Ok, thanks to your idea, I’ve got it working. I quickly slapped together a theme that names the forums “categories” and uses the “latest topics” as the main view. It’s a very awkward theme, the CSS is crap, there is repeated code here and there but it is just a proof of concept. I’ll work more on it later.
You can get it here:
http://www.yelostudio.com/dump/yelobbpress.zip
ok scratch that, the code is:
<a href="<?php forum_link($topic->forum_id); ?>"><?php forum_name($topic->forum_id);?></a>
tried it, it works.
this is what I did:
<a href="<?php forum_link($topic); ?>"><?php forum_name($topic);?></a>
I have no idea if it is the best way…No documentation, I just tried some function names that seemed logical to me and it worked.