Title: Making WordPress “Classic” a fixed width?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Making WordPress “Classic” a fixed width?

 *  [requiem069](https://wordpress.org/support/users/requiem069/)
 * (@requiem069)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-classic-a-fixed-width/)
 * I’ve been trying to make my WordPress “Classic” theme have a fixed width, instead
   of it stretching all the way across the screen. Does anyone know how I can do
   this? Any help is appreciated!

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-classic-a-fixed-width/#post-905702)
 * The possibility is there… you have a `<div id="rap">` starting in the header.
   php and ending in the footer.php.
 * Define the width of the
    `#rap {width: XXXpx;}` in the stylesheet.
 * No guarantees, but it may work.
 *  Thread Starter [requiem069](https://wordpress.org/support/users/requiem069/)
 * (@requiem069)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-classic-a-fixed-width/#post-905713)
 * Hmmm.. I tried it, but it didn’t work.
 *  Thread Starter [requiem069](https://wordpress.org/support/users/requiem069/)
 * (@requiem069)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-classic-a-fixed-width/#post-905742)
 * It does shrink the main content part, but it doesn’t do anything to the far right
   sidebar, it’s still on the far right. Also I need to find a way to center the
   entire thing, the main content part is all the way on the far left.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-classic-a-fixed-width/#post-905743)
 * Why don’t you get a theme that already does what you want?
    Scroll up > Extend
   > Themes…
 *  Thread Starter [requiem069](https://wordpress.org/support/users/requiem069/)
 * (@requiem069)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-classic-a-fixed-width/#post-905745)
 * Well, I was looking for one that is similar to Kotaku, since I liked the set 
   up on that one, very clean. I’ve looked through a ton of themes, and have’nt 
   found any that are similar to that in style.
 *  [hazelbug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hazelbug/)
 * (@hazelbug)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-classic-a-fixed-width/#post-905871)
 * I had to work to make this fixed for my company as they had already set everything
   up in it.
 * Doing the rap didn’t work for me, but this is what I did.
 * In the style sheet:
 * I put a fixed px width for the body tag.
 * The sidebar already is positioned absolute, but it doesn’t have a px placement
   for the left side so I added that (ie left: 860px;)
 *  [hazelbug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hazelbug/)
 * (@hazelbug)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-classic-a-fixed-width/#post-905872)
 * Sorry, I forgot to say that I also added this to the body tag:
 *     ```
       position: relative;
               margin-left: auto;
               margin-right: auto;
       ```
   
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-classic-a-fixed-width/#post-905873)
 * My site uses the classic and is a fixed width. In the style sheet I changed #
   headerimg, #page, #header, #footer to a fixed width.
 * I changed #sidebar and widecolumn to add up to the fixed width.
 * The position of the widecolumn is done here as I recall
 *     ```
       .widecolumn {
       	padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
       	margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px;
       	width: 700px;
       ```
   

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