I'm very very new to the whole modding business (as in, I spent all of last night downloading forge and mods) and I feel as though I'm 99% of the way there. I have forge for 1.7.10 installed, as well as the mod I'm attempting to use and it's appropriate version of llibrary. I also made a localhost forge server that has the same mod and llibrary placed into its mods folder. The game loads, and it appears as though everything is working as it should, but whenever I enter a game, whether it's single-player or multiplayer on the server, all it has in the "Mod Options" tab is "Test 1 Test 2 DISABLED". When I'm in creative mode I can spawn the items from the mod, but otherwise, no other aspects of the mod spawn naturally in the world. I'm just so confused?? Is there a simple way to enable my mod that I'm missing? Hopefully it's just my being new that's causing this issue.

**Accidentally had 1.7.2 in there before. It is for version 1.7.10***

1.7.10 is no longer supported by forge, you are on your own.

oh no!!!! back to the drawing board thank you for letting me know

"Test 1 Test 2 Disabled" by the way is just Forge supplying test options to the Mod Options GUI.  None of your mods are actually using that GUI otherwise their options would appear (very very few mods actually use it, as far as I am aware).