@PitaJ Covered via toggling a category as a section? This is what I end up with:

@PitaJ Is it possible to rename from "Categories" to something else and add more just like it? That would give the same functionality.

Another good use for separate categories or "sections" is allowing users to collapse and ignore entire sections. It's an organization thing. It's cleaner and nicer for a lot of people.

Something like this:
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So what I ended up doing was converting from Apache2 to Nginx and created a server entry for nodebb with SSL. I'm thinking it was primarily the SSL and lack of server block for nodebb causing the forums.example.com to redirect back to example.com

I used the one-click install on Digital ocean, because why not, and have the URL working properly for the wordpress site using https, but when I try to install nodebb I can't seem to access the forum even using the ip:4567 . Anyone have similar issues? I ran it on it's own server and it works fine. It has something to do with Apache I'm sure, maybe my dns settings, but I haven't figured it out yet.