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You can use a very simple CSS to set a limitation for the entire site.
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Ying, if I do that, won’t it make all the pages narrow? I want to be able to have other pages that look like this: https://i.imgur.com/LjI4zx5.png
Yes, that narrowing CSS should apply the the “About Me” page, the front page (which is going to be a blog entry listing with excerpts), and other subsidiary pages, but the image or gallery pages must use the WordPress ‘gallery’ tag and span the full width of the screen.
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You can add the CSS using a Hook Element to conditionally apply it to specific pages.
Go to Appearance > Elements and create a new Hook Element. In the content area, add the following CSS wrapped in a
<style>tag:<style> body { max-width:2000px; margin-inline:auto; } </style>Set the Hook to
wp_headso the CSS is output in the <head> section.In the Display Rules panel, set the Location to Entire Site, and use the Exclude option to specify the pages where the CSS should not be applied.
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Thanks!
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You’re welcome!
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Go to Appearance > Elements and create a new Hook Element. In the content area, add the following CSS wrapped in a <style> tag:
<style>
body {
max-width:2000px;
margin-inline:auto;
}
</style>
Set the Hook to wp_head so the CSS is output in the <head> section.In the Display Rules panel, set the Location to Entire Site, and use the Exclude option to specify the pages where the CSS should not be applied.
This does not work, using the “abstract” template. Inspecting it, the body tag has a class applied that perhaps overrides it?
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Unless the same property is defined on the <body> tag with higher specificity, the styles should apply correctly.
Could you share the page link so I can inspect it directly?
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Alvind, the site is hidden behind a maintenance page (Nifty Coming Soon and Maintenance Page plugin) and I don’t want to make it public to my audience while it is under construction. But you can see what’s happening here: https://imgur.com/a/8cd2vYP
I added background-color:yellow to the body tag, and the orange rectangle you can see there is a Ruler extension measuring the container, and yes, it is 2000 px, but it still looks unsatisfying. The hero image and text are lopsided and there is massive space wasted everywhere … I guess I am going to have to inspect everything the designer/builder (Mike Oliver) has done. It worries me a bit that this is a fairly old design as well, built with the earliest versions of GP and GB. It’s got so few elements that I’m going to re-use that I may as well use another template.
Basically I want a blog entry listing on my (limited-width) front page with photos and excerpts linking to the full blog entries (also limited width), then an About/Contact page (limited width), then a few Gallery pages (full width) that use the wordpress gallery tag to display my paintings in a brick-wall effect. That’s it. I could probably make almost any of the templates work for me. Perhaps you can recommend the most up-to-date template to use, that I could easily modify along the lines I have described?
Thanks!
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Hey Alvind, any suggestions? It’s a difficult question, I know. Perhaps it’s easier to give me a list of the most recent template sites built with the latest version of the plugins? The ABSTRACT template is over 5 years old, I think.
And may I ask if I need to have GP1 to be able to use the templates marked with the GP ONE logo?
Lastly, where are all the template sites that are referred in many places here? One reference mentions hundreds of templates, another mentions 80 or more. In reality there is just a small number of templates, some of them more than 7 or 8 years old. What’s going on?
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And may I ask if I need to have GP1 to be able to use the templates marked with the GP ONE logo?
If you have both GB Pro and GP Premium licenses, you can use them; it does not have to be the GP One license.
You should be able to see 82 sites at Appearance > GeneratePress > site library for now.
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Oh, yes, I suppose there are 80. It just seems like a handful because they are all so similar, with big, shouty headings and hero images offset or underneath the text, subservient. As I said before, you really have NOTHING for real photographers and artists. Your templates aimed at creatives are just rehashed versions of the rest of the small business templates, almost as if Mike Oliver and the gang simply do not know how to create truly varied websites for a diverse audience.
I wonder how much business you are losing by offering such a limited palette of site templates, and essentially ignoring creatives, and not supplying the sort of sites they want to use?
On another disturbing front, I see that the “lifetime” license I bought for GP is becoming increasingly valueless. GP Premium is becoming a legacy product, and will doubtless be obsolete within a few years (so much for “lifetime”). New templates now require the purchase of a GB license as well, or even the GP One annual license, both of which are based on the widely-hated Adobe model of annual fees. Do you have any idea how much antipathy Adobe’s model has generated? Are you sure you want to go that route, putting money above everything else?
Sadly, I find myself considering leaving Generatepress completely as it morphs into another wannabe cash-machine corporation, spawning more and more products that require more frequent payments. It’s very disappointing.
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Hi there,
Thank you for taking the time to share such direct feedback. Sorry to hear that our current offering doesn’t align with what you’re looking for — I’ll do my best to respond to your points.
On the Site Library:
Historically, the library has focused on broad appeal — particularly for small business owners, bloggers, and users who prefer ready-to-go solutions. That’s been a conscious business decision, not a reflection of our design team’s ability. We’re super fortunate to have talents like Mike on board.Requests for more abstract or artistic templates have been rare, and these designs are notoriously tricky— they’re highly content-driven and often subjective, with limited broad appeal. Many creatives prefer to put their own stamp on things, so we’ve often supported that more directly via the support forum.
That said, we are working on more creative site templates, and the examples you shared have already been circulated to the team.
On Licensing:
GP Premium has always been a subscription-based product, though we offered Lifetime licenses for a limited time — and we’re incredibly grateful to those who made that investment. But the majority of our user base has always been on annual plans. This mix has helped us accelerate our investment when needed — like in the development of GenerateBlocks — while keeping the business stable for over 12 years.The Adobe comparison:
We understand the concern, but it’s no way the same. If a users GP Premium subscription ends, the product still works — you’re not locked out, unlike adobe. And we’ve always worked hard to ensure ongoing functionality and backwards compatibility for all users, whether on a lifetime, annual, or expired license.We’re definitely not turning into a corporate cash machine. If we were, we’d have sold as many lifetime licenses as possible and moved on years ago. Instead, we’ve continually reinvested — trebling our dev budget last year alone — to support new services like GP One. And we’ve made sure that Lifetime license holders get significant discounts on GP One, should they want access to those additions, as a thank you for their commitment,
We know we won’t get it right for everyone all the time, but we’ve always stood by those who supported us and we’ll continue to do so. I hope this helps qualm some of your concerns; and whatever your decision is going forward you can be assured GP Premium will continue to work for you.
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Thank you for that very thorough response, David. I’m very pleased to hear that the team is looking at the more artistic layouts and I’m going to hang around just to see what they come up with. I’m also very pleased to hear that as a lifetime license holder of GP I will be able to keep using it indefinitely. But please don’t make the new templates, including especially the creatives-oriented ones, all require the use of GB pro and/or GP One. In other words please don’t lock me out from the new templates.
I’m very glad that you know about the Adobe story and the absolute storm of disapproval that followed their moves to unfairly Target users. That’s a mistake all companies should strive to avoid.
Meanwhile, I think I’m going to use your Wired template as a basis for the new site that I have to build, because it is perhaps the most vanilla template and malleable in any direction. Thank you everyone for your comments and assistance.
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I see that a new template called “Artist” has appeared in the site library. It’s better than all other existing templates for visual creatives, with some caveats that I’ll put to one side for now. My chief problem is that IT REQUIRES GB PRO and therefore I and other artists will be locked out. Please refer to my post directly above this one, where I specifically asked that these premium plugins not be included in creative-oriented templates! Not many artists are well paid. In fact art careers are some of the lowest paid, with incomes starting around $25k in the USA.
May I ask that the GB Pro blocks be removed from the Artist template, you know, so that real artists can actually use it.
I await your response with some anxiety. If the template cannot be made more accessible, I
willmay stop using GP completely.Thanks!
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Hi there,
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EXCELLENT! Lifesaver. Thanks David 👍
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