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title: Creating Your First Board and Forum
description: "GravityOps Forum uses a hierarchical structure to organize your community discussions. This guide explains how to set up your boards and forums. ## 1. Understanding the Hierarchy - **Boards:** These are top-level containers used to categorize different sections of your…"
url: "https://brightleafdigital.io/docs/creating-your-first-board-and-forum/"
updated: "2026-10-18"
category: GravityOps Forum / Setup Gravityops Forum
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# Creating Your First Board and Forum

GravityOps Forum uses a hierarchical structure to organize your community discussions. This guide explains how to set up your boards and forums.

## 1. Understanding the Hierarchy

- **Boards:** These are top-level containers used to categorize different sections of your forum (e.g., "Customer Support," "General Discussions").
- **Forums:** These are specific discussion areas that live inside a Board (e.g., "Feature Requests" inside "Customer Support"). Topics are created within these forums.

## 2. Creating a Board

To create a new Board:

1. Navigate to **Forms > GravityOps > Forum** in your WordPress dashboard.
2. Click on the **Forums** tab.
3. Click the **Add Board** button.
4. Fill in the following fields:
   - **Name:** The display name of the board.
   - **Slug:** The URL-friendly version of the name (e.g., `general-support`).
   - **Description:** An optional brief overview of what this board contains.
5. Click **Save Board**.

## 3. Creating a Forum

Once you have created at least one Board, you can add Forums to it:

1. In the **Forums** tab, find the Board you just created.
2. Click **Manage Forums** in the actions column for that board.
3. Click the **Add Forum** button.
4. Fill in the following fields:
   - **Name:** The name of the forum.
   - **Slug:** The URL-friendly version of the name.
   - **Description:** A description that helps users understand what to post here.
   - **Access Set:** Select an access set to control who can view, post, and moderate this forum.
5. Click **Save Forum**.

## 4. Managing and Editing

- **Editing:** You can edit the name, slug, or description of any Board or Forum by clicking the **Edit** link in its respective management view.
- **Deleting:** Clicking **Delete** will remove the entity. **Note:** Deleting a Board will also delete all Forums within it.
- **Viewing:** Click the **View** link to see how the Board or Forum looks on the front-end of your site.