Customize and Manage Your Community Spaces

Spaces are sections within a Thinkific Community that keep posts organized by topic. This article explains how to create, customize, and manage them.

Learn what spaces are here: Organize and Navigate Your Thinkific Community.

Create a Community Space in a Thinkific Community

Once you have created a community, adding a new space is a simple process that you perform from within the community itself:

1. Go to Products
2. Select Communities
3. Locate the community you want to work with in the list and click on the community card.
4. When the community screen opens, click on the three dots next to the community name in the sidebar.
5. Click Create Space
6. Fill out the details of your new space
7. Click Create Space

Once created, your new space will appear at the bottom of the spaces list on the left navigation. Click on the name to view the space, make sure everything looks the way you expected - then start thinking about your first post!

Edit a Community Space

If you want to update any of the details of an existing space, you can do so by editing the space. 

1. Go to Products
2. Select Communities
3. Locate the community you want to work with in the list and click on the community card
4. From the community page, locate the space you want to edit in the left navigation and click to open its name
5. Select the cog icon at the top of the space
6. Make necessary edits
7. Click Update Space

What are the customization options for a community space?

Whether creating or editing the space, you can customize your community space with the following options:

• Space icon: The icon that appears next to the name of the space in your community.
• Space name: The name of the space that appears in your community's spaces list.
• Space description: A short description of the space that will appear at the top of the space.
• Space banner (optional): This image will appear in the Details section when viewing the space — we recommend dimensions of 265 x 150 pixels, and there is a maximum file size of 5MB
• Link a course (optional): Add a link to a course to let members move between the course and space directly. Learn more here: Link Your Space to a Course.
• Private space (optional): You can make your space private or pubic. Learn more here: Create a Private Space in a Thinkific Community.
• Limit posting (optional): Turns the space into a read-only space. When the setting is enabled, only admins and moderators can post and reply.
• Review posts (optional): Enable the setting to require that any post be approved before it appears to your members. Learn more: Manage Your Community.

Link Your Space to a Course

You can connect your community space to a course to allow students to easily navigate between the course and the community space. When enabled, the link to a course will appear in the Featured panel of the community space and the link to the community space will appear in the course builder.

To link your community space to a course:

1. Go to Products
2. Select Communities
3. Locate the community you want to work with in the list and click on the community card
4. From the community page, locate the space you want to edit in the left navigation and click to open its name
5. Select the cog icon at the top of the space
6. Under the Connections section, toggle the Link a course on
7. Select a course to connect the space to
8. Click Save

Rearrange Community Spaces

If you have more than one space in a community, you can rearrange their order. To do so:

1. Go to Products
2. Select Communities
3. Locate the community you want to work with in the list and click on the community card
4. From the community page, locate the space you want to edit in the left navigation and click to open its name
5. Hover over the right side of the space icon until six dots appear
6. Drag and drop the space to its desired position

Delete a Community Space

Before deleting a space, note that doing so will also permanently delete any posts in that space. To delete a community space.

1. Go to Products
2. Select Communities
3. Locate the community you want to work with in the list and click on the community card
4. From the community page, locate the space you want to edit in the left navigation and click to open its name
5. Select the cog icon at the top of the space
6. Scroll to the bottom of the page, read the warning message and click Delete Space
7. Read the confirmation message and click Delete Space again

Important Considerations

• Only Site Owners and Admins can create, edit, or delete spaces.
• Every community must have at least one space; you cannot delete the default 'General' space until you have created another to replace it. You can also edit the default space.
• Deleting a space will permanently delete any posts in that space. These posts cannot be recovered.

Frequently Asked Questions