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  johnandersonphoto · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 1:58 pm

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  Hi… I am thinking of purchasing Hive or something similar as a WordPress template. If I do will it be possible to get rid of the content to the right of the page? See https://puzzledemo.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/time-in-the-city/ for example- “the recent posts” and “comments” sectio in order for the post to cover the width of the screen exclusively (if that makes sense?). Many thanks….

  John

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 5:03 pm

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  Hi John!

  It can depend on which specific theme you’re talking about. The link you’ve provided runs on Puzzle.

  You can always remove all the Widgets (e.g. Recent Posts / Recent Comments / Archives), but just removing them will usually leave the empty space in the sidebar, it won’t make the page full-width automatically. (In fact you usually have to have at least one widget in sidebars — we recommend adding an empty Text widget to display a blank sidebar.)

  Puzzle doesn’t immediately have a full-width option for archive or post pages like the one you linked to, but it does for static Pages.

  If you feel comfortable with CSS, you can use Custom CSS (part of the Premium plan) to make the post pages full-width as well.

  Some other themes provide a full-width posts page though, like Mirror or Penscratch.

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  johnandersonphoto · Member · Mar 5, 2015 at 2:57 pm

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  Hi Alex

  Thanks for getting back to me on this. Do you know if I can pay someone to design a template for me to use on a WordPress theme? Thanks..

  John

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Mar 5, 2015 at 4:07 pm

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  Hi John,

  On WordPress.com you can only use the themes already available in our theme showcase:

  https://wordpress.com/themes

  Each theme’s page has instructions on how it can be customized, or I can answer any specific questions on a theme for you here.

  On a self-hosted site running the free software from WordPress.org, you can customize your site’s theme however you wish. Most people do this by first selecting an already-made them, then creating a child theme to customize to their liking:

  http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

  You can read more about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org here:

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  If you’d like to pay a designer to design a child theme for you on a self-hosted WordPress(.org) blog, please check out our suggested WordPress professionals here:

  http://directory.codepoet.com/browse/services/theme-development/

  -Alex G.