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out of curiosity, why?  what is the point of the parent/sub forum relationships?  why not making Gaming a group vice parent forum if there will be nothing at the Gaming level?

We can show you how to remove from display, but want to make sure we understand the use case...  removing from display wont stop them from going there or from it being in the permalink...

We dont really have a method for having 'dummy' parent forums like that...  so you cannot make them completely unfunctional...  but you can remove the stuff you allude in the picture..  since what is displayed in your forum is theme and template tag driven, you need to just alter it...

in this case, we are talking forum view, so in your sp theme edit the spForumView.php template file...  and remove the parent forum display stuff...  it will be the section that starts with:

                # Start the 'forumHeader' section
                # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
                sp_SectionStart('tagClass=spForumViewSection', 'forum');

and ends with:

                sp_SectionEnd('', 'forum');

just remove it and it wont show...  you likely also want to remove these sections:

                # Start the 'pagelinks' section
                # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
                sp_SectionStart('tagId=spTopicNewButtonTop&tagClass=spPlainSection', 'pageLinks');
                    sp_TopicNewButton('tagClass=spButton spRight', __sp('Add Topic'), __sp('Start a new topic'), __sp('This forum is locked'), __sp('No permission to start topics'));
                    sp_TopicIndexPageLinks('', __sp('Page: '), __sp('Jump to page %PAGE% of topics'), __sp('Jump to page'));
                sp_SectionEnd('tagClass=spClear', 'pageLinks');

and

                # Start the 'pagelinks' section
                # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
                sp_SectionStart('tagClass=spPlainSection', 'pageLinks');
                    sp_TopicNewButton('tagId=spTopicNewButtonBottom&tagClass=spButton spRight', __sp('Add Topic'), __sp('Start a new topic'), __sp('This forum is locked'), __sp('No permission to start topics'));
                    sp_TopicIndexPageLinks('', __sp('Page: '), __sp('Jump to page %PAGE% of topics'), __sp('Jump to page'));
                    sp_InsertBreak();
                sp_SectionEnd('', 'pageLinks');

since there wont be pages and you dont want an Add Topic button...

give that a try and see if it does what you want...

as always, we strongly recommend that you make a child theme or your own theme to keep from losing changes on updates to out themes...  see:

https://simple-press.com/docum.....g-a-theme/
https://simple-press.com/simpl.....ld-themes/

let us know how you make out...