Title: Full page width help
Last modified: October 14, 2017

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# Full page width help

 *  Resolved [runningdoves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/runningdoves/)
 * (@runningdoves)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-page-width-help/)
 * I’ve been searching over the past few days how to make the content of my website
   pages be the full width of the page. I have come across so many answers (google,
   you tube, and WordPress support) that I don’t know which one is right for me.
   I am trying to eliminate all of the space between the menu tab (for example: 
   Home) and the actual text/content displayed across from the menu tab (- I was
   born and raised…). I would like to have the text/content be applied across the
   entire page; to be the full width of the page. Now it looks as if the text is
   on the right side of the page. Please advise me how to fix this. Thank you in
   advance.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ffull-page-width-help%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-page-width-help/#post-9587749)
 * What do you want to do with the page title on the left-hand side?
 *  Thread Starter [runningdoves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/runningdoves/)
 * (@runningdoves)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-page-width-help/#post-9589767)
 * Hi Andrew,
    Actually, I don’t need the page title on the left hand side since
   I have the menu tabs above this location. So I would be fine with getting rid
   of it.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by [runningdoves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/runningdoves/).
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-page-width-help/#post-9597881)
 * In the “Additional CSS” section on the dashboard add this:
 *     ```
       body.page-two-column:not(.archive) #primary .entry-header {
           left: -999em;
           position: absolute;
       }
   
       body.page-two-column:not(.archive) #primary .entry-content {
           float: none;
           width: auto;
       }
       ```
   
 * _[https://codex.wordpress.org/CSS#Custom\_CSS\_in\_WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/CSS#Custom_CSS_in_WordPress)_
 * By the way you should remove that copy protection plugin because it has annoyed
   and will annoy your genuine audience. People don’t steal content by right clicking
   and copying.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/).
 *  Thread Starter [runningdoves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/runningdoves/)
 * (@runningdoves)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-page-width-help/#post-9599309)
 * Andrew you are awesome! Thank you a thousand times (-it doesn’t take much to 
   make me happy). Also, I have removed the protection. In the past I found my content
   on other websites. So if you can imagine, I wasn’t happy about that which is 
   what led me to the copyright protection. In your opinion, is there a better way
   to protect my content?
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by [runningdoves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/runningdoves/).
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-page-width-help/#post-9599734)
 * I’m sorry for the bad experience. I think there are 2 types of thieves and one
   is more common than the other.
 * 1) Most common: Robots:
    Big time thieves steal content for a living and aren’t
   doing it manually; they’re scraping the website using a tool – that they’ve either
   built or downloaded – and then automatically outputting it to their website.
 * 2) Least common: Individuals:
    Small time thieves that may steal content for 
   professional gain.
 * Unfortunately there is no technical solution to the real problem. This is a side
   effect of the way the World Wide Web was created; behind the scenes the Web actually
   distributes your content to people’s machines. Users request to see your webpage,
   your server responds to that request and sends that data over to their machine
   and then it is displayed on their browser.
    See this image for an illustration:
   [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M6RsIk-NV7Y/UY6gjGv3myI/AAAAAAAAAhs/fb4HwBvZD4w/s1600/how-the-web-works.jpg](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M6RsIk-NV7Y/UY6gjGv3myI/AAAAAAAAAhs/fb4HwBvZD4w/s1600/how-the-web-works.jpg)
 * This means there is no technical way to prevent the most common thieves, Robots,
   from stealing your content.
 * You can actually prevent some of the least common thieves from stealing your 
   content by deluding them, as they’re just humans. So you can disable right click,
   disable keyboard shortcuts and do things on your website that appear to prevent
   content from being copied. This may deter a non-technical individual.
 * However I would be dubious of the ‘protection by delusion’ method because it 
   assumes the thieves aren’t very smart. There are many ways to copy content from
   an individual’s perspective. One of the techniques I like to give an example 
   of is through a feature of your browser commonly named “Save as”. Browser features
   cannot be interfered at the website level; you cannot install a plugin to disable
   the “Save as” option.
 * The “Save as” feature literally saves the webpage onto the user’s computer. It’s
   a long standing feature and even non-technical people are aware of this. It saves
   everything, the images, text, videos, scripts and styles off to a neat little
   folder on your computer. This is the most efficient way of taking content for
   small scale operators like individuals.
    See this article for more information:
   [http://andrew2nevins.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/how-to-save-images-from-page.html](http://andrew2nevins.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/how-to-save-images-from-page.html)
 * I have actually been threatened with the law because I demonstrated the “Save
   as” feature on someone’s website and showed their content saved onto my computer.
 * Which brings me onto the real solution. The law is the only effective way of 
   dealing with this. Bringing in the law may be intimidating to you or your employees,
   but is the most realistic solution you have. If you’re running a business and
   you’re losing revenue from people who have stolen your content then it becomes
   a serious matter that requires a serious solution.
 * The first step to resolving this is to contact the companies that are hosting
   the websites that steal your content. It is useful to have persons in the legal
   profession advise you with how to deal with the companies, i.e. how to write 
   the most effective complaints. Hosting providers do not want hassle of a lawsuit.
   It isn’t worth their time or money compared to the amount the thieves would be
   paying them. The hosting providers would simply discontinue the thieves’ hosting
   service, resulting in their website being deleted.
 * So how do you stop thieves from taking content? Find them, talk to their hosting
   providers and get their websites deleted.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/).
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/).
 *  Thread Starter [runningdoves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/runningdoves/)
 * (@runningdoves)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-page-width-help/#post-9599963)
 * Andrew very good points indeed. I use the save as option within my school’s logged
   in website since we work in groups etc., I never even thought about those using
   it for unintended purposes but I know it happens. Great food for thought, thanx!

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