Don’t edit the Twenty Ten theme. Instead create a child theme for your customisations. Once your child theme is active, we should be able to help with the customisation.
http://vudu.me/hi
Once you’ve followed @esmi’s advice regarding creating a child theme, my article may help you a little. It’s got some information on working with twentyten’s width
And you can download a starter Twenty Ten child theme from http://quirm.net/themes/twenty-ten-child/
Thanks for the replys! I am at work so can’t create child theme right now. Also, while it may be easy I have never done it. I’m sure once I create one I’ll say ‘Oh, that was easy!!’I read a little of Rev. Voodoo’s site and will use that as a reference.
The concept is fairly simple. What you need to understand when adjusting the width of any portion of a theme is the math, and css relationship.
You have an overall width, and then you have various elements, along with margins, padding, etc
You have to be able to visualize the content, each element is a box. Padding and margins add width. If elements are inside of other elements…. such as the content box within the overall page layout… you have to remember the relationships
If you widen the content area, the overall page must be widened the same amount, or else the margins need adjusted or the sidebar, etc. Essentially you need to have space for everything. If your content, sidebar, margins and padding are adjusted, and end up being wider than the containing page, something will break. Normally the sidebar ends up shifting under the content in this case.
Understand about the elements of the site, just wish it could be easier!
Try using Firefox with the Firebug add-on for this kind of work.
Thanks for the tip! I’ll do that!
I created a child theme. I cheated, I found a plugin that created the child. I had to change the header picture and the background color back to what it was since they were changed. Everything else looks the same.
