WordPress and Forums

Posted by admin in WordPress, Blogging,... | 08.15.2010 - 12:41 am

There are a myriad of reasons why people create websites and put them online.  Some do it for fame and profit; others do it for passion and service.
No matter the reason you put your work and effort into an online endeavor there can come a time in the life of some websites that the comment system becomes inconvenient for discussions.
Now WordPress has done a lot to make it easier to follow along with discussions on a site based on that system.  The threaded comments option allows replies to be underneath the original comment that prompted the reply.  Even before it became an option in WordPress plugin developers were making it happen.
So when you want to take those discussions to their own piece of your website and create a forum what should you do?
Well there are quite a few options out there for forums and discussion boards.  Some have been […]

Original post by Richard Hay

    Technorati Tags:

    Comments (0)
    Read More

    WordPress Threaded Comments the Easy Way

    Posted by admin in WordPress, Blogging,... | 08.24.2009 - 5:25 am

    Comments are the incentives you get for writing a post and if you write good ones you are bound to get 100s and 1000s of comments on your posts.
    But wait not every comment on your blog is directly related to the post itself, there are times when commentators respond to other commentators, in short we call that a discussion.
    Flashback to WordPress 2.7, there was a new introduction in the form of threaded comments, this was done so that people on your blog can comment and respond to each other and communicate and discuss.
    Coming back to future, it has been so long and many users still do not have threaded comments on their blogs.
    Reason 1: Most of the WordPress users are not programmers and use themes created by others, so unless they use a theme that has support for threaded comments they don’t make use of that feature.
    Reason 2: Many users […]

    Original post by Keith Dsouza

      Technorati Tags:

      Comments (0)
      Read More