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title: Creating forum groups
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/community-features/forums/creating-predefined-forums.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/community-features/forums/publishing-a-predefined-forum-on-the-website.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/community-features/forums/adding-an-ad-hoc-forum-to-a-page.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

All forums are a part of some forum group. Pre-defined forums need to be created within some particular forum group. Ad-hoc forums are automatically placed into the AdHoc forum group upon creation. A forum group usually contains forums related to the same topic. For example:

- Computers (forum group)
  - Announcements (forum)
  - Technical questions (forum)
  - FAQ's (forum)
- Web design (forum group)
  - CSS (forum)
  - XHTML (forum)

## Creating new forum groups

Open the **Forums** application and click **New forum group**. Fill in the following fields:

- **Group display name** - sets the name displayed for the forum group on the website.
- **Description** - allows you to enter a text description of the forum group, which will be displayed on the website.
- **Forum group base URL** - specifies the URL of the page where the forum group will be placed, for example: \~/MyForum.aspx. This is used by the system when creating URLs leading to the given forum group.
- **Forum group unsubscription URL** - specifies the URL of the page where users can unsubscribe from forum notifications under the given group.

Click **Save** to confirm the creation of the forum group.

Continue to [Creating predefined forums](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/community-features/forums/creating-predefined-forums.md) to learn how to create individual forums within a forum group. See [Adding an ad-hoc forum to a page](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/community-features/forums/adding-an-ad-hoc-forum-to-a-page.md) to find out more about ad-hoc forums.