Key Features of Group Communities Plugin
Get this plugin and create community of Groups on your website with robust features of this plugin.
The most exciting feature of this plugin is the Group Feeds Display in Main Feed. You can choose to enable the feeds to be displayed to members only from the Group they have Liked, Followed, Joined or marked as Favourite on your site.
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GroupsShow More
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Group Joining and Memberships ExtensionShow More
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Attractive 4 Design Templates for Group ProfilesShow More
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Attractive 7 Design Views for Groups in Various WidgetsShow More
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Group Photos & Albums Extension (Free Extension)Show More
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Group RolesShow More
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Call To Action ButtonShow More
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Cross-PostingShow More
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Multi-PostingShow More
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Multiple LocationsShow More
Group Communities Plugin Pages & Features
This plugin comes with various Pre-configured Pages. You can configure, enable / disable feature and pages to make it perfect for your website.
Group Welcome Page
Group Home Page
Group Pages
Group Category Browse
Category View Page
Group Create
Group Browse Locations
Group Profile β Design 1
Group Profile β Design 2
Group Profile β Design 3
Group Profile β Design 4
My Group
Featured Groups
Verified Groups
Sponsored Groups
Hot Groups
Group Browse Pinboard
Group Album Home Page
Group Browse Albums Page
Group Welcome Page
Groups
This plugin provides almost all the functionality which you will need to create community on your website.
Easy creation of Groups, 7 View Types, Easy to manage Robust Dashboard, multiple locations, Group Roles, Insights & Reports, manage notifications, Group advertisements, manage apps, etc features will enable you to have robust and very powerful community system on your website.
This plugin is very thoughtful, robust and has many features that will help you to create communities on your website.
Groups have very attractive, nice and elegant 7 design views to be chosen from.
For all the views, various settings like height, width, count of Groups, etc are available in the Layout editor in admin panel.
Set Welcome Page as Landing Page
Welcome page of this plugin can be set as Landing Page of your website. This is helpful when you want a community based social networking site. You can later configure the Landing page as per your requirements.
Group Main Menu Redirection
Group main menu can be redirected to – a) Group Welcome Page, b) Group Home Page, or c) Group Browse Page, so that you can easily configure the plugin as per your siteβs idea.
Text for Groups
You can choose Text and URL for the word βgroupβ and βgroupsβ. You can use group for any other purpose on your website easily like Restaurants, Projects, etc.
Photo Height & Width
You can choose the resize height and width for the photos being uploaded in the groups on your website to maintain the quality of photos.
Display Group Owners Name and Photo or Hide Their Identity
You can choose to display who created Groups on your website or simply choose to hide the identity of the owner of Groups.
Hide / Display Group Contact Details to Non-logged In Users
Group Owners can enter their Contact details – Website, Phone number and Email Id. So, you can choose to hide / display these information to non-logged in public users.
Locations
You can choose to enable locations for Groups.These locations can simply be displayed or an attractive Get Direction popup can chosen to be displayed on their clicks from admin panel. You can also enable Multiple Location based on Member Level settings.
Group Feeds Display in Main Feed
You can choose to display the Group Feeds intelligently in the Main Feed on your website by enabling the feed display to users only from the Groups which they have Liked, Followed, Joined or marked as Favourite.
Integrate Like & Follow Buttons
Integrate the Like & Follow buttons for Groups such that when a user will Like a Group, then he will automatically Follow that Group and vice-versa. This will help you increase popularity of Groups on your website.
Allow to Enable / Disable Auto-Approval of Group Posts
You can choose to allow Group owners to enable or disable auto-approval of posts in their Groups. Doing this will enable them to moderate all posts made to their Groups.This moderation can also be done by members who have permissions as per their Roles in Groups.
Default Photo for No Group Tip
When people try to search for Groups on your website and they do not find anything in the search results, then you can choose to display the No Group tip along with an attractive image. Pictorial representation of non-availability of Groups will make the message look better to your members instead of only text.
Receive New Group Alerts on Additional Emails
You can enter any number of emails to receive the alert updates of new Groups created on your website.
This will help you to receive updates on multiple emails without having any need to create a super admin or admin account with the emails.
Featured Groups
Groups can be marked as Featured on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with Featured highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
Sponsored Groups
Groups can be marked as Sponsored on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with Sponsored highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
Hot Groups
Groups can be marked as Hot on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with Hot highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
Verified Groups
Groups can be marked as Verified on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with Verified highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
Verified Groups have more user trust and belief for the genuinity on a website.
Intelligently Displayed New Groups
Groups can be chosen to be shown as New on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with New highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
This label will be placed intelligently and can be automatically set to be removed after admin configured days from their creation date.
Group Of the Day
Groups can be marked as Group Of The Day on your website and can be highlighted in Group Of The Day widgets making it different from all the other Groups on your website.
You can choose the start and end date for each group to be shown as Group Of The Day on your website, so that you do not have to manually remove them as of the day.
Favorite Groups
Users can be allowed to mark Groups on your website as their Favourites.
Follow Groups
Users can be allowed to Follow Groups on your website such that they will get all updates of the Groups they follow.
Join Groups
Users can be allowed to Join a Group on your website and become members of the Groups.
You can enable / disable this feature from admin panel.
Follow Group Categories
You can enable users to Follow the Group Categories such that whenever a new Group is created in the Followed category, users will be notified via notification and email.
7 Attractive Views for Groups
With this plugin, you get 7 different and attractive views to display Groups on your website.
Group Services
Groups can have their own services which Group Owners can easily enter from their Dashboards. They can also enable / disable this Tab from layout editor.
Sharing of Groups
Users can be allowed to share Groups within your website and on other social networking sites.
They can also share the groups directly to their feeds or send the Groups in message to their friends on your website.
Reporting Groups
Users can be allowed to report Groups on your website.
These reports can be easily seen by you from admin panel and appropriate actions can be taken from there only. Integrated with the SEβs core Abuse Report feature.
Approve / Disapprove Groups
Groups can be approved / disapproved to be shown on your website. From Member Level settings, Groups can be chosen to be auto-approved or manually approved.
Group Creation
Group Creation via Popup or Page
You can enable the creation of Group via page or popup.
Visibility of each field in the popup or page can be separately chosen. The creation via popup can help you in easy and quick creation or Groups on your website and thus can increase user engagement.
Choose Category Before Creating Group
You can enable users to choose the categories before showing the Group create form. Category selection in first step can be more better as users will see all profile fields based on the category selected and this seems more appealing look wise also.
Category Photo Display While Group Creation
There are 3 types of photos for categories in this plugin. The photos are differentiated based on their colors and size. You can choose to display any of these 3 photos while Group creation.
Create Group from Categories Only
You can choose to enable creation of Groups from the Categories View only like Facebook.
If enabled, users will be able to fill the necessary information for Group creation from category boxes only.
Custom URL
Group owners can choose custom urls for their Groups and you can allow them to even Edit their custom urls from the dashboard of their Pages. This will help increase the SEO of your website as the custom url slugs are more SEO friendly.
4 Options For Group Profile Page Layout
There are 4 options to be chosen for the profile page layout of the Groups. You can choose to enable Group owners to select the profile page layout for their Groups based on their member levels.
Each profile page has its own widgetized page, so you can configure them from admin panel easily.
Add Multiple Questions to your Group
The group owner have the authority to add multiple questions to his group which he can ask to his members when they want to join groups on your website.
The answers to these questions will be confidential only with the Group Owners until it get approved by the him. It makes joining of groups more secure.
Add Group Rules
This new feature enhance the quality of Groups on your website. Group Owners are allowed to add Rules for their groups at the time of its creation.
This will maintain the quality and genuinity of your groups so that everyone should be aware of the constraints before uploading any content in your groups.
Membership Approvals
You can allow group owners to choose new members to immediately become members of their Groups or wait for their approval when new members join their Groups.
If you do not allow Group Owners, then you can also choose default approval of members in Groups on your website.
Member’s Title Make Member’s Title Mandatory
If membership is enabled, then you can allow group owners to choose title for the members of their Groups.
If you have a specific community system, then you can also choose Default titles for members of Groups on your site. E.g. Music Artist, Blogger, Painter, Dance Lover etc.
Location
Groups can have Google suggested Locations based on the settings configured from admin panel.
City, State, Zip Code and Country fields are auto detected based on location chosen which Group owners can edit. Venue and detailed address can also be entered for the location.
Multiple locations can be entered from Dashboard.
Price
Groups can have their own prices. If you have a product based listing for the community, then you can choose to show prices for them. But, if the community is for businesses, restaurants, or any other thing where fixed prices are not applicable, then you can choose to show the Starting Price.
Group Owners can also choose the price type – Price or Starting Price for their Groups.
Auto-Approve Posts
From the Global settings of this plugin, you can choose to allow Group Owners to enable / disable auto-approval of posts in their Groups. The feed will display on the posted date in their Group timelines regardless of whenever the post is approved.
This feature will enable Group Owners from stopping spamming on their Groups.
Group Categories, Custom Fields and Make it Mandatory
Categories in Groups can be made mandatory, so that all the Groups on your website are associated with a category. This will help in better searching of the Groups on your website.
When user does not fill the category, and try to save the group, they will be scrolled to the category field with an error displayed to fill mandatory field without leaving the page.
You can also choose to not make categories as mandatory.
Enable Group Description & Make it Mandatory
You can enable / disable the description of Groups in your website. If enabled, description can be chosen to be mandatory or not.
If description is mandatory and user does not fill the description, and try to save the Group, then they will be scrolled to the description field with an error displayed to fill mandatory field without leaving the page.
Main Photo & Make it Mandatory
Main photo can be enabled / disabled based on the Member Levels on your website & if Main photo uploading is enabled, then you can also choose to make the main photo mandatory for the Groups on your website.
If main photo is mandatory and user try to save the Group without uploading it, then they will be scrolled to the main photo field with an error displayed to fill mandatory field without leaving the page.
Create Group Form Type
You can choose the design of the Group Create Form or Popup to be Advanced design or SocialEngine default form design.
Both the forms are fully compatible with all the 3rd party themes which have been developed following SE coding standards.
Both forms will adapt the colors of your website as per the activated theme.
Guidelines
In the advanced design of the Group create page, you can enter some guidelines to create Group which will very nicely and attractively show in a Sticky box.
This box will get stick to the right side of the create page even when users scroll down the Group create page.
This will make the Group creation more attractive, easy, useful and user-friendly.
Redirection After Group Creation
Users can be redirected to Group View Page or Group Dashboard after their Groups are successfully created.
This can be useful if you want quick Group creation on your website by keeping very fields in creation form & then redirect users to dashboard to complete all other details and information about their Groups.
Associated Sub Group
Group owners can allow who can create Associated Sub Groups in their Groups. You can choose which all options should be available to owners based on their Member Levels.
Tagging Groups
Group Owners can enable other users to tag their Groups in their status updates.
This feature is dependent on βAdvanced News & Activity Feeds Pluginβ.
Network Based Group Display
Group owners can choose the Networks to which their Groups will be displayed on your website.
Tags / Keywords
Each Group can have its own Tags / Keywords which will help in better searching of the Groups on your website. Already existing tags will show nicely via an auto-suggest box, so that you do not have redundant data on your website.
These tags can be shown in attractive Tag cloud or Tag list on your website. Clicking on each tag will show Groups using the same tag. Tags also have their own Browse page for specific search of Groups.
Integrated with SE Tags.
Group Invitations
You can enable invitation to Join, Like and Follow Groups on your website.
You can also allow group owners to choose to enable / disable Invite feature for their Groups.
This feature will help you increase the popularity of Groups among the members on your website as Group owners can get more audience for their Groups which in turn also increase user engagement on your website.
Auto-Open Advanced Share Popup
When a Group is successfully created, then a popup can be shown to share the Group on various other social networking sites and on your website as well. Users can share the Group on their wall, message to their friends, etc from this popup.
This will work on both the View Page and the Group Dashboard, so wherever you choose the redirection, this Popup will work.
People can search for this Group
You can allow group owners on your website to choose if people can search for their Groups on your website or not. This will help them choose the visibility of Group in Global search on your website and make it non-searchable in case, the Group is for limited audience only.
View & Comment & Album Upload Privacy,
Group Owners can choose the view privacy, comment privacy and photo albums upload privacy for their Groups on your website. This will help them choose the audience for their Groups. You can select the privacy options based on the Member Level of the group owner for each type.
Group Status – Published & As Draft
Group Owners can choose to save their Groups in Draft until they are sure to Publish them on your website.
To do so, they can choose to save their Groups as Draft and later on change the setting to Publish whenever they are ready to Publish their Group.
Group Dashboard
Group Communities plugin has a very robust and feature rich Dashboard. You can easily configure it from the Admin panel of your site. All the features can also be made available based on the Member Levels.
With Group Roles, you can choose to enable Group owners to give access to Dashboard of their Groups. Group Roles will only be able to access the features based on their Roles.
Group Dashboard Comprise of Manage Group, Group Promotions, Manage Apps, Group Community Styling and Insights & Reports. All these sections are explained below.
Manage Group
Group Owners can edit their Groups and configure various features for their Groups from this section.Settings which can be configured for this section are:
- Edit Group
- Locations
- Contact Information
- Cross Post
- Group Roles
- Manage Notifications
- Group Rules
- Operating Hours
- Category Based Profile Information
- Transfer Ownership
Group Promotions
Group Owners can configure the promotional settings in this section. The settings contain everything related to contacting Group members, advertising Group, managing Group, etc. Below is a list of settings in this section:
- Contact Group Members
- SEO
- Overview
- Linked Groups
- Advertise Group
- Manage Announcements
Manage Apps
Group Owners can easily manage what apps / tabs to show in their Groups from this section. They can also add Services to their Groups. Features will display here based on the Member Level settings and dependent modules.
- Group Apps
- Services
Group Directory Styling
Group Owners can also configure the design for their Groups easily by uploading main photo, background photo, CSS styling and choosing the display of their Groups as in below settings.
Group Owners can also choose Cover photo from the Group View page.
- Main Photo
- Background Photo
- Design Views
- Css Style
Insights & Reports
Insights and Reports are very important for any business. So, this plugin provides Group Owners all the necessary tools to checkout the insights and reports of their Groups.
- Insights
- Reports
Group View Page
This plugin has very attractive 4 profile page design options. 20+ widgets to be placed on the Group View pages and configure different layouts for each profile page.
Attractive Cover Photo
3 Pre-configured designs available for cover photos where in you can choose the tabs to be shown inside / outside of the cover photo. The cover photo can also be shown in Full View. You can configure the widget as per your design needs.
Profile Tips
When users have not uploaded Profile Photo, Cover photo and Location, then tips to suggest Group owners to upload these elements in their Groups are shown very attractively.
Group Main Photo & Vertical Tabs
Cover photo can also be displayed with Main Photo Vertical Tab container, such that these are shown on the vertical side of the Cover photo to make the design just Like Pages on Facebook have.
Group Announcements
Group Owners can post announcements for their Groups which are nicely shown on their Group profiles.
Announcements help them to update their members, followers and other users.
Crosspost
Crossposting is a way to share status feed across multiple Groups. Crossposting can only happen between Groups that have added each other.
Group Owners can add other Groups on your website to their Groupβs Crosspost. Once crosspost request is accepted by other when a Group owner post any update, then that post is posted from the Crossposted group as well.
This increase more user engagement among users on your website.
Multi Post – Post to Multiple Groups
Group Owners can choose an update to be post on multiple other Groups they own. This way, a single post can be made to display on other Groups and Sub Groups as well.
This will encourage users to create more Groups as they can popular more Groups on your website with single Post only.
This feature requires βAdvanced News & Activity Feeds Pluginβ on your website.
Contact Information
Group owners can add their Name, Email, Phone number, Facebook URL, Linkedin URL, Twitter URL, Website URL so that people can reach out to them and find their real existence.
As per the settings from admin panel, these contact details are displayed to non-logged in users also. When non-logged in users will click to view the details, they will be smartly prompted to login into the site first.
Associated Sub Groups
Groups can have their own Associated sub groups which are also shown in a separate section.
If a Group is an associated sub group, then it shows the details about its Main parent Group very nicely.
Multiple Locations with Photos
Groups can not only have locations, but also multiple locations. Each location can have its title, address, venue, etc location details.
Group owners can also upload multiple photos for each Group location.
CTA – Call To Action Button
Group Owners can configure CTA – Call To Action Button for their Group according to their Group concept and requirement. The process of adding CTA is very easy, smooth and user-friendly.
Once CTA is added, other users via the Group, the button works easily for them with 1 click and as configured by Group Owner.
Group Services
Groups can add their Services which are very nicely and cleanly displayed on the Group profiles. Unlimited services can be added from the Group Dashboards with titles, descriptions, photo.
Service rates can also be entered per hour or per minute duration.
Groups Liked by This Group
Groups can also Like other Groups. These likes Groups are nicely displayed on the Group profile.
Groups can also easily Unlike their Liked Groups.
Operating Hours
Groups can update their Operating hours. Working hours, holidays, always open availability or closed status – everything is shown on Group profiles.
People Who Acted on this Group
Users can easily view the members who have Liked, Favorited or Followed the current Group.
This will help increase users trust and thus bring more user engagement on your site.
Featured, Sponsored, Verified, New & Hot Labels
Group Labels can be displayed in cover photo or separately in this widget providing you full control over what you display and how you display various labels in Groups on your website.
Similar Groups
With similar Groups widget, you can easily choose to show similar Groups based on their categories or tags matching to the current viewing Group. This will help in displaying Groups of users interest to them.
Advance Share
Advance share is available to enable users to share Groups on various other social networking sites, in site message, quick share in feeds or via Tell a friend in email.
Profile Tags
Shows tags of the Groups being viewed for better information display and searching.
Information
Displays information of the Groups being viewed in clean and attractive UI.
Ownerβs Photo & Name
You can choose to display Group Ownerβs photo & Name on Group profiles.
Info Sidebar
You can choose to display contest information in sidebar.
Like button
Group Like button can be displayed in cover photo or separately in widget providing you full control over what you display and how you display various option in Groups on your website.
Follow Button
Group Follow buttons can be displayed in cover photo or separately in widget providing you full control over what you display and how you display various option in Pages on your website.
Join Button
Group Join button can be displayed in cover photo or separately in widget providing you full control over what you display and how you display various option in Groups on your website.
Favourite Button
Group Favourite button can be displayed in cover photo or separately in widget providing you full control over what you display and how you display various option in Groups on your website.
Group Roles
Groups can assign Roles to allow other members to manage, moderate, promote their Groups and give access to configure various features of their Groups. Each Page role will have access to the authorized feature only.
Invite Members
Members of your website can invite their friends to Groups. All invited members will receive an invitation to checkout the Group and they can then Like, Join, Favourite and Follow the Groups. This will increase user engagement on your website.
Photo Albums
Group owners can upload albums to their Groups. owners can choose to enable / disable the display of Albums on their Groups from Page dashboards. Each album can have photos in it and has a separate View page for it and its photos.
Photos will open in very attractive Lightbox in which photos can even be zoomed-in and out.
Group Overview
Group owners can enter overview about their group from the dashboards which will be attractively shown in the Group Overview widget on Group view page.
Overview will help Group owners to explain about their Groups in detail by entering the description in Rich WYSIWYG Editor. They can also upload photos, videos, etc to the overview.
Group Joining & Members
Groups can be joined and this have members. Users can simply click on Join button to join Groups and become members. Group members can anytime leave the Group.
Profile Options
You can choose to enable the profile options in the cover photo or display them separately via the Profile Options widget. With this plugin you have all the flexibility and control on what you display.
Group Joining and Memberships Extension
With the Free βGroup Joining and Memberships Extensionβ, Groups on your website can be joined and have members. With this Joining feature, a new βGroup Members Onlyβ privacy option is also available. Using this privacy you can restrict Commenting, Associated Group creation, Album Upload privacy, etc to the members of Group only.
Auto-Join Page
You can choose to enable / disable Page owners to auto-join the Pages after Page creation on your site.
Members Moderation
Page owners can choose new members to immediately become members of their Pages or wait for their approval when new members join their Pages.
Memberβs Titles
Group Owners can decide what their members be called. They can choose both Singular and Plural titles for members in their Groups. For example: dancer, dancers, developer, developers, etc.
You can choose the titles from admin panel of this plugin for members in all Groups on your site.
Member Level Based Joining
From the admin panel of this plugin, you can easily choose members belonging to which Member Level will be able to Join Groups on your website.
Members who do not have permission to join Groups will not see the Join button with Groups on your site.
Enable Invitations in Groups / Add Members
You can enable users to invite other members in Groups on your website. Invited members can choose to Join, Like, Follow or mark Groups as Favourites.
If enabled from admin panel, Group owners can choose to allow members to invite other people to their Groups or not.
Manage Members
Group owners can manage Members of their Groups in a separate Members widget available on the view page of Groups.
You can configure the settings for member display from the admin panel and by editing the widget from Layout Editor of your site.
Attractive 4 Design Templates for Group Profiles
This plugin has inbuilt 4 design Templates for the Profile pages of the Group Communities on your site.
Member Level Based Template Choice
From the admin panel of this plugin, you can easily choose members belonging to which Member Level will be able to select view page design for their Groups. You can also choose to enable all or few design templates to each level.
Design Views & Widgetized Pages
Each of the 4 design views has a separate own widgetized page which can be easily edited from the admin panel >> Layout Editor.
Members who have permission to choose design templates will see the option in their Group Dashboards.
Attractive 7 Design Views for Groups in Various Widgets
This plugin have very attractive, nice and elegant 4 design views to be chosen from:
1) Grid View,
2) Advanced Grid View,
3) List View,
4) Pinboard View,
5) Plain Grid View,
6) Advanced List View and
7) Map View. For all the views, various settings like height, width, count of Groups, etc are available in the Layout editor in admin panel.
Group Photos & Albums Extension (Free Extension)
Group Photos & Albums Extension enables you to have Albums and Photo in the Groups on your website. This extension offers options for viewing Albums and Photos in various different views. It is 100% responsive. You can add albums, upload photos via 3 options – Drag & Drop, Multi Upload and From URL. There are Numerous widgets to choose from that assists us make the view more presentable.
Photo Albums Home Page
Widgetized Photo Albums page with various widgets to display photo albums from various Groups on your website.
Photo Albums
Group Owners can create any number (admin configurable) of photo albums into their Groups. Each Photo Album can be Liked and members can post comments on them.
Browse Photo Albums Page
Widgetized Browse Photo Albums page with various widgets to display and search photo albums of various Groups on your site.
Photos
Group Owners can upload photos via 3 options – Drag & Drop, Multi Upload and From URL in their Group Albums.
Each Photo can be Liked, marked as Favourite or Downloaded.
Advanced Lightbox for Photos
Photos can be viewed in Advanced Lightbox with the option to view photos via AJAX Lightbox viewer without having to leave the page. Few features of Advanced Lightbox are:
- AJAX Lightbox Viewer shows photos instantly.
- Zoom-in and Zoom-out for Photos
- Photos can be viewed in Fullscreen.
- Photos can be viewed in Slideshow.
- All photos of the album can be viewed in the bottom of lightbox with 1 click.
- Users can easily navigate to next and previous photos via keyboard and mouse.
Inbuilt Social Sharing Options
This extension has an in-built sharing option using which a photos and photo albums can be easily shared on:
Site share option in Lightbox enables users to easily and quickly share photos on your site and thus also brings more user engagement on your site.
Rich Admin Panel Settingss
This extension enables you to enable / disable Albums Upload in Groups based on the Member Levels of the Group owners on your site. You can also choose the album upload options to be displayed to group owners while creating groups.
You can easily Manage Albums by viewing them, editing and deleting them from the admin panel. You can also mark them as Featured and Sponsored from the admin panel to be displayed in various widgets on your site.
Highly Configurable Widgets
This extensions comes with various widgets:
- Photos – Album View Page Options
- Photos – Browse Albums
- Photos – Popular Albums
- Albums View Page Breadcrumb
- Photos – Tabbed widget for Popular Albums
- Photo View Page Breadcrumb
- Photo View Page Options
- Photos – Recently Viewed Albums
- Photos – Album Browse Search
- Photos – Album Home No Album Message
Group Roles
Groups can assign Roles to allow other members to manage, moderate, promote their Groups and give access to configure various features of their Groups. Each Group role will have access to the authorized feature only.
As admin with Group Roles, you can choose to enable Group owners to give access to Dashboard of their Groups.
Pre-defined 5 Group Roles
This plugin comes with 5 pre-defined group Roles – Group Admin, Moderator, Marketers, Editor, Contributors. You can easily modify the permissions given to each role (except Group Admin) from the admin panel of this plugin.
Unlimited Group Roles
With pre-defined Group roles, you can also create any number of Group Roles and provide access according to your requirement from the admin panel of this plugin.
With each role, you can enter its Description which will be shown to Group owners and choose access to be given to that role.
Member Level Based Group Roles
You can choose to allow Group owners to assign Group Roles in their Groups based on their Member Levels.
Assigning a Group Role
Group Owners can assign new Group roles from the Dashboard of their Groups. They can also remove a member or edit Group roles from their Page dashboards.
Cross-Posting
Crossposting is a way to share status feed across multiple Groups. Crossposting can only happen between Groups that have added each other. Group Owners can add other Groups on your website to their Groupβs Crosspost. Once crosspost request is accepted by other so when a Group owner post any update, then that post is posted from the Crossposted group as well.
Member Level Based Crossposting
You can choose to allow group owners to add other Groups for Crossposting with their Groups based on their Member Levels. Enabled member levels can add other Groups on your website to Crossposting.
Crossposting in Groups
When enabled from admin panel, Crosspost feature will be available in the Group Dashboard. Once Group owner tries to add a Group to crosspost, a notification for request will be sent to the owner of the Group. As soon as the request is approved, crosspost between both the Groups will get enabled.
Multi-Posting
Multi Post – Post to Multiple Groups
Group Owners can choose an update to be post on multiple other Groups they own. This way, a single post can be made to display on other Groups and Sub Groups as well.
This will encourage users to create more Groups as they can popular more Groups on your website with single Post only.
This feature requires βAdvanced News & Activity Feeds Pluginβ on your website.
Member Level Based Multi Posting
You can choose to allow Group owners to post updates from their Groups to multiple Groups based on their Member Levels.
Enabled member levels can choose their Groups for posting same post to multiple Groups on your site at once.
Multi-Post in Groups
When enabled from admin panel, Multi-post feature will be available in the Group activity feeds status box. Group owners can select Groups from the option available in the status update box. As soon as the post is made, the same post will publish on all the Groups selected for multi-posting.
Multiple Locations
Groups can have Google suggested Locations based on the settings configured from admin panel. City, State, Zip Code and Country fields are auto detected based on selected location. Multiple locations can be added to groups.You can also configure each location manually by entering the address, pincode, photos, etc for each location.
Venue and detailed address can also be entered for the location. Multiple locations can be entered from Dashboard. You can also make any location as Primary location for your Group.
Enable Location
Locations can be enabled / disabled from the Global Settings in admin panel of this plugin.
You can choose to make Locations mandatory for the Groups on your site and also select the Proximity Search Unit for searching Groups based on their locations.
Get Direction Popup
This plugin has a very attractive Get Directions Popup using which users can easily find the directions to the location of Groups on your site. From the Global Settings, you can choose to enable / disable the opening of locations in Get Direction popup on clicking the Location of Groups in various places and widgets.
Member Level Based Multiple Locations
You can choose to allow Group owners to add multiple Locations to their Groups based on their Member Levels. Enabled member levels can add multiple locations to their Groups from their Group Dashboards. They can also enter various info for each location like photos, etc.
Locations and Various Configurations
With option to have multiple location, each location can have various settings and options:
- Location
- City
- Zipcode
- State
- Country
- Venue
- Address
- Photos
Also, Page Owners can choose a Primary location for their Pages which will be displayed at various places and widgets on the site.
Location Photos
In this plugin each location can have unlimited photos. Group owners can add locations from Group Dashboards.
Uploaded photos will be displayed on Group View page in the Locations section. Photos are shown in attractive photo strip and users can easily navigate left / right in the strip.
When users click on photos, these are displayed in attractive lightbox there only without having to leave the current Page.
Location Display in Groups
There is a separate widget to display locations in this plugin on Group View Page. You can configure the widget according to your requirements.
Locations are displayed attractively with a small map, all details and photos in attractive photo strip.
If Group owner has entered Multiple locations, then all will be displayed in this widget nicely one below the another horizontally.
Users can also View Map for the location from this widget only.
Extensions
- Group Videos Extension
Group Videos Extension enables you to upload Videos in the Groups on your website. - Group Communities β Packages for Allowing Group Creation Extension
With this Extension, you can allow the members of your site to create Group only after subscribing to at-least one of the packages which can be made β Free or Paid. You can make any number of Free and Paid packages by providing different features in each package according to your requirement. - Group Short URL Plugin
With this extension, Group Owners are allowed to create short User friendly URLs for their Groups which are easy to access, remember & share by the website visitors. - Group Verification by Members Extension
Group Verification by Members Extension enables your Groups to get verified by other members on your site. A badge is added to the Groups by Its Visitors and Users which will maximize the trust by its users and eliminates fake users and even increases the credibility also. - Group Polls Extension
With this extension ask various types of Poll questions related to the groups on your website. Users can have the choice for voting with Multiple Answers. Anytime a user can change the vote for Polls if required. - Group Team Showcase Extension
Group Team Showcase extension helps you to add team members to your group with their names, designations, short descriptions, Email ID, Phone Number, social profiles link with smooth hover effects and many more. - Group Forums Extension
Group Forums Extension allows your users to post topics, questions, replies, solutions, liking or disliking a topic. Here, users can share their views, ideas, suggestions, opinions in the form of group topics or topic posts. - Groups Joining Fees & Payments System Plugin
Group Joining Fees and Payment System Extension help your users by providing a source to make money from their groups on your website. They can set a fee to enable joining groups and make money. In return you can charge commissions from the group owners, which again can be a new source of income for you from groups.
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Manley Richard (verified owner) –
Great plugin it working find on my site and the developer is doing a great job.
SocialEngineSolutions –
Thanks Manley!