Plugin getting half-sized when used as a widget on my site

Okay, I may have just solved the issue on my own, but I’m not sure…

I saw that other recent post about “adaptive width” and figured that might be the issue. So I unchecked the box for that setting, and now it seems to be showing up as the full 500 width I’d wanted. If this was indeed the problem, then I’m assuming that by having that box checked, it was causing the widget to adapt to the normal size of images in that widget area.

If there’s anything else to it that I should be aware of, please let me know.

Thanks,
Erik

Hi Erik,

Yes it would be the adaptive width resizing the plugin. As the widget area the plugin is placed in is set to 190px in your theme’s styles, the plugin was resizing to 190px to fit. By unchecking adaptive width it will no longer resize to fit the container.

Thanks,
Cameron

Thanks Cameron. On a closely related topic, one of our other website techies here wrote this to me, which I felt to ask you about:

“Hi Erik, I just want to mention that it doesn’t appear that the plugin on the bottom of the davidhoffmeister.com homepage is entirely responsive. When the width goes between 960px–768px the box actually extends over the right content edge (and it actually disappears in mobile view, but that looks like it’s intended so that feels good). This going beyond the content edge is still something that would be good to take a look into. Full responsiveness is basically a must on our websites these days. I think it’s something you can ask the developer about ?? And you can try it out yourself by just pulling in one edge of your browser to make it more narrow.”

So in possible answer to this, I read another post on this support forum in which you wrote this, which seems like it might be the answer to my friends question:

“Adaptive width simply means that when the plugin renders, it resizes independently of the width setting to fill the parent container. However there are some restrictions, firstly the width will never be smaller than 180px, and will never be wider than 500px. This is a restriction Facebook has set. Secondly, it only adapts when it renders, meaning that the width doesn’t change when you resize your browser. Again, this is a restriction Facebook has set.”

It sounds like we’re out of luck due to the restrictions Facebook has set, but if there is anything we can do to make it responsive in the way my friend is wanting, please let me know.

Many thanks,
Erik

You can disregard the above question, as I’ve just reposted it in another support thread here titled “Responsiveness?”. Thank you.