Forum widget

A widget – aka plugin – is a chunk of Wild Apricot functionality that you can embed – or integrate – into another website. Using a widget, you can embed a Wild Apricot forum on another website.

If you have multiple forums on your site, the forum widget will display the first forum you created on your Wild Apricot site.

To embed a widget into another website, you copy the embed code then paste it into the other site's HTML code.

Getting the widget code

To obtain the code you need to embed a Wild Apricot forum on another website, follow these steps:

1. Click the Settings menu.
2. Within the Integration section, click Widgets code.
3. If you added more than one discussion forum gadget to your Wild Apricot site, click the selection button beside Forum and select the discussion forum gadget you want to embed.
4. Right click over the code that appears beside the selection button and copy the code to the clipboard.

You can now paste the copied embed code into the HTML code for the page on your other website.

Changing colors and fonts

To customize your embedded Wild Apricot widget so that it appears like a seamless part of your other website, you modify the appearance of the corresponding gadget in your Wild Apricot site. You can control the appearance of the widget by choosing a website theme, customizing the colors and styles, and for more advanced fine-tuning, using CSS customization.

For forum widgets, you can modify the following elements from the Colors and styles screen:

"Subscribe/Unsubscribe"

• General formatting or Typography > Text/Normal, Link

Forum headings

• General formatting or Typography > Text/Normal, H4
• Forum > Column/Forum headings
  (Bookshelf, Building Blocks, Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, Firma, Homestead, Showcase,  Skyline, Terra, Tinted Tiles, Treehouse, Whiteboard and White Space themes)

Forum entries

• General formatting or Typography > Text/Normal, Link
• List > Text (Blueprint themes)

Table rows

• Forum > Table row
  (Bookshelf, Building Blocks, Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, Firma,  Homestead, Showcase,  Skyline, Terra, Tinted Tiles, Treehouse, Whiteboard and White Space themes)
• List >Row (Blueprint themes)

Links within table

• Forum > Table links
  (Bookshelf, Building Blocks, Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, Firma,  Homestead, Showcase,  Skyline, Terra, Tinted Tiles, Treehouse, Whiteboard and White Space themes)
• List > Link (Blueprint themes)

Topic author

• Forum > Author
  (Bookshelf, Building Blocks, Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, Firma,  Homestead, Showcase,  Skyline, Terra, Tinted Tiles, Treehouse, Whiteboard and White Space themes)

Topic date and time

• Forum > Date and time
  (Bookshelf, Building Blocks, Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, Firma,  Homestead, Showcase,  Skyline, Terra, Tinted Tiles, Treehouse, Whiteboard and White Space themes)

Create topic button

• Functional buttons > Normal/Hover
  (Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, White Space themes)

Icons used on mobile version

• Forum > Icons
  (Bookshelf, Building Blocks, Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, Firma,  Homestead, Showcase,  Skyline, Terra, Tinted Tiles, Whiteboard and White Space themes)

Any changes you make will also be applied to discussion forum gadgets on your Wild Apricot site pages.

Using CSS, you can:

• Remove the last update author's name
• Remove the author and the date

Any changes you make will apply to your Wild Apricot site pages as well as your embedded Wild Apricot widgets.