Help with deleting a sidebar and widening the body text

  • slikvik

    (@slikvik)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    I’m a noob when it comes to WordPress or any kind of web design for that matter. Today, I installed the ‘News Magazine Theme 640 1.6.3’ for my blog at http://www.sqsaparade.com. I’ve decided that I don’t need the additional custom sidebar on the right hand side, so I’ve hidden it. Now, there is just whitespace there. I’d like to have the text on the pages span the entire width of the body, so that there isn’t any white space on the right-hand side. How can I do this? Thank you!

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Try editing syle.css and changing:

    .postareaindex {
float:left;
margin:0 auto;
padding:10px;
width:550px;
}

    to:

    .postareaindex {
float:left;
margin:0 auto 0 180px;
padding:10px;
}
    Thread Starter slikvik

    (@slikvik)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you for the suggestion. I did as you suggested and it only centered the existing text on the page. The margins of the body (or post area) remained the same and did not span the entire page. Also, it only made this change for the home page and not the rest of the site. I’d like it to be site-wide. Any other ideas? Thank you.

    -Vik

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    try also to change the width of #indexentry and .entry from 480px to 800px (or what you think is needed):

    #indexentry { width: 800px; }
.entry { width:800px; }

    look for them in the style.css and change the numbers.

    Thread Starter slikvik

    (@slikvik)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you. That did the trick!

    Thread Starter slikvik

    (@slikvik)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    I updated the theme and repeated the steps above, but I am getting a huge blank white space on the home page http://www.sqsaparade.com Any ideas?

    I even reduced the margins down to 680 on both the .entry and #indexentry fields, thinking that perhaps it was too wide, and that didn’t work.

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