Skip to Main Content
Blogging For Dummies, 7th Edition
book

Blogging For Dummies, 7th Edition

by Amy Lupold Bair
September 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
416 pages
10h 38m
English
For Dummies
Audiobook available
Content preview from Blogging For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 15

Leveraging Community with Forums

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Differentiating between comments and forums

Bullet Deciding whether to use free or paid forum software

Bullet Finding the features you want

Bullet Installing forum software

Bullet Establishing community guidelines

Imagine your blogging career five years into the future. Your blog has thousands of visitors every single day. Comments are being left on your blog posts by the hundreds every hour. A blogging career couldn't get any better, could it? You've reached the big time! People love you!

But wait! You also have a problem: You can't keep up with the conversation, and now that you think about it, a lot of your contributors are talking to each other. Although you love reading what they have to say, these conversations aren't really directed at you anymore. One possible solution to this awesome dilemma is to add a forum to your blog. On the Internet, a forum — which might also be called a message board or bulletin board — is software that permits date-sorted ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Side Hustles For Dummies

Side Hustles For Dummies

Alan R. Simon
Blogging For Dummies®, 4th Edition

Blogging For Dummies®, 4th Edition

Susannah Gardner, Shane Birley
Affiliate Marketing For Dummies

Affiliate Marketing For Dummies

Ted Sudol, Paul Mladjenovic

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781119588054Purchase book