How can I get the first section of a page 100% width, while the rest will have a sidebar? [closed]

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Hmmm… Yeeeeh, – I guess it could be done. But I’m unsure how difficult it is.

But I have a baaaaaaad feeling about this theme, though. I’ve just installed it. And I may be blind, but I can see no installation-instructions or documentation of any kind (only a readme.txt with aged/outdated links, like this one: http://www.appointpress.com/theme/appointment ). And the theme-files are quite a mess… For instance, which of these files should you edit in order to edit the homepage-template:

home.php
index-home-callout.php
template-homepage.php

However, – if I open home.php, then I can see this:

<?php
if ( 'page' == get_option( 'show_on_front' ) ) {
    get_template_part( 'index' );
} else {
    get_header();

    //****** get index static banner  ********
    get_template_part( 'index', 'slider' );

    //****** Orange Sidebar Area ********
    get_sidebar( 'orange' );

    //****** get index service  ********                
    get_template_part( 'index', 'service' );

    //****** get Home call out
    get_template_part( 'index', 'home-callout' );

    //****** get index News  ********
    get_template_part( 'index', 'news' );

    get_footer();
}
?>

So get_sidebar( 'orange' ); tells me that there is some kind of support for a sidebar. Plus, it’s positioned under the slider, so it looks like that someone actually have already made what you’re after.

… Maybe you’ll get access to it, once you upgrade to the pro-version.

I can find all kind of different information on how reponsive, cool and hot this theme is, but no instructions or FAQ or anything.

Plus… If you hard-code it in the code, then if the developer updates the theme (and you update it in your WordPress-installation), then you’ll (possibly) overwrite your customizations (and have to do it again).

So I guess I would say, that in order to achieve what you’re attempting, then I’d either:

Write your question to this oh-so-amazing support, that the theme-website is bragging so much about ( source: https://webriti.com/appointment/ ) .

or

Purchase the ‘Pro’-version of the theme and pray to Helen of Troy, that the documentation/further instructions will come along with that.

But every cell in my body is screaming the well-known words of Gandalf: Run, you fool! 🙂

… Find a better theme, mate. My experience is that it’s a good investment to want to pay a dollar or five on a theme; since you’ll then get a theme with a developer who (hopefully) spend time developing it and documenting it well.

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