Creating and Configuring Your Community
From Flux Developer Portal
Creating a full Flux community offering with categories of user-generated content, featured members, discussions, community pages, and more is easy. For existing sites, create a Flux community in a matter of minutes using widgets to integrate with your existing site and hosted pages to add new tools and turn additional page-views. The hosted pages are fully customizable making for a seamless community experience for your visitors. Don't have a website yet? Create one from scratch that can live on your domain. Flux enables you to choose from various integration methods, while taking the social tools you need and leaving the ones you don't.
Creating a Community
Start at the Flux signup page. Choose a name for your community, and create an account by entering your email address and choosing a password. If you like, enter the URL and RSS for your existing site. This allows Flux to "discover" your content, so Flux users can share and distribute your content in a way that looks good on Flux profiles as well as external communities like Facebook and MySpace. If you don't have a site yet, it’s ok; you can leave this field blank. Agree to all the legal stuff, and click the button to create your community.
Once you're in, visit your Community Manager to customize your community by choosing themes, organizing site pages, uploading your own community logo and much more. You can always find your Community Manager, via the "More" menu at the top of each page on your community.
Changing Your Web Site URL
To get your Flux site on your own domain, you'll need to do the following:
- Log in to your DNS host an point the domain to our IP: 208.76.217.20
- If your DNS host does not provide an online admin tool - just call them directly.
- Contact us at support@flux.com to update the URL for your community. Be sure to include the current Flux URL and the URL you want to change it to.
