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[Karen Chrisman]

I'm needing to add an ability for a discussion on my blog for more interaction. Which one do I use in WP?

Karen

[Stacie Bennett]

Karen,

You actually have several options.

You can choose one of the popular forum scripts and place it in a directory on your site and link to it from your blog.

Or you can use a plugin made to add a forum to WP. You can find it at . As its name implies it is a simple forum. But it does a have many features you need in a forum. Matter of fact it is what we use for our support forum at Static Blogging.

[Karen Chrisman]

Is that what Lynn uses on ClickNewz?

[Stacie Bennett]

Karen,

I don't think Lynn has a forum on ClickNewz. I could be wrong, but I don't ever remember seeing one. Maybe Lynn will stop by and let us know for sure.

[Karen Chrisman]

I was just looking over the post Lynn did on 10 things every blog needs. It is #1. I'm checking out right now.

Karen

[Lynn Terry]

Hi Karen,

I dont have a forum on ClickNewz. I have commenting enabled, so that readers can leave comments on each post. The point you were referring to is a plugin to allow readers to subscribe to those comments, so that they get an email notification every time a new comment is posted. That way they can see when someone has responded to them, or someone else has commented on the same topic.



You already have commenting enabled on your blog - I see visitors leaving comments there. So all you need to do is install the plugin: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/

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[Karen Chrisman]

[Lynn Terry]

[Karen Chrisman]

Thanks, I'll think about it. I'm nervous when it comes to code.

Karen