Tips for new Forum Admin

[paultaylor]

So I have my new Discourse forum up and running with data from old forum imported in. Just wondering is there any advice/tips for things we should be doing with a new forum ?

[Remah (Just another happy Discourse user)]

Did you read the Admin Quick Start Guide?

[ondrej]

Like me, just get used to the basic in’s and out’s of Discourse and admin panel, what everything does. Browse this category to find out more. Also just ask!

[paultaylor]

All good advice, but i suppose I didn’t mean so much the technicalties of how to do things (create backups etc) but more what to do to use it in the sense of making it easy for users, encouraging users to be active etc

For example I am thinking of converting some of my blog posts into a series of faq posts on Discourse because it is so much easier to create/format them nicely and link between them, but I am still undecided exactly how to organize things.

I guess I am rambling somewhat, and therefore rather difficult to answer my question.

[ondrej]

Hello,
sorry for being far too technical

@paultaylor

encouraging users to be active

I hope a little reading is OK

Launching a Successful Discourse Community

Building a Discourse Community

[paultaylor]

Thanks, good links, also answers another question, I was wondering if Discourse could replace my Blog, but it appears not.

[cjk77 (Chris Klugewicz)]

Have you looked at this?

Blog Post Styling

This theme component will allow you to designate a blog category and will alter the look and feel of all topics within that category to appear more like a traditional blog post. This is essentially a theme component adaptation of the Blog post plugin. [01%20AM] Usage tips: The image code of your featured image should be the first line of the post. The component will “move” that image above the topic title to produce the effect shown in the above example image. Please be sure to include a b…

[paultaylor]

Interesting, thanks Chris