Adding forums to your website is a great way to get more user interaction and
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increase community engagement on your
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website. This article
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provides you with steps to make a forum where your user can create content and interact with each other. Let’s get started.
From Admin CP> Apps> Forum> Manage forum> clicking on Add forum will come a op to pop up below:
1. To create a main parent forum, just fill in the following element:
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Again click on Add forum, but this time in the Parent Forum field, select a forum that you want this sub-forum to be inherited. We selected Travel as an example of a parent forum.
On the Manage forum page, you can see Asia created as a sub-forum of Travel.
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Okay, now we know how to make a main Forum and sub-forumchild forums. It’s time to add some toptic to your Forum by creating Threads. From user fornt end> Forum> user front end> Forum> click on a category you want to add content. On the next page, click on the green button to create new thread.
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Next, on it takes you to the page editor ,as shown in the below screenshot.
Title: whatever give your thread a name or topic disscussion you topic discussion you prefer
Content: provide text content for your postdiscussion topic in the text editor
Type: You can also set different thread types
- Thread: normal
- Sticky: they the thread will stay at the top of the forum no matter how many much new topics threads have been added
- Sponsor:
Closed: The status of any thread you create can be open and closed. Closed A closed thread means anybody can see the post topic but they can’t post a new reply to it.
After all, click update to finish.
3. Manage forum:
In the Manage Forum tab, you can click on the name of a parent/child forum to do the management of forums.
By clicking on the name the pop up comes with the following options:
- Edit Forum: edit the Forum details such as Name, Description, status...
- View Forum: view the Forum from the front-end.
- Add Child Forum: create a child Forum
- Manage Moderators: assign moderators who can edit and make changes for the forum.
- Manage Permission: Select a user group to assign special permissions for this specific forum.
- Delete Forums: remove the forums that are no longer needed.