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title: Managing forum posts
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> 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).

You can manage forums' threads and posts while editing the corresponding forums on the **Posts** tab.

## Creating a new thread

When you click the **Posts** tab of an empty forum, the system opens a page allowing you to enter details of a new thread:

- **User name** - specifies the user name of the thread author.
- **E-mail** - specifies the e-mail address of the thread author.
- **Subject** - specifies the subject of the initial post of the thread.
- **Post** - here you can enter text of the initial post of the thread.
- **Signature** - specifies the signature under the initial post.
- **Subscribe to post** - if enabled, the system sends notification e-mails about new posts in the thread to the e-mail address specified in the E-mail field.

If you click **OK**, the system creates the thread.

## Managing posts

If you select a post from the tree on the left, you can perform the following actions:

- **Edit** - opens the post for editing. You can edit the post text, user name, signature, etc.
- **Delete** - deletes the post.
- **Reply** - opens a dialog allowing you to send a reply to the post.
- **Move** - moves the thread to a selected forum.
- **Stick thread** - sticks this thread so that it is displayed at the beginning of the forum.
- **Split thread** - moves the post and its replies to a new thread.
- **Lock thread** - locks the thread so that no more posts can be added to it.
- **Reject** - rejects the post so that it is not displayed and needs approval to be displayed.
- **Reject sub-tree** - performs the Reject action for the current post and all its children.

## Forum post listing

In case that there are too many threads in the forum, you can limit the number of displayed threads using the **Max forum post nodes** setting in **Settings -> Community -> Forums**.

If you use this setting and there are more threads in the forum than the specified value, the system displays the **click here for more...** link at the bottom of the tree.

After clicking the link, the system displays the forum post listing page in the main area, while the following actions can be performed:

- **View** () - displays the thread's initial post in the main area (this action is identical to clicking the post in the tree).
- **Delete** () - deletes the whole thread including all child posts.
- **Sub-posts** () - displays a list of sub-posts of the current post in the main area.
- **Parent post** (button) - displays a list of sub-posts of the parent post in the main area (goes up one level).