Another means y’all might consider is adding conditional tags to your standard template(s). http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags. For instance, with “if (is_category())” you can add code for only a specific category or categories. Same deal for “if (is_page())” and a specific page or pages.

I’m just starting to explore the possibilities of this, but apparently, if you wanted to, you could make each post category and each page look different using body_class and post_class. Separate page templates are for dramatic differences like leaving out sidebars altogether. That page title increase you had, Bruce, was probably the result of a [...]

A BuddyPress site should have an admin bar across the top with a space to register, or a signup box in the sidebar. If there isn’t a box in the sidebar, you should be able to put it there with the widgets.

Hi Bruce, One thing that we do a lot is to use create a new page template for the new page you want and use the body class assigned to that page template body tag to isolate out style that are unique to that template. Just make sure the template tag body_class is included in [...]

Ok. I figured that out at least partially. i was able to change the content width to the full page width by creating a new content ID statement in the Buddypress child theme style sheet. (Is that what you call it, a “statement” or is it a rule or some other name?) Something weird happened [...]