Title: Changing the column width for posts (default theme)
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Changing the column width for posts (default theme)

 *  Resolved [mark_t](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mark_t/)
 * (@mark_t)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-column-width-for-posts-default-theme/)
 * I want to increase the width of the text box for the single post page. I changed
   the “.widecolumn” so that width = 600px and adjusted the fourth margin parameter
   to 75px in style.css. I thought this would increase the width of the text box
   whilst keeping it centred, unfortunately WordPress totally ignored these changes.(
   Yes I did update the file). So does anyone know how I can adjust the column widths
   and ultimately the width of the full page?
 * Thanks, Mark.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-column-width-for-posts-default-theme/#post-1031948)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Lorelle/Customizing_The_Content](http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Lorelle/Customizing_The_Content)
 *  [chaoskaizer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaoskaizer/)
 * (@chaoskaizer)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-column-width-for-posts-default-theme/#post-1031951)
 * You’ll need to tweak it a bit, the below workaround will increase the entry content
   width on single entry page. Add the code ↓ inside your theme’s `header.php` place
   it before the closing **head** tag (`</head>`) .
 *     ```
       <?php if(is_single()): ?>
       <style type="text/css">
       .widecolumn { margin:0pt auto; width:600px }
       </style>
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [mark_t](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mark_t/)
 * (@mark_t)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-column-width-for-posts-default-theme/#post-1031957)
 * That worked fine, thanks for your help.
 * I don’t know enough about php or css to know why it worked but it looks fine.

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## Tags

 * [content width](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/content-width/)
 * [single-page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/single-page/)
 * [widecolumn](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widecolumn/)

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 * Last reply from: [mark_t](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mark_t/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-column-width-for-posts-default-theme/#post-1031957)
 * Status: resolved

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