vBulletin version 3.7 ... If you look at the home page of DP, for example Under Google, you can see that it says in bold: Sub Forums: followed by the sub forum names, in this case: Adsense etc, showing up in green, underlined as a clickable link. How do I please add sub forums to my own forum in an identical manner to this? What do I need to click on, where, and in what order to get my subforums to appear like this too? Any helpful assistance would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks! Mark Magawr
Well, You have to follow the same process you did while creating the forums. It's just that you add them as child forums. There is a drop down menu with the default option "Edit forum". Click there and choose add child forum. You'd be able to make them. If you're doing it for the first time, you have to change the subforum depth as well. Go to vBulletin options > Forum listing and display options & change the subforum depth to 1 to make those subforums show.
Thanks for that, much appreciated, between your advice and using the search facility here at DP, I'm sure now I can find the solution to my question. A great many thanks for your assistance and help, jolly kind of you! Mark Magawr
Oakey doakey second question, if someone could assist with this, it again would be greatly appreciated. I/we have somewhere in the region of up to about 100 subforums to add. For some reason the present settings are not allowing me to enter any more text links to these extra forums. If I go to vBulletin Options > Edit Settings > Forum Listings Display Options - what should I enter in terms of numbers in the boxes that will allow me to add this high number of sub forums please, as previously described? Or maybe Forum Listings Display Options is not the right area to do this in. Could you please tell me where I need to go in the vBulletin control panel and the numbers that I need to input into the boxes, where and in what order etc? Step by step instructions would greatly ease my ability to carry this task out without assuming that I must know the next step/s to take. I would really appreciate any assistance offered with this problem. ***** Re: Forum Listings Display Options Depth of Forums - Forum Home Depth to show forums on forum home forum listings. If you set this value to '2', forum listings will show the current forum level and any child forums one level below (etc.) The value here is at present set to 2 Depth of Forums - Forum Display This setting does the same job as the setting above, but this time for forumdisplay.php pages, rather than forum home. The value here is at present set to 2 Depth of Sub-Forums If you have forums below the depth specified in the 'Depth of Forums' settings above, you can display them as sub-forum links in each forum's display area. Set this value to 0 if you want to display no sub-forums. The value here is at present set to 2 Do I need to change these values? If so, what is the number to input into each box for approximately 100 sub forums? Many thanks! Mark Magawr
Let's take a look. This is your main-forum - Webmasters forum. This is a child forum to Webmasters forum - Webmasters Lobby This is a child forum to Webmasters Lobby - Blogging If you want to show forums nested up to that (Webmasters forum > Webmasters lobby > blogging ) level, or even more, you should change the subforum depth accordingly.
Many thanks again for your help. Sleeping on it, I've realised now that I was approaching this completely from the wrong angle. This being a new forum, there were way too many categories and sub forums and this is not the way forwards to get a forum successful and off the ground. So, all the work that I did in the past couple of days, I've just saved all of that data, forum titles and first posts made into Notepad, and then just severely cut back on the number of forums overall including the deletion of all but 1 subforum, so that now we have a total of 10 forum headings in total. I think if I had gone with my first approach, this would have been a major mistake, there were just far too many. Any posts made by new members would be completely lost on the forum and too, it would have required instantly a large number of posters starting a great number of threads to fatten out the forum topics and posts being displayed. It's better I think to have fewer (now 10) forums, so that when new posts and threads are submitted, the forum will appear busier whilst too, it helps new members to more easily gain an identity of their own within this new community that we are creating. This I believe is definitely the way to go and forwards at a more optimum pace whilst serving our members better, their needs etc. It actually isn't about what I want but it is most definitely about serving the community in the most effective and best manner possible, looking after the needs of my visitors and potential posters. If and when demand on the forum increases, only at that point, will we introduce more forum / subforum categories, as demand calls for it. Again, to the poster above, I just wanted to say to you personally, a great deal of thanks and appreciation for your time and assistance and may I wish you an absolutely fantastic weekend. All the best! Mark - http://TheA1Forum.com