# Create forum threads

1. To create a forum thread, click the forum where you want to create a forum thread.
2. Click *Create a thread*.\
   The *Create a thread* page opens.
3. Enter the title of the post in the thread.
4. In the text editor, enter the body of the  post.
5. By clicking *More options*, you can change the following:
   * Choose whether search engine crawlers can index this thread.
   * Set the thread type from the pulldown menu, choosing:
     * *Standard*
     * *Sticky* so that the post is always at the top of the list.
     * *Announcement* so the post is at the top of the list, even above Sticky ones.
   * Choose whether to close the thread to additional posts.
   * Adjust the automatically generated URL of the thread by clicking *Change*, and then entering a preferred URL name.
6. You can choose if you want an RSS feed to be generated for this forum thread by clicking *Alternative publishing (RSS)* and selecting *RSS feed* checkbox.\
   Feeds are used to publish frequently updated information, such as blogs, news, forum posts, etc. You can publish an RSS or Atom feed for the forum thread on the website and the users can subscribe to this feed. This way, they will receive updates of the thread without having to visit the website.

   You can change the settings of the automatically generated RSS feed.\
   Click *Change* button and perform the following procedure:

   1. In *RSS or Atom to generate?* radio button group, select the format for the feed.
   2. In *URL name*, enter a URL of the feed.
   3. Choose how many items to include in the feed by selecting one of the following radio buttons:
      * *Include the newest \<number> items*\
        In the input field, enter how many of the published items you want to display.
      * *Include all published items*\
        The feed displays all items that are published.
   4. Choose how to display the items in the feeds by selecting one of the following:
      * *Title and content.*
      * *Title and first \<number> characters.*
      * *Title only.*
   5. To change the mapping of data fields, click *Mapping Settings* button.\
      In the window that appears, you have a list of the data fields of the feed you are creating. To these fields, you can map fields of the RSS or Atom feed.

      When you are finished with the mapping of fields, click *Accept changes*.
   6. Click *Done*.

      For more information, see [Publishing system: Feeds](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/publishing-system-feeds).
   7. You can display the RSS feed for the thread using the *Feed* widget.\
      For more information, see [Feed widget](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/web-forms-deprecation-with-sitefinity-cms-14.1).
7. Click *Create this thread*.\
   The thread with its first post is created and appears in the list of all threads.