XF 1.3 Recommendation for subforums

[upnet]

Does anyone have recommendations on how I should go about adding subforums to my site? I want to add a section for different cities around the world. If I just create child forums under a category it lists them all out. Considering I might have 20-50 cities, this isn't a reasonable solutionn for me. Here is a screenshot of a category i created 'markets' with a few sample cities. I would be populating this list with at least 10 cities for now, and probably up to 50 in the future. Any advice or examples would be apprecaited.

 

[Amaury]

By default sub-forums are shown in a popup menu, like so:


So it shouldn't cause any display issues for you to just make child nodes.

 

[upnet]

Thanks for the response. I must be creating them incorrectly? I tried before creating a forum and then creating forums as the first forums children, but it still came up in a list like the screenshot I showed. Am I missing some aspect of creating sub-forums in XF1.3?

 

[upnet]

Here I created a forum node called 'Markets' and then I created the other nodes as forums as well but as childs of the Market forum, but it all just appears on the home page?

 

[Amaury]

Can you screenshot your node tree in the admin control panel?

 

[upnet]

 

[AndyB]

I suggest each city have it's own forum. Having 50 forums in a category called Cities will be fine. I suggest you show them in alphabetical order. Be sure to number the cities (internal Node Tree number) with a gap of say 10 so you will be able to add new cities and have them show in the correct order.

 

[upnet]

I suggest each city have it's own forum. Having 50 forums in a category called Cities will be fine. I suggest you show them in alphabetical order. Be sure to number the cities (internal Node Tree number) with a gap of say 10 so you will be able to add new cities and have them show in the correct order.

Hey AndyB - do you have an example of what you mean? Like my first screenshot but all the cities listed out on the front page? I'm thinking I don't want it to be 4 scrolls worth on the 1st page. How do I get the sub-forum dropdown like "resource and add-on release"?

 

[Amaury]

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What you have are forums, not sub-forums. In this case, for example, Markets is a category and Seattle, Tampa, Boston, Los Angeles are forums.

What you could do is this: leave Markets as a category and create a forum under it called Cities or something like that. Then make Seattle, Tampa, Boston, Los Angeles, and whatever else sub-forums of Cities.

 

[upnet]

I must not understand how to create sub-forums. What I have done is create a forum node and then make it a child of the category/forum node of 'markets'. Can you tell me what I'm missing to create a sub-forum?

 

[AndyB]

Hey AndyB - do you have an example of what you mean? Like my first screenshot but all the cities listed out on the front page?

Correct.

Here'e a link to my forum and it has over 100 forums on the forum list.

http://www.southbayriders.com/forums/

It is important to try it on the three types of devices your members will be using, full size screen, tablet and mobile device.

I'm thinking I don't want it to be 4 scrolls worth on the 1st page. How do I get the sub-forum dropdown like "resource and add-on release"?

Sub-forums should be avoided IMHO as they are difficult to use on mobile devices.

 

[upnet]

Ok, but if I want to create subforums with the dropdown... How do I do it?

 

[Amaury]

Ok, but if I want to create subforums with the dropdown... How do I do it?

• Create a category
• Create a forum
• Create a child forum for that forum

 

[upnet]

Ah, it has to be part of a category. I"ll try that, thank you.

 

[Amaury]

Ah, it has to be part of a category. I"ll try that, thank you.

Correct. For example, look here: http://xenforo.com/community/#public-forums.17

Public Forums is the category. XenForo Pre-Sales Questions, General XenForo Discussion and Feedback, and XenForo Suggestions are forums of the category. Closed Suggestions is a sub-forum of XenForo Suggestions.

 

[upnet]

Got it! Thanks Amaury! So that leads me to another question though. Can I put my existing forums that you see in the first screenshot into a new category? I didn't realize they should have one when I created them :\

 

[Paul B]

Nodes can be rearranged in the ACP.

Just change the parent node.

 

[upnet]

Oh yea, duh, thanks.

 

[upnet]

Question three. How do I remove the anchors "<a href>" from the category title on the homepage?

 

[Paul B]

If you want categories to open in a new page, that is an option.