I have one specific category with many forums that I use for news.
I do not want for people to reply in there
Is there a way to include a link that will, on post reply, duplicate original thread into another public forum?
For example, if you were to reply to my post here, it will appear in a different forum instead of this one.

no. it doesnt make sense why you want to do this. basically you want to have duplicate posts in 2 forums. why? you could use a simple script to pull the info to the main page from an invisible forum. then create a categ with your answer forums. so people will answer there. but is confusing for the people, because they will not be able to see the news content.

the best way is to stick with your forums. do not duplicate it. or wait untill i finissh my project. ;)

Very simple. I am using the "display the last xx posts" hack to display the official news titles from various news agencies from my country with a summary on first page. When someone posts a comment, the original title remains and the summary changes. So that make it look like an official, credible news title with weird post or comments under it. And I had a few complaints from the agencies as it appears that their news has been altered. So in order to keep the news as originally intended by the agencies, I prevent people from replying.

Unless I find a way for the last xx posts to display only first post in a thread.

I am also using a modified version of the last xx posts so I could display the thumbs from the attachments.jpg. When there are replies, that mod multiplies itself into the amount of replies, to display (if 8 replies) 8 times with all the same info, not even the replies.

What is your project all about?

i understand now... to show the first post run a query like that:that should solve your prob. it will display only the first post.

that solved half of the problems. Remaining: because of the mods to make the attachment appears as a thumb, I get the multiplication of the thread

devellop the subject. i need to understand better your problem. include an url also to see an example

here is the full file without the required config

u must run it in query0 not in query

run what?

if you are talikng about the thumb, it does not show when I run it in query0