Title: [Plugin: Theme-Check] $GLOBALS['content_width'] not recognized
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Theme-Check] $GLOBALS['content_width'] not recognized

 *  [fuxia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thefuxia/)
 * (@thefuxia)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-theme-check-globalscontent_width-not-recognized/)
 * `$GLOBALS['content_width'] = 750;` in a theme produces the false error:
 * > REQUIRED: No content width has been defined.
 * Fix: run a `preg_match()` on
 * `'~\$GLOBALS\[\s*([\'"])content_width\\1\s*\]~'`
 * I write global variables always in the long form to make them stand out and because
   they are treated slightly different than `global $var; $var = 'something';`.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check/)

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 *  [Robert Chapin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miqrogroove/)
 * (@miqrogroove)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-theme-check-globalscontent_width-not-recognized/#post-3029664)
 * Me too.

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