How to run a Talkyard for embedded comments only (disable forum features)

Here's how to change a Talkyard discussion forum site, to a blog comments site. (Let me know if you run into any problems or if something is confusing?)

First we'll 111: create/edit a category where blog comments can appear, then 222: type the URL to your blog, and 333: (optional) hide some discussion forum related buttons.

111: Create/edit a Blog Comments category

Go to the categories view, https://your-talkyard-site/categories, and click the default category, then click Edit category (just below the category title):

1. You can rename it "Blog Comments".

2. Close to the bottom of the dialog, unlist the category and exclude (it) from summaries:

   Unlist both category and topics: Yes
Exclude from summary emails: Yes, exclude

You could alternatively create a new category, and make it the default — by default, blog comments topics get placed in the default category.

(Any other categories? You can delete them, or if there're [embedded comments topics] in them already, you can unlist them, i.e.: Unlist both category and topics: Yes.)

222: Type the address to the blog

Go to the admin area, Settings | Embedded comments: /-/admin/settings/embedded-comments.

In the Allow embedding from field, type the address to your blog, e.g. https://my-blog.example.com.

Thereafter some buttons will appear just below. Click the one for the blog platform you use (if you see it), or Something Else, and follow the instructions.

That should be it. However, some discussion forum related buttons and things are still visible:

333: Optional: Hide unneeded forum buttons & widgets

In the Admin Area, Settings | Features (/-/admin/settings/features), disable (un-tick) all these:

• Enable categories
• Enable chat
• Enable direct messages
• Enable similar topics

In Customize | Basic, /-/admin/customize/basic, disable these:

• Show topic filter button
• Show topic type icons
• Choose topic type

(However, it seems disabling the "Show topic filter button" doesn't work — a bug?
And maybe there should be a setting for removing the Create Topic button.)

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But why can one not just un-tick the Enable discussion forum checkbox? — Because then the Talkyard software would need to do (some of) the above steps itself, which would have meant more source code to write, and tests to create.

However it'd be nice if, when self-hosted-installing Talkyard, one got to choose if the site should be a discussion forum, or for blog comments. So one didn't need to change from [discussion forum features] to [blog comments].