$content_width isn’t the width of the content area — it’s a constant used to set the maximum width of embedded content like videos. It’s a standard part of just about any well-coded theme.
The width of the content area itself is generally set in style.css
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almcr
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but, as I said above, this theme sets the width of the content area ($content_width) depending on 0, 1, or 2 sidebars and seems to use the values set by the specification of $content_width in functions.php (1176, 869, or 562). because it is varaible depending on the # of sidebars, it cannot be set in css or so it would appear to me.
so that is why I am asking the question? how does this work? just trying to figure out how it works so that if I want to use it, I can understand it. right now I don’t understand how the page shows full page width if there are no sidebars, displays 3/4 page if there is one sidebar, and half the page if there are 2 sidebars. it is a neat process that may be usable if I can figure out how it works.
Al
Ah, I got distracted by $content_width and misunderstood your real question, in that case!
Take a look at the able/inc/tweaks.php file — there’s a function in there that adds extra css classes (.one-column, .two-column, .three-column) to the body depending on which sidebars are present; those classes are styled in the page structure section of style.css
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almcr
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OK that may explain it, will look at that. so in the end, it is done only with CSS, and the fact that content_width is set to some values that seem to relate to the content width size only throws you off, especially when they used a name like content_width.
thanks Amy
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Al
Yeah, content_width is… accurate in that it’s the width of some content, it’s just not the kind that seems most obvious 😉 You’re not the first person to stumble on that, or even close to it.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hi… I interested to build a WordPress Theme. I follow the instruction to build the themes on wordpress.or.id. But, when i check my theme, there are some problems, and one of the problems are :
REQUIRED: No content width has been defined. Example:
if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) $content_width = 900;
So, where i must add the $content_width ?
I’m still newbie here…
Thanks for helps…
Ahaaa…. I’ve figured out now. I just see the example from twentytwelve theme, and read from codex.wordpress.org/Content_Width
