How to resize the wordpress display width?

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    photobykel · Member ·

    My LCD display is 1920×1280 resolution but the content of my wordpress is just like 800 pixels wide. How can I resize it to fit according to the user’s resolution?

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    You have to remember that you are in a small minority of users and if you size your site for your monitor, you will be making your site wider than 95% of users on the internet. Is your site just for you to look at or did you actually expect others to look at it?

    Worldwide monitor resolutions (Dec/2011 from StatCounter Global Stats)

    1 — 1024×768 — 20.99%
    2 — 1366×768 — 17.58%
    3 — 1280×800 — 13.5%
    4 — 1280×1024 — 7.8%
    5 — 1440×900 — 6.7%
    6 — 1920×1080 — 4.48%

    Those at 1440 wide or less: 66.57%

    With 21% of people still on 1024px wide monitors, I would at this time not go wider than 1000px maximum or your visitors will have to scroll horizontally to see your stuff, and that is one of the top 10 things web surfers dislike most.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    The 95% is based on 100% – 4.48%. It might actually be down around 80% given some of the “other” resolutions could be greater than 1440px wide (they don’t break them out).

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    timethief · Member ·

    How can I resize it to fit according to the user’s resolution?

    Fixed means the width of the theme does not change according to screen resolution (or the width of browser) your visitors use.

    Fluid means the width of the theme changes according to
    screen resolution (or the width of browser)
    your visitors use.

    Responsive width means the the
    layout adapts depending on the size of the device being use
    d to view your site. When responsive width themes are viewed on mobiles sidebars appear below the posts in order to provide as much space as possible for reading. http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/widths/responsive-width/

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Thanks for catching that timethief. I misread things.

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    timethief · Member ·

    @thesacredpath
    I messed up the formatting in this thread and I don’t how I did it. I need a cup of tea. :)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Sometimes it just happens. I was killing any thread I posted in once and then no one else could post to that thread at all.

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    coprican · Member ·

    Photobykel – it’s not going to help you with resizing your entire website (the other posters are right, you shouldn’t even if you knew how), but given that you’ve got a nice big monitor there, you can definitely give yourself more working room within the WordPress post editing areas. Might help ease the pain a little :)

    Try the technique outlined here:

    http://wordpressquests.com/?page_id=1841

    I’m working on a 27 inch iMac – the tiny WordPress interface would drive me nuts if I didn’t use this trick.

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