Title: Increase padding % on blog posts
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Increase padding % on blog posts

 *  [lauratraveler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauratraveler/)
 * (@lauratraveler)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-padding-on-blog-posts/)
 * Hi, how can I increase the right and left padding around a blog post? Also around
   my comments area? Here’s the live URL `www.travelersuniverse.com/things-to-do-
   places-to-visit-in-valencia`

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 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-padding-on-blog-posts/#post-7170936)
 * Could you please be a bit more specific?
 * Do you mean the side paddings of content area when viewed in small screen device?
 * Theme is one column with no border line on both sides so the side padding on 
   content area doesn’t mean a thing unless what you want here is to reduce the 
   width of the content area, but it seems already optimized for text reading.
 *  Thread Starter [lauratraveler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauratraveler/)
 * (@lauratraveler)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-padding-on-blog-posts/#post-7170977)
 * Hey Paul,
 * I’ve actually managed to do that for the post area using #content .single-article
   article
    Here’s an example so you understand what I mean – `www.travelersuniverse.
   com/how-to-start-a-blog`
 * Next, I would like to do the following:
    – make the title a bit wider than the
   post content – make the similar posts the same size as the post – make the comments
   area the same size as the post
 * I would like this only for screens the size of a tablet in landscape or bigger.
 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-padding-on-blog-posts/#post-7171039)
 * Hi Laura
 * First please take this out (delete it from your custom css)
 *     ```
       #content .single-article article {
         padding-left: 19%;
         padding-right: 19%;
       }
       ```
   
 * then use this code instead, it does everything you asked for above.
 *     ```
       .single-post .entry-content, {
       	max-width: 700px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
       }
   
       .single-post #comments,
       .single-post #respond {
       	max-width: 750px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
       }
       ```
   

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