One of my major gripes about the new WordPress 2.5 administration area was its lack of support for larger resolutions monitors. The header and footer areas of the WordPress admin panel had no set max-width and would, therefore, stretch to fill up wide screen and large resolution monitors. Unfortunately, the center content area, where 95% of all WordPress work gets done, was set not to exceed 1024 pixels wide. Why? I have no idea, but for a wide screen, large resolution monitor like the one I use at home the 1024 limit leaves close to 680 pixels of unused space. A minor annoyance I know, but given the amount of time I spend in WordPress it would be nice if there was a way to fix this.

Well low and behold, someone did! Today I stumbled across a super efficient super cool plugin called “Admin Big Width.” Admin big removes the max-width of the WordPress 2.5 admin content area allowing this section to fit nicely in any resolution browser. There is something to be said for simple fixes. Admin Big Width solves this little annoying problem with all of 4 lines of code (not including the require WordPress comment code). While this plug in does a great job of fixing the admin width issue it can also be easily modified to suite your own admin area needs. For example, say you want your main WordPress content area to take up 85% of the screen and be centered. Simply find in the plugin file where it says “max-width:none;” and add “width:85%; margin:0 auto;“.

Kudos to Xorox and his big spinning X. Great Work! Download Admin Big Width