[chrishajer]

You could just replace the contents of your template’s front-page.php with this code to redirect the visitor:

<?php

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: http://www.example.com/forums/forum-slug");

exit;

?>

Just change http://www.example.com/forums/forum-slug to the URL where you want people to end up.