Title: Make theme unresponsive?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Make theme unresponsive?

 *  Resolved [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pchild1/)
 * (@pchild1)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-theme-unresponsive-2/)
 * Hi,
 * Is it possible to make the Superhero theme unresponsive? Ie, so that on mobiles
   and tablets it operates exactly the same as the desktop version (obviously with
   the unavoidable inconvenience of sideways scrolling…)?
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  Thread Starter [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pchild1/)
 * (@pchild1)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-theme-unresponsive-2/#post-5040490)
 * By the way [here is my site](http://documentalfilms.co.uk) if it helps…
 *  [Sheri Grey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designsimply/)
 * (@designsimply)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-theme-unresponsive-2/#post-5040544)
 * It’s possible, but I really wouldn’t recommend it.
 * Before continuing with advice, I am curious 🙂 why wouldn’t you want to keep 
   the theme responsive? Websites are much more useable and readable on mobile when
   the design adjusts properly for small screens.
 * The fastest way I can think of to do what you are asking would be to remove the
   entire media queries section from the original theme’s style.css file. However,
   it’s not recommended to edit the original theme files, so you this would be a
   big enough change in my opinion to simply fork the theme instead of using a child
   theme. The downside is that you wouldn’t get future theme updates, but it’s a
   tradeoff I think you’d have to consider for a case like this. There are also 
   other possible ways to make the change you’re asking, but they are very involved
   and time consuming and I don’t think they would really make sense for this case
   as it seems like a very rare case to me that someone would want to completely
   undo a theme’s responsive design.
 *  [Sheri Grey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designsimply/)
 * (@designsimply)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-theme-unresponsive-2/#post-5040666)
 * Since I haven’t heard back from you in a few weeks, I’ll just follow up here 
   with some basic steps in case you do want to proceed with making a theme unresponsive.
 * 1. Make a child theme
    2. Copy all the styles from the style.css page into the
   new child theme style.css page 3. Test to make sure everything works in the theme
   as expected 4. Edit the child theme style.css file to remove all sections that
   start with [@media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media/)
 * I’ll also add one more note to say I don’t think this is a good idea. 🙂

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## Tags

 * [desktop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/desktop/)
 * [media query](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media-query/)
 * [mobile](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mobile/)
 * [remove](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/remove/)
 * [same](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/same/)
 * [scroll](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/scroll/)
 * [tablet](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tablet/)
 * [unresponsive](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/unresponsive/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Sheri Grey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designsimply/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-theme-unresponsive-2/#post-5040666)
 * Status: resolved