How To Add A Free Forum To Your Blogger Blog

I will strongly recommend you too bookmark this page because in this post i will tell you how to add Forum in your blogger blog and adding a Forum in must for every blog with increasing readership.Today after a big research i found a trick through which you all are able to add a free forum in your Blogger blog.A Forum is important need of a blog for interacting with visitors or for increasing the readership of your blog.These forums allow your readers to create new discussions/topics on various things related to your blog and some of the visitors even moderate the forums along with you.

What is Forum.??

For knowing more about Forum read this article from Wikipedia.

First thing is in Blogger/Blogspot's we are not able to create a Forum and for creating a forum we have to purchase Hosting plans which is too costly.But adding Forum is not so difficult in blogspot or blogger blog.

With my some simple steps you are able to add Forum in your blogger blog.

I will provide you trick through which you are able to add forum in your Stand alone page see examples in below images.

How To Add Forum In Your Blogger Blog..

Step1.) First create a Stand alone page in your blogger blog exclusive for your Forum.For As an example check out my forums Static page.For creating Static page go to your Blogger Dashboard > click on Edit Posts > Now Click on Edit page and then finally click on new page and create a page add a specific title for your Blog's forum and leave description field blank.For example check out my telecom forum page.

http://www.emobilecharge.com/p/telecom-news.html

Step2.) Now create a Forum From Nabble: Free Forums at Nabble (You can do this in just 5 minutes)

Copy The HTML Code....

Step3.) Go to your Blogger Dashboard Click On Design > Edit HTML > now mark the Expand Widget Templates.

Step 4.) Now Search the code in Your Blog's HTML (Press CTRL + F for search bar for helping in searching code.)

<div id='content-wrapper'>

If you are not able to find the above mentioned code, then find this one (for new templates made from blogger template)

<div class='columns fauxcolumns'>

Step 5.) Now add the following code immediately Above/Before it, paste the code you got from Nabble, with this additional code (Highlighted in Blue and Red)

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == &quot;http://www.emobilecharge.com/p/telecom-news.html&quot;'>
PASTE_CODE_FROM_NABBLE_HERE
</b:if>

Note: Replace the code in Red color with the link to your forum page.

Step 6.) Now save your template.

Step 7.) Now if you want to show only forum on that page and hide all widgets, post content and only forum will be visible in your forum page.

Find the following piece of code.

</head>

Add the following code immediately Above/Before it, paste this code.

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == &quot;http://www.emobilecharge.com/p/telecom-news.html&quot;'>
<style type='text/css'>
#content-wrapper {
display:none !important;
}
.columns, .fauxcolumns {
display:none !important;
}
</style>
</b:if>

Note: Replace the code in Red with the Link to your forum page.

That's it a new Forum In your blog is ready.Now invite your readers and friends to come and join your new forum.

If you have questions and suggestions drop your comments below.