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Using Pockets & Widgets to Enhance your Theme
Widgets (formerly known as “Modules”) allow you to easily add pre-built features to different parts of your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) site. Widgets are great for: customizing your layouts and pulling dynamic content into a page. This article provides an overview of all Vanilla widgets so that you can quickly determine…
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Leaderboard Widget
The Leaderboard widget is a great way to showcase the top contributors in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. These are the users who have earned the most activity-based points during a selected time period (daily, weekly, and monthly) as well as your all-time point earners! ✔️ TIP: This widget is a good tool…
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Help Center Home Widget
The Help Center Home widget is a great way to feature a Knowledge Base (KB) Help Center on a page (such as your homepage) in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. 📝 NOTE: Unlike some of the other widgets, you cannot add this widget to a page via Layout Editor. 📝 NOTE: You can feature only Help Center-style…
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Online Users Widget
The Online Users widget is a convenient way to display a list of users who are currently online in the community. The widget can be placed on any page of your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. The list of online users can be added in either of two ways; via the: Online Users widget, as a pocket option that is…
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RSS Feed Widget
You can use the RSS Feed widget to promote blog content and important news feeds in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. After you configure the widget with an RSS feed's URL, the thumbnails, titles, and descriptions are automatically populated from the feed. Set up the RSS Feed widget Open the Dashboard and…
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User Spotlight Widget
The User Spotlight widget is a great way to showcase select users in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. You can use it to: introduce your community team members introduce partners / special guests for upcoming webinars recognize thought leaders and super users recognize active members who are contributing in a…
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Discussion List Widget
The List widgets allow you to showcase content that is in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. Each list-based widget is dedicated to one of the following discussion types. List - Announcements List - Articles List - Discussions (see also Tabs Widget) List - Events List - Ideas List - Questions 📝 NOTE: You can…
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Featured Categories Widget
The Featured Categories widget is a great way to promote popular and important categories in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. When you put categories "front and centre," users are more likely to click into them. 📝 NOTE: The Location and Page settings of the host Pocket let you target specific pages — and…
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Tabs Widget
The Tabs widget is a great way to enhance a Discussion List widget by expanding it into a three-tab experience. The "tabbed" feature means that your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community users can more easily access more community content. Setting up the Tabs widget To use this widget in your site, you must add it via a…
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Featured Categories Widget Carousel
The Carousel feature is a great way to add an element of action to your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. Instead of your Featured Categories displaying as a static row in the widget, you can configure them to horizontally scroll! 📝 NOTE: The automatic horizontal scroll will become user-controlled (via left and…