How can I change the header size and content width in the Highwind theme?

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  lucindagoetz · Member · Mar 25, 2014 at 10:53 am

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  I have the CSS upgrade, I’d like to decrease the height of the header and also change the content width of posts. The text for the titles of posts is so large the titles go on 2-3 lines so I’d like to increase the content width. If that’s not possible then changing the font size could work instead?

  Hope you can help. Thanks.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Mar 26, 2014 at 10:00 pm

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  Howdy!

  Regarding changing the height of the header, you should be able to do that with the following CSS:

  header#masthead.header.content-wrapper {
  	min-height: 70px;
  }
  
  .header {
  	padding-top: 6.0em;
  }

  You can paste that above code in Appearance -> Customize -> CSS.

  With regards to changing the content width of posts, that’s going to be a bit trickier. When you increase the column size of the content area past a certain width, it automatically bumps the sidebar widgets down to another page. On individual pages (not post) like your “About” page here:

  About Me

  You can choose “Full Width” under the Page Attributes as shown here:

  

  That will make the individual page full width. For posts, you would need to use custom CSS. If you would like to do this, your best bet is to post your question to the CSS forum:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

  We have CSS gurus that monitor that forum and can provide more complicated CSS support.

  Instead, if you just want to change the font size, you can do that through Appearance -> Customize -> Font. This is explained a bit more here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#custom-fonts

  Can you give that a try and let me know if it works for what you’re looking for?

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  lucindagoetz · Member · Mar 27, 2014 at 11:42 am

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  Made the change for the header and found the answer for the content width on the CSS forum. All worked great! Thank you so much :)

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Mar 27, 2014 at 4:17 pm

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  Great to hear! Let me know if you need anything else.