[Chazz Layne]

I'm in the process of seriously expanding some of our content at our site, most of which needs to be dynamic and easily changed/added to by our staff. Since most of them are not technically inclined it would be easiest if all of the normal vB posting features are intact so they can format their own content just like they would in a normal thread.

It seems the best way to accomplish this would be to have extra forums for this content, but then displaying it is an issue as I want it to have a much cleaner look, with only our headers/nav/poster/date/title and maybe the poster's avatar visible. I know how to make this setup happen by editing templates, then locking that forum's display to a style that uses that template, but we allow our users to use several different styles and there would be no way to carry the color schemes over.

Since it doesn't matter if the content forums show up on the normal forum index, I've considered making a second, edited forumdisplay.php and showthread.php for the content forums that just use different templates, then direct-linking to them from our site's nav... but I'm not sure if that's the right way to go about it. I keep thinking there's got to be an easy way (other than style locking) to force certain forums (and their threads) to use different templates... any thoughts?