Widening the central text area

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  scribbledo · Member · Oct 29, 2011 at 3:49 am

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  Hi, folks. New wordpress user here, and I was wondering whether or not it was possible to widen the central text area with the basic page editing tools available freely to me at the moment. I’ve done a bit of research and seen some posts in the past that bring up the CSS upgrade, but I was wondering if there was a way to give my paragraphs some breathing room without that upgrade.

  Thanks in advance.

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 29, 2011 at 3:52 am

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  I was wondering whether or not it was possible to widen the central text area with the basic page editing tools available freely to me at the moment.

  Hi. To my knowledge, that’s not possible without the Custom Design (CSS) Upgrade

  You could consider a different theme perhaps?

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  melanieruehmann · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 5:03 pm

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  I have the same problem, I chose the 2011 theme and want to make it look much wider? Any help? I am new to WordPress too?
  Thank you

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  sweetchars · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 5:06 pm

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  Yes we can widen the area for text..I do it everytime….well i think it can be widened though m also new here

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 6:26 pm

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  It has to be done with CSS and you need the Custom Design Upgrade to do that. Also, 2011 is a “reactive” design (meaning it widens and narrows depending on browser window width) so it can be a little more complex to change widths on.