Not being full width? And how to Make it full width

  • Resolved jmichaelj

    (@jmichaelj)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    I want to like this theme, in fact for 8 years now I’ve wanted to like an Automattic theme, but they all have such glaring issues.

    The theme is boxed and always has white space on the sides of the content, and looking at it, I can get it actual full width, but it always breaks the theme in some way, it feels like I have to rewrite the entire thing to get the white space left-right to go away. I’ve tried a few things, but I’m trying not to spend too much time on this, since its a labor of love, and not something I’m paid for, and most fixes cause some aspect of the site to look funky on at least one screen (mobile, tablet, desktop, or two out of three)

    I’m trying to do a quick (haha, I know, quick and wordpress don’t go together) site with as minimalist, yet still looks good, full width site, that literally just has basic info on it, but there is always white space, or breaking the design.

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Bg66pmX_Y-yQxUNZfJFgKnV3C8nBEzLL
    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1the672A4bBVzBQNQQA462Cf3FsAxOf-u

    Does anyone have any quick (custom css) fixes to get rid of the boxed content without messing with too much?

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  • Anonymous User 14254218

    (@anonymized-14254218)

    Is this a content element or the header?
    Which template are you using?
    Did you try the alignfull class?

    A link to the page you are referring to would be handy ??

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    The recommendations under https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/change-the-width-of-a-normal-block/ might help too.

    Thread Starter jmichaelj

    (@jmichaelj)

    No @james Huff, that has nothing to do with what I am talking about.
    I’m referring to the actual wrapper around everything below the nav and menu.

    And @raQai, it doesn’t matter which template, all of them have the wrapper set to always leave a gap, I’m including two more screen grabs, and a link to the site.

    This is not the placement of the content, or the width of the content, this is about getting everything below the header and nav to go from side to side in the browser instead of leaving ugly gaps, which for some reason every “twenty” theme always does.

    Please take a look at the screen grabs
    Screen grabs
    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a8CDdh3Qs-T0PcAvnEOndCDUKaYy-BiD
    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Fvnty_nWZPf1bz3SbR7TYByaZzgc2F1N

    Site link
    https://theforefront.media/radio-show/

    I could just write a brand new theme based on this, but I have 3 jobs and time is always an issue, so I’m trying to limit my time to 15 minutes a day on this site.
    it’d be nice if Automattic could release a theme that is both functional and looks decent, but for whatever reason it’s always one or the other….I know the thought process is “Well if you want better then pay” but seeing themes with glaring issues doesn’t exactly make me want to pay the person who made it for what they claim is better.
    With each update I find myself moving further and further away from WordPress. Six years ago every site I made or managed was on wordpress, now it’s less than a third.

    Thread Starter jmichaelj

    (@jmichaelj)

    Don’t worry about it, I found an old theme that looks similar and I can just customize it to fix the incompatibilities with the core updates.

    My other reply got held because I had a negative comment, so I’m just moving on….I don’t have time to waste.
    Thanks for trying.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    it’d be nice if Automattic could release a theme that is both functional and looks decent

    To be clear, Automattic didn’t develop this theme. Anders Norén lead the development, and many people contributed: https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwenty/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

    You might want to check out https://www.ads-software.com/themes/chaplin/ which is also by Anders and what he based this theme off of. It’s similar, but has many more options.

    He has plenty more to choose from too: https://www.ads-software.com/themes/author/anlino/

    If you’d like a theme built by Automattic though, there are plenty: https://www.ads-software.com/themes/author/automattic/

    My other reply got held because I had a negative comment

    It was held as spam for some reason, we retrieved it in less than 30 minutes during one of our routine sweeps. Not bad for a team of volunteers. ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ

    Thread Starter jmichaelj

    (@jmichaelj)

    With the lone exception of this original post, every time I’ve made a negative statement toward Automatic or wordpress inside of a comment it gets caught as spam, funny how that happens.

    And if Anders made this then I won’t like the other stuff he did either, because it is clear that when they make something that has a glaring flaw they go “Ah, we’ll just make it a free theme, or a freemium theme and charge for the fix.”

    I understand it takes time, as I myself have made themes, and people need to be paid, but to alway have a free theme that is either incomplete, or glaring flaws, is just not a great showing.

    I have bought many themes, paid many hundreds for some good ones, but only from people who make decent free themes or preview themes that show they finished them also.

    It’s just frustrating that since around 2014, as wordpress gets more “user friendly” it gets more and more time consuming, and it keeps feeling like things are being released half finished.

    I used to love wordpress too….I was a cheerleader for almost a decade. It just is getting so time consuming, again, it used to consume time to add things, now it is consuming to undo what is being done.
    And with other cms getting better, for the amount of time it takes now days, it’s getting hard to justify.

    I want to love wordpress again, I really do.

    And thanks for the reply, not your fault my man.
    You’re doing fine, I just only dedicate 15 minutes a day to this project, so time is short.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Ok, since you’re just ranting now, I’m going to close this.

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