How to change catagory and subforums views from forum index

[Finger78]

After uninstalling a product on my forums the forums have changed something and when you click the "forums" link and it only displays the category listing rather then the category then the subforums under it.

How/what do I change to get the forums to list (when looking at the forum index) the Category then list the subforums under it?

[Lynne]

I just replied to your other post about this.

If I understand correctly, you are wanting to change one of the top options in vboptions > forum listing display options

[Finger78]

I tried changing these settings are it hasnt changed anything

How it was (and how I want it again)

Forum Index
-Forum 1 Category
--Forum 1 subforum
--Forum 1 subforum

-Forum 2 Category
--Forum 2 subforum

-Forum 3 Category
--Forum 3 subforum

I hope this helps to display how I want the forums to look, Below is how it looks now:

Forum Index
Forum 1 Category
Forum 2 Category
Forum 3 Category
Forum 4 Category

[Lynne]

Hmmm, sounds more like a template issue. Does it look correct if you use a default style?

Create a new style with no parent - Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Add New Style > no parent - then browse the site using that totally default vbulletin style - do you still have the same problem?

[Finger78]

Yes, same issue.

It only displays the categories without any subforums listed under it

[Finger78]

I reinstalled the product that I uninstalled to get my site working again and now the forums display correctly, I'll include the file so you might be able to tell what the problem is so I can change whatever needs changed so I can uninstall it again...

It still messes up my site by the way with it installed

This adds a section in the forum creation/edit at the bottom that states:

Subforum Settings:

Show Subforums in # of columns

Here is the website if you would need the original files to help some more, but I DO NOT recommend to anyone its use as it has been extremely problematic and poorly coded

http://www.vb-pbwow.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37


I have been playing with some of the settings (set the above mentioned plugin settings to 0 saved it then uninstalled the plugin again. Then I played with the forum listing options and if I set it to 1 now it displays the subforums but not the way I had it or want it, which would display new posts etc.

Forum Index
Forum 1 Category
- subforum1 - subforum2 - subforum3

But when I change the forum listing to 2 it goes back to showing only the category listing and no subforums.


Edit - Update

I looked over the xml file I included and removed lines 42-47 which was creating the issue here is the section of code I removed:

<plugin active="1" executionorder="5">
            <title>gIS: Parse Text</title>
            <hookname>bbcode_create</hookname>
            <phpcode><![CDATA[$this->tag_list['no_option']['item']['callback'] = 'handle_external';
$this->tag_list['no_option']['item']['external_callback'] = 'handle_bbcode_item';]]></phpcode>
        </plugin>

Now I'd still like to get rid of this plugin but if this is what i have to do for now to have a functional site/forums for now so be it.

[Lynne]

To show the subforums, you would go to vboptions > forum listing display options > depth of sub-forums.

I removed the plugin you posted since it's unclear whether you are allowed to just redistribute it. It's in the thread you linked to anyway. I am unsure what it even does since i really don't want to wade through the code and the explanation in the thread really tells me nothing at all. Try changing the depth of the sub-forums and see if that gets you closer to what you want.

Do a search here on "sub*" "all mods" "titles only" and you will see some modifications that deal with the arrangement of subforums.