Title: Theme Width
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Theme Width

 *  Resolved [Anil Anvesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anilanvesh/)
 * (@anilanvesh)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-width-5/)
 * How to reduce the theme width?

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 *  [WP Strap Code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpstrapcode/)
 * (@wpstrapcode)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-width-5/#post-4101020)
 * That will require a knowledge of at lease CSS coding. And the first thing to 
   do will be to create a child theme with at least a style.css in it.
 * Note that this is a Bootstrap based theme and the width is governed by the container
   element which is set at 940px. You can start by copying that in to your child
   theme and then adjusting to your needs.
 * You must also consider that there [@media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media/)
   factors at play to so you’ll need to look at those and adjust for your needs.
 * Hope that helps to get you started 🙂
 * P.S. I believe the other topic is now resolve – if you could kindly mark it as
   such will appreciate it 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Anil Anvesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anilanvesh/)
 * (@anilanvesh)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-width-5/#post-4101038)
 * I don’t find any code to change in Style.CSS. I dont want to create any child
   theme I want to change primary theme width. kindly help?
 *  [WP Strap Code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpstrapcode/)
 * (@wpstrapcode)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-width-5/#post-4101040)
 * Not a good idea and not recommended! – when the theme is update you will loose
   all of your changes. And as you can see from the theme we personally do not edit
   the Bootstrap.css but copy what we need to adjust/change over to the custom.css
   and do our edits there.
 * Creating a child theme is not that hard, just follow the instructions here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   and you are on your way.
 * Simple steps:
    1) Create a folder named strapvert-child 2) Copy style.css from
   main theme and add to your folder then add the following just underneath the 
   Version number: Template: strapvert 3) Go in to the css folder, open bootstrap.
   css and copy everything in to your new style.css 4) Open custom.css and copy 
   everything and paste right at the bottom of your style.css
 * Now you can edit anything and everything to your hearts content 🙂
 * But….Do all your editing/modification on a production server and not the live.
   Once you are happy with your changes upload your child theme and activate and
   enjoy your handy work 🙂

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