Managing widgets and feed wall views
Manage widgets across feed walls
The widget area appears on the right side of the feed wall across My Feed, Community Wall, and Spaces. These widgets help surface important updates and provide quick access to relevant activity while members browse feed posts.
To configure widgets, use Manage Widgets at the bottom of the widgets area.
There are two kinds of widgets available:
- System default widgets, such as Ongoing Townhall, Announcements, Upcoming Events, Trending Tags, and Leaderboard
- Custom widgets, which you can create using Create New Widget
From Manage Widgets, you can enable or disable the available system widgets. You can also create custom widgets based on your needs.
The following widget types are supported:
- HTML for rich text content with links and embedded elements
- Link for quick navigation to important resources
- Poll to collect quick opinions from members
Widget permissions depend on where you are:
- In My Feed, members can manage widgets for their own view. They can enable or disable the default widgets and create only Link widgets.
- On the Community Wall, only the community’s superhost and hosts can enable default widgets and create custom widgets.
- In Spaces, space admins can enable widgets and create custom widgets for the corresponding space. Hosts also have access there.
After enabling or creating the required widgets, you can organize them by dragging and dropping them into the required order in the widget list.
This helps ensure that the most important widgets appear first and that the widget area matches the needs of the audience viewing that feed wall.
Use feed filters and sorting
Use the All filter on the feed wall to categorize posts by type, such as:
- Conversations
- Links
- Videos
- Announcements
- Events
- Questions
- Ideas
- Polls
- Others
The Others group can include auto-generated feed posts for Town Hall and live broadcast sessions.
Use Sort to arrange feed posts by:
- Recent Activity
- Newest First
Set the default Feeds view
- Click the three-dot menu at the bottom of the left navigation panel, then select Set Default View.
- Choose whether the Feeds module should open on:
- My Feed
- Community Wall
- Click Save to confirm the choice.
Restore deleted posts
Use Deleted Posts from the bottom-left three-dot menu to restore deleted posts and comments on the Community Wall.
You can:
- Restore individual posts and comments using the post-level three-dot menu
- Use Multi-select in the header to select multiple posts or comments for restoration or permanent deletion
Only the community’s superhost and hosts can restore posts removed from the Community Wall.
Collapse the layout and use Community Wall apps
To create more browsing space, click the Collapse button at the bottom-left of the sidebar. This opens a menu with three options for hiding parts of the left navigation independently.
- Hide main menu — Hides the app icon column on the far left, keeping the extended navigation panel visible.
- Hide extended menu — Hides the expanded text navigation panel, keeping only the app icon column visible.
- Hide all menus — Hides both menus entirely, giving the feed wall the maximum available space.
Once a menu is hidden, the Collapse menu updates to show the corresponding Show option. You can restore either or both menus at any time.
You can also hide the widgets panel on the right side of the feed wall to give conversations and updates more room.
The Community Wall can also include linked apps such as:
- Manuals: Manuals help members browse ebook-style content and articles with embedded media.
- Events: Events brings in-person sessions, video conferences, live broadcasts, and Town Halls into one calendar view.
- Web Tabs: Web Tabs lets members access external webpages without leaving the community environment.
Next: Continue with Using insights and administration in Feeds in Zoho CommunitySpaces to review analytics, manage Community Wall settings, invite members, and configure permissions.