Creating a Forum

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  yorkrubin · Member · May 24, 2012 at 3:34 pm

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  Hi, I’m an officer in my local ASME chapter and recently we’ve been communicating via email, but that doesn’t work very efficiently.

  Basically we’re looking to be able to set up a forum that we can post a new topic in and then everyone can add to it via threads.

  Is it possible to do something like this on wordpress?

  Thanks!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 24, 2012 at 3:41 pm

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  There is no forum or wiki that you can embed into a free hosted WordPress.com blog as there is no FTP access and we cannot install plugins. You have three options: WordPress.com Forum Options

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  alicesusanharding · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 9:54 am

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  Id be very grateful if someone could explain this which is from the link above.

  “Register a forum on the internet and then create a custom menu in your blog and include a custom link to the forum in it.”

  I do have a custom menu and links, but I don’t understand why and how we need to create this to link to a forum and not just have an ordinary link listed with the other links? Would it be to list subjects?

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  alicesusanharding · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 9:59 am

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  It would be brilliant if someone could post a link to a blog that has one of these.

  Thanks!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 10:45 am

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  I don’t know any blog that has one, but it’s easy. Really, if you find hosting for a forum somewhere, anywhere, you can link to it in a Custom Menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

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  alicesusanharding · Member · Jun 6, 2012 at 6:11 pm

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  Thanks.

  I just don’t get what is the difference between just having a link to a forum and using the custom menu?

  Why can’t we just have a link, or in other words what is the benefit/purpose of using the custom menu?

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 6, 2012 at 6:16 pm

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  The custom menu has a link right on the top navigation bar when visitors click it they are in your forum. It’s smooth and unified appearance.

  I also explained how to do it here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/04/23/wordpress-com-forum-options/ and included the link to a custom menu walkthrough in it http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/11/wordpress-com-custom-menu-walk-through/