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title: Adding an ad-hoc forum to a page
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/message-boards.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/forums/creating-predefined-forums.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/forums/publishing-a-predefined-forum-on-the-website.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).

Ad-hoc forums are useful if you want to enable users to comment on pages or articles, but don't want to create a forum for each page manually. In case you don't need a structured forum, you can also consider using [Message boards](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/message-boards.md) for this purpose.

You can create Ad-hoc forums by means of the **Forum (Single forum - General)** web part.

If you place the **Forum (Single forum - General)** web part to a page and set its **Forum name** property to _ad-hoc forum_ (or _**ad\_hoc\_forum**_ if you are using ASPX templates), the system displays the new forum on the website. However, the forum will actually be created only when a visitor adds the first post to the forum. After that, the system will add the forum to the **AdHoc forum group** available in the **Forums** application.

Ad-hoc forums are uniquely identified by the page they belong to.

> **Note:** 
>
> #### Deprecated forum web parts
>
> The following two web parts are deprecated. Do not use them when developing new websites. They are available to ensure backward compatibility with versions prior to 4.0:
>
> - **Forum (Single forum - Flat layout)** - this web part ensures backward compatibility with the former Forum thread list web part.
> - **Forum (Single forum - Tree layout)** - this web part ensures backward compatibility with the former Forum tree web part.