Vbulletin 5, how to hide forum sub-categories on home page ?

[Anton Rahman]

Good day to all vbulletin geeks

Any idea on how to hide all forum sub-categories and their sub-categories from the home page ?

We are using Vbulletin 5 default style.

We will answer the funny unintuitive question before someone will have the first honor ;
AND WHY WOULD WE WANT TO DO THAT ?
Well of course you must have guessed it :
We simply have too many sub-categories which makes the main page look too long

This is the case scenario :
We have 5 main categories ACTING AS CATEGORIES “not channels”
Under each we have about 5 sub-categories , also ACTING AS CATEGORIES “not channels”
Then finally under each we have about 5 sub categories, those are already ACTING AS CHANNELS “meaning user can post”

So again to further clarify “we want to hide all sub-categories and their sub-categories from the main or home page, thus leaving only the main categories to display on the home page, so the rest of sub-categories and their sub-categories and channels are viewable only when the user clicks any of the main categories URLS thus navigating to that particular main category forum URL

Any ideas ? most importantly not a JAVA SCRIPT because it wouldn’t be compatible with some browsers
Also hopefully a direct edit to the vB5 DEFAULT STYLE templates and not a css_additional.css ?