Have I set my Forum up wrong with categories?
 

(I'm bumping this up, I've posted it in vbseo.com days ago and theres no replies... their forum is dead... your my only hope people! I'm going mental bout not been able to sort it out :S )

Hiya,

Been looking through a few forums and realised mine isn't functioning the way it should.
I've set it up using categories. best way for me to explain the problem is

Check out these sites who use the same theme, http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/forum.php & http://www.completevb.com/demovb4/forum.php?styleid=19

On those sites, when you click the actually category of any section (black title areas) eg General Chat, it loads the forum independently with those forums inside.

When you click the categories on my website http://www.talknightlife.co.uk eg, general chat, birimingham night life forum... any of them, it doesn't open that section to an independant area. it just pushes the selected forum to the top of the page.

Have I set it up wrong, I'd like it to do what those other forums are doing, and any other forum on the net. I don't think its the skin, because I bought it from the 2nd site, and just thinking, have I set it up wrong.

Any ideas guys??

cheers People, always appreciated

Luke

Something definitely wrong

Lets say "General" is pointing to http://www.talknightlife.co.uk/forum.php#general

While it suppose to point http://www.talknightlife.co.uk/forum....php/1-general

Disable the plugins and see if they are causing trouble or it's the skin problem

Thx for the reply Zascok.. Righty... its the vbseo Plugin causing this, do I need to go into vbseo and change a few settings? I'm unsure to which ones should be changed. Any ideas? or the ones causing it to function incorrectly

Don't really know I don't use vBSEO but you can ask in vBSEO forum as far as I know they are providing really nice support.

To disable plugins for testing check this thread
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...Product-System

Cheers Zascok, I've done just that, although vbseo looks abit slow in making replies.

Thanks again

post the settings you have for say General will see what settings are wrong for you then you will be able to update all the rest

You do have one at the bottom Talk Nightlife Abroad that you need to delete as it is not being used

Settings for : URL Rewrite settings

Define Forum Path Title Bits = f[forum_id]

Forum = f[forum_id]/

Forum Pagination = f[forum_id]/index[forum_page].html

Announcement = f[forum_id]/announcement-[announcement_title].html

Multiple Announcements = f[forum_id]/announcements.html

hmm, is there a way of copying my settings easier than wrtiing them out ?

I meant admincp/Forums & Moderators/Forum Manager then edit forum General and tell me all the options you picked

heres a screen shot http://www.talknightlife.co.uk/scree...l-settings.jpg

don't forget, that if I disable the VBseo plugin, the problem goes away, won't it be something to do with the settings in vbseo?

also have vbseo dont have this problem. Yes it could be it but we need to rule out other things first upload your htaccess file will have a look at it

--------------- Added [DATE]1348417680[/DATE] at [TIME]1348417680[/TIME] ---------------

as it is a category some things you need to change
Forum is Open = no
Allow BB Code = no
Allow [IMG] Code = no
Allow [VIDEO] Code = no
Allow Smilies = no
Allow Post Icons = no
Allow Thread Ratings in this Forum = no
Require Threads to have a Prefix = no
and all vbseo set to no