More content width in the Columnist theme.
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After two years, I was ready to break… huh … revamp my blog.
I knew my basic needs and picks The Columnist.
In it, there is a huge peace of utterly useless screen real estate. I want it gone and text to come back to the 640 px of media content width at minima.
If that right 1/3 of page cannot be fully extracted, I’d like it either minimized in width or rendered able to hold a sidebar.
Any help if but links would be appreciated immensely but be warned …
I’ll be looking for the CSS sheet while I wait so major noob here!Sorry, Tay.
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UPDATE :
I found the culprit as ‹div id=”primary” class=”site-content”›.
If that could extend to the last background column ( 2/3 of width )
and a sidebar added below the header in left column, I’d sh..t up ;)
By then, I’d have at least the 640px I had prior but more is better :D
in a theme that I can’t find anymore to revert to if I wanted so please,
any help tweaking this one would be appreciated.And good day all, Tay.
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Hi Tay, I’m seeing 640px (grey area) on your main page.
On static pages such as your about page, I’m seeing a width of 625px with 15px of right padding.
On single post pages, I’m seeing a content width of 450px with the entry meta on the right having a width of 145px.
Are you wanting to widen everything, or just the single post pages or what?
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Hey, Happiness engineer! :D
450 is the biggest problem. The theme offered and accepted media to 640px. I’d really want that at minimum for content width.
If it can be done for all pages uniformly, all the better, my good sir!Tay.
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Tay, give the following a try. I targeted single posts and static pages.
.page #content, .single #content, .error404 #content { width: 640px; } .page #main { width: 975px; } .page #main:after, .error404 #main:after { width: 640px; } .single #main:after { width: 810px; } .single #content { width: 810px; } .single #main, .single .site-footer { width: 1145px; } .single .entry-content { width: 620px; } -
Wow! That was amazing!
I’ll know have to study what I just copy-pasted until it makes sense. :DThanks a lot for the help, SacredPath!
I have the running post page titles to fix sooner than later ( font probably and after that I’ll check for moving the Sidebars.But getting back the empty space & content width took the urgency out!
Thanks again and have a good day, Tay. -
BTW you did well, I have no problems with front page layout as is;
let’s not invite disaster by overdoing things!Thnx again.
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You are welcome, and glad I was able to accomplish what you wanted. The Columnist is sort of tricky with the way the HTML and the CSS are done and sometimes it takes a good bit of code and back and forth on things to get it all to play nicely together.
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Hello again my poor sir but I think I saw some of what you meant by tricky.
The video content was still below 640px, or, to be exact, shrinker in Posts but appears normal when compressed in customize? I reduced video content to 620px as your corrections revealed and it’s ok! I can live with 620.
And there are hints of instability. I changed my fonts and the native or older one sometimes appears in title and switches to newest after lag.
And whatever the text is in my Post editor is not the same, small and hard on the eyes.What I’d like to know now is how much is left to the right hand background image in Post pages. I custom Gimped one at 600×600 which looks fine on Front but is shaved off a few pixels in Post.
I’m too dumb to subtract it seems? Knowing would allow me to design an image that would fit both.Have a great day and no rush, at this point it’s more annoying than lethal :D Tay.
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And there are hints of instability. I changed my fonts and the native or older one sometimes appears in title and switches to newest after lag.
This can sometimes happen at first as your font selections take affect, but typically it will settle down. It can also sometimes be the result of your internet connection, perhaps an invisible proxy server between you and the WordPress servers that hasn’t completely updated yet. See if the issue doesn’t go away in day or two as I am not seeing any issue with the fonts switching around.
And whatever the text is in my Post editor is not the same, small and hard on the eyes.
The text in the post editor is a different text from what is shown on the public side of the site. The editor is a Rich Text editor, not WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). I would suggest using the zoom feature in your browser to increase the size on the editor page. Most modern browsers will remember that choice and apply it to only the page or pages you use the zoom feature on.
Looking at “Does the spider know it’s Christmas?”, the image you inserted is 550px wide and the content area is 640px wide. At Appearance > Customize CSS you have 640px entered as the maximum content width, but if you upload an image that is less than that, and choose full-size when inserting it, it will be inserted at the full size of the image, which in this case is 550px. You can upload and insert images that are larger than 640px wide and the wordpress and theme software will take care of that and insert the image at the maximum width for the content area.
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