Should I add a new forum to my site?

[Mattwhf]

You can find more information about chat room in this thread https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=322482

[Mattwhf]

The idea's Wayne is a good way but you should not turn off your forum, just open it but put all your posts under moderation, you only approve good posts/members, that will help your forum grow without...

[Mattwhf]

You may need a modification code to obtain that, or you can hire a vB freelancer to make custom code for you.

[Mattwhf]

According to my, responsive theme can be better than mobile theme because it covers all functions of the forum when viewing on smartphones. Mobile style's features will be optimized if compared with responsive...

[Mattwhf]

Transfer database and files to new server and you need to setup it like a real site. Don't forget to make directory password for your site to stop search engine crawl your temporary site, it can be a...

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Are you using multi FB accounts or it is choosing wrong account for your setup?



This you can customize when you setup your FB app for your forum....

[Mattwhf]

I rarely use mobile theme from vB, I convert the desktop theme to responsive theme and it will be used for both desktop and mobile. If you don't know how to change it to responsive, you may need a theme...

[Mattwhf]

If you are not sure about the service you will use, you can ask them for free trial, there are more providers already give you 15 days free trial to use their hosting. Or you can buy first month to check...

[Mattwhf]

If you try to search in the hosting marketplace section, I think you even can find out more cheaper ones.

[Mattwhf]

vB 4.2.5 is designed for PHP 7.1 and it should run on this version.
I am hoping vB team will update this version to run with PHP 7.2 because I am running on this version and it made some plugins...

[Mattwhf]

BOTH of you are spamming my question because it was not RELEVANT to my question.

[Mattwhf]

I am mentioning to which sites/forums in my questions?
I am asking, should I add a new forum to my site? and I got a great answer like this. )

[Mattwhf]

"Before you go asking people for advice on how to build your forum make sure they know about the forum software you are using and web development in general."

Seem you are facing...

[Mattwhf]

I agree with you that content is king but do you create content daily or weekly?
and do you build more backlinks for your sites? because I think backlinks are also important.
Also, adding...

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I tried to edit my.cnf this in the past with hopes to improve performance and help a bit for running hosting but it didn't help more, to be honest if you are facing with problems like that, you should...

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Organic traffic is the thing you should focus on to bring more new members and posts. Don't expect social media to get more traffic from them, everyone used to say or suggest that but my forums are good...

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@In Omnibus
I don't spam, I only recommend the OP some web hosting providers that he can make references or find a good hosting for him.

[Mattwhf]

How many visitors do you have on the forum?

I would recommend a decent dedicated server 32 GB RAM is enough for your forum to run without any problems.

Here are some dedicated...

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Recently I have opened a new site about art painting and I am getting confused is, I should add a new forum for it or not? or should I only develop website without a forum? because grow a forum will consume...

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I am running PHP 7.1 ( &Mariadb) with VB4.2.5 beta 4 without any problems. There are one or two plugins that not compatible with PHP 7 then I fixed....