Make posts in certain category full-width

  • Hello, my theme is default right sidebar and that works great for the entire site except posts from one category need to be full width. I’ve searched quite a bit for a how-to, but all the threads I find on the ‘net are three or more years old. I tried one of them but it didn’t work, so I think the new WordPress just doesn’t use the same code. All the coding is still WAY over my head, so I don’t know how to use exceptions at all, and really need a step by step. Anyone know how I can accomplish this?

    Thanks in advance for your time!

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    What’s a link to your site and a post that should be full-width?

    Thread Starter Halo Diehard

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    Hi, sterndata, thank you for your response. Here is a link to one of the posts in the category “Newsletter” that I am attempting to make full-width:

    https://www.reaching-out.info/june-2015-2/

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    What you’re going to have to do is edit your theme’s single.php template.

    Add a conditional to test the category and, if the post is in the category “newsletter”, skip the call to get_sidebar(). Then you’ll have to add a lot of CSS to change the width of the main content area. Qualify the css with .category-newsletter to override the default for the post’s normal styling.

    This is probably best done in a child theme.

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