Change content and sidebar widths for forum page only?

[Adam W. Warner]

Hi Jared,

Just left you a review, super cool plugin!

I’m trying to accomplish one last thing in my bbPress/Genesis child theme (Altitude Pro) setup on my forums pages.

The full page layout content width for this theme is set as 800px and that’s JUST width enough for the forums to be read easily by users. However, when I use the setting to add a forum-specific sidebar, the results are undesirable because the forums get too narrow and the sidebar is pretty wide.

I wonder if you know how, or can link me to some guidance to modify your forum-specific sidebar down to say, 200px in order to retain some of the forum width while still being able to have sidebar content?

In a perfect world, I’d really prefer to increase the full width layout setting but only for the forum page. My goal is to get the forums outside of that 800px content restriction from this Genesis child theme.

Any thoughts or advice are greatly appreciated.

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[Jared Atchison]

Thanks for the review and kind words, really appreciate it.

So you are looking to adjust the style (CSS) the bbPress layout while leaving the normal Genesis stuff as-is – does that sound correct? Just want to see if I’m following right.

[Adam W. Warner]

Yep, that’s correct.

I have bbPress in a normal page using the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode. On this page I have chosen the Genesis “full width” layout.

It looks like that content width is in part controlled by this:

.full-width-content .content
padding: 0 200px 50px;
width: 100%;

If I change 200px padding above to 0, then the forums expand.

So perhaps what I need here is to target that specific page and override the Genesis layout CSS or maybe create a new page template for use on that page?

[Adam W. Warner]

Doing some more research. I think I misspoke when I suggested a new page template. I think what I really need is to add a new LAYOUT option in Genesis.

Still looking into this…