XF 1.5 Having recent forum posts come up on front page

[JustLearning]

http://www.studentdoctor.net/

I'm looking to have a site layout similar to this. Where the site is primarily a forum but there is a front page where I can post articles and auto populate threads people may be interested in. How can I have popular forum threads display on my frontpage like this?

Thanks.

 

[Paul B]

You can achieve that with one of the various portal/home page/widget add-ons.

There are several available in the resources.