# vBulletin Forums List Page?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-forums-list-page/85364
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 15, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-forums-list-page/85364 "2018-04-15T09:04:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ryanerwin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryanerwin)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-forums-list-page/85364/1 "2018-04-15T09:04:13Z")
I’m trying to migrate an old, large vBulletin community to discourse. Personally, I can’t stand vBulletin…
However, some of our VIPs absolutely love vBulletin because they’ve been using it everyday for 10+ years… Previewing the new `discourse` version of the forum, they’ve been a bit startled by how big the transition, and asked for ways to make it look more like vBulletin.
I’ve gone through the “admin” options, and written a lot of CSS for the new site, but in some cases the data is quite different.
Specifically, I would like to make the main page look more like:
And make the threads page look more like:
Joking about how bad vBulletin is or how people should just adapt aside, thoughts about how to do this.
For example, I thought using the `Categories` page as the default page would be helpful, but checking the [`plugin-outlet` locations](http://discourse-plugin-outlet-locations) for the categories page, I don’t see a good place to pull in the last post for each category.
Any tips from people that have done lots of Discourse development?
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### Author:  [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-forums-list-page/85364/2 "2018-04-15T11:29:16Z")
I think the easiest way is to make a plugin.
Next, override the template files starting from:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/categories-and-latest-topics.hbs](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/categories-and-latest-topics.hbs)
(in our case )
We tried to find which files are responsible for shaping the appearance (sketch):
We got this.:
In other words, I think using this approach, you can radically change the design.
**Disadvantage:** you’ll need to follow the change of the official files in order to make timely changes. Maybe there’s a better way.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-forums-list-page/85364/3 "2018-04-15T11:35:14Z")
Hmm no I think @sam would recommend a different method here.
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### Author:  [@ryanerwin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryanerwin)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-forums-list-page/85364/4 "2018-04-15T11:49:11Z")
> [@Stranik](#):
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> We got this.
Thanks for the idea @Stranik
Looks really great as far as getting close for users completely adapted to vBulletin!
It’s like a vBulletin view actually looks nice! 😉
> [@Stranik](#):
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> I think the easiest way is to make a plugin.
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> Next, override the template files starting from: `templates/components/categories-and-latest-topics.hbs`
Per Jeff, Look forward to hearing from @sam about the recommended way to do this.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-forums-list-page/85364/5 "2018-04-15T21:30:10Z")
I strongly recommend against using a plugin here, a theme should do the trick and is far simpler to manage long term, same techniques work with themes