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is it possible to make the “Forum” dropdown menu a required field, and to require that in that drop down users choose a forum and not be able to choose “no forums” (which currently shows as the the default option).

I will create a trac ticket for this later today. It might be best for it to be required and for the default text to be “choose forum” instead.

You can create a button to your new topic page easily by using the text widget provided from WordPress, and adding this simple HTML.

<a href="http://yoursite.com/new-topic" class="button">New Topic</a>