Changing the width of my page

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  pleasantharbormarina · Member · Dec 10, 2014 at 8:53 pm

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  Is there a way to make my layout wider so that there isn’t a blank space next to my page?

  I hope that is descriptive enough, I’ve been searching but don’t know how to word the question I guess…

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  pleasantharbormarina · Member · Dec 10, 2014 at 9:27 pm

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  I’m using twenty fourteen theme, if that makes a difference.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 10, 2014 at 9:29 pm

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  Do you have the required custom design upgrade?

  See here for details on purchasing the annually renewable custom and CSS editing:
  Custom design – Frequently Asked Questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/

  Please use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so you can copy and paste your text into a thread that will appear in the CSS Forum where you will get the help you need.

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  pleasantharbormarina · Member · Dec 10, 2014 at 9:35 pm

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  I don’t have the upgrade. But I was using this theme previously and it loaded on my screen full width; I changed themes this week and then back to twenty fourteen and now it’s not full screen. My browser settings haven’t changed, so I thought maybe I had changed settings before and forgotten how to do it.

  Is this a feature for the custom upgrade only then?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 10, 2014 at 9:39 pm

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  But I was using this theme previously and it loaded on my screen full width

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  timethief · Member · Dec 10, 2014 at 9:43 pm

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  Maybe you are referring to page templates. From the detailed theme description page at http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyfourteen/

  Page Templates
  Tailor content pages to your needs with two special page templates: a full-width page to remove the right sidebar, http://twentyfourteendemo.wordpress.com/default-page-templates/full-width-page-template/

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  pleasantharbormarina · Member · Dec 10, 2014 at 9:47 pm

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  No I don’t think that’s it. I’m looking more for the whole page to be wider, so that people don’t see the black area on the sides of my site when they go to my page. As it is, I need to zoom in to 150% view on my browser to have it fill my screen.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 11, 2014 at 4:15 pm

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  Hi pharbormarina – just wanted to confirm that apart from applying the full-width page template, there isn’t a way to increase the overall width of the Twenty Fourteen layout without Custom Design. Just let me know if you have any other questions.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Dec 11, 2014 at 9:56 pm

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  @pharbormarina,

  No I don’t think that’s it. I’m looking more for the whole page to be wider, so that people don’t see the black area on the sides of my site when they go to my page. As it is, I need to zoom in to 150% view on my browser to have it fill my screen.

  I had to zoom out three times, using FF zoom, to see the black space on the right hand side of your template. In other words, I have to go to great lengths for your pages not to fill the screen. I’m using a desktop PC, 12″ wide monitor screen, resolution of 1024 X 768 pixels.

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  pleasantharbormarina · Member · Dec 11, 2014 at 10:04 pm

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  Thanks for that musicdoc, I’m not sure what may have changed on my computer to make it different for me from last week, but I will look into it.

  Thanks for the other replies as well.