Custom Content Width

75 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

At roughly 1,000 active installs, this is a long-tail utility plugin with modest reach, though it scored above its weight due to strong user satisfaction.

Update Freshness

25/25

The plugin was updated on 2026-05-13 and explicitly tested against WordPress 7.0, indicating the developer is actively maintaining it against the latest core releases.

User Rating

14/15

A 96 out of 100 from 8 reviewers is an excellent rating for a plugin this small, suggesting it does exactly what it claims without surprising users.

Support Health

8/15

There are zero support threads, which means either the plugin works reliably or users have not needed help, but it leaves no proof of responsive support if something breaks.

WP Compatibility

15/15

The plugin requires WordPress 2.7 or higher with no PHP version constraint, tested against 7.0, indicating very broad compatibility across core versions.

Scores higher than 41% of indexed plugins

About

Adds a 'Custom Content Width' setting to the Settings > Media screen, to let users override their theme's content width.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.8/5

Last Updated 2026-05-13 3:00am GMT

Requires WordPress 2.7+

Tested Up To 7.0.4

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Custom Content Width adds a single 'Custom Content Width' field to the Settings > Media screen in WordPress, letting site owners manually override the $content_width value that their theme declares. This affects how embedded media like images, videos, and iframes are sized within post content. In practice, you punch in a pixel value and your embedded media respects that maximum width.

Who It's For

This is a niche utility best suited for site owners running themes that ship with locked-in or awkward content widths and who want embedded media to render at a different size without editing a child theme's functions.php file. It fits magazines, news sites, portfolio galleries, and multi-column layouts where the default $content_width is too narrow or too wide for the desired layout.

Who Should Skip It

Anyone comfortable adding a single line to functions.php should skip this plugin, as the underlying functionality is essentially a one-line filter. Block theme users and anyone using full-site editing will also find no benefit, since content width is handled differently in that workflow.

The Bottom Line

Custom Content Width is a tidy, well-maintained utility that solves one narrow problem cleanly, earning a 75.33 overall quality score. It is worth installing if you specifically need to override your theme's content width without writing code, but most developers will find the single-line filter approach faster.

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