Page width too narrow
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1. I am new to WordPress. I am trying to create a blog. I have selected a theme “Ocean Mist”. The page width is too narrow. It has a left margin and a right margin that are each about 2 1/2 inches wide. Is it possible to reduce the width of the margins?
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IMy blog has two columns, one for posts and one for various widgets. I would like two columns for widgets. Is it possible? If so, how do I do it?
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There is no way to add a second column of widgets to Ocean Mist, and making that theme wider is as much a photoshop project as anything else since the entire background of the theme is interlocking images and they would all have to be recreated at the width you want, and then the second part of things begins to modify the CSS, which would take experience with CSS and also the paid CSS upgrade.
Coraline, Vigilance and at least a couple others have options for two sidebar.
Go to http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/ and use the feature filter to see which themes offer three columns.
Also, this post by Panos will show the content area widths for the various themes here: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/maximum-image-width/ .
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It sounds like the maximum width of the text (the blogs and the sidebar) is dictated by the width of the picture rather than vice versa. Is it possible to change that? I know a good deal about CSS and HTML in general, but my concern is the preservation of the landmarks that WordPress uses to insert its information into the page from the blog database.
Is there documentation that would give me the information I would need to build my own theme? I would hope that such documentation whould be robust enough to point out any sbumbling blocks I might encounter in the process.
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1. You cannot build or use your own custom theme built from scratch at WordPress.com. The closest we can get to that is to purchase a CSS upgrade and use either two free themes, Sandbox and Toolbox designed to allow maximum flexibility for CSS editing and creating new “skins”. Toolbox is more modern and includes a lot of support for CSS3 and HTML5, so it is really only limited by your skills and knowledge. Also note that the documentation you request does not exist.
2. We cannot edit themes or templates. This is a multiuser blogging platform. That means that every blog wearing the same theme is using the same underlying template. So we cannot access those files at all. Only Staff can as every edit they make affects all blogs wearing the same theme.
3. We can purchase an an annually renewable CSS upgrade but there is no Staff support & only two volunteers help with CSS. One has just indicated that he’s not at all interested in taking on a huge photoshp project to make Ocean Mist wider for you.
It will allow you to stylize the appearance of themes you find here > Appearance > Themes, but it does not allow you to change the functionality, by editing the underlying template. It does not allow you to remove footer links to the theme designer or to wordpress.com. Also note that CSS is theme specific, so you cannot use the CSS stylesheets from other themes with the themes here at wordpress.COM.
If you are considering purchasing the upgrade, you can go to Appearance > Edit CSS. There wordpress has provided a preview function where you can try before you buy.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/editing-css/If you do purchase the upgrade be sure to read this article before starting your editing > http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/
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No, the width of the theme is controlled by several things typically, starting with the container or wrapper, or page (CSS is theme dependent) and then you have to adjust the widths and positions of the child elements as necessary to achieve the look you want, and the widths you want. The full-sized width of an image is dependent on the width of the content (post) area and the size defined in the “image and video maximum width” field below the CSS edit text area. That number needs to match the size of the content area (less margins and padding) otherwise, if your images come in wider than the content area, they will either overrun the sidebar forcing it to the bottom, or they will be cut off on the right side (if overflow is set to hidden).
Since CSS is theme dependent (each designer decides how they organize the markup (XHTML) and what labels they will use for the IDs and classes. That means that a “document” would need to be created for each individual theme. WordPress is not in the business of teaching CSS, so the user is expected to know at least the CSS basics, and be able to figure out how everything works and relates.
There are only a few of us here in the forums with varying degrees of CSS experience, so help is not always available.
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