blank space to the left of posts

hopefully you’re using a child theme of twentysixteen, if so add the following into the child theme’s style.css file:

article div.entry-content
{
  width: 100%;
}

and see if that works. take a look at your site in different browsers and on different devices to make sure that things still look right in different mediums.

Hey! Thanks for the quick reply! Unfortunately I’m not using a child theme. Do I have to? Or is there another way?

a child theme is the best practice for making alterations to the theme. there are plugins available that kind of do the same thing so you could install one of them. look for something like a css editor plugin.

the benefits to using a child theme are that you can make as many changes and tweaks as you like and when the parent theme updates, you don’t lose any of your hard work ?? there’s plenty of info on creating child themes, it’s really pretty straight forward so if you’re not a code guru you don’t need to panic.

Sounds great! I think I’ll start with the plug-in approach first ?? Would using the code you suggested above work there as well?

it should do, the plugin will override the default css. let me know if it works and if it doesn’t we’ll get more css specific.

Hello again! I tried and it doesn’t seem to be working. This is what I put in:

<style type=”text/css”>
article div.entry-content
{
width: 100%;
}
</style>

The first and last row are added by the plug-in.

Any other suggestions?

Oh, and the plugin I’m using is: Simple Custom CSS and JS

get rid of the <style> tags, you just need the css code.

Found a different plugin that let me add the code without the style tags, but it’s still not changing anything. Thoughts?

ok, we may need more specific css.

try:

div#content div#main article div.entry-content
{
  width: 100%;
}

I appreciate your patience! Unfortunately still no change…

div#content div#primary div#main article div.entry-content
{
  width: 100%;
}

try that. if that doesn’t work then i’m out of suggestions. that’s about as specific as i get with the css…

Nope. Nothing. Thanks for trying though.

ok, i have a thought… it might be that the plugin you used to get rid of the author and date stuff may have just hidden it rather than just removed it. try deactivating that plugin and see if the css changes take hold. if they do, your site might look messy but don’t panic! we can fix that…

Disabled the plugin, so now author and date etc. shows again, but the text of the post still starts way to the right ??