Forum Software Reviews

Last October, we introduced you the Forum for pages product, a Facebook plugin integrating a nice forum software into your Facebook page.

This product was particularly useful since Facebook was planning to remove its official Forum application.

Forum for Pages - Main Topics Page

Forum for Pages - Timeline Homepage

Back to present, Forum for pages has continued evolving and got more and more features, including:

• 12 new languages: Arabic, Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish & Turkish
• Notifications on Facebook when a topic is updated
• Embedding images and videos in posts
• Text Formatting
• Blacklisting of keywords
• Possibility to migrate forum to another Facebook page
• Tags inside discussion topics
• Search feature
• Admins can ban abusive users from the forum
• Automatically repost new topics to the Timeline for better virality
• Liking a post

Additionally, this extension now contains a Premium version, that mainly removing advertisements, but also including nice features well suited for companies and official brands:

• Full integration with Google Analytics
• Integration with an external website using an RSS feed
• Personalization of the forum using a custom banner
• Free of any advertising

For those whom it concerns, this Premium version starts at $5 per month, which is really cheap when you think about the communities and great potential Facebook has.

Forum for Pages - Admin Settings Premium

Forum for Pages - Inside a topic thread

As usual, after the deletion of Facebook forum, the famous quote "Nature abhors a vacuum" cannot be more true.