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Mar 19, 2010
6:18 am

ivywallah

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Hello. I am in the process of creating my first Forum. Love the program so far! I have a few questions. First, the width of the forum is not as wide as my webpage (take a look, http://www.ivywallah.com) which is 938 px. It also seems that the width gets even smaller when I click on a thread, can I change this to make it standard?

Second, when I create a new username or login, the banner still shows me as being a guest until I click on a thread – essentially offering no evidence that the login was successful.

Finally, can you point me to some sort of tutorial on how to create my own custom login page? I think it would make the whole thing look alot more professional.

Thanks!

Mar 19, 2010
8:26 am

Mr Papa

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it is standard… its following the space given to it by your wp theme…

in your style.css line 438, the display: inline-block is not letting go full width… you either need to remove that, or add a width:100% there or line 317… or add a new class to either one that is only used on your forum page template…

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Mar 23, 2010
6:00 am

Fellow Webmaster

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Hey, can you try to explain that in a little bit simpler terms? I barely understand how to edit CSS and PHP. I mainly tweak by Googling for answers and using Firebug. I need to do this too. I am using the theme "Girl". I want my forum to display full width.

I should mention I created a duplicate of my default page template and gave it a template name "blank" and removed the get_sidebar() tag for this page template.

Thanks

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Mar 23, 2010
7:16 am

Yellow Swordfish

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Ok – let's take the first part – "style.css line 438, the display: inline-block"

This refers to your theme stylesheet – usually style.css. On lne 438 (as Steve found) the area where the forum will display in as a directive of 'display: inline-block'. This will prevent it from using the full width available and just use whatever it needs. Try removing that directive – just that one line – then, after a browser cache refresh – test (a) if the forum now displays full width; and (b) are other pages and posts effected adversly by this change. if they are then come back and we can go down an alternate route.

Afrad I know of no tutorials on creating your own login page but you could take a look at how the forum does it (/forum/forms/sf-form-login.php).The main things to remember are (a) always to call the stabdard WP login code from the form and (b) to use the correct input and button element names.

And finally – if you are not being shown as logged in there has to be a local envitonmental reason for this. For example – ado you have any cacheing plugins active? Or any other plugins that manipulate the login process? All SPF does it hand off to WP…