Adjusting Content Width/ Removing Sidebar space

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  interactivarts · Member · Oct 30, 2015 at 11:34 am

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  Hi I’m using the Gateway theme on my blog and I disabled by sidebar which had social widgets and moved it to the bottom of the page.

  I am wondering can someone help me with resizing both the content and the sidebar widths

  i.e. with some CSS code which I am new to… but I can always copy and paste!

  Many Thanks In Advance,

  Stephen

  The blog I need help with is interactive-arts.ie.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 30, 2015 at 6:52 pm

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  Hi there, go to Appearance > Customize > CSS, delete all the informational text in that window, and paste in the following custom CSS. What it does is to actually “hide” the sidebar and then widens the content area, which had a right margin that was controlling the width.

  #secondary {
      display: none;
  }
  #main {
      margin-right: 0;
  }

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  interactivarts · Member · Oct 30, 2015 at 7:04 pm

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  perfect, thanks a million… thats worked a charm. The problem now is i want to stretch blog post images to their full (but scaled down) form.

  Any ideas on how to correct this?

  Thanks Again.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 30, 2015 at 8:54 pm

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  That’s great.

  With the featured images, the theme itself dictates the size of the image and it actually creates that image in the size shown, on the fly as things load. That means that if we enlarge the images, we are enlarging a smaller version of that image and they are going to lose quality. Also, there isn’t anything we can do about the cropping of the image via CSS, so in the case of your Kickstarting the new School Year post, you aren’t going to see anymore of the image, it would just get larger in the same proportions it is now.

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  interactivarts · Member · Oct 30, 2015 at 10:38 pm

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  Does this mean we cant do anything other than change themes?

  Thanks for the quick replies

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 31, 2015 at 7:19 am

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  We can make the images larger, but we can’t do anything about the proportions. If you want different proportions on the featured images on the main page, I would suggest looking at different themes.