Title: Edit sidebar width
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Edit sidebar width

 *  [smile1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smile1970/)
 * (@smile1970)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-sidebar-width/)
 * Hi, I love your theme!
    I would like to change the width of the sidebar. Where
   in the style.css can I find the with as I don’t see a #sidebar? Can anyone help
   me please?

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 *  [robbieobbie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robbieobbie/)
 * (@robbieobbie)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-sidebar-width/#post-4776753)
 * Can you supply a link to your site?
 *  Thread Starter [smile1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smile1970/)
 * (@smile1970)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-sidebar-width/#post-4776779)
 * [http://www.zzpvitaal.nl](http://www.zzpvitaal.nl)
 *  Theme Author [Styled Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gejay/)
 * (@gejay)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-sidebar-width/#post-4776805)
 * Actually, it’s not going to be done from the stylesheet. To change the sidebar
   width, you will need to use a child theme, copy (upload) the files to be modified
   into the child theme. Using a child theme allows you to keep the theme updated
   without losing your changes.
 * In the files is where you will find div containers with classes like span8 and
   span4. These represents column widths because this theme is based on a 12-column
   grid layout (12 columns wide). Were you wanting to change the sidebars for pages
   and the blog pages as well or one or the other?
 *  Thread Starter [smile1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smile1970/)
 * (@smile1970)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-sidebar-width/#post-4776852)
 * Hi, I would like to change the sidebar width only for pages.
 *  Theme Author [Styled Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gejay/)
 * (@gejay)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-sidebar-width/#post-4776878)
 * For pages, you would be focusing on these theme files:
 * front-page.php
    page-right.php
 * Open them and change the span8 class to span9, then look for the class span4 
   and change that to span3. This is so the main content part and the sidebar totals
   12 columns wide:
 * span9 + span3 = 12
 * This will give you a smaller width on your sidebar, but then adds more to your
   main content.
 * Make sure you use a child theme for modifications so you can keep getting theme
   updates and not lose your changes. This theme has a folder in it “child-theme”
   which has a child theme that you can install and use. Please note when you activate
   this, you will need to redo your theme option settings because WP will see this
   as a new theme activation. But it will allow you to make custom changes. You 
   would upload a copy of the two template files listed above into the same location
   as they exist, but put it into the child theme in a folder named: page-templates
 *  Thread Starter [smile1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smile1970/)
 * (@smile1970)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-sidebar-width/#post-4776982)
 * Thank you!
    Sounds complicated, so in meantime I wil let the theme as it is. 
   Will try it when I have enough time to spend.

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 * Last reply from: [smile1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smile1970/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-sidebar-width/#post-4776982)
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