UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas collapsed cats for subforums workaround

I don't really need subcategories, IF I could collapse categories from the start.

As a user, it is easy to collapse a category just by clicking the little "-" thing.

It would be great if there was a way that Admins could select a setup where certain cats were collapsed and certain weren't, instead of choosing to start out with cats only displayed, or forums only displayed...

This seems like it wouldn't be too hard. Anyone????

(here's my reasoning)

If you have 400 forums and some are hardly posted in, it looks like your site isn't frequented as often as it is.

Plus, it's a hassle to wade through a bunch of forums if you are only interested in a few.

I want to create a forum for each state, and for each specialty for my nurses, BUT, I want them under that states and specialties categories and I want them collapsed.

Their existence is more for SEO purposes, as I have noticed that the forum titles/descriptions have helped me out quite a bit there. Once Josh's header insert mod for individual forums is done, it will be much easier to change the meta data for those up in a minute or two, and I'll be getting a bunch more traffic.

If any of the forums in those cats become popular, I could always move them out...but at least they'd be there for the search engines.

Any thoughts?

there is a way you can create a link and include in your link the category number in the url

This will only display the category or the categories you specify

such as this https://www.ubbdev.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?Cat=2,4

That's good, but it limits you in that clicking on the main index doesn't get you to all the cats...

just fix the link for main index to be =0

yeah, but what I'm saying is I don't want all those forums to show up on the main index.

Is there a way to do what you did, but make is show say 4 of 6 categories, leaving 2 out?

That would work, I guess.