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  • Hello!

    I am currently using the Academy Management Learning Theme. What I am trying to do is create a CSS style which allows for different colored background sections that are full width like this website’s page, http://www.stageit.com/site/what_is_stageit

    I have tried modifying my theme’s main-content to create a full-width style but for some reason that isn’t quite working out for me. Any suggestions would be really welcome.

    Here is a link to my website http://www.violetpulse.com/

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  • There’s all kinds of other CSS that would need to be modified – for example:

    .row {
        margin: 0 auto;
        padding: 0 30px;
        width: 1140px;
    }
    .row {
        width: 708px;
    }

    But that’s just the beginning. It’s not very simple to do this kind of modifications unless you are quite familiar with CSS and HTML. And since that’s a responsive theme, it’s even more complicated. How much CSS do you know?

    Even for a theme that’s supported here (commercial themes aren’t), that kind of extensive customization is likely more than what could be provided here.

    Thread Starter CompassSeeker

    (@compassseeker)

    Although I’m still learning, I’m getting more and more comfortable with editing and modifying CSS. I understand that creating a page template would be quite involved so what I was thinking of doing is creating a new full-width.php page specifically for the page I want to create. I would add all the CSS elements necessary to create the full width sections and write the HTML code in that php page.

    That’s certainly possible and maybe an easier way to go :). For sure, you should look into using a child theme so that your changes are not lost when the theme is updated…

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    (Assuming that your theme works with a child theme – as not all do.)

    Thread Starter CompassSeeker

    (@compassseeker)

    I already have a child theme 🙂 From there, what would be the next step?

    Are you wanting just one page to look that way?

    Probably easiest to start with one of the templates you have (don’t know for sure as that’s not a theme freely available) – you can make a copy and change the name, then start changing the CSS and/or the HTML to look how you want…

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates#Custom_Page_Template

    Well, This is what i want to know too, I asked about that before and the answer is Go To Codex WordPress.

    I know there is a page for that but i didn’t understand nothing on that page because am not good with code as this much, And there is no tutorial in youtube or wordpress tv or anywhere.

    Is what i need very hard to learn or what?

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