Title: Move Widget Area Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Move Widget Area * [emilypierce723](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilypierce723/) * (@emilypierce723) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/) * I want to move my widget area completely out of the content area. I want them to be in two separate boxes. What php file do I go into the change where the widget is located? I did this for my header because I wanted my header image to be the full width of the page along with my navigation and it was easy to find, but now I can’t find where to do the same thing with my widget area. Thanks Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/page/2/?output_format=md) * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097179) * What theme are you using? * Thread Starter [emilypierce723](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilypierce723/) * (@emilypierce723) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097187) * Twenty twelve but I created a child theme * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097190) * > I want them to be in two separate boxes. * I’m not sure exactly what you are trying to do. Can you be more specific? * Thread Starter [emilypierce723](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilypierce723/) * (@emilypierce723) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097260) * Ok. So twenty twelve has all of the main content in a wrapper that only spans I think 724px. Everything use to be inside of that div, but I moved the header and nav outside of it so it spans the entire screen. I want to move the widget area outside of the wrapper because i want to change the background color of it and adda drop shadow but when I do you it looks stupid because it’s inside of the main content wrapper. If you’d like I could make the changes and send you the link. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097261) * Please post a link to a site using this child theme here. * Thread Starter [emilypierce723](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilypierce723/) * (@emilypierce723) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097262) * [http://www.emilypiercedesigns.com](http://www.emilypiercedesigns.com) It’s not close to being finish because I’m having issues with my portfolio plugin as well but the widget area i want to move outside of the content. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097263) * May I suggest that you start by putting your nav menu markup back _below_ the opening `` tag in your child theme’s header.php template file? * Thread Starter [emilypierce723](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilypierce723/) * (@emilypierce723) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097264) * if I do that, it will move it back where it was before. I’m not worried about the header and nav. I want to change the widget area. * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097265) * You also may want to check your site on a small device – it’s not working too well ATM… * Changing the layout of a responsive theme/template isn’t that simple – how familiar are you with CSS? * Thread Starter [emilypierce723](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilypierce723/) * (@emilypierce723) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097266) * Very familiar. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097267) * Doing absolutely anything with that theme right now would be totally pointless when it has such a serious markup error. There should be absolutely no markup between `` and ``. When that has been done, please let us know and we’ll have another look. * Thread Starter [emilypierce723](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilypierce723/) * (@emilypierce723) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097269) * Ok I fixed it. I didn’t even notice that I did that. Sorry. I’m also seeing that some of the styling that I did through CSS isn’t showing up when I open Canary. I have a custom font that I downloaded that isn’t showing up and the colors and size on most of my a:hover isn’t working. How can I get my custom font to show up for other people? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097270) * How did you add that font? * Thread Starter [emilypierce723](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilypierce723/) * (@emilypierce723) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097271) * I downloaded it to my computer. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-widget-area/#post-4097272) * So you didn’t embed in the theme’s CSS? Perhaps you need to review how to use [@font-face](http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_font-face_rule.asp). You also need to ensure that the font is licensed for general public use. 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