Regarding Sydney can I disable blog options?

Hi,

Thank you for contacting us.

Sorry, I can’t get the ‘blog options‘ you’re referring to. Is there any screenshot added with some annotations to point the location you can share to a file sharing services like Google Drive; and link it here?

Regards,
Kharis

Thank you so much for your time!
I’m using a table to display images and their respective titles. Each image also has a link to an enlarged view. (So far I haven’t figured out how to adjust the enlarged view to full size) but my bigger problem is that when the enlarge view comes up there’s a sidebar for a blog (which I don’t have any interest in and would like to eliminate). Maybe with the extra space that it frees, my images will finally display full size (800px on longest edge we’re not talking HUGE).

The address for the table is:
alpenglowcreations.com

click on any image in the table to see what I’ve described.
Thanks again!

Hi,

Thank you for sharing the link.

First, remove all widgets in your sidebar by going to Dashboard > Appearance menu > Widgets.

Then add this CSS code to Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS from dashboard.

#secondary.widget-area {
  display: none;
}

@media only screen and (min-width: 992px) {
  #primary.col-md-9 {
    width: 75%;
  }  
}

I hope that helps.

Regards,
Kharis

Thanks very much for your assistance! I did not realize I even had widgets in the sidebar (so that was educational). After removing each of those, I checked again and the image size did not grow to full size, as I had hoped but the sidebar still seems to be there (at my image is still shifted to the left to make room for the blank sidebar area). I then followed your instructions for the additional CSS but the page looks the same.

In Appearance > Customize > Blog Options I found a setting in the Layout area “Full width(no sidebar) and checked that but still no change. The page that is intended to show images at full size still has posting date and an area for comments etc which I do NOT need or want but so far I see no way to avoid them.

Is there an additional setting that I’ve overlooked?
Thanks again for your time and effort to assist me with this!

Hi,

Thank you for getting back.

Try replacing these lines

@media only screen and (min-width: 992px) {
  #primary.col-md-9 {
    width: 75%;
  }  
}

to

@media only screen and (min-width: 992px) {
  #primary.col-md-9 {
    width: 100%;
  }  
}

Regarding the image size, seems likely you should choose full width size from the media uploader options before inserting an image to your post.

Regards,
Kharis

Wow!! Quick response! THANK YOU!
I replaced the lines that you suggested but there is no change.
You can check for yourself.

I thought I had uploaded to the Media Library using full size but I will go back and verify that. May there was a setting somewhere that overrode what I was attempting to do.
Sincerely appreciate your help with this.

I’ve discovered that if I click on the image in the front page, it comes up in some kind of blog type page with the image small an pushed to the right…. but if I click on the image on THAT page, the image comes up again as full size. So I just need to find a way to skip that second page and just display the full size. Do you have any ideas on how that might be accomplished?

Thank you

Hi,

Thank you for getting back.

I replaced the lines that you suggested but there is no change.
You can check for yourself.

I saw your post content area is now full width. But only the image size doesn’t change.

The show larger image in a post, follow the instructions I made with this video.

Regards,
Kharis

I can’t thank you enough for taking the time for a step by step video! I’ve followed the instructions using the first image and I was able to create a “post” (which is new for me because I’ve only used “pages” in the past since my site is not intended as a blog).

Thanks to YOU, I was able to adapt the information you gave me to create a “page” and link the first image in my table to that! It’s a shame that there’s apparently no choice in the default display which was all effortless but not what I wanted but at least NOW I finally know HOW to override that display.

Thanks SO VERY MUCH for the education!

You’re welcome!

Please let us know in a new topic if you have any further questions, or if we can provide you with any other assistance.

Regards,
Kharis