CREATE A FORUM ON YOUR BLOGGER BLOG
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Talha Farooq
May 31, 2013, 3:33:43 AM5/31/13
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What is a forum?
Forum is a plateform on your blog where visitors can interact with each
other and discuss different hot topics. You can also push your desired
topic to the forum for getting comments and diverse ideas on it. If you
have a smart traffic then it is quite possible that you place questions
on daily basis for the potential visitors to answer, thus your forum
simultaneously converts itself into a huge frequently asked quesions
section "FAQ" which is offcourse a free teasure for new bloggers. Forums
also give your visitors an open social atmosphere to express their
useful ideas and share other's ideas. In this brief article i have
explained simple steps to add a forum to your blog. If you are able to
involve your visitors into really cool topics, this forum becomes a jet
propelled engine for your blog.
This article is specially useful to bloggers who run free blogs on
bloggerblogspot. Because blogger doesn't allow free bloggers to create a
sub-domain and hence a free forum.
How to set up a forum?
Following are two different ways of setting up a forum.
(a). Create a forum inside a blog.
(b). Convert a whole blog into a forum.
(a). Create a forum inside your blog(you can say a forum page).
1. Sign in to your blogger dashboard, create a static page specially for a forum and publish it. If you are new to blogger and dont know how to create a static page instantly, check my article on how to create a static page.
2. Now go to Nabble and create a free forum, you can create a forum within 3 minutes. Copy the html code of your already created forum and paste in notepad.Now at this stage i really need your proper attention.
3. Copy the follwing code, paste it somewhere inside the notepad and replace BLOGGER-DOCTORS with the code you got from Nabble. Also replace the red coloured forum page url with your own forum page url. After replacing these two codes let's say this code is named as final code.
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://bloggerdoctors.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html"'>
BLOGGER-DOCTORS
</b:if>
4. Now back to blogger dashboard, go to Template>>Edit html>>Proceed (Check on the expand widget box on the top left). Press Ctrl+F and find any of the following two codes.
<div id='content-wrapper'>
or
<div class='columns fauxcolumns'>
5. Paste your final code in the third step, above/before any of the above codes and save the template.
6. This is final step. Search for this </head> code and just above/before it paste the following code. Dont forget to replace the red url with your forum page url.
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://bloggerdoctors.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html"'>
<style type='text/css'>
#content-wrapper {
display:none !important;
}
.columns, .fauxcolumns {
display:none !important;
}
</style>
</b:if>
<style type='text/css'>
#content-wrapper {
display:none !important;
}
.columns, .fauxcolumns {
display:none !important;
}
</style>
</b:if>
Save the template and you are done. A new forum is by now created on your blog, just enjoy it.
2. Convert a complete blog into an online forum.
If you want to convert a complete blog into a forum, you can easily do it by now. Go to the respective blogs dashboard, click on Template>>Edit html>>Proceed.
1. search for <body> and replace all the codes between two <body> tags with the final code in the 3rd step. Do it for all <body> tags. See the snap.
Save your template and by now your blog is converted into an online forum. Hope you like the article. Keep visiting for other cool topics and hacks.
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