Community Home Page Overview

In this article, you will get a high level overview of the main home page for your Community.

About This Feature

This article discusses the main Community home page that you'll see once you've created a Community. If you have not already, you'll want to read Create a Community first.

Your Community home page is the main page for your Community - this is the place you first land when you open a Community, and it's where you'll find a summary of the latest activity and updates happening within the Community.

How It Works

From your Community home page, you'll have an overview of your Community that includes recent activity and updates, and actions you can take (like posting comments or creating Spaces).

To make it easier to demonstrate, we've broken the main page down into 3 main sections:

The left side,
The middle, and
The right side

Jump to the sections below to learn more about each of these 3 main sections, and what features and functions are included.

Sections of the Community Home Page

The Left Side

On the left side of your Community home page, you will see your main Community navigation menu.

This section includes the link back to your main student dashboard (at the top of the page), as well as:

Home
Click Home from any page in your Community to navigate back to the main Community home page.
Following
Click Following to view the posts that you have selected to follow.
Members
Click Members to view a list of all of the members within your Community, as well as their profile image and role (either Moderator, or Student)
Events
Click Events to view both your upcoming and past live events.
Spaces
This section will display all of the Spaces that currently exist within your Community.
+Create Space
Click this to create a new space within your Community

The Middle Section

In the middle section of your Community home page, you will find:

Your Community home banner image
Your Community name
Your Community description
All of these settings can be modified/updated from your Community Settings
Community Member Count
This is a default setting - meaning that the member count is added to your community automatically. The displayed member count will be visible to both you and your students, and will reflect the total number of members within the community.
Add a post text box
Click this to write a new post to add to a Space in your Community
Upcoming Events
Any upcoming Live Events that you have will be displayed below this heading
Create Event +
Click this to create a new Live Event

Scrolling down in this section, you will also see:

Latest Posts
This section will display the latest posts in your Community
All Spaces
This area will display all of the Spaces within your Community

The Right Side

On the right side of your Community home page, you will see:

Your Profile name and icon
Click this to view your Community settings, Return to your Admin Dashboard, View/edit your profile settings, or log out of Thinkific.
Your Notifications tab
Click the bell icon to view and/or manage your web notifications.
Trending Posts
This side panel will give you a preview of the top performing posts in your Community.

Important Considerations

At this time Community appearance cannot be edited using the Custom code / Custom themes. However, you can edit the appearance of your community, using the Settings tab. You can also edit the appearance of community landing pages using Site Builder or Custom code.