Getting Started
From Flux Developer Portal
How do I create a flux community?
- Sign up at http://www.flux.com/-/FluxCommunity/FluxCustomSignup.aspx - follow instructions in wizard to choose a description, upload a logo, select a design theme.
- You can keep the default theme design you’ve chosen, or customize things like button colors, link and text styles, add a site header, or add your own custom CSS directly from the wizard.
- You can also return to the Theme Editor and customize elements at any time after site creation.
- If you want to add your own backgrounds, you can do this later too.
How do I add a flux community to my existing web site?
- Complete Sign up as above, being sure to enter existing site URL and RSS, if applicable.
- Create and customize widgets during the third step of the wizard to place throughout your existing site.
- You can create more widgets later from the Widgets page (link to widgets page).
- Click here (link to Widgets section) for more detailed information about creating, customizing, and using widgets?
How do I change my site's web address? (ex: change mysite.flux.com to mysite.com)
- To switch the URL over to the flux site 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.
- Email support@flux.com when this step is complete.
How do I populate my site with content?
- You can add content to your site from the links found under the Populate section of your Community Manager. To get there, click the “More” dropdown from any page on your community and go to Community Manager, under the ‘Populate’ section you will find:
- Community share feed
- Upload photos and videos
- Create a blog post
- Create a news item
- Create a feed
- Create an event
- Content Discovery is the process where flux creates a content record and unique ID for externally hosted content.
How do I add pages to my flux community?
- Your community template comes with the following default pages: Community, Profile, Members, Photos, Videos, and Discussions.
- You can add additional pages from the Add/Remove Pages section of your Community Manager. To get there, click the “More” dropdown from any page on your community and go to Community Manager, then click Add/Remove Pages. Click the “Add New Page” button, choose a layout for the new page, and fill out all the page information.
- Be sure to check the “Add This Page To Site Navigation” box so that the page will be accessible from your site menu. Or if you prefer to set up the page before you make it accessible to your members, leave the box unchecked, but be sure to make note of the page URL so you can go back and add the link to this page later from the Site Navigation Editor.
How do I remove pages from my flux community?
- You cannot delete pages that came with your community template, because these pages are required by any modules or widgets you have that include links to view more content. You can remove these pages from your Site Navigation by going to the Site Navigation Editor. To get there, click the “More” dropdown from any page on your community and go to Community Manager, then click “Edit Navigation Links” from under the “Customize” column. Choose the delete button next to the nav item you want to remove.
How do I set up my pages?
- Some pages are already arranged with the appropriate modules for that page. For instance, the Members page already has the Member Search module and the Video and Photo pages come with the content category modules already placed. The Community page has no default modules on it, however, so you will need to set these up yourself. Also, you can add modules to or remove modules from any page, and/or change the position and settings for any of the modules.
- Before you add or customize modules, you will want to populate your site with some content, so that you will have some data to preview what your modules will look like. Please see the “How do I populate my site with content?” section to do this.
- To add modules to a page, click the “Edit” button underneath the “Community” link in your community navigation. You will see a list of module types on the left in the “Add Modules” screen. Choose any module by clicking it. You will see a preview of what the module with the default settings will look like on the right side of the screen. You can change these settings by clicking the “Customize this module” link, and click “Update Preview” to preview your changes in real time. When you are satisfied with the appearance of your module, click “Add Module” and it will appear on the page below. You can move it to another column by clicking and dragging from the “Drag” icon on the left side of the module.
- You can also edit the parameters of any module on the page by clicking the “Edit” link on the right side of the module when in Edit Mode.
- To remove a module from the page, click the X in the upper right corner of the module
- For more detailed information about Modules, click here. (links to Customizing Your Site/Customizing Data/Modules)
Click here (links to Customizing Your Site/Customizing Backgrounds) for information on more advanced customizations such as adding your own backgrounds to pages and modules.
How do I add and remove ads from my site?
- To add your own advertising banner, you can include your ad tags in a custom HTML module which can be placed anywhere below the navigation area.
- To remove any of these ads, just remove the module as described above.
- You will not be able to modify or remove the 728x90 banner at the top of the page.
How do I choose a specific video to be featured on my homepage?
- the video you'd like to feature must already be uploaded
- click on the 'Edit Mode' button
- add a ‘Single Video’ module
- Within the single video module, click Edit
- Grab the video’s UCID and paste onto the UCID text area. Make sure you don't include the first 0 of the UCID.
- Press save.
How do I change basic community settings on my site?
- To change the settings on your site, enter the Community Manager area by clicking on the “More” dropdown from any page on your community. Within the ‘Customize’ section you will find ‘Edit Community Settings’.
- From here you can change settings such as passwords, your site’s description, thumbnails & logos, sign up settings, content rating options, opt-in settings, group options, etc…
- How do I change safety settings like minimum age to sign up and content moderation rules?
- To change the safety settings on your site, enter the Community Manager area by clicking the “More” dropdown. Under the Customize section, click on Edit Community Settings.
- Sign-up settings and other safety settings can be found here. You may change the minimum age required to sign up or enable email validation.
How do I enable content to be shared more easily?
- Community Share
- A great way to share content to all members of your community is through the Community Share Feed. To get there, click the “More” dropdown from any page on your community and go to Community Manager, under the Populate section you will find Community Share Feed.
- select the content type you wish to share, for example "video"
- select "Copy and paste URL" option, and input the content URI or content detail page URL for the video you wish to share
- add a message, preview and share.
- fShare (link to fshare)
- fShare is a simple widget that allows you to share content on many popular social networks, including flux, MySpace, facebook, Twitter, and others.
- When you click an fShare button, a popup window appears to present the various sharing options available. For example, click on the MySpace tab to enter your MySpace credentials, click "Share," and the shared content will show up on your MySpace profile. Click the flux tab and log in with your flux account (if you're not already logged in) to share it on your flux profile. Click on the Email tab to send it to a friend via email.
How do I get people to my site?
- Invite friends
- Under the ‘Populate’ column within Community Manager, you will find the ‘Invite People’ link. Customize your message and you’re ready to send.
- Widgets on external sites
- Widgets allow you to add community functionality to your non-flux hosted pages by cutting and pasting a snippet of code. Add the members widget to showcase recent member visits and allow your visitors to sign up and view more community members.
How do I moderate my community content and members?
- Your community comes with powerful moderation tools that allow you to manage your content and members. Within Community Manager, under the ‘Moderate’ section you will find the ability to:
- set age, commenting, and content rules.
- Browse, feature, or ban members.
- Manage flagged members and flagged content.
- Approve or reject user generated content and
- Organize and edit groups that have been created in your community
