number of times someone sees a page. That's a metric in your Google Analytics so you can measure it from there. 

3 minutes ago, Matt said:

I would also consider using a Topic Feed widget to showcase the last 5 or 10 latest posts in the sidebar below the adverts to give people an easier way into the content.

Unfortunately I'm not sure how I can add widgets below the ads. The ads are inserted via javascript by the ad publisher. Right now the ads appear below the widgets. Maybe that's something I should ask them to change? 

1 hour ago, Matt said:

have you created a topic with some FAQ/help on how to use the new forum? Likewise, do you have a topic to act as support for people who are a bit confused? Did you communicate much about the migration in advance?

That's a good idea. We had a topic about the new site, new features etc... but maybe I need to make a more official support topic with an alert at the top of the site for everyone to see clearly. Great idea. 

1 hour ago, Matt said:

Have you also double checked to ensure that the permissions are correct so that members have access to all the areas they should?

Yes I believe they're correct, basically all members have read/write access to all forum, fairly simple. 

1 hour ago, Matt said:

In terms of the raw data, there will be a period where Google needs to essentially recalibrate via crawling your site. Tens of thousands of URLs and their content just changed. There's no way around that unfortunately.

Ok, if it's temporary, and only a matter of time before it recovers, I don't mind being patient. It's just the fear that these symptoms may be a definitive consequence of using a different software that is stressful.

Core Web vitals seem to be improving over time, Coverage started showing 800 errors per day - mostly 5xx server errors - since the migration (vs about 15 per day before). That's odd. I'm sending you screenshots. Thanks a lot for offering to help!

I migrated my forum from phpBB to Invision Community 20 days ago.

My forum is my full-time job. The income from Ads is how I make a living. I have 130k topics, 800k topics, 400k monthly pageviews.

While I absolutely love the Invision software, I am very upset that since the migration, my ad earnings are down by 30%. I am looking for help to pinpoint the issue or issues at play. Here are some symptoms I've noticed since the migration:

1. Google search impressions (and clicks) are down.
2. Number of page views is down.
3. Ad RPM and RPS are slightly down.
4. User engagement is down (less new topics/day, less new replies/day).
5. The pages are slower to load.

That is the exact opposite of what I was expecting when spending time and money resources on migrating my community to Invision.

I suppose that #2 may be due to the use of AJAX when users post. Where in phpBB, a user would reload the page, now in Invision the user does it all from the same page. My guess was that in exchange for the diminished page views, the RPM would go up (the user now stays longer on that same page).

I don't understand #1, #3 and #4 at all. They're a mystery to me. I would have thought the snazzy software and gamification would entice users to post more. 

#5 could be due to some conflict between the Invision javascript and the javascript from the ads? I noticed that with the ads turned on the text editor takes forever to open while the ads load. The ads are loading much slower than they were in phpBB.

I need to figure this out and get my earnings at least back up to where they were before the switch. If any of you have migrated to Invision from another forum software I'd love to hear your experience and advice.

52 minutes ago, Sonya* said:

There could be an option though in the widget itself. Apply ipsBox? Yes/No. This would not break anything and anyone can set it the way they needed. 😉 

I like that idea. 

6 hours ago, opentype said:

I will often just wrap everything in <div class="ipsBox ipsPadding"></div>. That is usually enough. 

Thank you @opentype! That gets me pretty close, however the box is still not lined up on the left with the "Home" breadcrumb at the top like the boxes on a forum page.

Wait! It's not lined up if I use the page builder, it lines up fine if I create a HTML page! So at least there's a way. 

44 minutes ago, opentype said:

It’s a tricky situation. If they add these stylings as a default, it would break all the uses where that is not wanted or useful. 

I understand. But perhaps it could be a special kind of WYSIWIG block that has the same style as a default article or forum topic container?

I am trying to understand how to create a simple page in Pages that would look like the content box of one of the default articles layout (white box with slightly rounded corners, text of default size), but without the header (title and author) and without the pagination or the comments at the bottom). 

So really, just one white content box with slightly rounded corners so that the page looks the same as the articles. 

I've created a page, set to "Page Builder", then in Page Builder I drag a WYSIWYG editor and type text, however I get no padding, no white background and the text is tiny (13px when my articles are 17px). 

So I tried adding:

<article class="ipsContained ipsSpacer_top ipsBox ipsResponsive_pull">
	<div class="ipsClearfix ipsPadding">

Before my text and that creates the white box. But the margin at the top is wrong, and I have to take care of the font size... before I go any further, is there an easier way to go about it?

I would LOVE if there was a simple LMS added to my Invision Community. In its simplest form, it could be a table of content in the left sidebar, and some kind of "next" button at the bottom right, just like your own user guide already has - for example:

That coupled with some kind of progress bar, and a way for the reader to tell where they're currently at in the table of content in the left sidebar (which ideally should be sticky or scrolled independently of the main content) would be awesome.

After that, the next step is quizzes/tests, gamification... etc. But that can wait. 

Thanks a lot! 😀

I disabled the RSS under Community > Forum > Settings but they still appear inside the Stream Options menu at the top right of the activity streams?

Just now, Daniel F said:

You can also use HTML in the editor by allowing specific user groups to post HTML, which can be done via the group settings! 

Great! That's even better. Thanks a lot Daniel. 

Thank you Sonya!

I've written an article in Pages, in the default "Articles" Page, however I can't seem to write any HTML in the WYSWYG so how can I use header tags such as h2 for my article titles? 

I know I can create HTML pages but I want to use the Articles page with the WYSWYG editor because it has the layout I want (with the author card at the top, comments at the bottom...)

Ok I suppose that answers the question! There's no text in the original post of the thread (only an image) so the "Text" field is left empty in the structured markup. Thanks Marc, I'll edit the thread to add text. 

Here's the page: https://www.logicprohelp.com/forum/topic/110810-i-love-you-but-why-do-you-behave-this-way/