BurnZone Forums & Commenting is a turn key community platform that brings together commenting & forums under one roof. We also include industry first community features designed to quantify and promote positive contributions.
Current features for Both Forums & Comments:
- Real Time - Conversations happen live.
- Rich Media - Insert Images, Videos, & Social media directly into your posts.
- Challenges - Any comment can be challenged by a commenter with a differing opinion. Challenges provide accountability to users that can have controversial opinions and surface what side of a topic a majority of people agree with.
- Questions & Answers - We understand that comments are different from questions and we have designed our interface to support each activity separately.
- SSO & Social Media login options - Leverage a variety of options to allow your community to login and create an identitiy.
- Votes, likes & dislikes - Comments and answers can be liked and disliked. In challenges vote for which side of the topic you agree with.
- User profiles - Every person commenting on your website will get a profile where the comments and points are stored.
- Sharing - Users can share BurnZone content to Twitter and Facebook or share directly to friends via email.
- Competitions - Drive engagement to your community by rewarding the top contibutors with Prizes and Give-aways for a set period of time.
- Moderation - You can moderate users and content through the "BurnZone Moderator" area in your dashboard.
- Language Support - We have just launched support for 10 languages.
Support & Documentation:
Reach out to us and get help through our site:
http://help.theburn-zone.com/. During USA business hours we will try to respond immediately to your questions.
Basic Outline
- Access the plug-in either by Signing up at: http://www.theburn-zone.com/signup or searching for BurnZone in the Plug-in Directory.
- Upload the plugin to your website either directly via the WordPress plugin directory or via FTP, copying the plugin folder to "/wp-content/plugins/".
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
- Register or sign-in via the Wordpress Admin or the BurnZone website.
- Add your site in the admin section on the website. (the fields should pre-populate).
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Complete the details in the BurnZone settings and you're done!
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To Enable Forums visit the tab and create a Page in Wordpress where you can add the forum install script.
- To be able to use Single Sign On your site check the box on the SSO Tab and specify and image URL for the login icon.
More details can be found here: