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Ok, I'm pretty low-tech and this doesn't seem to have been posted around here before. I just installed WP on server and simple:press, all successful. However one thing that has been frustrating the last couple hours which I can't figure out is how to change is the width/size of the forum to actually give the "full size" experience, instead I have some half-tiny forum in the middle of the page :/ check http://www.valorforum.com to see what I mean. Please do explain in very simple English thanks
Thanks for all help I can get and sorry if this is a sort of ABC question 
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The forum fits into the size of the container that is set for your page(s) in your WordPress theme.
I assume the forum you are talking about is http://www.valorforum.com/forum/ and not http://www.valorforum.com/
If there is a setting for width in your WordPress theme I would take a look at that. If not you may to change manually or try another WordPress theme.
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well sadly you are using wp twentyeleven theme... the wp core and theme devs dont believe that a full page template means all the width should be used... they believe keep the same width as with sidebar but center the content... and waste all that real estate with empty space...
I think they are wrong, but they have promptly rejected any tickets I wrote against wp on how twenty ten and twenty eleven handle full width templates...
you will either need to edit the theme or make a child theme of twenty eleven to fix that ugly behaviour in the wp theme... the offending CSS in the theme stylesheet is:
.singular .entry-header, .singular .entry-content, .singular footer.entry-meta, .singular #comments-title {
where the width is set to 68.9%
you could also make your own page template for the forum and create your own css for modifying...
I would go the child theme route so you can get twenty eleven updates... it only 2 lines in the child theme css file...
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Brandon C said
The forum fits into the size of the container that is set for your page(s) in your WordPress theme.I assume the forum you are talking about is http://www.valorforum.com/forum/ and not http://www.valorforum.com/
If there is a setting for width in your WordPress theme I would take a look at that. If not you may to change manually or try another WordPress theme.
Yes sorry, thanks for updating it for me 🙂
Mr Papa said
well sadly you are using wp twentyeleven theme... the wp core and theme devs dont believe that a full page template means all the width should be used... they believe keep the same width as with sidebar but center the content... and waste all that real estate with empty space...I think they are wrong, but they have promptly rejected any tickets I wrote against wp on how twenty ten and twenty eleven handle full width templates...
you will either need to edit the theme or make a child theme of twenty eleven to fix that ugly behaviour in the wp theme... the offending CSS in the theme stylesheet is:
.singular .entry-header, .singular .entry-content, .singular footer.entry-meta, .singular #comments-title {
where the width is set to 68.9%
you could also make your own page template for the forum and create your own css for modifying...
I would go the child theme route so you can get twenty eleven updates... it only 2 lines in the child theme css file...
Thanks! it's much better now, however you got me into more questions now
1. The width is now 100%, however I still have a couple of empty cm on widht and on the top towards slideshow, I'd like to max it and leave no white space 🙂
2. Now when editing the stylesheet.. if I update the theme I would have to make the change again right? (just asking to make sure if I need to save the changes somewhere in case there comes an update)
And thanks both of you for so quick replies!
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yes, if you update the theme, you will have to make the changes again... that is why I suggested a child theme... then you would not have to make the changes again... its quite easy in this case to make a child theme... only the css changes you make need to be in single file... see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
firefox and firebug are great for css work such as this... you can inspect any element and see the driving css and make changes to test out what you want...
in this case:
.singular #content, .left-sidebar.singular #content {
margin: 0 7.6%;
position: relative;
width: auto;
}is driving the margins on the side... and
.singular.page .hentry {
padding: 3.5em 0 0;
}
.entry-content, .entry-summary {
padding: 1.625em 0 0;
}is driving the white space at top...
Those WP devs just love all the wasted space...
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Wow, you are awesome Mr Papa! Thanks! Now I'm going to firebug the last spacing on top 🙂
However I failed with child theme, followed steps but it doesnt appear in my "themes" section. Should I create a new thread for this?
I made new directory called twentyelevenchild and the folder only contains style.css with the example as in the instructions, but the theme doesn't appear in WP
Thanks
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np. glad to help.
did your css file in child theme have the import statement for the parent css as the wp example shows? must of course have the path to the parent correct...
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Yes, in my case I suppose it's:
@import url("valorforum.com/forum/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/style.css");
?
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no, like the example in the wp codex, you just want:
@import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");
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