Changing site width

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  adamdickinson203 · Member · Aug 3, 2022 at 4:16 pm

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  I want to change my site width so it takes up the full width screen but there’s no ‘layout options’ button anywhere in the customizer.
  The only options are: Site Identity, Colors & background, Fonts, Header image, menus, content options, widgets, homepage settings, and theme options. How can I make it full-width?

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 3, 2022 at 10:02 pm

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  Hey there @adamdickinson203, you’re using an older theme that doesn’t support the new full site editing controls, so there’s really no way to change it without some code. Sometimes they’ll have built-in templates to vary the page layout, but as this particular theme is more for blogging + widgets, it doesn’t have that.

  And while you can often use CSS to change a theme if your plan supports that, major layout changes are notoriously tricky.

  Would you be interested in switching to a newer theme? If so, this video guide may help get you started:
  https://wordpress.com/support/full-site-editing/

  Let us know if that helps!

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  adamdickinson203 · Member · Aug 4, 2022 at 9:20 am

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  Thanks very much, I’m using the Canard theme right now, how do we see which themes are new enough to edit that?

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  aleone89 · Staff · Aug 4, 2022 at 12:08 pm

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  Hello there,

  These themes may be of use: https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/block-editor-styles/ :)