CMS articles from multiple forums

[Sarteck]

All right, I'm not sure if this is already a feature, or if there's a modification out there that does this, so please point me in the right direction if either are true. I'm still new to (and very confused by) this CMS stuff, so please bear with me. This may have been answered previously, but I'm not really sure what I'm Searching for, so I couldn't find the answer.



What I would like is a CMS page with two columns.

The column on the left would contain a preview of the first post of each of the newest 10 threads in a forum (we'll call it "Forum1"), just like how regular Articles appear in the CMS.

The column on the right would contain a preview of the first post of each of the newest 10 threads in "Forum2."

Each Article would allow Comments to be posted on it. Comments would show up in the threads as regular posts and (vice versa) posts made in the threads would show up as Comments in the Articles.



I do understand that Articles do have their own forum, but I'd actually like each section of Articles to have its own forum.

Ideally, new threads posted in these forums would automatically become Articles, but if I have to manually "Promote" it to an Article, that's okay by me.



Is this possible? Is this already a feature that I just don't see somewhere?