Need help a) home page should only have login screen b) code for similar thread list
 

i was looking for 2 features for my forum i dont know where and how to get them (they could be plugins i guess)

1) when someone hits my webpage i dont what them to see anything other than log-in screen for eg
look at this site http://www.freesports4u.com/ you are forced to login in no guests how do we do this ?

2) in vb.org under every first topic of a thread we see list of similar threads (similar mod) how do i do that in my site ?