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Page/Post Width Best Practice

  • mcgaleti
    June 1, 2023 at 8:07 am

    Hi,

    When I started using GeneratePress 2 months ago, I kind of moved everything from my old template to GeneratePress and the Page/Post Width came together.

    Generate Press has so many wonderful capabilities and resources that now I see my Posts and Pages are not really optimized for responsiveness as I have a fixed page/post Width. When I look at them, there is a huge margin on the right and left (I am sending the site URL in this post).

    I could increase the Content area but I am wondering if there is a feature/setup that I could leave like “blank” and GP would increase or reduce the Page/Post Width by itself.

    Tks

  • Leo
    June 1, 2023 at 9:20 am

    Hi there,

    I believe the Content Width option with a Layout Element would be what you are looking for:
    https://docs.generatepress.com/article/layout-element-overview/#content-1

    Let me know if this helps 🙂

  • mcgaleti
    June 1, 2023 at 10:29 am

    Hi Leo,

    Cool !! So, what I need to do is to open a Post, Go Down in the right menu, find “Active Elements” (Site Footer, Single Post Navigation, Narrow Single Post, etc) and change one by one inside the Layout Element right ?

  • Leo
    June 1, 2023 at 10:32 am

    Hmm not quite.

    Take a look at this section of the video for a demonstration of when and how the Content width option is used:

    I’d recommend watching the entire video if you haven’t already.

  • mcgaleti
    June 1, 2023 at 11:24 am

    Hi Leo,

    I just watch the video, and I tried two of those approaches.

    1) I tried to go to Customize, Layout, and Container, and I tried to move the “Container Width” slider but nothing changed. I believe this is because my Posts are not using Containers, at least the old ones that I bring from the previous Template. It worked for the Main Page but not Posts.

    2) I tried to create a new Element called “Full-width post”, type Layout, Content=Full width and Display Rules=Posts . I Published and tried to open the Post and the width is still the same.

    Do you have some other suggestion?

  • Leo
    June 1, 2023 at 9:32 pm

    Can you clear and disable your caching plugin first?

    The container of the linked post fish-tank-basics should definitely adjust with the customizer setting.

    Let me know 🙂

  • mcgaleti
    June 2, 2023 at 1:21 am

    Great ! It worked now. Thank you

  • Leo
    June 4, 2023 at 10:26 am

    No problem 🙂

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