Last Christmas whilst working on the Macmillan Cancer Support community, some of the team thought it decided to add a Christmas themed "Easter Egg" to the site. To start with I was skeptical, but within a few hours Kieran had put something together a...

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When you get Telligent Community content via the REST API, by default embedded content (such as Videos or Audio), isn't returned, instead it is replaced with a message such as "(Please visit the site to view this video)", the PostTarget parameter can be used to return the full content.

Often when writing code for use with Telligent Community you'll need to get hold of the current context from the content, for example the current Group, Blog or Blog Post, this can be accessed using the CurrentContext property.

Often when writing a blog there will be a standard piece of text, or link that you use in many blog posts, and end up copying and pasting between posts. This can become tedious and if you need to update the text is a lot of effort, this is where snippets can help. This is a feature that appears to have been around for a long time but I've not noticed before!

If you ever need the full URL when using Telligent Community this can easily be done with the AbsoluteUrl method, in either velocity or C#.

The latest version of Telligent Community adds open graph tags to the page by default, but doesn't add the tags required for Twitter to make use of those tags and show a preview of the content within the tweet. Easily enable Twitter Card support with this plugin.

If your anything like me, when developing with Telligent Community your likely to have many tabs open, Widget Studio, API Documentation, Developer Tools, and will be always jumping between them! Once the tabs are open this can work out OK, but as soon as you lose a tab, you have to click through the admin area to find the page you want. This is what triggered the creation of “Telligent Community Developer Shortcuts” extension…

We’ve been running the Telligent Community UK User Group for almost a year now, and I think we have now started to get the hang of organising them! As Telligent is a product used worldwide, and we are currently the only user group, we’ve ...

AWS provide an extension to Visual Studio to make interacting with your AWS services easy, including deploying to a Beanstalk environment, which is the recommended way of deploying to a Beanstalk. This works great, and if you are able to, you should obviously use the recommended approach, but there may be times you don’t have the extension available, or already have a build system setup to use Web Deploy packages. As…