Comments on: 6 Tips on Adding a Forum to Your Blog

By: adetsordela

adetsordela — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:54:25 +0000

Hello,

Like 2 days ago I was thinking about posting more often here so I decided to give it a try and
leave my confort zone and start to listen like when I was younger so from now on I promise to be part of all this, I will try to do my best to give
the best of me… I dont want to stop things here let’s carry on with what we were doing… Anyone else thinks like me? … too much wine

By: TheogeFuh

TheogeFuh — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:09:23 +0000

Good day!
I found an awesome and resourceful Christian site at http://www.dayofsalvation.com which has a good community, and most importantly the message of Jesus!
P.S. I found a Guide to Salvation.
May the Lord be with you!

By: ioffersearch001

ioffersearch001 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:35:57 +0000

Hii Frend!,..

I’m leaning toward bbPress and Vanilla, which are capable of that. vBulletin would be more secure (or at least feel like so) and it definitely has more features. But, I haven’t found any article on stable WordPress + vBulletin integration.

Ioffersearch.com Blogs – Just another Ioffersearch.com weblog

Thanks!,..

By: Oliver (ReThink)

Oliver (ReThink) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:37:06 +0000

Hi Darren, thanks for this excellent post. In the past week I’ve been thinking about creating a forum. But I’ve seen too many forums being started only to see them be stranded after a few weeks due to inactivity – and this might even drag down the whole site down with it, since people will be put off by the “unpopularity”.
I realize now that the preparation and the “grand opening” of the forum is crucial. And also to have reliable moderators once it’s up and running.
Cheers,

Oliver

By: Offer Readers New Ways to Connect with Your Blog

Offer Readers New Ways to Connect with Your Blog — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:06:17 +0000

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By: Knatchwa

Knatchwa — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:40:53 +0000

adele;

Perhaps it is simply the fact that the comments of most blogs serve about the same objective. That is in my opinion at least.

By: Knatchwa

Knatchwa — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:40:02 +0000

All of them good points and as I am just starting on this journey I am sure I will find the insight offered an invaluable resource.

By: adele

adele — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:16:50 +0000

Why don’t blogger have forum options intergrated?

By: Tony Webster

Tony Webster — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:26:42 +0000

I’ve got a small forum that I’ll be the first to admit hasn’t found a usage yet, but I like having it. Though my site is a gaming / anime site where perhaps having a forum is easier, I think any blog could benefit from one. Every blog has a target, and forums provide a place for on going discussions on the key topics.

By: Eskimosik

Eskimosik — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:13:54 +0000

Hail

What do you think about this? When it happens?

By: » We want to build a community behindthebuzz.com

» We want to build a community behindthebuzz.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:26:34 +0000

[...] us what they learnt from a failed first attempt and what they did differently. The second, from Problogger, adds a further 6 lessons from building up an online forum. Neither of these are from a corporate [...]

By: Adeq

Adeq — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:56:23 +0000

Awesome, man

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:38:00 +0000

I usde to run a forum for an Everquest Server (it was hosted here but was for the European community). It did well, and there were not many issues with trolls/spam etc.

I would love to admin a forum again, but I would put to to something with a more centered topic than that I do with my blog anyway.

Though alot of conversation I read on various blogs’ comments could easily be placed into a forum as well.

By: hillbilly

hillbilly — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:24:26 +0000

Hello.

Nice forum design. Okay, I need your help.
So, I wanna make online-store, and I am looking for site template.
Can you suggest some online store or other resource where I can find many site templates?

It would be better if it will be free:)
I think many of us have personal sites, do you design it yourself?

Thx, Bill.

By: Robert Brown

Robert Brown — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:22:42 +0000

Having managed fourms professionally (for RTÉ no less), I have learnt two very important things…

1 – Forums eat bandwidth like you would not believe. Optimise the layout ruthlessly.

2 – Even if you can manage to moderate the forum 24/7, problems caused by forum members fighting and trolls will forever haunt you.

I would also advise you to draft your own forum user agreement, don’t use the forum software default. For some reason people tend to adhere to a custom set of T&Cs more than a default one.

Some people can go very odd when they use a web forum.

Robert

By: DE

DE — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:26:19 +0000

Excellent points we started a forum on one of our sites and the increase in traffic was and is great.Folks can discuss and answer questions,just make sure the forum has the same theme as your site.Actually you don’t have to have a site just a host to point to your forum.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:20:22 +0000

John – not at this point, although it’s something I’ve thought long and hard about.

Joe – yeah – spammers could kill a forum, guess thats why I am hoping to recruit some good moderators to share the load.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:35:38 +0000

Hey Darren,
The one thing no one mentioned is the number of spammers who sign up for a forum and try to post about everything from drugs to porn.

I got so overwhelmed just in trying to weed them out, I finally closed my forum.

Maybe I was just using the wrong platform, but all my time was being wasted and the REAL members stopped showing up.

Joe

And yes, I did try all the normal ways of weeding, but my inbox ended up with hundreds of “applicants” a day.
J.

By: John Wesley

John Wesley — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:55:35 +0000

Is there any chance a ProBlogger forum is in the works? I think it would be a great addition to the community. Bloggers already come here to learn and share new ideas, a forum would really make communication easier, and let people ask questions you might not post about.

By: Bloganbieter.de

Bloganbieter.de — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:32:18 +0000

6 + 2 Tipps wie ein Forum erfolgreich in ein Blog integriert werden kann…

Je nach Größe der Blogleser Community kann die Integration eines Forums in ein Blog sinnvoll sein. Für WordPress bietet diese Funktionalität das Plugin WP-Forum, über dieses Plugin habe ich hier bereits geschrieben. Unter Problogger werden sechs T…