Title: Sidebar – Navigation Menu – Posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Sidebar – Navigation Menu – Posts

 *  [pedrosa02](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pedrosa02/)
 * (@pedrosa02)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-navigation-menu-posts/)
 * Okay.. I have three questions about the admired theme
 * 1. 1st is how do I increase the width of the sidebar widget area.. most of the
   widgets I get are 250 so the overlap the menu bar ontop.
 * 2nd.. How do I center the entire Navigation menu?
 * 3rd. I want to be able to limit posts on the homepage to 250 characters and then
   add a link that says continue reading or read more…
 * Please help..

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 *  [ribbitfrog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ribbitfrog/)
 * (@ribbitfrog)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-navigation-menu-posts/#post-3681725)
 * 1. Edit the CSS – either create a new css file or modify whichever theme you 
   are using. Modify the width of the id #secondary to whatever you want – it is
   a responsive layout so you might want to set min-width:250px instead of a solid
   width.
 * 2. Again, edit the CSS. I don’t use the navigation menu so I’m not sure of the
   exact style, but it should be something like #nav-menu2. Try `text-align: center;`
   and `margin: 0 auto;` and maybe `position: relative`…otherwise google “center
   div” and you should be able to find the right styles.
 * 3. Post can be limited by number of words, but I’m not sure about characters.
   To do this, go to the Admired functions.php file and search for $excerpt_length–
   then change the value.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-navigation-menu-posts/#post-3681725)
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