Make TwentyEleven nosidebar wider?

Resolved it by adding this to the .css

#page {
max-width:1024px;
min-width:1024px;
}

Using this might be better, it won’t effect the other layouts.
.one-column #page { }

I tried this and it did not work. :-\

https://www.houseconcretelandscaping.com/a-test-page/

@aardvarkgirl

your link points to a ‘two-column, right-sidebar’ setting static page – which has a narrow layout by default.

look for:

.singular .entry-header,
.singular .entry-content,
.singular footer.entry-meta,
.singular #comments-title {
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 68.9%;
}

this will also effect any single post in your setup.

alchymyth – (thanks for the reply)

“It has a two column, right sidebar setting static page.”

I’m fairly familiar with Twenty Ten, this is my first gander at Twenty Eleven. What has changed as far as creating new pages and their default settings?

I’m looking at the page in question in the admin and it is set to ‘default’ – but does not show any of the active widgets. The default in Twenty Ten was a two-col lay out with any active widgets showing in side bar. To get a one-col lay out with out the side bar you had to select it in the page template selector.

I guess I need to first understand what has changed in Twenty Eleven (instead of just being handed a ‘fix’). ??

CAME BACK TO SAY: I’m reading this https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyeleven/ now.

CAME BACK AGAIN: I just found the theme options in the admin – where it has choices for content on left, content on right, and one col no side bar. It is selected to content on left.

So compared to Twenty Ten – how do I select a “One Col No Sidebar” option? (now I’m really confused)

So do I need to make a one-column page template to use?

You definitely could do that, if you want the ability to have some pages with a sidebar and some pages without. <— nevermind this, alchymyth’s post below is correct. ??

If you just want the whole website to be no-sidebar, but wider than the standard one column/no sidebar layout, you can adjust the CSS like zeaks suggested above:

.one-column #page {
   max-width: 1000px;
}

So do I need to make a one-column page template to use?

no – static pages have a one column layout by default – if you look into page.php – there is no call for the sidebar – even in the ‘two-column’ theme option setting.

if you have a static page and want to stretch the content area to full width, edit style.css where is suggested.

——–
imho, the whole desing idea, with a single-column static page and single post, is just to show what might be possible; and to force the users to have a closer look behind the scenes, into the theme options etc.
the default theme was never and is not now meant to be an easy theme for beginners, but a theme that incorporates more advanced techniques.
(remember, the ‘old’ default kubrick theme also had a single-column static page and single post layout; and was not considered to be easily customizable at its time)

Can I make pnly one page wider? I have a forum on one page it it is too narrow. Thanks

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