New Post Block needs to be wider

Sorry, I didn’t think about the post leaving the example. I would like the New Post box on https://www.caringisorganic.com/?page_id=2713 to be at least the width of this posting. The box appears to be vertical not horizontal.

To change the appearance for that textarea, you would have to add some custom CSS. At first glance, it doesn’t look like it has much styling applied to it:

#content,
#content input,
#content textarea {
color: #333;
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 24px;
}

If you are using a child theme, you could add/edit styles in your child theme’s style.css to alter its appearance. Alternatively, you should use a Custom CSS plugin to do the same. For example, if you wanted to specify a height and a width, you could add the following:

#content textarea {
height: 120px;
width: 400px;
}

Please don’t modify the theme’s style.css file – any changes you make there will be overwritten and lost when WP is updated. You can use a custom CSS plugin or Child Theme to safely make changes like this.

WPyogi is absolutely right – a child theme or the Custom CSS plugin is the way to go. My mistake ??

?? – you’re cool, Ryan, and really helpful and thoughtful to lots of people. We just try to keep people from creating messes down the road…

I’ve been off the site for a couple of months so my css brain is not in tact aka not following well – I have changed to a twenty ten theme in order to get the site open on my clients older computer operating systems. I did have twnety eleven open as a child theme. Do I need to create another twenty ten child theme to do this? What file do I use to plug in the Custom CSS?

You do need to create another Child Theme if you’re switching themes. One reason is because your CSS @import line will change. It will refer a different theme.

What file do I use to plug in the Custom CSS?

You either write your new CSS styles in your Child Theme style.css file or use a Custom CSS plugin.

Yes, you would need to create a new child theme for twentyten. Or try this plugin:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin/