Sidebar Customization

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  bslaroc · Member · Sep 9, 2015 at 6:55 pm

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  I am using The Untitled theme, and am trying to customize the space allotment size for the Sidebar widgets when utilizing the Default Template for the page set up. Currently I have a custom Contact Information text widget set up and the email address I want included in there is cut off because there are too many letters for the sidebar currently. Is there a way to expand the space allotted or alternatively change the font size of the text inputted into the widget?

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  g471n · Member · Sep 9, 2015 at 8:26 pm

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  Hi bslaroc

  Try adding this line of custom CSS.

  div#secondary {
      width: 27%;
  }

  To add custom CSS

  Select Appearance > Customize > CSS from your Admin Dashboard and enter the custom CSS there.

  You need to be on the WordPress.com Premium Plan for custom CSS to save.

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  bslaroc · Member · Sep 9, 2015 at 8:30 pm

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  That worked g471n, thanks so much! Is there any way to add a footnote location to a theme if there appears to not be one built in for adding widgets to the bottom of the page location?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 11, 2015 at 2:16 am

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  Hi @bslaroc, CSS is a styling document used by browsers to style and position the elements of a webpage. It cannot be used to add functionality, such as a footer widget area. There are a good number of themes here at WordPress.com that have footer widget areas, but there isn’t a way to filter the Theme Showcase to show themes with footer widget areas.