Features of a free forum

Events for your community

Forumotion gives you the possibility to create an event scheduler on your forum. Thanks to this exclusive fonctionality, your members can create a page showing some events in the real and online world and share them with your community.
Trips, meetings, festivals, concerts, demonstrations... etc. the possibilities are illimited ! You just have to find what will be interesting for your community to create unforgettable memories together.
Don't hesitate to activate the events on your forum and to gather in real life or virtually your members.

The publications, the best way to enhance your forum.

The "Publications" section of the Forumotion forums is a teamwork place to read, write and share any type of content with your community.
With its modern, minimalist and ergonomic design, this exclusive system has some advantages, such as an easy way to create and share articles, the possibility to make one content enhanced by the collective knowledge of your community with your members, etc... It has an instantaneous loading and an optimal aspect on all the mobile devices.

SSL Certificate for a Secure Internet Address (HTTPS)

The secure HTTPS protocol becomes a priority for all websites. To do this, Forumotion allows you to easily secure your discussion board with an SSL certificate. Each Forumotion administrator has the possibility to order an SSL certificate on his forum to have a secure forum URL in HTTPS. The forum then displays a "Secure" mention in web browsers and has a slight SEO bonus. Google has confirmed that they use HTTPS as a lightweight ranking signal. Activate your SSL certificate now and offer your community a more secure discussion space, in line with the new Internet standards.

Domain name and personalized emails

One of our main strengths is the huge list of domain names you can set up for your free forum. However, you can also choose personalized domain names for your forum. There are two different ways to get this domain name: you can buy it via your administrative panel or Forumotion can offer the domain under certain conditions.
If you have a personal domain name, you'll also have a customized e-mail address.

Thematic classified ads

Exclusively on your Forumotion free forum, sections of classified ads can be created to accommodate the thematic ads : whether you use it for adoptions or animal rescues, selling or exchanging real or virtual items between members. Feel free to adapt this new ads section to your forum needs.
Activate this feature now and give your community a special and formidable place for promoting sharing and exchange within your forum.

Tags of members and keywords

On every Forumotion forum, you can tag members and keywords. Thus, your members will be able to tag one or many members on a message and receive a notification. It makes the discussion easier! This option also works for keywords. Every member can create a list of keywords to follow and receive a notification everytime a topic contains #keyword. Of course, you can activate or not the option on your administrative panel. In a minute, you can give a social dimension to your free forum!

Full personalization

In order to make your forum unique, the personalization is unlimited and free. On every forum version (PhpBB2, PhpBB3, Invision, PunBB) the forum owner can modify templates and CSS via the administrative panel. In addition, you can have a full customization of your forum by creating Javascript codes. Whether you are a novice or expert, many tutorials are available on the Support Forum, with a special section dedicated to creation codes.

Automatic backups

Forumotion makes regular backups of all forums. For more security, it is possible to restore a forum at an earlier date up to 4 months! Restore process is available to the owner of the forum via the founder's tool. Thus, she/he can proceed to many actions like backups, direct connection to the administrative panel, or resetting of user bans.

Role-playing games (RPG)

For all fans of RPG, Forumotion includes free features such as character sheets and dice rolling. The character sheets are customizable by the administrator or/and members. Text type fields, tables, scrolled lists, or bars can be configured. Sheets appearance can be customized in templates related to the profile. In addition, it is possible to edit the face of dice to fit with all kind of games!

Forum newsletter

Every administrator can send newsletters for free to her/his members. The newsletter can be sent to all members or to groups. Thus, it is easy to inform your community about events, news or important announcements... In addition, by using our delayed sending tool, you can plan your newsletter up to 6 days in advance and select the date and hour of sending!

HTML pages creation

For an optimal personalization of your forum, you can use HTML tool. Available from the administrative panel, this option allows the founder to create real web pages easily. Whether your level in coding, experts and beginners can find what they are looking for thanks to an advanced and simple mode.
Moreover, it is possible to include links to those pages directly on the forum navigation bar.

Full access to thousands of themes

By creating a forum on Forumotion, you get a full access to our catalog of Hitskin themes. Choose from thousands of skins to change the look of your forum. Simply browse within categories or search via keywords the skin of your dream that fits perfectly with your forum discussion.
Customise how your free forum looks. You can change the colors, upload a logo and a banner, replace all the pictures... in few clicks! Make Forumotion your own. You can build your own theme through the documentation and the help of the community.
In about seconds,you install the theme on your forum and all your members and visitors will benefit from a fully customized! Discover the best Forumotion skins!

Facebook Connect

Thanks to Facebook connect option, your visitors can register quickly on your forum. Thus, your forum gets much more members and becomes more and more active. The activation of new members directly impacts the activity of your forum, so it is better to make it fast, easy and funny!
Facebook connect module makes the first coming of your visitors more pleasant! Take advantage of social networks to promote your forum. It is the best way to increase the visibility of your forum on the net.

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