Wix Forum: Adding and Setting Up Your Forum

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With Wix Forum, it's easy to create an online community! Your forum members can join conversations, comment, share posts and much more — and it doesn't cost a thing!

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Step 1 | Add Wix Forum to your site

In order to get started, the first step is to add Wix Forum to your site.

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After you add Wix Forum, two main pages will be automatically added to your site:

Forum Page: Your main forum page, where forum posts appear.
Members Page: On this page, forum members can view other members of the community, follow each other, see what other members have written – even chat with one another.

Step 2 | Create a category

Categories are really important if you want to have a good well organized forum. Think about what you want forum to be, you can have a category about anything you want. Typically, categories are based on topics that are somewhat related to your site and spark interest and engagement amongst your forum community.

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Step 3 | Customize your forum settings

After you've set up some categories and created your main forum page, you can then take a look at customizing your forum settings. This will allow you to shape your forum to how you want it. You can customize your general forum settings as well as the layout, display and design of your forum.

Layout

Note: There are two layouts to consider — the main page layout and the post page layout.

Click the Wix Forum app in your Editor.
Click Settings.
Click the Layout tab.
Customize the main page layout settings:
- Choose a Main Page layout (option available if you display categories on your forum):
  - Classic: An organized, classic layout, better for forums with lots of text.
  - Cards: A beautiful masonry layout to showcase posts.
- Show subcategories: Click the Show subcategories toggle to enable or disable subcategories
  - Enabled: Any subcategories you've created will be shown on your main forum page.
  - Disabled: Any subcategories you've created will be hidden from your main forum page.
- Show header: Click the Show header toggle to enable or disable it:
  - Enabled: A header is displayed on the main forum page.
  - Disabled: No header is displayed on the main forum page.
- Header height: Drag the slider to change the size of the header.
- Header text alignment: Choose to have your header aligned to the left or to the right:
  - Left: Displays header text aligned to the left.
  - Centered: Displays header text centered.
Click the Post Page tab to customize the post page layout:
- Choose a Posts Page layout:
  - Classic: An organized, classic layout, better for forums with lots of text.
  - Cards: A beautiful masonry layout to showcase posts. If you selected the Cards layout, click to select a card size.
- Show header: Click the Show header toggle to enable or disable it:
  - Enabled: A header is displayed on category pages.
  - Disabled: No header is displayed on category pages.
- Header height: Drag the slider to change the size of the header.
- Header text alignment: Choose to have your header aligned to the left or to the right:
  - Left: Displays header text aligned to the left.
  - Centered: Displays header text centered.

Display

Design

There are four elements of design to consider — navigation menu, text styles, icons and buttons, and background and borders.

Click the Wix Forum app in your Editor.
Click Settings.
Click the Design tab.
Click the Navigation menu tab to customize the navigation menu settings:
- Fonts and icons: Click the color box to choose a color for your fonts and icons.
- Background opacity and color: Drag the slider to change the level of opacity, and click the color box to choose a color for your background.
Click Back.
Click the Text styles tab to customize the text styles settings:
- Title: Click the Expand icon to customize the title style of the header.
- Description: Click the Expand icon to customize the description style of the header.
- Post text color: Click the color box to choose a color for your post text.
- Title: Click the Expand icon to customize the title style of the post text.
- Description: Click the Expand icon to customize the description style of the post text.
Click Back.
Click the Icons and buttons tab to customize the icons and buttons settings:
- Button text color: Click the color box to change the button text color.
- Button opacity and color: Click the color box to select a button color and drag the slider to change the opacity.
- Corner radius: Drag the slider to change the corner radius.
- Links and hashtags: Click the color box to select a color for your links and hashtags.
- Comment icon colors: Click the color box to select a color for your comment icons.
Click Back.
Click the Background and borders tab to customize the settings for the background and borders:
- Forum background: Drag the slider to change the opacity, and click the color box to select a background color for the forum.
- Posts, categories, and sidebar background and opacity: Drag the slider to change the opacity, and click the color box to select a background color for your posts, categories, and sidebar.
- Posts, categories, and sidebar border color and opacity: Drag the slider to change the opacity, and click the color box to select a border color for your posts, categories, and sidebar.
- Border width: Drag the slider to change the width of the border.
- Corner radius: Drag the slider to change the corner radius.
Click Back.

Next Steps

When you're ready, take a look at the following articles to help build on what you've already put in place. Learn more about:

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