Forums are better places to share your ideas and make conversations with each other to share knowledge. Webmasters use these forums to get backlink in addition to share their knowledge. But most people don’t know how to make a forum for free in blogger. Even though it is simple and easy they are not aware of how to add a forum for blogger. Because of this I thought to show the trick how to make a Forum for a blogger blog.
This is a screen shot of my forum (click on the image to enlarge)
Look at My FORUM HERE
Let me explain the procedure;
1. First go to your blogger DASHBOARD >> NEW POST >> EDIT PAGES
2. Click on NEW PAGE
3. Give the title as FORUM
4. Publish it without typing anything inside the post (blank post)
5. Then copy the URL. It will be like this http://yourdomain.blogspot.com /p/forum.html keep it in a side
6. Now visit the following URL to create your forum
7. Now fill the relevant information and register. You need to verify your email once you registered by going to your email inbox
8. Now you should create your forum there
9. After creating your forum you should take the embed code. To get the embed code go to OPTIONS >> EMBEDDING OPTIONS
10. Copy the embed code
11. Now come back to blogger DASHBOARD >> DESIGN >>EDIT HTML
12. Find the code below by pressing CTRL+F on your key board
<div id=’content-wrapper’>
13. Now copy and paste the following code just above the code you searched for in step 12.
<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == “YOUR FORUM URL“‘>
EMBED CODE FROM NABBLE
</b:if>
14. Replace the “EMBED CODE FROM NABBLE” in above code with the embed code you copied at step 10. And replace the “YOUR FORUM URL” with your forum URL which you kept in a side in step 5.
15. Now search (CTRL+F) the following code
</head>
16. Then paste the following code just above the code you searched for in step 15.
<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == “FORUM URL“‘>
<style type=’text/css’>
#content-wrapper {
display:none !important;
}
</style>
</b:if>
17. Now replace your “FORUM URL” with your forum URL which you kept in a side in step 5.
18. Now SAVE TEMPLATE and enjoy by looking at your new forum
Well, I think you got the trick and manage to make your own Forum. Oh, I forgot to tell you some templates don’t have a code which I mentioned in step 12. If so find the following code
<div class=’columns fauxcolumns’>
Then paste the code in step 13 just above the <div class=’columns fauxcolumns’> code.
Then copy the following code and paste it just above your </head> tag
<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == “FORUM URL“‘>
<style type=’text/css’>
.columns, .fauxcolumns {
display:none !important;
}
</style>
</b:if>
That’s it for today. Now you have a great forum to attract more regular visitors.
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Wow admin.thank you sooooo much…it works for me………thanx a tonnnnnn……love u and your site
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Its my pleasure to help you