Title: Video player width Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Video player width * Resolved [CrystaI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crystai/) * (@crystai) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-player-width/) * Hiya! Love the MaryAnne theme! * Things have been going smoothly so far but I just ran into a little snag when posting an embedded video. Both with a standard embed and with the [video] shortcode, the width of the displayed player is limited to 590px. This is for a video wider than 590px, and even with a “width” option for the video shortcode. I can only make the video smaller, not larger. * I looked around a bit and found a comment that the PHP global $content_width determines max. size for the core video player, and indeed, in MaryAnnes functions. php: * ``` global $content_width; if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) { $content_width = 590; } ``` * I guess 590px is the proper max. width when using the right sidebar (which I’m not)? * Is there a clean way to fix this (to get full width video) without editing this in the source? * Thanks!! Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Theme Author [TT Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomastoman/) * (@tomastoman) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-player-width/#post-6863875) * Hi, * if possible, please post here a link to a page with an embedded video so I could check it. The video frame should cover the full width of the page container even if there is no right sidebar. If you would like to change the default $content_width without editing the theme or creating a child theme, you can use the [Custom Content Width](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-width/) plugin. * Best regards, Tomas Toman * Thread Starter [CrystaI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crystai/) * (@crystai) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-player-width/#post-6863885) * Hi Tomas, thank you for such a quick response! * I’m currently testing things here on a local system (LAMP, Ubuntu 14.04, Apache2 with minimal changes). It’s behind several layers of routing, it’ll be much easier show you when it moves to hosting. * It seems pegged solidly at the max 590px width though, and this is exactly what others are saying about the core video player, it limits itself strictly to the $content_width value. I’m no PHP programmer by any means but I just searched through your sources and can’t find any other assignment to content_width, so I suppose its value is 590 allright? * Thanks for the plugin tip, it doesn’t seem to support the current WP versions though. * Can this variable be changed by means of some hook, child theme or whatever? I’m a WP newbie but not afraid to add some code. Will edit your sources if necessary but that is obviously not a good approach. * Thank you! * Thread Starter [CrystaI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crystai/) * (@crystai) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-player-width/#post-6863921) * OK, I found the following, describing the same problem with the video shortcode: [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/124075/videos-via-the-video-shortcode-are-always-640px-wide](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/124075/videos-via-the-video-shortcode-are-always-640px-wide) * The solution suggested there is ‘to hook into after_setup_theme’ (however that’s supposed to be done) to change $content_width. * Tomas, I very much appreciate your advice on this, otherwise I’ll go ahead and try that? * Theme Author [TT Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomastoman/) * (@tomastoman) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-player-width/#post-6863931) * I recommend you to create a child theme and put the following code into your child theme’s “functions.php” to change the default $content_width: * ``` function maryanne_child_setup() { global $content_width; $content_width = 870; } add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'maryanne_child_setup' ); ``` * The width of the content area when the right sidebar is hidden is 870 px. * Best regards, Tomas Toman * Thread Starter [CrystaI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crystai/) * (@crystai) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-player-width/#post-6863938) * Tomas, that’s great, will try it ASAP and report back here! * Thread Starter [CrystaI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crystai/) * (@crystai) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-player-width/#post-6863962) * Just had a look but maybe this is over my head :-S. I was trying to create a child theme like described here: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes), which states it’s necessary to “enqueue the parent and child theme stylesheets”. In that case I think part of maryanne_scripts_styles() in the original functions. php must be incorporated into the child functions.php somehow? * Theme Author [TT Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomastoman/) * (@tomastoman) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-player-width/#post-6863963) * You need to put the following code into your child theme’s “functions.php” to enqueue the parent theme’s stylesheet: * ``` add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'maryanne_child_enqueue_styles' ); function maryanne_child_enqueue_styles() { wp_enqueue_style( 'maryanne-parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' ); } ``` * Your child theme’s stylesheet will usually be loaded automatically. * Best regards, Tomas Toman * Thread Starter [CrystaI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crystai/) * (@crystai) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-player-width/#post-6863968) * Well that works beautifully! * Just in case anyone as inexperienced as me wishes to do this, here is the complete child theme functions.php: * ``` ``` * Marking this as solved. Tomas, I really appreciate the way you’ve helped a newbie like me out! 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