[nerbert]

Never mind the stuff above.

First divide your forums up into categories in the forum manager (you probably already have). Forget the forum home page and use copies of forumdisplay.php to display each category separately.

So make copies of forumdisplay.php with names like forum1.php, forum2.php or whatever.

In each one edit in $_REQUEST['forumid'] = 10; $_REQUEST['forumid'] = 20;, etc, whatever your category forumid's are, right under the big START MAIN SCRIPT comment block (EDITED: should be forumid's NOT threadid's)

Now go to them and see if it's all working as planned.

If all that works all you need to do is duplicate the other stuff on forum home into these new files. So copy the FORUMDISPLAY template and call it CATEGORY and at the bottom of each new file, line 1210 change

$templater = vB_Template::create('FORUMDISPLAY');

to

  
$templater = vB_Template::create('CATEGORY');

Next look at the What's Going On box on forum home and see what php code is needed to get that, copy it over from forum.php and copy the html from FORUMHOME into CATEGORY