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Originally Posted by winky6

Think "Conditionals" in your templates.
I.E. - IF forum id = a, then template is bla.bla.bla
else
template is GAS default.
change the names in the instance of "A" to fit your naming requirements.
"Conditionals are your salvation" :devious:

Good approach.

Another approach is this. Let's say you want to have Articles & Reviews.
1. Name your parent non-forum "Articles & Reviews"
2. Name a child forum "Articles"
3. And another "Reviews"
4. Then look at your Geek phrases one by one in the phrase manager. I found a lot of phrases that I could amend to fit by a little alteration.
Some examples:
"Edit Article" changed to "Edit Entry" (or "submission" or "Article or Review")
"Article Tools" changed simply to "Tools" (or else "Article & Review Tools")
5. Sometimes you can think of another word that might better fit your needs than "articles" ... one that emcompasses more than articles.
Some examples:
commentary,opinions,editorials,writings,essays,
write-ups,features,columns,comps ...
and amend your parent forum & Geek phrases to one of these

In my particular instance, my articles vary from Reviews to Recipes to Obits!
So, I named my parent forum: "Articles & Features".
I created child-forums to fit my needs and revised my phrases to be a bit more ambiguous than this great hack installed for me.

Combined with conditionals, I know you can find a way to make this hack serve many purposes.