What is the other thread that you are referring to?
Which CSS plugin are you using, and what CSS did you try adding to make your content full width?
I’m unclear what you mean when you say that you copied page.php into custom style.css and changed to full-width.php. Did you actually copy the page.php file into the style.css file, or did you just copy the page.php file into the same folder as the style.css file and rename it to full-width.php?
It’s actually not that difficult if you want to utilize the full width of the page; you can just add this CSS rule through your CSS plugin:
.sidebar .entry-header,
.sidebar .entry-content,
.sidebar .entry-summary,
.sidebar .entry-meta {
max-width: none;
padding: 0px 40px 0px 50px;
}
You can adjust the max-width or padding values if you want to see some spacing, especially on the edges. The way to read the padding values is you start at the top and work your way clockwise. So the padding for the top is 0px (no padding), the right has 40px of padding, the bottom has no padding, and the left has 50px of padding.
@crouchingbruin that worked! Thank you so much!! I’m not sure what I was doing wrong before, but I was definitely making it much more complicated. Many thanks!!!!
I followed your instructions but I must be doing something wrong. I installed the WordPress Custom CSS plug in (I can see it in settings so I know it is properly installed (I can also see it in my plugin folder).
I included the instructions that you listed above for my twentythirteen template (capecodrailtrail.org)
.sidebar .entry-header,
.sidebar .entry-content,
.sidebar .entry-summary,
.sidebar .entry-meta {
max-width: none;
padding: 0px 40px 0px 50px;
}
`
I saved the CSS code but cannot get an existing page or a new page to allow me to use the entire width of the text box.
Any help would be appreciated.
@kt22mike, first of all, you are using the TwentyTwelve theme, not TwentyThirteen, so the CSS selectors you need are more than likely going to be different. Second, your site looks like it’s going across the entire width. Is there a particular page where it is not? Maybe you’ve switched temporarily back to TwentyTwelve?
Yes. I switched to this template early this morning as I was totally frustrated. The 20 12 template solved my width problem – but of course added some new challenges (want to change white background on each page, make header/banner thinner).
Still wish I knew what the heck I was doing wrong!!!
Hopefully I can work through these – as you can tell I am a newbie when it comes to this stuff.
Thanks for taking the time to help me out. Sorry for any confusion.
Hi!
I’m trying to follow the above instructions – I’m very new to wordpress!
I’m running twenty thirteen theme, and like those above I want to make the content wider on all pages.
As suggested, I have installed the ‘simple custom css’ plugin and have pasted the text give by Crouching Bruin above and pressed save. This hasn’t changed the appearance of my site though. Any clues? 🙂
@critmil: If you require assistance then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic.
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