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#TipTuesday: Your Next Content Idea Is Hiding in Search Analytics
Ever stare at your content calendar and think, “What piece of content should we prioritize next?” Your community members may already be giving you the answer and one of the best places to look for content ideas is in Search Analytics, the Searches without results chart. When members search your community and their searches…
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#TipTuesday Your Pageviews Jumped – What’s Really Going On?
Picture this: you sit down with your coffee (or Celsius!) and open your community’s dashboard. Whoa? That’s a big jump in page views! Before you add that new number to your executive reporting let’s dive in and understand what might be going on. Recently, GrettaKraus started a discussion about noticing an uptick in…
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#TipTuesday: The API isn’t just for developers 💡
Community Managers can use Vanilla’s API for everyday tasks too, and you can test requests directly from your Dashboard without writing any code. Head to Settings → API Integrations → API v2, choose an endpoint, and use Try It to see the results right in your community. This can be useful when you need to: Look up…
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#TipTuesday: Less Clicking, More Creating ✨
Hi Vanilla friends!👋🏼 Time for another episode of #TipTuesday where I plan to show you a super helpful shortcut that can save you a few clicks when updating your community. Ever open a community page, spot something you want to change, and then wonder which layout controls it? Vanilla’s admin bar can save you a few clicks!…
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#TipTuesday: Show off your roles with the Role Titles addon
Hey, Success Community! Another Tip Tuesday coming your way, this time from your friendly Vanilla Support team. Have you ever wanted to display a user's role(s) next to their username on posts? Well, good news! Roles Titles is one of our more popular addons and it accomplishes just that. I'm here today to explain how that…
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#TipTuesday - Governance: The Rules, Roles, and Decisions That Can't Remain Unspoken!
Governance is the overall framework that describes how a community is managed. Most communities have some form of Terms and Conditions or Guidelines. These are the member-facing policies within governance, but often, they are the only written component. Without clearly defining how potential violations should be handled,…
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#TipTuesday: Help Your AI Replicator Build Better Vanilla Widgets
You ask the computer for something simple. “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” And instead of a perfectly reasonable cup of tea, you get… a lukewarm smoothie in a soup bowl with a garnish of CSS errors. That is sometimes what it feels like to ask AI for “a quick widget.” You might give it what sounds like an easy request: “Make me a…
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#TipTuesday: Create an Onboarding Widget That Helps New Members Take Action
Hello Vanilla friends! 😎🍦 Welcome back for another edition of #TipTuesday. One of the biggest challenges in any community is not getting someone to register. It is getting them to take that first meaningful action after they arrive. If a new member lands in your community and does not know where to go, what to click, or…
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#TipTuesday: Add a Little Spring Magic with an Emoji Spray Widget 🌺
Spring is a great time to add a little personality to your community. In this #TipTuesday example, we’ll build a lightweight emoji spray that blooms across the discussion page when a member opens it. The effect is decorative, reusable, and configurable. You can use flowers, leaves, stars, butterflies, confetti, or any…
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#TipTuesday: A Faster Way to Troubleshoot SSO
SSO issues can be frustrating, especially when some people can log in and others cannot. One important thing to remember: there are at least two possible sources of the problem—the Vanilla platform and your identity provider (IdP). Before opening a ticket, gather these four details: Who is affected? Is it one user, a group…
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#TipTuesday: Success Advisor or Support?
A field guide for those "Who do I ask?" moments You have a community question. Excellent! But where should it go? Should you contact your Success Advisor? Open a Support ticket? Search the knowledge base? Here's how to get your question to the right team, and get to an answer faster. The 10-Second TestASK YOURSELF: Am I…
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#TipTuesday: The Answer After the Answer - Turning Solved Questions into Community Gold
You know that beautiful community moment when someone asks a question, another member swoops in with the perfect answer, everyone breathes a sigh of relief, and the whole thing feels wrapped up with a neat little bow? Amazing. Beautiful. We love to see it. But then what happens? Too often, that helpful answer drifts…
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#TipTuesday: Give Your Best Answers a Second Life
Accepted Answers are valuable—but only if members can find them. Every few months, review your most-viewed solved discussions. Ask yourself: Is the accepted answer still accurate? Could it benefit from additional context? Does it link to newer documentation? Should it be converted into a knowledge base article? Keeping…
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#TipTuesday: Use Category Descriptions Like Tiny Tour Guides
Happy #TipTuesday Everyone, Category descriptions are easy to overlook. They sit quietly under a category name, usually only a sentence or two long, and because of that they can feel like “set it and forget it” text. But those little descriptions can do a lot of heavy lifting. Think of them as tiny tour guides for your…
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#TipTuesday - Category, Tag and User Following
Never Miss What Matters: Personalize Your Community Experience with Following One of the greatest strengths of a thriving customer community is the wealth of knowledge being shared every day. New discussions, product updates, feature ideas, best practices, customer success stories, and expert advice are constantly being…
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#tiptuesday Using AI to Generate Better Test Variants, Faster
In an earlier Tip Tuesday post, I gave tips for getting started with testing in your community. You can read the full post here. One of the hardest parts of A/B testing isn't running the test... often it's coming up with variants to test in the first place. Writing multiple versions of a banner headline or your CTAs can…
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#TipTuesday: Mark an Accepted Answer when your question is solved
Q&A is one of the most commonly used features in many communities. Members rely on it to ask questions, get help, and learn from others who may have run into the same situation. Because Q&A is so active, it is worth the occasional reminder: when a question has been answered, marking an Accepted Answer helps turn that…
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#TipTuesday: Make Member Conversations a Regular Habit
I was well into my career as a community builder before I realized the value of intentionally setting aside time to talk directly with members — by phone, Zoom, or even in person when possible. It’s easy to get caught up in moderation queues, analytics, and content calendars. But some of the best community insights come…
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#TipTuesday - Brand-driven Ideation programs: the not so scary alternative
Ideation programs can be intimidating, and many community teams shy away from implementing them. Sometimes, it's because they feel they won't get buy-in from the Product team, or they think the initial support will eventually fade away. Especially in large communities, teams may also fear receiving a high volume of ideas…
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#TipTuesday: Workshop your big ideas in public first
A lot of content gets made in isolation. You have an idea for a webinar or conference talk, you start outlining, and by the time anyone outside your team sees it, you're already deep into production. Before you commit to the bigger piece, try posting the core thesis or take somewhere your audience can react to it. Maybe…
