Providing a Forum on my WordPress Blog

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  ceebucks · Member · Jan 3, 2012 at 4:20 pm

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  Can you please help with the following questions?

  1. I have a WordPress.com blog but I want to have a forum on the blog. Is this possible?

  2. If I need to migrate to WordPress.org in order to have a forum should I already have a hosted domain?

  3. Does WordPress provide hosting at WordPress.org?
  Blog url: http://whatzzinaname.wordpress.com/

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  evarlese · Member · Jan 3, 2012 at 4:24 pm

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  It isn’t possible to add a traditional forum directly to your WordPress.com blog. However, one option would be to link to a third-party forum via your site’s navigation bar:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  Alternatively, you can create a Forum page in which you can use comments as a type of forum (but you wouldn’t be able to create threads):
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/

  To use a self-hosted installation of WordPress, you’ll need to purchase hosting. We have hosting recommendations available here:
  http://get.wp.com/hosting/

  WordPress.com is the hosted version of the WordPress software. It’s not possible to have a self-hosted site on a WordPress.com blog. Instead, you need to purchase separate hosting and install WordPress yourself.