[3sixty]

thanks guys, I’m happy to help, but I’m an amateur coder and I’ve never done a plugin before. I’ve seen the wp codex entry on creating plugins but am just trying to get my own site up and running at the moment. If any of you can suggest a “how to write a plugin” shortcut that would be great.

I just had a revelation tonight that it would be relatively trivial to extend this to topic merge and topic split, completing the “holy trinity” of forum manipulation.

It also seems that wp hacks are becoming a lost art – I tried to make the code paste-able, and simple as possible, so you could just grab it immediately and run with it? Is it not working for you?