Setting up your community

The community page serves as your community's hub on Frankly. Engage new members and show what your community is about by setting your community's name, logo, branding, and more. Your upcoming events will be displayed here, along with community member posts and discussion.

To customize your community, click the gear icon and use the Profile tab to update your community's information, links, and branding.

A sample community page in Frankly, displaying a lineup of upcoming events along with other user interface elements.

Editing Your Community Profile

Click the settings icon to open Manage Community, then select the Profile tab. From here you can edit your community's Basic Information, Links, and Branding & Theme.

  1. Basic Information: Community Name (required), Community URL (the unique URL that appears at the end of your community's link — follows the format: app.frankly.org/space/your-display-name.You can additionally edit the Community Tagline, Community Description, and Contact Email.
  2. Links: Add a Website URL and links to your community's presence on Bluesky, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
  3. Branding & Theme: Upload a Logo and choose a color theme. Pick from Preset color schemes or create a Custom one. Click Save when you're done.

Basic Information section on a community’s Profile subpage in Settings.

Links section on a community’s Profile subpage in Settings.

Branding and Theme setting section on the community’s Profile subpage in Settings.

Configuring Community Settings

Open Manage Community and select the Settings tab.

Manage the following list of Community Settings*:*

Allow members to create events Enabled: Members will be able to create and host their own events using your community's templates Disabled: ****Only admins, mods, and facilitators can create and host events

Allow members to create templates Enabled: Members will be able to build and save their own reusable event templates Disabled: Only admins and mods can create templates

Require approval for new members Enabled: New members are gated and will be required to request to join the community. Admins can accept or deny join requests from the Members tab. Event participation will be restricted to approved members. Disabled: Anyone will be able to join the community without an approval process

Enable weekly email digests of upcoming events Enabled: All members receive a weekly email with all upcoming events, whether they have registered or not Disabled: No one receives a weekly email digest