[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by sitka

can you show hottest links or specific category links on forumhome? not with vbadvanced

Easiest way is to create forums which are redirects to the the category of interest, ie. use local_links.php?catid=N as the link. For standard categories, LDM will create these automagically within Add Category (look down the bottom of the form).

For What's hot, etc, you just give a negative catid:
What's Hot: -7
What's New: -8
Just hover the mouse over the Show drop down menu to find out the catid's for the various options.

If you want these to expand into showing a list of the actual hot, new, etc, entries on forumhome, I can't think offhand how you would achieve this without using the portal interface. Perhaps a plugin could be written.