twenty xs width

You are still going to have to edit the CSS of your site’s theme if you want to alter its appearance, despite using WordPress.

Open your theme directory on an ftp client and edit the CSS file for your theme.

Ah, you are using a custom theme. Your best resource for altering a custom theme would probably be the developer that originally created it. Twenty XS looks to come from here: http://wordpressthememu.com/extend-themes/twentyxs.html

This is how I make a wide 1140 twenty eleven theme:

In my child theme style.css

#page {
	max-width: 1140px;
}
.featured-posts,
#ie7 article.intro {
	max-width: 1140px;
}

In functions.php

/* 200px less that the width! */
if ( ! isset( $content_width ) )
	$content_width = 940;

That’s it!

HTH

David

Hi Andrew,
That is how I do it in a twenty eleven child theme, it may help others finding this topic 🙂

I can go into “appearance” and then under “twentyXS” settings it allows you to customize the css

That is where you would add the first block in your theme.

The second should already be in functions.php, you would edit the value.

You should really use a child theme, as it is based on a default theme it should support child themes.

HTH

David