Is it possible to crop the sidebar and center widgets?

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  thirtystickyfingers · Member · Oct 18, 2013 at 10:25 pm

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  Hi, I’m using the Fruit Shake theme for my blog thestickyfingersbrigade.com and was curious if I could crop the edges of each block of sidebar to fit more snuggly around the widgets. There seems to be a lot of dead space and it’s looking kind of sloppy. Also, is it possible to center the widgets for a more uniform look? TIA.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 19, 2013 at 8:22 am

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  Hi there,

  You can use Custom CSS to make these kinds of changes to your site’s design. We have information about getting started with CSS here: CSS Basics

  For example, that space around your widgets’ content is called padding. To reduce the amount of padding, go to Appearance > Customize in your dashboard and select CSS from the Customize tools. In the CSS editor, you can enter the following CSS:

  .widget {
  padding: 10px;
  }

  You can adjust the number of pixels in that code until the padding looks the way you want it. :)

  If you’d like help with the CSS to make all of the changes you mentioned, most of our CSS support is done in our community forums by both staff and volunteers:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

  You can browse the information in that forum or create a new post with your questions, and the CSS experts in that forum can help further!

  To learn more about how CSS editing works at WordPress.com, see this help page: Editing CSS

  I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions. :)

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  thirtystickyfingers · Member · Oct 20, 2013 at 9:10 am

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  Thanks so much, rachelmcr. I’ll try this and see if I can tidy up my page in order quell my OCD. ;) Will check out the community forums for any future CSS changes – just glad to here that it is possible to alter it.

  Thanks again,
  Sarah