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width:132px;"/></a></li> <li class="name"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://www.seandawes.com/">seandawes</a></li> <li class="role"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://bbpress.org/forums/profile/seandawes">Member</a></li> </ul> <ul class="bborg-post-info"> <li>Posted 3 days ago <a href="#post-72638">#</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="grid_7 omega post"><p>I am looking to have my bbpress forum mimic how a vbulletin forum works from a management standpoint.</p> <p>I would like to be able to set main categories with sub headings underneath. Then within each sub category or just the main category, users can create threads. </p> <p>Right now users can just create threads that must sync with a group in order for it to show up.</p> <p>So I would like to be able to do something like this <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://www.3si.org/forum" rel="nofollow">http://www.3si.org/forum</a></p> <p>thanks </p></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </li> <li id="post-72640" class="post alt"> <div id="position-2"> <div class="grid_2 alpha"> <ul class="bborg-post-author-info"> <li class="avatar"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://www.brigata.it/"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/316d53832b0e9a743b4a69e83228665b?s=132&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D132" class="photo avatar avatar-132" style="height:132px; width:132px;"/></a></li> <li class="name"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://www.brigata.it/">zaerl</a></li> <li class="role"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://bbpress.org/forums/profile/zaerl">Member</a></li> </ul> <ul class="bborg-post-info"> <li>Posted 3 days ago <a href="#post-72640">#</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="grid_7 omega post"><p>bbPress has forums and sub-forums. Just edit the <code>front-page.php</code> template file. </p></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </li> <li id="post-72641" class="post"> <div id="position-3"> <div class="grid_2 alpha"> <ul class="bborg-post-author-info"> <li class="avatar"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://twitter.com/chrishajer"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5e89e247cafd3151b66f160d4a29729e?s=132&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D132" class="photo avatar avatar-132" style="height:132px; width:132px;"/></a></li> <li class="name"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://twitter.com/chrishajer">chrishajer</a></li> <li class="role"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://bbpress.org/forums/profile/chrishajer">Moderator</a></li> </ul> <ul class="bborg-post-info"> <li>Posted 3 days ago <a href="#post-72641">#</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="grid_7 omega post"><p>You say "groups": are you running the forums that were installed with BuddyPress? </p></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </li> <li id="post-72642" class="post alt"> <div id="position-4"> <div class="grid_2 alpha"> <ul class="bborg-post-author-info"> <li class="avatar"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://www.seandawes.com/"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/53b0fe481216e3dee3f5cc0826d057ad?s=132&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D132" class="photo avatar avatar-132" style="height:132px; width:132px;"/></a></li> <li class="name"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://www.seandawes.com/">seandawes</a></li> <li class="role"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://bbpress.org/forums/profile/seandawes">Member</a></li> </ul> <ul class="bborg-post-info"> <li>Posted 3 days ago <a href="#post-72642">#</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="grid_7 omega post"><p>Chris</p> <p>It has bbpress integration in buddypress according to the admin panel</p> <p>thanks<br/> Sean </p></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </li> <li id="post-72643" class="post"> <div id="position-5"> <div class="grid_2 alpha"> <ul class="bborg-post-author-info"> <li class="avatar"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://twitter.com/chrishajer"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5e89e247cafd3151b66f160d4a29729e?s=132&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D132" class="photo avatar avatar-132" style="height:132px; width:132px;"/></a></li> <li class="name"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://twitter.com/chrishajer">chrishajer</a></li> <li class="role"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://bbpress.org/forums/profile/chrishajer">Moderator</a></li> </ul> <ul class="bborg-post-info"> <li>Posted 3 days ago <a href="#post-72643">#</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="grid_7 omega post"><p>That is a question for BuddyPress then. The version of bbPress they included in BuddyPress is not really anything like bbPress any more. There are enough differences that you will have better luck resolving your issue at the BuddyPress forums. </p></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </li> <li id="post-72646" class="post alt"> <div id="position-6"> <div class="grid_2 alpha"> <ul class="bborg-post-author-info"> <li class="avatar"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://www.seandawes.com/"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/53b0fe481216e3dee3f5cc0826d057ad?s=132&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D132" class="photo avatar avatar-132" style="height:132px; width:132px;"/></a></li> <li class="name"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://www.seandawes.com/">seandawes</a></li> <li class="role"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://bbpress.org/forums/profile/seandawes">Member</a></li> </ul> <ul class="bborg-post-info"> <li>Posted 3 days ago <a href="#post-72646">#</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="grid_7 omega post"><p>Oh ok. thanks for all your help </p></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </li> <li id="post-closed" class="post"> <div class="prefix_2"> This topic is <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424im_/http://bbpress.org/forum-theme/bborg/images/support-forum-icons/support-forum-closed.png" alt=""/> closed </div> </li> </ol> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="bborg-contentinfo" role="contentinfo" class="container_12"> <div id="bborg-extra" class="grid_2"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20100815082424/http://bbpress.org/about/privacy/">Privacy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20100815082424/http://bbpress.org/about/gpl/"><abbr title="GNU Public License">GPL</abbr></a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="bborg-also" class="grid_8"> <h2>See also:</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://wordpress.org/">WordPress.org</a></li>  <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://wordpress.tv/">WordPress.TV</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://wordcamp.org/">WordCamp</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://jobs.wordpress.net/">WP Jobs</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://ma.tt/">Matt</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://www.facebook.com/pages/bbPress/37285629283/">Fan bbPress on Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815082424/http://bbpress.org/blog/feed/" class="feed">Blog Feed</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </body> </html>