How to use the Forums app on Whop

Forums have been a popular form of communication since the beginnings of the internet. Now, you can create forums in your whop - find out how in this guide.

Forums have always been the backbone of online discussion. Reddit, Quora, Tripadvisor — at some point, everyone has used one.

Chat rooms are fast, but they’re messy. Forums win when it comes to organized, searchable conversations. They’re also versatile: run one as a blog, announcement board, or knowledge hub.

That’s why Whop gives you the Forums app. Add it to your whop and instantly create a clean, structured space for your community.

This guide shows you what Whop apps are, how to add the Forums app, and how to set it up the right way.

What are Whop apps?

You can think of Whop apps as LEGO bricks. Your whop starts as an empty baseplate and you build it up using different apps depending on what kind of a platform you want to create.

Building a trading community? Add Chat, Forums, and TradingView apps. Selling a course? Add the Courses and Files apps. It's that simple — you can add as many apps as you want to your whop and you can even make your own.

What is the Forums app?

The Forums app allows you to create posts that other users can comment on. You can think of this as Reddit posts. Unlike chat rooms you can create using the Chat app, forum posts keeps the conversations organized into threads.

One of the best parts of the Forums app is that you can control who can post (everyone or just admins), making it perfect for announcements, user-generated content, or even paywalled posts.

Setting up and using the Forums app is very easy. Let’s see how you can add it to your own whop.

How to add the Forums app to your whop

You can add the Forums app to your whop just like any other app. But before moving on to the process of adding apps, you need to have a whop ready.

If you don’t already have a whop, check out our how to create your whop guide, which will walk you through every step of creating a whop.

If your whop is all ready to go, let's see how you can add the Forums app to it:

1. Click the App store button under the Admin area of your whop. This is going to take you to the Whop App Store.
2. In the App Store, find the Forums app and click on its Add button. This is going to add the app to your whop and ask you to select which products can access the app.

Using the Whop Forums app

Using the Forums app is quite simple. Let's break down what you're seeing on its page:

1. Post content: This is the section where you write down the contents of the post.
2. Attachments: These buttons allow you to attach various elements to your post.
   1. Image attachment: This is the button that lets you attach images to your post.
   2. GIF attachment: This is the button that lets you attach GIFs to your post.
   3. Paywall: This is the button that lets you paywall your post so that only people who pay a certain amount can see the post. This option is only visible for admins of the whop.
   4. Create poll: This is the button that allows you to create polls within your forum posts.
3. Post button: This is the button that lets you publish your post.

Configuring the settings of the Forums app

Some apps on Whop, like Forums and Chat, have settings additional to the regular app settings. To see the Forums app's configurations, click the Configure Forums button at the top of the app.

This is going to take you to the Configure your forum tab of the app, where you can customize a total of five settings, and the first setting you'll see is the Banner Image. As its name suggests, the banner image setting determines what image is going to be displayed at the top of your Forums app as a banner.

The recommended image size of the banner is 2200x460 pixels, with an aspect ratio of 43:9.

You can upload an image by clicking on the Upload image button and selecting your desired image.

Moving on, we see the Who can post? and Who can comment? settings. Both have two options. Let's start with the Who can post? setting. It's options are:

• Everyone - let's all of your members publish forum posts on the app
• Only Admins - allows the staff of your whop to create posts.

If you’re planning to use the Forums app as an announcement channel, we suggest you select the Only Admins option here - otherwise, select Everyone.

The Who can comment? setting's options are:

• Everyone - lets everyone who can access the app leave comments on posts
• Only Admins - only lets admins of your whop leave comments

The Email notification preferences setting is one of the most powerful aspects of the Forums app.

The setting has two options, and as its name suggests, they determine the email notifications your users are going to get from the Forums app:

• All admin posts - If you select this option, all of your users are going to receive an email when an admin publishes a post on the Forums app
• Do not send emails - If you select this option, users are not going to receive any kind of email from the app

The last setting you'll see in the app manager of the Forums app is the Discord webhook.

As you might know, Discord supports webhooks - users can create webhook URLs for their channels and use them to relay messages. Check out our how to create Discord webhooks guide to learn more about creating webhooks.

In this setting, you can enter a webhook URL that you got from Discord to automatically send all forum posts to a Discord channel.

Tip: Changes are automatically saved, so you can just paste the URL and close the app manager.

After entering your webhook URL, you’ll start to get messages on your Discord channel for all forum posts.

If you ever want to disable this feature, you can just delete the URL that’s in the Discord webhook setting of your Forums app.

Create the perfect platform with Whop

After reading this guide you should now know how to add the Forums app to your whop. The next step is improving your whop knowledge by checking out our comprehensive guides or joining Whop University.

Get started with your online community today using Whop.