How to add a Community Forum

Create and embed a Community Forum on your uSkinned Site Builder for Umbraco website using one of the many embed HTML options.

Website Toolbox is the easiest way to build your own discussion forum and embed it directly on your website.

Step 1

Go to the Website Toolbox website and sign up for the free trial.

Step 2

From your account dashboard, locate the "Integrate" link in the navigation and follow the instructions to generate your embed code.

Step 3

Copy the provided embed code to your clipboard.

Step 4

Step 5

Go to any page (or create a new page).

Step 6

At 'Main content' click 'Add content'.

Add a modular component with uSkinned for Umbraco.

Step 7

In the slide-out panel, choose the 'Embed Code' component.

Component options with uSkinned.

Step 8

Locate the field 'Code' and paste the code you copied from Website Toolbox. In the bottom right, hit Submit.

Paste your embed code.

Step 9

With the slide-out panel closed, hit 'Save and publish' at the bottom-right of the screen.

Step 10

Now view your Website Toolbox Community Forum widget on the front end of your site.

Community Forum demo

More ways to display Website Toolbox Forum

There are a variety of places you can embed Website Toolbox Forum on your uSkinned Site Builder website.

You can try this out using the same steps for:

— Pods component > Embed Code
— Split component > Embed Code block
— Global components > Embed Code
— Global pods > Embed Code
— Extra Content > Top Components > Embed Code
— Extra Content > Bottom Components > Embed Code
— Extra Content > Pods > Embed Code
— Footer pods > Embed Code

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