My odd project

[kh99]

Originally Posted by nerbert

But HTML doesn't do arithmetic!

Well, the OP says "within the template", so I took that to mean without a plugin. HTML can't do math but there are {vb:math ...} and {vb:number ...} template tags for doing simple arithmetic and formatting a number.

Try this plugin for "forumbit_display"

$forum['threadcount'] = vb_number_format(intval($forum['threadcount']) - 2);

If the original value is already formatted with commas then you'd still have the issue I mentioned above.