News Feed
Your community’s activity wall, rendered natively. The screen most apps make their home.
Before you start
Section titled “Before you start”| Plugin | Ultimate Member - Social Activity |
| Endpoint groups | Wall, Users |
| Plan | Every plan |
Wall is the memberside/v2 namespace. Enabling Users and expecting the
feed to work is a common miss.
Also place Activity Thread on the Background tab, or tapping a post’s comments does nothing.
Add it to your app
Section titled “Add it to your app”- Drag News Feed onto a navigation bar.
- Set a Title.
- Place Create Social Post so members can post, and Activity Thread in the background.
Settings
Section titled “Settings”| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Title, Description | Shown at the top | Empty |
| Restrictions | Which roles see the tab | Everyone |
Feed content styling is app-wide, under Feed CSS in Appearance.
What your members see
Section titled “What your members see”A scrolling feed of posts, each with its author, content, any images, and a comment count that updates live.
Reactions. Members react to posts, and can see who reacted.
Comments. Read, post, and edit their own. Comments take reactions too.
Images. Posts with photos render them inline.
Link previews. A post containing a URL shows a card with the page’s title, description and image, scraped when the post was created.
Links route natively. A link to a post opens Single Post; a link to a member opens their Profile. Place those features or those taps go nowhere.
The news feed, with reactions and comments
record → src/assets/media/news-feed.mp4
Realtime
Section titled “Realtime”Without Realtime, the feed updates when a member pulls to refresh. With it, new posts appear as they happen.
When it does not work
Section titled “When it does not work”| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| The feed is empty | The Wall group is off | Enable it |
| Posts show without authors or avatars | The Users group is off | Enable it |
| Tapping comments does nothing | Activity Thread is not placed | Add it on the Background tab |
| Members cannot post | No Create Social Post feature is placed | Place one |
| Link previews are missing | The link was posted before previews, or the target has no Open Graph tags | Expected |
| A link in a post goes nowhere | Single Post or Profile is not placed | Place them |
| New posts only appear on refresh | Realtime is not connected | Realtime |