Reduce width of body text in DUET theme

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  drdanni · Member · Mar 25, 2013 at 5:30 am

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  I would like the body text in DUET to be 600 pixels wide if possible. Can I do this and how, please? Thank you, Dr Danni

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  siobhyb · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 7:27 am

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  Hi, could you post the URL to the blog you want to edit. This will allow us to better understand what you’re referring to.

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  drdanni · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 7:44 am

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  Hi, sorry, yes, of course: http://www.thecountryphiles.com
  Ideally I’d like my images and body text to match at 600pixels wide.
  Is that possible?
  Thank you.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 6:30 pm

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  Give this a try and see if this is what you want. Since this is a responsive width theme design, the bulk of element widths depend on the “max-width” set in the overall page/container/wrapper div. In this case, #container. Since your image on the main page is 600px right now, I resized the container so that it supports that as a maximum width. On the CSS edit page, in the publishing module, set the “content width” to 600px too. That will limit full-sized images to 600px. Add the following to the end of your custom CSS and see what you think.

  #container {
  max-width: 660px;
  }

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  drdanni · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 8:32 pm

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  Thank you!
  Yes, it’s perfect! You are a marvel – especially given I have zero CSS experience.
  Thanks again.
  Danielle

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  drdanni · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 9:45 pm

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  Two further questions (sorry to hog the limelight):

  1. I want to delete blog: drdanni.wordpress.com and have that deleted address point to my new blog: thecountryphiles.com (should anyone type the old address in or have an existing link to it). Is that possible? How?

  2. I would like to archive my posts according to their category and for all posts in a particular category to show up on a page by the same name as the category. Is that possible? If so, how? Or is it only possible with a full functional website? Here’s an example of great archiving by category: http://www.thedesignfiles.net Cheers.

  Thank you!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 27, 2013 at 3:05 am

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  You can use the site redirect upgrade to redirect drdanni.WordPress.com to thecountryphiles.com. Did you export all your posts/pages/etc., from drdanni and import them into thecountryphiles?

  If you can answer this, it will give us a little bit better idea as to what to suggest.

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  drdanni · Member · Mar 27, 2013 at 5:36 am

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  Hi there,
  Thanks for being so prompt.
  Yes, I have exported posts and media.
  Thanks,
  Danielle

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 27, 2013 at 3:06 pm

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  Ok, then the site redirect will work. since it redirects post or page to post or page, the posts have to exist on the new site.

  You can apply a new category (or categories) to all the imported posts and then you can put that category (or categories) into a custom menu and people can then get to the older posts that way.