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title: Publishing a predefined forum on the website
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k82/community-features/forums/creating-predefined-forums.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k82/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).

When you want to publish a forum on your website, you can use web parts from the Forums category on your page templates.

## Publishing a forum group on the website

You can publish an entire forum group on the website using the **Forum group** web part. All you need to do is to select the appropriate Group name value in the web part properties. The default forum looks like this:

![Default forum look](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82/publishing-a-predefined-forum-on-the-website/default_forum_look.png "Default forum look")

The forum threads in the selected forum can be displayed in two ways:

- As a list of threads
  - set the **Forum layout** property to _Flat_

![Example of a flat forum](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82/publishing-a-predefined-forum-on-the-website/example_flat_forum.png "Example of a flat forum")

- As a tree of threads and posts
  - set the **Forum layout** property to _Tree_

![Example of a tree forum](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82/publishing-a-predefined-forum-on-the-website/example_tree_forum.png "Example of a tree forum")