How to Increase the Width of Homepage Content

Hey Support,

So I managed to get the themes footer and sub-footer full width. It looks excellent on desktop, laptop, and mobile.

Unfortunately, I can seem to increase the main homepage content. I’ve been messing around with the CSS and nothing’s working.

I hate how narrow the content is relative to the footers/full-width nav & header. It looks goofy. Too much white space. Some of the most eloquent themes these days are full width, so I was shocked that the theme only allowed that tacky looking “narrow” format.

Anyway you guys could throw some CSS my way so I can expand the main content out a little bit? Make it look a bit fuller so it’s not encased by white space? (I realize this extra space disappears on phones but my tablet/laptop still displays it)

Here’s what I’m talking about:

Thanks!
-Brian

• This topic was modified 11 years by BrianCT.

You would need to edit the visual composer modules as those control the home module layouts. Not sure why you bought a “fixed layout” theme if you wanted a “full width layout” …. but Lucian or Marius will be back Monday for tech support so may have more cogent answer than my rambling 🙂

Cool, I’ll check it out.

And why does anyone buy a theme that may not include one specific desired feature out-of-box? Because:

1) The expectation that CSS tweaks and/or tech support will help bring it about mitigates Customer Friction.
2) The other features outweigh the lack of that one feature.

The theme is amazing and lightening fast, I just don’t know why they didn’t include a simple feature 90% of the premium magazine themes have (in this case, going from boxed to full-width).

But since TagDiv actually listens to its customers and is known for making game-changing updates, I think it’s worth mentioning publicly.

• This reply was modified 11 years by BrianCT.

I think they are intending “Newspaper” to be the full width theme, and “Newsmag” to be the fixed width theme. For our use, we’re hoping they don’t add full width options, but that’s just me. Obviously you have different needs, and often the awesome tagdiv folk *do* have solutions, which is why we keep using their stuff (sorry if I sounded like a tool or anything) 🙂

For our use, we’re hoping they don’t add full width options, but that’s just me

Why? How would a full-width option affect you at all? Even if you didn’t personally want this feature, how would the option of having it impede you in the slightest?

I’m genuinely curious.

This doesn’t seem like a rational standpoint whatsoever.

And who’s “our?” Are you speaking for all Newsmag customers? I’d be interested in how you justify this claim. After all, it’s plausible that fans of Newspaper would want Newsmag due to it’s improved features (floating sidebar, header options, etc….). So did all (or most) Newsmag customers purchase the theme strictly because they didn’t want full-width options?

I’m confused. Please clarify.

• This reply was modified 11 years by BrianCT.

Adding more bloat and features I/we (our company) don’t need slows down the theme and adds more complexity of code. When speaking of “our” I am speaking for our news network (we have a 32 year old publishing/information business NEOTROPE®). So we have news portals appearing in Google news since it launched in beta; and sites online 10-15 years. “Our” refers to “our company,” not me personally.

For example to make the theme full width requires additional @media classes to resize things to fit the viewport. This adds more CSS, and/or more JS to the theme elements loaded for every page load, even if cached.

Newspaper got a little complicated with the 200 feature requests, mostly for things we didn’t need around here like WooCommerce support, and various other things which bloated the code a bit (generally a “newspaper” isn’t a “store”); but many folks loved the theme and kept piling on “hey can we do this?” and the team kept adding things, and still do so, which is awesome. But it’s got a lot more code than it did a year ago. Not a bad thing, just a little further away from a pure “newspaper” solution, which was its original intent, and hence our original purchase, and support.

Just my thought. Your mileage may vary.

You can certainly modify the theme to change the CSS, or hire a developer, but I doubt they will add “full width” capability, just as they removed the “fixed width” capability from Newspaper (and upset some people); this theme was answer to having a fixed width theme for those who want it. Just an observation, and possibly completely incorrect 🙂

I don’t speak for the company in any way, although quite a bit of my feedback and expertise as a 10-year WordPress user have made their way into some elements of themes and the docs, which is great to help contribute to since we (our company) use both TagDiv themes.

I DO AGREE ON HOME PAGE:
I do agree that it would be cool having the top image bar element full width as an option, although you’d get some issues with the images having to be responsive and both the images and the VC “block” would need to be set to fill the divs, and this means the images used would never be their “actual size” and hence you’d get a warning from PageSpeed about the images being resized (not an issue for us since we use mod_pagespeed to cache “resized” images based on the resized format) – which some people obsessed with pagespeed score might not like. But yeah…. I’d love to see that particular module you’ve identified have a full width option – many sites like news.com, and other have similar element.
So, I do agree on home page; disagree on post pages.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.