How do I delete a column in my blog using CSS?

misterenigma · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 3:20 am
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I’m using the theme Benevolence and I’m trying to get rid of the left column. Is there anything I can do using CSS to get rid of this column?

Here is my link to my blog. http://misterenigma.wordpress.com
vivianpaige · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 3:29 am
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Well, why not try removing all the widgets and putting a blank text widget in the sidebar to see how it looks first? Or choose a theme without a sidebar. Neither of those requires CSS.

Yes, it can be removed, however, the theme will look weird unless you make further adjustments to it.
misterenigma · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 4:12 am
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I’m a noob to all this. What do I have to do to remove all the widgets or insert the blank text widget?

I’m trying to make my blog look sort of like this. http://misterfongstarr.com/
aw1923 · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 4:20 am
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you could remove all the widgets by going to dashboard > appearance > widgets and remove the widgets. Then in CSS you could make the sidebar widget really small and then shift the content over.
Since your theme has underlying CSS, you most likely wont be able to just delete the sidebar.
misterenigma · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 4:23 am
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I dont have any widgets. I just checked, and all it says is, “Sidebar”. But Its telling me that I have no widgets.

Is there anything else that I can do?
aw1923 · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 4:26 am
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actually when I applied the CSS from the other blog to your blog, removing the widgets didn’t matter since you wouldn’t see the sidebar anyways. If you didn’t have the CSS upgrade and just removed all the widgets then you would just have a blank white space on the left side and people would be like,

“what the hell?, I feel like theres supposed to be something over here”

LOL, Okay I’m done know…ate too much candy
panaghiotisadam · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 4:32 am
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@misterenigma: No widgets means no widgets added by you, in which case the theme displays its own preset sidebar items. Once you add any widget, the preset goes. So just add a (blank) text widget, as Vivian told you.
misterenigma · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 4:41 am
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Ok, so I put in the blank text, and now i Have a blank sidebar. How do I move everything to left, or center everything inside?

My blog looks like this now. http://misterenigma.wordpress.com/
vivianpaige · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 4:52 am
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Told you it would look weird.

If you don’t know CSS, I wouldn’t even begin to try to move it. Why not try a theme without a sidebar before you start playing with CSS?
misterenigma · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 4:54 am
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Some of the one columned themes are too narrow for me.
aw1923 · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 5:06 am
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well seems like your going to need the CSS upgrade
misterenigma · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 5:16 am
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Yeah, I’ve prepared to purchase the upgrade. I just need to know how to do all this.
aw1923 · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 5:20 am
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well just know that there is no official CSS forum and only a few of us know CSS enough to help you. There is a CSS editor on wordpress that allows you to preview the blog before submitting it.
Like I said before, if you use the previous theme that you started with and then just use the other blogs CSS then it will look just the way you wanted.
misterenigma · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 5:34 am
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What other blogs CSS? I just want whatevers in my innerwrapper to center out with everything else.
aw1923 · Member · Jan 4, 2009 at 6:02 am
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The one you posted as an example. Look I was just by the second blog you offered as an example of what you wanted your blog to look like.

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