Title: Increasing middle column/container width on custom theme?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Increasing middle column/container width on custom theme?

 *  Resolved [yesep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yesep/)
 * (@yesep)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-middle-columncontainer-width-on-custom-theme/)
 * Hello –
 * I am trying to increase the width of the middle container/column across my website
   so I can include more content, but am having trouble. I have tried increasing
   some width options in the editor, but to no avail.
 * It is currently only allowing 500px, but I need it to be at 800px. The only minor
   success I did have was to increase the width of the container, but the text wasn’t
   wrapped (appeared the same as prior to the lengthening), and the overall alignment
   was a bit off. I’m not sure if there is a simple setting I’m missing…any assistance
   would be much appreciated!
 * Site:
    [http://bit.ly/1nAX7lM](http://bit.ly/1nAX7lM)

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-middle-columncontainer-width-on-custom-theme/#post-5130355)
 *     ```
       #header {
           background-size: 100%;
       }
   
       #container {
           background: #fff;
           width: 1160px;
       }
   
       #content {
           width: 766px;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [yesep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yesep/)
 * (@yesep)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-middle-columncontainer-width-on-custom-theme/#post-5130359)
 * Bless your heart, kind sir 🙂

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## Tags

 * [container](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/container/)
 * [Increase](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/increase/)
 * [middle](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/middle/)
 * [width](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/width/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [yesep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yesep/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-middle-columncontainer-width-on-custom-theme/#post-5130359)
 * Status: resolved

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