How To Add A Free Forum To Your Blog !

 

Forums are entirely different from blogs. Forums let your readers interact with each other, create new topics/discussions and some of them even moderate the forums along with you.
 

1. Forum from Wikipedia.
2. The popular Digital Point Forums
 

A few weeks back, even I started a forum - STK-Forum

STEP #1:
Create and publish a new  page on your blog, exclusively for a forum. :
Goto Posting--Edit Pages-New Page
As an example, check out my forums-static-page Click Here

STEP #2:
Create a new forum at Nabble: Free Forums at Nabble [You will do this within 5 minutes]
Copy the HTML code... Click here to Create

 

STEP #3:

Go to Blogger Dashboard -> Design -> Edit HTML and mark the tick-box "Expand Widget Templates".

STEP #4:
Find (CTRL+F) this code, in your template: 

<div id='content-wrapper'>

If you are not able to find the above mentioned code, then find (CTRL+F) this one 
(for new templates made for Blogger Template Designer)

<div class='columns fauxcolumns'>

And immediately ABOVE/BEFORE it, paste the code you got from Nabble, with this ADDITIONAL code

Replace### with Your Forum URl and

Replace *** With Your Nabble Embeded Code

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "###"'><br />***<br /></b:if>

STEP #5:
Save your temaplate.


STEP #6:
This step will HIDE everything from your blog (post content, sidebar widgets etc.) and ONLY forum will be visible in your forum-page.

Find this code in your template:

</head>

And immediately ABOVE/BEFORE it, paste this code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "###"'><br /> <style type='text/css'> #content-wrapper { display:none !important; } .columns, .fauxcolumns { display:none !important; } </style><br /> </b:if>

Replace ### With Your Forum Page URL

That's it, a new forum on your blog is ready.

Now, Invite your readers and friends to join you at your forums.