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Invision Community users (including myself) have asked for conditional fields for years. It was finally added, but almost secretly without any proper announcement or documentation. And since the feature is not added to the field settings, users will not even stumble upon it by accident. You actually have to know where to look. In this article I take it upon myself to explain this feature so you can make use of it.

When you start a new Pages database, you have to make a foundational decision: How to structure your content in such a way that users can easily find the content they are looking for. Pages databases come with both categories and filters for this purpose. Understanding their pros and cons is important before setting them up. Here is everything you need to know.

There are a lot of changes between Invision Community 4 and 5. IPS has announced significant changes on their blog, but there are also changes that are so far unannounced and undocumented. Here is what changed in the Pages app.

By default, Pages databases work like a blogging system. You just add a title and a body text to each record. But with custom fields, you can present any kind of content. It’s an extremely powerful and versatile system to collect and show data around your community topic. But as you might have found out already, the styling options for custom fields are limited and often you will have to turn on the “Custom listing/display view format” options and write your own HTML code. This article is a coll

Invision Community currently comes with a choice of seven webfonts in the default theme. If you want to use different fonts, you have to customize your theme. This article explains, how this is done. 

Email clients can identify email senders with a picture—for example, after you have manually set one for a specific sender. If your logo appears next to your site emails, it doesn’t just help with your branding—it will also make your emails look more professional and trustworthy and in turn probably also increase the opening rate. But how can you make sure that all your community members will see your site logo next to your emails? I am going to describe two methods: the proper, future-proof (bu

By default, emails from your community are sent via PHP, which means that your web host will send the emails. This choice usually doesn’t require any configuration. But many believe, that in order to really reach all or almost all users you will eventually have to switch to a proper external mail service like SendGrid or Amazon SES. But is this really true?

When I started my first community 20 years ago, “if you build it, they will come” was often a true claim. You could build a successful community merely by being the first in your niche to try it. But as we all know, the situation is very different today. The internet has become very competitive and people might not need your independent website anymore. They have Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Discord and many other services they already use. So, does it even make sense anymore to start a new commun