Forums

Introduction If you’re here, chances are you want to know how to build your own forums—and you’ve come to the right place! In this guide, we’ll jump straight in and get you started. We’ll walk through the basics of creating a fully working forum and show just how easy it is to set one up (yes, really!). By the end, you’ll have everything you need to start building forums that fit your community’s needs. First View When you first open the software, you’ll be greeted with a page similar to the ima

There are several global settings within the Forums application in the Admin CP that you may want to review. These settings apply to all member groups across the community. An overview of these sections is explained below, along with an overview of what the available settings control and how they affect your forums. Forum Settings The first set of options are the 'Forum Settings'. These control how forums behave and are displayed outside of individual topics, affecting the overall forum browsing

Within each individual forum in the Admin CP, you’ll find a range of settings that apply specifically to that forum. These allow you to fine-tune how the forum is defined, displayed, and used by your members. You can configure the core details of the forum, such as its name, description, and type, as well as adjust how it appears within your overall forum structure. In addition, there are usage-related settings that control how members interact within that forum—for example, whether they can pos

Collections allow you to group multiple forums together under a single, reusable name. Rather than selecting the same forums individually each time you configure a feature, you can create a collection once and reuse it throughout the Admin Control Panel. This is particularly useful when you have related forums, such as support, sales, or regional discussion areas, that are frequently targeted together. For example, you could create a Support Forums collection containing all of your support-relat