The article has been updated successfully. Simple Admin Panel:
1 - Go to your Admin Control Panel (located at the bottom of your forum once you are logged in as an admin)
2 - Click the 'General' Tab, and then click 'Categories and Forums' on the left hand side of the ACP
3 - Click either the green plus sign next to a forum, or enter a name for the forum at the bottom and press submit
4 - Configure the forum type you want (category, or a forum), and then select the parent forum (the forum/category the forum will be physically located at on the board), and then enter in the forum name, and description, and hit next
5 - From this next page, you can configure the Permissions for the forum, which are as simple as selecting what permissions you'd like which group to have, and then press submit.
Once you've done that, congratulations you've now made another forum/category on your board!
1 - Go to your Board Index.
1 - Go to your Admin Control Panel (located at the bottom of your forum once you are logged in as an admin)
2 - Click the 'General' Tab, and then click 'Categories and Forums' on the left hand side of the ACP
3 - Click either the green plus sign next to a forum, or enter a name for the forum at the bottom and press submit
4 - Configure the forum type you want (category, or a forum), and then select the parent forum (the forum/category the forum will be physically located at on the board), and then enter in the forum name, and description, and hit next
5 - From this next page, you can configure the Permissions for the forum, which are as simple as selecting what permissions you'd like which group to have, and then press submit.
Once you've done that, congratulations you've now made another forum/category on your board!
2 - Go to your Administrator Control Panel (ACP) by clicking so on the link at the bottom of the Board Idex.
3 - Go to the FORUMS Tab in the advanced ACP and at the bottom of the page you will see a text box and a button that says Add Forum, just type in the forum name and click on the button. Or you can click on the green + to add a forum with that Category/Forum as it's parent forum.
4 - A new Page is opened with several fields and options you can/need to fill in. I will go through them one at a time.
x Forum type: This is where you decide what you'd like the forum to be, if you want it to be a category then select 'category', if you want it to be a forum or a subforum, select it as a 'forum'
x Parent Forum: This will depend on what you've selected in the previous field. If you want it to be a Category, select 'No Parent'. If you want it to be a forum select the parent forum as a category you already have made, and if you want it to be a sub-forum select the parent to be a forum that is already made.
x Forum Name: Choose your desired forum, category, or sub-forum name
x Description: You can add a little description about your forum, which will appear under the forum name on your forum.
x Forum Image: You can upload an image which will appear infront of the Forum Name. I wouldn't chose one that is too big, otherwise the layout looks off, but this is personal preference.
x Forum Password: If you want this forum to be Passworded you can define a password here. So everytime someone wants to read this Forum they have to fill in this password.
x Forum Style: You can choose the style you want to have in this specific catogory. Or leave it as "Default style" to use your default style.
x Copy Permissions from: If you've already made a category or forum with the desired permissions, you can copy them. Otherwise leave it at: "Do Not Copy Permissions". Then you will have to set them afterwards. This is important (to set permissions) as without proper permissions no one will be able to view the forum on the main page of your forum even though it exists.
x Forum Status: You can choose between locked and unlocked, depending on what you want.
x List Subforums in Legend: I'll do these two at once, if you set these both to yes, the Sub-Forums they have will be listed in the Board Index within the Description are as Links.
x List Subforum in Legend of Parent-forum's Legend: like this:
x Enable Post Review: If set to yes users are able to review their post if new posts were made to the topic while users wrote theirs. This should be disabled for chat forums.
x Enable Search Indexing: If set to yes posts made to this forum will be included for searching.
x Enable Topic Icons: If set to yes, Topic Starters can define a small image that will be displayed infront of the Topic Title.
x Display Active Topics: If set to yes topics made in this forum will be shown in the active topics list.
x Topics Per Page: If you want to customize the amount of topics listed per page, other than the default you can do so here. Otherwise leave it at "0".
x Enable Auto-Pruning: If set to "yes", it removes topics which don't have new posts or haven't been viewed at, with the parameters you can set below. If set to "no", all topics stay.
x Auto-Prune Frequency: How often it have to check if a Topic has to be 'pruned'. Set in days
x Auto-Prune Post Age: If a topic hasn't had new posts in this amount of days it will be removed. Set in days.
x Auto-Prune Post Viewed Age: If a topic hasn't been looked at in this amount of days, it will be removed. Set in days.
x Prune Old Polls: This will remove Topics with Polls not voted in the amount of days set in "Auto-Prune Post Age".
x Prune Announcements: Choose it "pruning" also may prune/remove Announcements.
x Prune Stickies: Choose if "pruning" also may prune/remove stickified posts.
x Link to Forum Rules: If you already got a list of Rules made somewhere, you can give the link to it here.
x Forum Rules: Make a small list of your forum rules.
5 - Press Submit
These next steps are not necessary if you have chosen 'Standard Permissions' (the default selected option) for the forum permissions
6 - You will get a green box, with a link "set permissions", click on it or wait till you get redirected automatically.
7 - On the bottom right you see a list of groups which you have. Select them one by one and click on: Add Permissions.
8 - You can assign them a Role, or click on Advanced Permissions on the Right and set the permissions one by one.
9 - Click on Apply all Permissions
10 - Repeat this for all groups you want to have permissions.
11 - You've now successfully made a Forum
