somaticmonk

Thanks for the warning.

I’d rather not. It’s not an “issue” right now, it’s working as intended; I wanted to add to it by giving padding to posts without a featured image. I thought it was a straightforward enough question.

I am using a child theme. I thought that was assumed. Anyway, the answer would be the same regardless.

I wanted to add that there is one small downside to setting them all in the database like that: there is still a page divider above where comments would be, which is visible and looks odd when viewing on a mobile device. I’m looking into how to remove that; any tips are appreciated.

Adding .page .comments-area{display:none;} is having no effect for me.

Edit: I found one way to do it, at least. Since editing every page and setting it to no comments was not really an option, I went directly into the database to turn them all off. In the wordpress database, the query is:

UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = 'closed'

Simple and worked like a charm, thanks for this thread.

Twentyfourteen, with only a few modifications from a child theme.

It’s not a “problem” as in a bug, I think it has that spacing by design, I’d just like to remove it because I think it disrupts the flow of the post.

This works to widen the center column, but if I add a right column, the center gets shrunk again. (It’s 474px by default; I want it to be 620).

Changing .content-sidebar to a smaller value shrinks the right column, but the center stays smooshed. Any ideas?

Apparently it was a problem with my tag after all. .page-content alone doesn’t have the desired effect, but

.site-content .entry-header,
.site-content .entry-content,
.site-content .entry-summary,
.site-content .entry-meta,
.page-content {
	max-width: 620px; // put the width you like here
}

does (as long as I don’t have a right column. adding a right column shrinks the middle one again, but that’s a layout issue and not the topic issue).

So I’ll mark this resolved because the title issue is fixed, but if anyone can point me towards how to properly shrink the right column whehn widening the center column, I would be much appreciative. Thanks!

Using html body .page-content { ... } didn’t work either =/.

I know that 800px will break it; I just set it to 800 so that when it finally works, I’ll be able to see it without a doubt. The actual width I want on the center column is 600 (default is 474), and to shrink the right column accordingly.

I haven’t been able to get my child theme to overwrite the main one; that’s why I resorted to editing the main CSS. I should probably make a post about the child CSS problem instead.

I went looking for this setting and found it in:

wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/style.css

Which seems like a no-brainer, a file called “style.css”, but, there are about thirty CSS files in there, so not so much.