Hi all — community manager, longtime lurker

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

Adding a small note: the same idea applies on mobile, just with a bit more attention to tap targets.

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.