Add a Forum in WordPress

Want To Forum To Your Site?
Having a forum on its website can be greatly useful, it allows you, in fact, provide support if you are a business, display ads by theme, classify topics on a given subject and many others things. You probably already know the solutions to add a forum to your CMS Rather, I mean the classics:

They each have advantages and disadvantages, they are more or less complex to implement, sometimes translated, sometimes customized to perfection, yet despite these solutions I had not yet found my happiness. Since I discovered Mingle...

I will present here, that I consider the easiest and most enjoyable: Mingle Forum, bringing together several advantages, it is:

As simple as effective
Totally manageable
Configurable wish
With many templates
Translated into French

Waaaaouh after all the rave qualifiers it is better for me it is up to the expectation aroused, Let's start with the end, here is the result Mingle with a suitable forum for this site, with full- (without sidebar) and with the addition of a template:

Now that you have seen what it looked like, here in a few steps: the benefits, features and simplified installation procedure.

Install Extension Mingle Forum

Seek Mingle Forum and install the extension on your main menu WordPress then you will find the “Mingle Forum " sub- menu to customize your forum in every detail. Make your settings, categories, groups, and configuration options.

Immediately Create Your Forum

Once you 've polished your settings and determined the different sections of your forum , simply create a new page, name it as you wish and add : [ mingleforum ], allowing the insertion of the Forum on your page. Here it is online! Easy, no?

Key Features and Options Mingle

Integrate blog posts automatically in the forum
Manage usernames and administrators
Define a user level (beginner, advanced, etc.)
Receive an email with each new entry
Show avatars in the forum and show signatures
Create an RSS feed of forum
Set whether to register or not to publish
Use a captcha
...

Skins & Templates To Mingle

In its basic version Mingle is already full, the only catch blue degraded. Fortunately, there are free skins that can be installed very easily, this appointment on the Mingle forum (in English text), browse the topics to research the template of your choice and follow the instructions carefully facility provided by the author.

Here it is finished, I hope this post has given you want to try this fabulous tool called Mingle; I remain at your disposal if you need help...

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Following the disappearance of Mingle Forum plugin from WordPress.org, please find below the original extension tested by me (in zip format). To install from the menu: Extensions > Add > Upload

Thursday, October 3, 2013