Title: Featured Image – Full Width?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Featured Image – Full Width?

 *  Resolved [richpaul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richpaul/)
 * (@richpaul)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-full-width-2/)
 * Love this theme, been using a child version of it for a while now. Just wondered
   if there’s any way to make the featured image display at full width rather than
   restricting it to 984px?
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [sacredpath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredpath/)
 * (@sacredpath)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-full-width-2/#post-6812231)
 * Hi there, my first thought on this request was that it would be difficult to 
   do only with CSS, but I surprisingly I was able to do it. This is the CSS to 
   try. I don’t see any issues with this, but make sure and check it in a tablet
   and phone just to make sure.
 *     ```
       .entry-wrapper {
           max-width: 100%;
           width: 100%;
       }
       .entry-wrapper .post-thumbnail img {
           width: 100%;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [richpaul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richpaul/)
 * (@richpaul)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-full-width-2/#post-6812235)
 * Worked like a charm, thank you. Was having trouble separating the post-thumbnail
   width from the header width, but that works perfectly 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [richpaul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richpaul/)
 * (@richpaul)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-full-width-2/#post-6812281)
 * Hi sacredpath (or anyone else that would like to help) – a quick follow-up:
 * While this worked brilliantly and produces full-screen images, the featured images
   created are still only 984px wide originally and therefore scaled if the browser
   width is above this size. This makes the images quite noticeably pixelated on
   larger screens.
 * Is there any easy way around this? I had a look at the Post Thumbnail sections
   in the functions.php file, but changing any of the 984 values didn’t seem to 
   change anything?
 *  [sacredpath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredpath/)
 * (@sacredpath)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-full-width-2/#post-6812282)
 * Are you changing the width for the featured image in your child functions.php
   or in the original theme?
 * You would want to add the featured image PHP to your child theme functions.php
   file. That addition would not change any existing images. For that, you would
   either have to delete and reinsert the images into the posts/pages, or use something
   like the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin. I believe that those two modifications
   should do the trick.
 *  Thread Starter [richpaul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richpaul/)
 * (@richpaul)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-full-width-2/#post-6812285)
 * That’s fantastic. Many thanks. Regenerating the thumbnails was the thing I had
   missed; that plugin is very useful.
 * One other thing to note for anyone else that stumbles across this, I also had
   to change the width for ‘Large size’ in Settings > Media in the WP dashboard 
   as that was capped at 1024px by default.
 * Many thanks again sacredpath.
 *  [sacredpath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredpath/)
 * (@sacredpath)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-full-width-2/#post-6812286)
 * You are welcome.

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