Hi I am trying to widen my forum, I have successfully created a custom page template and the sidebars are gone for the forum page. I also changed my .css file and the forum moved over to the left into the sidebar area but did not widen.

Here is the code I added for the custom template (as well as removing the sidebar commands):

<?php
/*
Template Name: Custom
*/
?>

and I changed the “content” to

<div id=”content” class=”custom”>

This is what I added to my .css file directly under “content”

.custom {
    width: 100%;
        padding: 0 0 20px 45px;
        margin: 0px 0 0;
    }

I also tried “auto” and all sorts of custom numbers of px after “width”

I am at a loss as to what I am missing. The URL of my sites forum page is:

http://www.eastcoastboarders.com/forum&nbsp;

As you can see the sidebars are gone and the forum has shifted left but not widened.

Thank you in advance for any help on this matter and also for providing such an excellent plugin.

OK I changed the custom.php template to:

<div id=”contentforum”>

and put this in the .css:

#contentforum {
    width: auto;
        padding: 0 0 20px 45px;
        margin: 0px 0 0;
    }

(again tried 100% and different px sizes after “width”) still to no avail, did I do that right? 

Also I have this code in the custom.php template (left over from the original page.php)

<div id=”contentleft”>
    
        <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
        
        <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
        <?php the_content(__('Read more'));?>
        
        <?php endwhile; else: ?>
        
        <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p><?php endif; ?>

could that be affecting it?

Thanks again.

Worked like a charm!

Thank you so much for your excellent (and very fast) help with this.

Hi,

Iam new to this forum but it seems to be your getting good results in solving many problems faced by views of the forum.

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Rosy