Title: changing variable width theme to fixed width Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # changing variable width theme to fixed width * [awallin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awallin/) * (@awallin) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-variable-width-theme-to-fixed-width/) * I have a theme I am reasonably satisfied with that is variable width. I think I would like to try it as fixed width and see how it looks etc, would make posting wider pictures easier since they dont get hidden under the sidebar. * I’m thinking I want all the contents inside enclosed by something like * would that be the correct way to do it ? what theme file do I edit ? Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/) * (@viper007bond) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-variable-width-theme-to-fixed-width/#post-259501) * Please give a link to your site. It all depends on what theme you are using. 😉 * Thread Starter [awallin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awallin/) * (@awallin) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-variable-width-theme-to-fixed-width/#post-259519) * for now I am using the wordpress classic theme with some minor modifications. I’ll hack more of the css and php when I lear more. [http://www.anderswallin.net](http://www.anderswallin.net)( don’t laugh, it has only been up for a cuople of hours…) * [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/) * (@viper007bond) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-variable-width-theme-to-fixed-width/#post-259613) * I think this’ll do it: * `

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` at the very bottom * `#overallpage { width: 800px; }` in your CSS file Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘changing variable width theme to fixed width’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [fixed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fixed/) * [variable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/variable/) * [width](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/width/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/) * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-variable-width-theme-to-fixed-width/#post-259613) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics