One column twenty ten child theme question

If you take a look at the onecolumn-page.php file in the twentyten folder, you see that it does not call for the sidebar.

If you want your homepage not to display the sidebar, just remove the get_sidebar line of code, and you’ll probably be all set. Otherwise for pages just copy and use the onecolumn-page.php file.

I read it that the whole theme is to have no sidebars not just the pages where you could use the onecolumn-page.php

Only if this is correct then you need to copy all page files over to the child themes folder, archive.php, index.php, page.php, single.php etc:

In each page file find <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
And remark <?php //NOT REQUIRED get_sidebar(); ?>

The twenty ten theme uses the margins for the sidebar space, and the default style margins in the twenty ten themes style.css are:

#container {
	float: left;
	margin: 0 -240px 0 0;
	width: 100%;
}
#content {
	margin: 0 280px 0 20px;
}

So in the child themes style.css overide these, values untested so you may need to adjust them:

#container {
	margin: 0;
}
#content {
	margin: 0 0 0 20px;
}

If that does not work try:

#container {
	margin: 0 -20px 0 0;
}
/* 20px each side */
#content {
	margin: 0 20px;
}

HTH

David

The two solutions suggested above didn’t work. I would like my blog page (called Articles) to match the rest of the website, which doesn’t need a sidebar.

@aliceb-edits
link to your site?

the blog page is probably using index.php – so you need to make the edits there.