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 |
| Suggestions | Carousels of people, groups, jobs, forums, products, posts or events between posts — see Feed suggestions | Off |
| Feed sizing | The avatar, display name, action icon and action text sizes on posts and comments | From Typography and Layout |
| Full-width cards | Posts run edge to edge, with no rounded corners and a line between each. Off: inset, rounded cards | On |
| Gap between posts | The space between one post and the next. 0 lets them touch | Wrapper gap from Typography and Layout |
With Full-width cards on, the suggestion carousels keep their inset, so they still read as something set apart from the posts.
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.
Everybody’s photo opens their profile — the author of a post, anyone in the reactions sheet, and the author of a comment. The commenter was the one place on this screen a tap went nowhere; it now opens the same Profile the post author does.
Images. Posts with photos render them inline.
Albums. Creating an album in Ultimate Member - User Photos writes a post to the wall, and the app draws its photos as a gallery rather than as the row of thumbnails the extension bakes into the post body. Tapping one opens the album on its own screen, titled and with a back arrow, where each photo takes reactions and comments — see Photos.
Link previews. A post containing a URL shows a card with the page’s title, description and image, scraped when the post was created.
New events. With Post new events to the news feed on in Create Event or Events, each newly published The Events Calendar event is posted to the wall. The app draws it as a card with the event’s image, date and venue. View opens the Event screen, and Going answers its RSVP in place when the event takes RSVPs and they are open. The card always shows the event as it is now, with the member’s own answer.
Links route natively. A link to a post opens Single Post, a link to a member opens their Profile, and a link to another wall post opens its thread. Links in comments work the same way. A link with no matching screen opens in the in-app browser — see Links in posts.
Posts and comments can @mention members and carry #hashtags; a tapped tag opens Search on it. See Mentions and hashtags.
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 opens the in-app browser instead of an app screen | Single Post or Profile is not placed | Place them |
| New posts only appear on refresh | Realtime is not connected | Realtime |
| An event post shows a sentence and no card | The event was unpublished or made private, or the Events group is off | Publish the event, or enable the group |
| An event card has no Going button | The event takes no RSVP, its RSVPs are closed, or the Event RSVP group is off | Add an RSVP to the event, or enable the group |