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forum install in wordpress

by rhondaklewis
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Does anyone know how to install a forum(preferably smf) in a wordpress blog?
#forum #install #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Audrey Harvey
    You can't install SMF in a wordpress blog. But you can install SMF on your domain, and link to it from your wordpress blog.

    Say your wordpress blog is on the root of mydomain dot com.Use fantastico or softaculous to install SMF on your domain, for example at mydomain dot com/forum or my domain dot com/ chat

    You can then link to the forum url from your wordpress blog

    One way to do that is to make a page on your wordpress blog called Forum, and then install a plugin called "page links to"

    WordPress › Page Links To « WordPress Plugins

    This plugin allows you to link any page to any url, so when someone goes to that page, they're automatically redirected to the url.

    Then link that page to yourforum url. If you put that page on the menu bar of your Wordpress blog and people click it, they go straight to mydomain dot com/ forum

    Does that make sense? It's early in the morning here and I'm a bit bleary! :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author rhondaklewis
      Yes, makes perfect since. Thanks a lot. I am glad I asked before I tried it on my own.
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