Index getting crowded.
 

At the moment my index page layout is pretty much default but it is getting longer and longer. What I would like to do is condense it a little to make navigation a bit easier.

Can anyone tell me how to do something like this site here:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/forum.php

Is it mod?

I think this would work.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=236960

It is a subforum manager by VSa.

Thanks for that but it doesn't really do what I want. The forums in each category don't have that many, if any, sub forums so that mod doesn't do much for me. I need to condense the whole index page like in the link.

I'm guessing it might have been a mod specifically commisioned by them.

The mod that Richie posted is what your example is using.. or something similar.

Maybe a link to your actual site would give us a better idea of what you're after.

OK, it looked to me like it just put sub forums under forum in columns, not all the forums under category. Maybe I'm just not looking at it right. I guess I could give it a go.

Here is my current index page:

www.australianbladeforums.com

They are running a mod like vSA's sub forum mod. How they have set it up is the category is the top link and all the forum areas under it are the smaller links. Its a "out of the box" setting in vSA'S subforum manager. So using your site as an example to make it easier:

Main category is "Forum Rules". Then the little smaller links in the box would be...
General Forum Rules & Rules for the Exchange Forums. Those little links would have the tiny balloons and just the links.

OK, that's great, I'll give it a go, thanks.

No prob, hope it works out for you.

Nope, didn't seem to work. Well, it's working but it did what I thought, it arranged the little sub forums under the bigger forums into columns. I couldn't see any way in the settings to make the category the top level with forums in the category arranged under that.

Possibly I've missed something here but I can't see what.

There is one other subforum managers but I do not remember where it is on here. Try to search for it in the mods area.

OK, thanks.

That would be this one, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=229148

Unfortunately it looks like that one does exactly the same as the other one. Sorts sub forums under a main forum not under a category.

I'm sure the forum in the link in my OP has a mod created for it. Maybe I'll see if I can get someone to do something similar for me, assuming it doesn't cost a fortune, I don't need it that badly. :)

So when you use the VSA mod, give us a screenshot of how your forumhome looks with that mod running.

Yeah because its all in the way you set it up. There are several different ways from what I remember that you can set it up.

EDIT: I just looked at a client's site that I've installed that same mod on and it does do that. So you may have missed a setting or perhaps they are using that mod and a little bit of template coding to remove the forum icon.

OK, I now have the mod turned on so you can go to the site now and see what it looks like.

There are very few settings available.

Main section

Enable yes no
Number of columns
Display subforums title yes no

Then there is some css stuff

Then permissions where you can disable the mod for certain forums.

That's it, I can't see anything else, certainly nothing about categories.

As HM666 says, maybe there is some template stuff to be done but I wouldn't have a clue how to do that.

You need make forums two level deep then use the vsa subforum manager or add the css below to additional.css template. Results can be seen on my site.

Example

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2015/01/31.png


CSS:

Yeah that is how my client's forum is set up. So my assessment was off earlier you would need to add a forum area to make it do what you want.

Forum Rules
***-Forum Rules
*****-General Forum Rules
*****-Rules for the Exchange Forums

I think I see what you're getting at here.

So, in your example, ***-Forum Rules would be just an empty forum, (as in no threads), and the other two would be sub forums under that. Did I get that right?

That being the case, I would then have to create an "empty" forum under each category.

You would have to create a new forum under each category by the name that you want and then make all the forums in that category come under that new forum.

Rules Forum (Category)
****-Rules Forum (top forum that show the main link at the top)
***********-Forum 1 (This forum will show in the organized list of forums)
***********-Forum 2 (This forum will show in the organized list of forums)
***********-Forum 3 (This forum will show in the organized list of forums)
***********-Forum 4 (This forum will show in the organized list of forums)
...and so on.

So you would have to edit the forums and change the category or top level forum as the forum that it is directly under to the new forum that you make under the category.

Yep, that's what I thought. I'll give it a go tomorrow and see how it turns out.

Thanks for all the help guys, it's appreciated.