How to Customize Your Community Settings
Learn to update your user profile information, adjust your notifications, add social links, create a Community guideline, and more by customizing your Kajabi Community settings.
In this article:
- Update your Community Settings Details
- Update your Community Email Notifications
- Update your Community Features
- Update your Account Settings
- Update your user profile name
- Update your Community name and description
Update your Community Settings Details
In your Kajabi Community Settings Details, you can:
- Add social links to your Community sidebar
- Create a Community guideline members must accept to join
- Update your member and moderator aliases
Accessing your Community Settings
There are 2 places you can click to access your Community Settings page: the ellipsis icon at the top right corner of your cover photo and the profile icon at the right of the top navigation bar:
In this guide we'll use the ellipsis icon. Please use whichever access point you prefer.
Add social links to your Community sidebar
You can add icons in your Kajabi Community sidebar linking out to your TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and more.
To add social links to your Community sidebar:
- Click the ellipsis icon on your cover photo, then select Settings.
- Then, in the left sidebar select Details.
- On the Community Details page, navigate to the Social Links section.
- Click + Add social link.
- Then, select which type of social link icon you'd like to add.
- Enter your URL in the new social link field that appears.
- Click Back to community to view your new social link:
Create a Community guideline members must accept
You have the option to create a guideline detailing your expectations for participation in your Community. Your guideline will be presented to new members to accept before they can join. Existing members will only see it if a new guideline is created.
To create a Community guideline:
- Click the ellipsis icon on your cover photo, then select Settings.
- Then, in the left sidebar select Details.
- On the Community Details page, navigate to the Community Guideline section.
- Click + Create Guideline.
- Add a Title, optional custom Image, and Description for your guideline.
- Click Back to community to view your new guideline popup:
Update your member and moderator aliases
Prefer not to use the terms "Member" and "Moderator" to describe your Community participants? You can choose to assign a different alias for these terms in your advanced settings.
To update your member and moderator terminology:
- Click the ellipsis icon on your cover photo, then select Settings.
- Then, in the left sidebar select Details.
- Navigate to the end of the Community Details page and click Advanced.
- Update your member and/or moderator alias as desired by overwriting the default terms.
- Click Back to community to view your changes:
Update your Community Email Notifications
Choose which types of email notifications your Community members receive and add your own branding and business information to your Community emails.
To enable or disable each type of member email notifications:
- Open your Community.
- Click Settings.
- Select Email Notifications.
- On the “Email controls” tab, click each toggle on or off as desired to enable or disable notification emails for Channels, Challenges, Meetups, Live Rooms, and Announcements. A black toggle means that a setting is on, and a gray toggle means that a setting is off:
You can also adjust the email notifications within each Community feature at a more granular level. Learn more about how to customize your Community email notification controls.
Select the “Email Customization” tab in your Email Notifications settings to update the branding and footer information that appears on your Community email notifications:
Learn more about how to customize your Community email branding and footer info.
Update your Community Features
Enable or disable the following Community features:
- Allow direct messages to founder
- Live Room is always open to join
- Member directories are visible
- Show the community leader
- Customize reaction terminology
Allow direct messages to founder
Disable or allow your community members access to start new direct messages with the account owner. Existing conversations will remain open.
To update your Community members' access to start new direct messages with the account owner:
- Click the ellipsis icon on your cover photo, then select Settings.
- Then, in the left sidebar select Customization.
- Navigate to Communication.
- Toggle on or toggle off Direct messaging with founder to update your preference:
Live Room is always open to join
Allow your Live Room to stay open even when you haven't started the Live Room, or disable it to only open when a leader, admin, or ambassador starts the Live Room.
To update your Live Room settings:
- Click the ellipsis icon on your cover photo, then select Settings.
- Then, in the left sidebar select Customization.
- Navigate to Engagement Tools.
- Select your desired Live room access setting.
- Then, click Save to keep and apply your changes:
Member directories are visible
Allow or hide your member directories in the Community and Channels. If disabled, only the leader, admins, and/or ambassadors can see the member lists.
To update the visibility of your member directory:
- Click the ellipsis icon on your cover photo, then select Settings.
- Then, in the left sidebar select Customization.
- Navigate to Communication.
- Select your desired setting for Member directory.
- Click Save to keep and apply your changes:
Show the community leader
Choose whether or not to allow your Community members to view the Community leader’s name and profile photo.
To update the visibility of the Community leader:
- Click the ellipsis icon on your cover photo, then select Settings.
- Then, in the left sidebar select Customization.
- Navigate to Communication.
- Locate Founders profile.
- Select your desired setting:
- Visible to members
- Hidden to members
- Then, click Save to keep and apply your changes:
Customize reaction terminology
Customize the emoji terminology your Community members can use to react to feed-style Channel posts, Channel post comments, and Challenge entries.
Only the thumbs-up emoji can be used to react to Challenge entries. However, the custom label you assign to this emoji will appear alongside it in all locations (Channel posts/comments and Challenge entries).
To update your emoji labels:
- Click the ellipsis icon on your cover photo, then select Settings.
- Then, in the left sidebar select Customization.
- Navigate to Customize reaction terminology.
- Use the text input field next to each emoji to enter a new label as desired:
Learn more about how to create custom reactions for your Community.
Update your Account Settings
In your Kajabi Community Account Settings, you can:
- Update your profile photo
- Add social links to your profile
- Share details about your interests
- Enable or disable push and email notifications
Update your profile photo
To update the profile photo that appears in your Kajabi Community:
- Click your profile icon at the top right to open the options menu.
- Select Account Settings:
- On the Edit Profile page, navigate to the Profile Photo section.
- Place your cursor over your Main Picture and click Add photo:
- Select your new photo in the file uploader.
- Click Save to apply your changes:
Add social links to your profile
To add your social media account links to your Kajabi Community user profile page:
- Click your profile icon at the top right to open the options menu.
- Select Account Settings.
- On the Edit Profile page, navigate to the Social Links section.
- Click + Add social link.
- Then, select which type of social link icon you'd like to add.
- Enter your URL in the new social link field that appears.
- Click Save to apply your changes.
- To view your changes, click Back to community, then click your profile name in the sidebar to open your profile page.
Share details about your interests
To add information about your personal interests to your Kajabi Community user profile page:
- Click your profile icon at the top right to open the options menu.
- Select Account Settings.
- On the Edit Profile page, navigate to the Interests section.
- Complete the relevant fields with the personal information you wish to share (i.e. your location of origin, favorite pastimes, job, goals, etc.).
- Click Save to apply your changes.
- To view your changes, click your Community Title in the top left, then click your profile name in the sidebar to open your profile page.
Enable or disable push and email notifications
You can choose to mute or unmute both push notifications and email notifications for your Announcements, Challenges, Channels, Meetup Reminders, Live Room Alerts, and Direct Messages.
To enable or disable your notifications:
- Click your profile icon at the top right to open the options menu.
- Select Account Settings:
- Then, in the left sidebar select Notifications.
- Click the toggles next to Push Notifications and/or Email Notifications to adjust as desired for each Community feature (when the toggle is gray, notifications are off; when the toggle is black, notifications are on):
- Click Save to apply your changes.
Learn more about how to customize your Community notifications.
Update your user profile name
The user profile name that appears next to your personal profile photo in your Kajabi Community is automatically populated with the account name you entered for your Kajabi account. In order to update your Community user profile name, you'll need to update your name in your Kajabi Account Settings.
To update your user profile name:
- Go to your Kajabi dashboard and open the Settings tab in the lower left sidebar.
- Scroll down to your Account Settings and select Account Details:
- Update your First name and Last name as you wish them to appear in your profile.
- Click Save to apply your changes:
Update your Community name and description
Your Kajabi Community name, description, and cover image can be updated inside your Community Product in the Kajabi app.
To update your Community name, description, and/or cover image:
- Go to your Kajabi dashboard and select the Products tab.
- Then, select Community.
- Click the Settings tab.
- Update the Title, Description, and/or Cover Image for your Community as desired.
- Click Save to apply your changes:
And that's how you can customize your Community settings! Please vote below and let us know if you found this article helpful. We value your feedback. Thanks for being the best part of Kajabi!