Can this be done without wordpress?

[DPtheGod]

Hello, I asked this here before and they recommended I use Wordpress, however I cannot get it to work, and I know there has to be another method for this.

Basically, I have a forum set up for website news, where basically we post threads explaining website-related news (not for the forum, but for our main front page), and then it automatically posts it on the home.html page I have, so the user can see part of the thread, and a "Read more" button will link them to the actual thread in the forum. The home.html page will be on the root directory, whereas the forums will be in a directory called forums.

Another website I am a staff member on does this. It's http://www.hellandheavennet.com

But when I look in the acp for that site, wordpress is not in the active products list.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.