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A screen layout question: better use of real estate?
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Jan 27, 2010 - 4:49 pm

One problem with the default layout is that it takes up a lot of vertical real estate, to the point where the first post in a thread is below the screen and I have to scroll down to see it!

 

Removing the search bar helps, but I can't help but think there is a better use of space here.  For instance, the thread title and path are displayed twice: in big letters at the top, and in the dropdown navigator below.  (Three times if your blog has a nav bar: it's displayed there, too.)  The thread title is displayed three times when reading it, because there is an additional bar devoted just to that, which is separate from the page navigation bar.

 

I'd like to have an option to make all that stuff more compact so the actual content is easier to see.  I have some ideas, but since I don't know how everything is coded, I'd like to throw out the idea first and see if our awesome developers have anything to say.

 

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Jan 27, 2010 - 7:03 pm

you can remove the page title page in the options already or in your theme (thats the first one you referenced)

you can remove it from the nav bar too - thats a wp bug... you dont see it in ours...

you can remove the dropdown box in the options too...

but most importantly, for 5.0, we hope to change the forum skin system over to a templating system (wp is a templating system) where you can have much more explicit control over where to put things... but first, 4.2 and 4.3 (wp 3.0 compatibility)...

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