Thursday, 13 June 2013

Adding A Fourm To Blogger

Create a forum

  1. Go to Nabble.com and register.
  2. Select Start a Free Forum.
  3. Enter your forum name inside and click Create Forum.
  4. Click Yes, create sample sub-forums button.
  5. To add a sub-forum go to Options > Structure > Create a new sub-forum.
  6. Once you’re satisfied with the results, click Embedding Options link on top right corner.
  7. You will see a simple code in a text box, similar to the sample below.
    <a id="nabblelink" href="http://n3.nabble.com/Blogger-Sentral-Forum-xxxxxx.html">Blogger Sentral Forum</a>
    <script src=http://n3.nabble.com/embed/xxxxxx></script>
  8. Copy the code.

Embed the forum in a page

  1. Go to Edit Posts > Edit Pages and click New Page button to create a new page.
  2. Switch to HTML mode and paste in the forum code.
  3. Click Publish. That’s it your forum is installed.
  4. Now, view your page. You should see the forum added to the page. It will look something like this:
blogspot forum before
Hey, you call this a forum?


Customize the appearance of your forum page

I have to agree looking at screenshot, it is nothing to brag about. You probably wish  you could remove all the unnecessary stuff from the page and make the forum fill up the entire blog width.
Well, wish granted, provided you follow the instructions in Apply different layout/styling to static pages. When you’re done with that, your forum page might as well look something like this:
blogspot forum after
Now that’s more like a forum


Forum features

  • The forum comes with all the features similar to any other forums.
  • Readers will browse, search, post, and navigate without ever leaving your page. The same applies to forum maintenance.
Enjoy!

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