I'm not sure to understand your point, but if you want to do something like vbulletin.org, you can use the vBulletin conditionals in the templates to get completely independent forums (header, content, footer, etc) and display the posts on a forum by forum basis. This is what I did on my version 3.8.11.
I stay on vBulletin 3.8.11 precisely for the power of the vBulletin conditionnals and the ease (I am not a coder) of applying them to the vB3.8.11 tables.
|