How To Create A Forum Using WordPress (2024) Tutorial For Beginners

How to make a firm using WordPress and totally for free in this step-by-step tutorial

I'm gonna be showing you how we can do this. So WordPress is a nice place to build almost anything, but unfortunately, it's a little bit

Expensive to do this. So if you want to do this totally for free There's one way that we can do this and with that being said I'm gonna be using Pantheon now Pantheon is a great place to

deploy websites really fast and it's gonna be telling you are showing you the CMS of

Different websites which in our case is gonna be WordPress and we're gonna be doing this totally for free

So with that being said guys, what I want to do is to get started totally for free So what I want to do is to go in to get started and of course inside Pantheon.io

What I want to do is to sign up with using all my information Enable the Pantheon terms of use and after that I'm gonna go into sign up

Once you have successfully done that and be showing you something like this now as you can see we have a site here

So if you don't have anything yet, because we since we are just getting started I'm gonna go into home and look out for create new site

So once I hit in here, I want to look out for my CMS site Which is the WordPress in my case and after that I want to create a username inside

Pantheon so you can start accessing here your own site. So here's your Pantheon site create the one that you want here

Here's my Pantheon development site URL hit into the region that best fits for you and after that hit into continue

It's gonna be taking a while. Let's say less than five minutes, which could be really really worthy

So what you have created that I'm gonna go back here. I'm gonna go and look out for my sites

So here into my size as you can see here's there's gonna be created. Here's my upstream my plan and my status

so what I want to do is to look out for site name and Here what I want to do now inside the dashboard of my website is to look out for the visitor development site

Which is down in here of development visitor development site So what you want to do is now to create an account into WordPress and once you are here into WordPress

What you want to do is to get started with the actual section So I'm gonna go into my dashboard and it'll be looking something like this

So as you can see, I'm now inside the actual section of WordPress

So what I want to do is to now get started with the plugins. So here into the plugins

I'm gonna go here and scroll all the way down into the left pod look out for plugins and look out for add new and

Here what I want to do is to look out for a plugin that can be helping me to create a

Actual blog a forum and that I can do that without coding. It'll be really really easy

So what I want to do here into search plugins of my keyword I'm gonna go for themes and it'll be popping up a lot of elements in my case

I'm gonna be using elements or now element search truly for free since we already have active the pantheon.io

so what you want to do is to go into the install now and Activate that once you have activated that could be showing you here into the left pod as you can see

It's down here with this element or so here into elements or what I want to do is to look out for the actual getting

Started. There we go So once we are here, which is welcome to the elements or I'm to go and scroll a little bit down and look out for

Create your first page. I'm gonna go for create your first page

I was gonna be sending me now into the editor, but now not from WordPress

But inside the element or plug-in so as you can see we're now inside here

So what I want to do is to get started with the new tools here

So for example, I could go into plus and I can add Basics pro plans and much more so here have the global I have more elements here

I have the three dots and I have like more more more stuff to come later

Now if I open the library here, I want to go into pages and here into pages

I'm gonna be looking into a lot of stuff that I can show So this is the part we want to actually know what exactly is a forum if you want to like

Start to creating your own forum So Google says that a forum is a place a meeting or a medium where ideas and views in a particular issue

It can be exchanged even WordPress has their own forums connection So if I take a look into how does this actual forum works as you can see we do have like really really easy

Documentation for example, welcome to the support Documentation to get involved and selling WordPress fixing WordPress development with WordPress

So as you can see this one has a lot of categories So these are different topics and with that means different topics

I can add like a community and I can add like a chat server if I wanted to depending on what is your need

So what am I telling you this because what you want to do is to look out for a forum that you want to try

to emulate Not to let's say Sally to duplicate or improve and try to use that as an inspiration for your own forum

So with that being said, I think I'm gonna be using this inspiration of the actual WordPress

I'm gonna go back into my element or I'm gonna just close this for a second and we go back here into my element

Or so what I want to do now is to look out for the one that can be more accessible for me

So let's say for example, you're gonna go here into searched Sometimes you can find your actual

Desired forum desired template by just choosing the right keyword My case doesn't appear like that

I can choose block for example, but all this elements as you can see it only appears as blocks at pro

So delete this and I want to look for something that can be a little bit more accurate that I can use later

For example, I'm gonna go for this. So there as you can see, here's the navigation. Here's my actual section

So here what I want to do is to edit the text for example here

I'm gonna delete this element And I'm gonna type the community like this we go and I can edit the pages

I can edit all the elements if I want to I can even delete it if I don't want to see those

like that or I can go into the edit image and Instead of just choosing an image what I want to do is to look out for a new one

So if you don't have any image, do you have to worry about that? Let's say that I want to make a forum about some let's say just iPhones

So I'm gonna go into Google gonna go into the images and I'm going to look out for a custom image that I can use

for example this one from the actual So what I want to do now is to start by creating my forum by just sharing all the information that I want to people

To check it out. So for example, as I was talking before I want to delete this part

let's say that I want to look how for getting started and Here what I want to do is to about us for example

Section deployment and labor. Let's say for example, I want to share content. I

Want to at least share content? But delete this as well and

Here what I want to do is to change for example the rules because if we are making some

Forums you want to check it out the rules and the conversations and chat and all that

So depending on the inspiration that you choose gonna be added all the elements different elements of your actual forum

For example in my case. I don't want to add like a chat section So if your actual template does not allow this one or you don't see any of this actual

Template I'm going to go here into these three dots into the box

And here into the box. I want to try to look for a chat widget. So we go for

ch a-t So as you can see, there's actually no available at the moment

Even if you don't see this into elements or I can go back and look how for a plug-in that can be enabled up because

Remember we use pantheon to enable all the actual plugins so I can use this for free

So I'm gonna close this one. I'm gonna reload my page. I'm gonna go back into my plugins into the lip hop

Remember, here's my plugins go into add new and let's see if there's a chat section that we can add into our website

So I'm gonna typed my keyword of chat add new chat once again, and there we go

we have the clicked to chat app the click to chat HubSpot email marketing voice chat and

Much more so in my case. I'm going to add the click to chat application. We need to install now and

There we go. We need to install it and activate that so after that without being said guys is how we can add for example, we can even add messenger if you wanted to

Here into the left part is gonna be appearing to all you different templates You have to download it. For example the social chat, which is actually this one

So without being said guys I had to show you like a lot of tools that we can use to create your actual forum totally for free

You don't have to be worrying about anything at all. So Thank you for watching the video guys. Don't forget to Like and subscribe to the channel if this was very useful for you

So without being said guys, I'm gonna be seeing you into the next video hopefully you can use this one for more than just one forum and

You can check it out here and to have the pantheon.io works for your WordPress

So thank you so much for watching the video once again guys, and I'll see you next one