kt22mike

Yes. I switched to this template early this morning as I was totally frustrated. The 20 12 template solved my width problem – but of course added some new challenges (want to change white background on each page, make header/banner thinner).

Still wish I knew what the heck I was doing wrong!!!

Hopefully I can work through these – as you can tell I am a newbie when it comes to this stuff.

Thanks for taking the time to help me out. Sorry for any confusion.

Neomikenet or other kind person:

I have followed your directions but for some reason the edits i included in my twentythirteen-child is not taking effect. My website is capecodrailtrail.org

Here is my style.css

/*
 Theme Name:     Twenty Thirteen Child
 Theme URI:      http://example.com/twenty-thirteen-child/
 Description:    Twenty Thirteen Child Theme
 Author:         John Doe
 Author URI:     http://example.com
 Template:       twentythirteen
 Version:        1.0.0
*/

@import url("../twentythirteen/style.css");

/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
.my-full-size {
	margin-left: auto !important;
	margin-right: auto !important;
	height: auto;
	padding-right: 1em !important;
}

Here is my full-width-page.php

<?php
/**
 * Template: full width
 *
 * This is the template that displays all pages by default.
 * Please note that this is the WordPress construct of pages and that other
 * 'pages' on your WordPress site will use a different template.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Thirteen
 * @since Twenty Thirteen 1.0
 */

get_header(); ?>

	<div id="primary" class="content-area">
		<div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">

			<?php /* The loop */ ?>
			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

				<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
					<header class="entry-header my-full-size">
						<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() && ! post_password_required() ) : ?>
						<div class="entry-thumbnail">
							<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
						</div>
						<?php endif; ?>

						<h1 class="entry-title my-full-size"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
					</header><!-- .entry-header -->

					<div class="entry-content my-full-size">
						<?php the_content(); ?>
						<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-links"><span class="page-links-title">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentythirteen' ) . '</span>', 'after' => '</div>', 'link_before' => '<span>', 'link_after' => '</span>' ) ); ?>
					</div><!-- .entry-content -->

					<footer class="entry-meta">
						<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentythirteen' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ); ?>
					</footer><!-- .entry-meta -->
				</article><!-- #post -->

				<?php comments_template(); ?>
			<?php endwhile; ?>

		</div><!-- #content -->
	</div><!-- #primary -->

I am using bluehost as my server and I know the child template works as I can activate it and see it running. Not sure what I am doing wrong – is there something I need to do once I open up a page to edit or create a new page? Any advice would be appreciated.