[mdevour]

Originally Posted by calorie

How about making one parent, stick all the others under that, and then nix the parent from showing via a template edit or two?

Hi Calorie,

It's going to be something like that. I'm hoping to keep all the forums top level, so I don't have to fight with the nav-bit wanting to show something like this:

MyDomain.com Forum > On Topic Stuff... > General
|-> Some post here...

Instead I just want this:

MyDomain.com Forum > General
|-> Another post here...

My members don't need to be able to collapse and expand my measly two categories!

Let me try to describe what I want in another way:

If I make a top level forum and set it to act as a category, but don't give it any child forums, it behaves almost the way I want it to. It shows the name of the category, which is fine, but the name is also a link to a forum display page that has no sub-forums! It also displays the little collapse button at the right hand end, which has nothing to collapse and disappears the first time you click on it after a page refresh.

If I add a couple more top level forums the forum index ends up looking something like this:

     Forum                                         Last Post   Threads   Posts

On Topic Stuff <--this is a useless link     this gadget does nothing -->  ^

     Beginners     Newbies start here...             Never        0        0

     General       General discussion...             Never        0        0

So, defining this more closely, it seems I want to create a plug-in that adds an option to the forum manager that let's me simplify the way a forum is displayed when it's acting as a category, so it does not make the forum name a link nor display a collapse button that has nothing to act on.

Whew! What a mouthful!

Does that make sense of it?

Thanks,

Mike D.