Left side cladding on all pages other than homepage(masonry)

Hello there,

?Please accept my apologies for the delay in response. I really appreciate your patience.

> I would like to know how to increase the padding on the left side of the page and decrease the right sidebar width, but still keeping a sidebar. I would just like the blog post content to start less close to the left edge of the screen

If I could get it correctly, you would try adding this below CSS code to your site’s Additional CSS under the Appearance > Customize.

@media only screen and (min-width: 576px) {
	 body:not(.home) .site-content > .container {
		 max-width: 100%;
	}
}

Let me know whether it helps for you or not.

> and the images to be shifted right slightly (not centred as eventually I will add content in the sidebar)

Image alignment can be managed from the settings which are appearing when click on the image in the block editor.

> I would also like to add a few words / post extract under the headings on the homepage.

Currently, the excerpt doesn’t show when the masonry layout is active.

You can show it by overriding the template-parts/content.php file with a child theme.

Edit your chid theme’s template-parts/content.php file, replace these code block:

<?php if ( $layout['type'] != 'layout-grid' && $layout['type'] != 'layout-masonry' ) : ?>
  <div class="entry-content">
    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
  </div><!-- .entry-content -->

  <?php if ( $read_more != '' ) : ?>
  <footer class="entry-footer">
    <a class="read-more-link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo esc_html( $read_more ); ?><span class="gt">>></span></a>
  </footer><!-- .entry-footer -->
  <?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

with:

<div class="entry-content">
	<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->

<?php if ( $read_more != '' ) : ?>
<footer class="entry-footer">
	<a class="read-more-link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo esc_html( $read_more ); ?><span class="gt">>></span></a>
</footer><!-- .entry-footer -->
<?php endif; ?>

I hope this reply helps.

Let me know in new topics for your other questions.

Regards,
Kharis