I reinstalled the product that I uninstalled to get my site working again and now the forums display correctly, I'll include the file so you might be able to tell what the problem is so I can change whatever needs changed so I can uninstall it again...
It still messes up my site by the way with it installed
This adds a section in the forum creation/edit at the bottom that states:
Subforum Settings:
Show Subforums in # of columns
Here is the website if you would need the original files to help some more, but I DO NOT recommend to anyone its use as it has been extremely problematic and poorly coded
http://www.vb-pbwow.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37
I have been playing with some of the settings (set the above mentioned plugin settings to 0 saved it then uninstalled the plugin again. Then I played with the forum listing options and if I set it to 1 now it displays the subforums but not the way I had it or want it, which would display new posts etc.
Forum Index
Forum 1 Category
- subforum1 - subforum2 - subforum3
But when I change the forum listing to 2 it goes back to showing only the category listing and no subforums.
Edit - Update
I looked over the xml file I included and removed lines 42-47 which was creating the issue here is the section of code I removed:
Code:
<plugin active="1" executionorder="5">
<title>gIS: Parse Text</title>
<hookname>bbcode_create</hookname>
<phpcode><![CDATA[$this->tag_list['no_option']['item']['callback'] = 'handle_external';
$this->tag_list['no_option']['item']['external_callback'] = 'handle_bbcode_item';]]></phpcode>
</plugin>
Now I'd still like to get rid of this plugin but if this is what i have to do for now to have a functional site/forums for now so be it.