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it looks ok; the forum is full width.

possibly clear the browser cache, i.e. ‘reload’ the page a few times, or try to press ‘CTRL F5’ or check your browser’s instructions…

Awesome. Thank you so much for helping me out. I really do appreciate it!

Ok, I think I got close. I will copy/paste what I created. It showed up as a page under a template to be chosen. Right now when I click on the forum page it still shows the forum in it’s shortened width size but it did remove the sidebar. Any ideas on what i need to change?

<?php
/*
Template Name: Forum
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
	<div id="container" class="fullwidth rounded-10">

	<div class="left rounded-8">
	<!--loop-->
    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

	<div class="page pic rounded-8">

        <!--post title-->
		<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
        <!--post with more link -->
		<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
        <!--if you paginate pages-->
		<?php //link_pages('<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', '</p>', 'number'); ?>

	<!--end of post and end of loop-->
	<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    <!--edit link-->
	<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>
	</div>
</div>

<!--page.php end-->
<div class="left title rounded-8">
<h1>

<!-- category-title -->
<?php global $post; $category = get_the_category($post->ID);  $category[0]->name; ?>

<?php
$categories = get_the_category(); //get all categories for this post
 $currentcat= $categories[0]->cat_ID;
?>
</h1>

<?php if($currentcat == 17 ){?>
<h2>Most Popular Videos</h2>
					<div class="popular">
					<?php
					$pc = new WP_Query('orderby=comment_count&cat=17&posts_per_page=10'); ?>

					<?php while ($pc->have_posts()) : $pc->the_post(); ?>
					<div class="popularposts">
					<?php $feat_image=get_the_post_thumbnail(get_the_ID(),array(207,45));
					 if($feat_image==null)
					{
						//$feat_image = catch_that_image(the_content());
					} ?>

					<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php echo $feat_image; ?>
					<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2></a><br/>
					<?php echo '<span class="postext"><span class="views-icon"></span>'.getPostViews(get_the_ID()).'<span class="comments-icon"></span>'. get_comments_number(get_the_ID()).'</span>';?>
																<!-- Code for Rating Starts-->
<div class="ratingDiv1">
<?php if(function_exists('the_ratings')) { the_ratings(); } ?>
</div>
<!-- Code for Rating Ends-->
					</div>
					<?php endwhile; ?>
					</div>
					<?php }else{ ?>

					      <h2>Most Popular Pictures</h2>
					<div class="popular">
					<?php
					$pc = new WP_Query('orderby=comment_count&cat=5&posts_per_page=10'); ?>

					<?php while ($pc->have_posts()) : $pc->the_post(); ?>
					<div class="popularposts">
					<?php $feat_image=get_the_post_thumbnail(get_the_ID(),array(207,45));
					 if($feat_image==null)
					{	?>
						<a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>">
					<img src="<?php echo catch_that_image($post->post_content) ?>" /> </a>
					<?php
					} ?>

					<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php echo $feat_image; ?>
					<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2></a><br/>
					<?php echo '<span class="postext"><span class="views-icon"></span>'.getPostViews(get_the_ID()).'<span class="comments-icon"></span>'.get_comments_number(get_the_ID()).'</span>';?>
																<!-- Code for Rating Starts-->
<div class="ratingDiv1">
<?php if(function_exists('the_ratings')) { the_ratings(); } ?>
</div>
<!-- Code for Rating Ends-->
					</div>
					<?php endwhile; ?>
					</div>
					<?php } ?>

		<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('Bottom 1') ) : else : ?>
		<?php endif; ?>

		<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('Bottom 2') ) : else : ?>
		<?php endif; ?>
	</div>

	<div class="clear"></div>

</div>
<div id="container" class="<?php blog_class(); ?>" ...>

<!-- END -->
<!--include footer-->
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Here’s how it looks right now

<?php get_header(); ?>
<!--page.php-->

	<div id="container" class="rounded-10">

	<div class="left rounded-8">
	<!--loop-->

Once I enter in
<div id="container" class="<?php blog_class(); ?>" ...>

I see that the border encompasses the whole width of the page..but is collapsed on itself and hides the forums.

https://thedrunkkoala.com/

This would be the site. I will turn on the forums that I have disabled at the moment so you can see how it slims and tightens the whole scheme. I wouldn’t want it to be that way on the whole site…just for the forums. Thanks for your super fast response.

I found that on the stock WordPress theme, the one that when you install WordPress for the very first time, I was able to do this, with the photos. Using the Forms Post options I was able to create an album and it attached a link to each picture and let me click next or previous through out all of them. But every single I theme I look at and even the one I just purchased forces everything in to a slideshow. Once I put the album into a slide show it takes away my ability to individually share each picture.

Ok, through talking to someone else it sounds like what I’m after is actually creating all new pages that are linked together. This way it appears as an actually gallery, which it isn’t, but then this would allow it to have it’s own “share box” on each page. Does this sound about right?