Removing sidebar for a forum page

[globalrec44]

Hi,

I am using the News theme by Devpress and I would like to remove the side bar on one page that I would like to put my forum/message board on. So the message board can use the full width of my web page. I’m pretty new to WordPress/site building. Would anyone be able to tell me how to do this?

Thanks,
James

[Kathryn Presner]

Devpress provides their own support – they are best suited to answer your question:

http://devpress.com/support/

[globalrec44]

Thanks. I have tried asking questions there, but nobody ever responds to any posts there.

[Kathryn Presner]

The short answer is to create a custom template for your forum section:

How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template
http://www.wordpressmax.com/customize-wordpress/custom-page

Creating Your Own Page Templates
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

I don’t know anything about the News theme, but you could check whether it comes with a full-width page template.

[globalrec44]

Thanks for the info.

I was able to creat a new page called Forum.page by cloning the original page template. I figured out how to resize the content area so it uses the full width of the page but I still can’t figure out how to do this.

Any help would be appreciated.

You can view my test site at globalrec.net

Thanks,
James

[Rev. Voodoo]

you don’t want to call it forum.page, it should be forum.php

Once you have that, if you have the proper header on the file per the instructions above, it should be listed as a page template

You can then edit the page holding your forum to use that page template

[globalrec44]

Thanks. Rev. Voodoo. I did call it forum.php and I do see it now listed as a template. However, I don’t see where in this template to increase the width so it takes up the whole page.

[Rev. Voodoo]

well, that’s all done in the css really.

You have to look at where the width is set in the css, and maybe change out some div classes/IDs

For instance, when I made a forum full width template I had to remove the sidebar call

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

which gets rid of the sidebar easy enough. Then I had in my page.php a div called

<div id="content">

and in style.css it said

#content {
     width: 620px;
     color: whatev;
     more css rules;
}

I couldn’t change that obviously, as the content div was used all over my site…changing it would affect everything

So I just renamed that div in my forum template to

<div id="forumContent">

and copied the content css, and changed it to apply to my new div

#forumContent {
     width: 975px;
     color: whatev;
     more css rules;
}

[globalrec44]

Voodoo , that’s some great info there. Thanks alot for your help! I will give it a shot.

[globalrec44]

Hey Rev. Voodoo,

I tried it out, but it didn’t work. Any idea why?