Tweaking Frontier for better control of the edit window width

I recently re-designed my hobby site and a couple WV environmental websites (here and here) to use WordPress with the Frontier theme, which seems easy to setup (compared to the theme I had been using), includes just enough widgets, and has options to easily insert header codes.

But, at least one (if not both) of the environmental sites need to be able to post full width (no-sidebar) pages. Unfortunately, Frontier seems to set the edit-window to the default content width rather than to the width of the chosen page template.

Controlling the edit window width was important enough to folks posting on these sites (and I love Frontier enough) that I spent a few hours learning how to override functions (using a child theme) and modified two functions so that the edit window width adjusts automatically when a different width template is chosen. I also added a few css tweaks to pad the edit-window box away from the content and set a few styles to fix image nuances and to get rid of automatic italicizing in the ‘quote’ box (most of the custom css for each site is in a separate css file for the site rather than in the child theme).

I put relevant information about this tweak, including screen shots and a zip file of my child theme in this post on my site. I did resort to inserting a couple of conditional statements in Frontier’s functions.php, but the tweaks are all in the child theme. I’m hoping ronangelo will consider incorporating these tweaks in his next update, or at least add conditional statements to all function definitions in functions.php (so that any function can be replaced by the child theme without having to modify functions.php).