Forum Categories(vBulletin Setup)

[jeane paul]

Greetings,

Am trying my new forums, made from vBUlletin, yes and am liking vBulletin. am new to this, and i dont know if its just me or what, can anyone tell me how to create new categories?. cz i only have 'Main category' in my forum.

[Reiji Kurosaky]

Hello,

In vBulletin the categories are just innactive forums, so go to your ACP, create a new forum and then select "Act as a forum?" (or something like that) and select 'no' (the description says; "If no, will act as a category).

Next to create forums, just do it as if you were creating subforums to that forum.

[jeane paul]

Greetings,

I guess, am not reading well ;) thanks Reiji. really, for me, vBulletin is very complicated. i guess, there's still more i have to explore first, before handing it to a live forums. anyhow, thanks for the help;

[Reiji Kurosaky]

You´re welcome.

Actually vBulletin isn´t as hard as it seems, its a lot easier once you start working with it.

I´m coding for vBulletin, phpBB and MyBB right now and I can tell you, they are pretty easy to know, just give it time.

[jeane paul]

Greetings,

Am exploring new tries, for education purposes. however, i want to know also if there is another alternative/ same forums like vBulletin here on earth?.

[jeane paul]

Greetings,

sad, am trying out new forums. but, somehow, i felt, like 'oh no its no CA's styles and i cant use that'. really, i like ca's styles. but, i want to try out new ones.

[Reiji Kurosaky]

Greetings,

Am exploring new tries, for education purposes. however, i want to know also if there is another alternative/ same forums like vBulletin here on earth?.

Hello,

Try MyBB, is really similar to vB, although MyBB is newer so t doesn´t have all that stuff yet (support, mods, themes, etc.)...but its growing pretty fast.

[jeane paul]

Greetings,

Thanks Reiji, if happens i switched to vBulletin/ myBB, will i be able to convert it safely?. am worried about my members, :(

[Reiji Kurosaky]

Hello,

To vBulletin mostly yes, as they have a great source of converters (more info at the vbulletin.org forums).

To MyBB you can find some converters in their forum, but none is completely functional yet. They are currently developing an importer (very good imo) but it will not be available until release 1.4 (they´re currently at 1.2) so you´ll have to wait for a fully functional converter to mybb.