Title: Content Width Resize
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Content Width Resize

 *  Resolved [strousst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strousst/)
 * (@strousst)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-width-resize/)
 * I’m looking to make the content width wider when you click on a featured post
   or link. Right now, it’s like 600px on a big screen and it looks pretty puny.
   I’d like to keep the responsive widths the same. Please help!
 * My site is: [http://www.castlegrafia.com](http://www.castlegrafia.com)
 * Thanks!

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-width-resize/#post-6763670)
 * Hiya, I’d be glad to help, but before we look at how to widen the content area
   on single posts, let’s sort out two things:
 * The reason the column is 600px is because the layout in Canard is designed to
   have a right sidebar, which is currently missing on your site. Did you happen
   to edit some of the theme files directly? I’m not seeing the #secondary element
   that should be there.
 * It also looks like you’ve copied most, if not all, of the original stylesheet
   into your custom CSS – is that possible? Heads-up that custom CSS is only intended
   for CSS that **overrides** the original styles – nothing else needs to go in 
   there.
 * Before adding anything new I’d suggest you fix up these problems. It’ll make 
   things much simpler from here on. 🙂
 * The problem with editing the theme files directly is that you will lose all your
   changes every time you update the theme to the latest version. The right way 
   to make theme file changes is through a child theme, so your tweaks won’t be 
   overwritten when updating the theme. Here are some guides in case you haven’t
   made one before:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   
   [http://op111.net/53/](http://op111.net/53/) [http://vimeo.com/39023468](http://vimeo.com/39023468)
 * If you create a child theme, you won’t also need a custom CSS plugin, as you’ll
   put your CSS overrides into your child theme.
 * If the only theme-file edit you made is to remove the secondary sidebar, then
   that can be done with custom CSS – no need to edit the theme files and create
   a child theme.
 * Let me know how it goes and we can tackle your column width once this is sorted
   out. 🙂

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-width-resize/#post-6763670)
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