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Guides

Every setting explained, written for the merchant who has to run the thing. If something here is wrong or missing, tell us.

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Install the app, pick where the forum lives on your store, and link to it from your theme.

Create forums and categories, set permissions, pin and lock topics, and control sort order.

How Shopify customers become forum users, nicknames, profiles, avatars and access rules.

Appoint moderators, hold posts for approval, handle reports, and lock or hide content instead of deleting it.

The layered spam defences, reCAPTCHA, Akismet, rate limits and what to do during a flood.

Digests, mention notifications, moderator alerts and sending mail from your own domain.

Reward posting, topics, upvotes and profile completeness; publish a leaderboard.

Colours, fonts, logo, layout, custom CSS, the forum path and translated strings.

Connect Cloudinary so members can attach images, and make post images enlargeable.

Fire a Liquid-templated HTTP request whenever a topic or post is created.

Read and write forums, topics, posts and users over HTTPS with an API secret.

The window.Champ surface available on forum pages inside your theme, and how to call it from a theme snippet.

How the subscription is charged, cancelling, and what happens to your data.

Email support — a person reads it, and the answer usually ends up in one of these pages afterwards.