How to make a forum a category?

by jaebaeli November 30th 2007, 5:31 pm

How do i change a forum to a category?
I'm having trouble with organizing the tiers, because by the 4th level, i can't use the sticky feature...
Like, if i have a category, NETWORKING
and below that a STATE name,
and below that, an event in that state,
but need a sticky under that event for an RSVP list, then it seems at that point, i can't make a sticky, because the structure is then the posts themselves, without the divisions...does that make sense?

So i figure i need to eliminate the top category of NETWORKING and move all those STATES under separate categories...but that will be a hassle, because this will mean doing it FIFTY times.

Any way around this?

by jaebaeli December 3rd 2007, 1:58 pm

really do need to know how to do this.
Perhaps we need a feature added in mods or admin that allows us to change a forum to a category, and all that previous forums topics to become forums under the new category. This would be extremely helpful when keeping up with the growth of a site.

Some confusion exists here:
is a sub-forum the same as a topic? is a topic both a sub-forum and a forum??
when i create a new category, and want to move a forum under that category, and also each topic under that forum to the NEW category, how do i do that?

I often need to lose the extra topic title...i.e.
I want to move moral and ethical dilemmas to the CATEGORY: Philosophy. But beneath Moral & Ethical Dilemmas, i have different posts about different examples of this, with response posts to each of those.
So it's
*PHILOSOPHY*
>Moral & Ethical Dilemmas
>>The Hunter's Conundrum
>>>replies

I need to use the category structure, becuase i want the topics beneath each to appear on the home page in smaller type, clickable, beneath.