3 column to 2 column

  • suthern

    (@suthern)


    19 years, 10 months ago

    I did several searches (over the course of the last 4 hours) but apparently I’m missing something. I found these two threads (over a year old each):
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/28943?replies=32
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/28730?replies=11
    that address my issue, but there seems to be no closure. Was the “Aphrodite” theme never completed? Or if it was, could someone please direct me to it?

    All I want is to have the main (index) page a 3 column and everything else 2 column. I’ve tried doing this on my own, several different ways, but it’s just not working.

    Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Aphrodite has never been released. And Root “disappeared”…
    You may want to ask ifelse if he still has that design.

    Actually the task itself is quite easy:
    you need a home.php template file that has 3 column
    and all the rest of the template files having a 2-col layout. (At that time the home.php template file was a kind of “discovery” 🙂

    Thread Starter suthern

    (@suthern)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks moshu, I will try that out and see what I can come up with.

    Thread Starter suthern

    (@suthern)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Ok…I tried this, unsuccessfully.

    I added the home.php file just fine, no problems. Added the menu.php (right sidebar), no problem. The problem comes in when I add the css code to my style.css for menu.php. Everything is fine for my 2 column, but on the 3 column the left side bar is at the bottom. The reason why is because of the content area. In order for the 2 column to look correctly, my content area needs to be that wide, but obviously it doesn’t work for the 3 column.

    So…how do I fix this? Can I have two seperate style.css files and if so, how do I get the home.php to call just the one I need?

    Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

    Here’s the link to my test site: http://suthernsplace.com/wordpress

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    You don’t really need two stylesheets for that.
    What you do need: a different div class (or id) for the home.php and its definition in the css.

    Thread Starter suthern

    (@suthern)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks moshu! Could you point me in the right direction as far as reading up on how exactly to do that?

    Or…would this be easier? Take the 3 column theme and just exclude the call for the second column on the page.php? But that would still leave me with the content width problem wouldn’t it?

    Thanks for the help!

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    You had a wrong start…
    You started from a 2-col theme. That will never work as a 3-col – unless you make a lot of changes (plus, it’s a K clone)

    You have a wrapper div and inside it the sidebar and the content.
    Now, if you want to “squeeze” in another sidebar, you must reduce the width of the div id=content class=narrowcolumn.
    As I said: give it another id (no class) and define its width in the stylesheet.
    The total width of the sidebar1+new div+sidebar2 … cannot be wider than the width of the wrapper div.

    If this is not enough… give it up; then you need to learn the basics of html and css.

    Thread Starter suthern

    (@suthern)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Guess I’ve got some reading to do on the css stuff (id’s, etc.)
    Thanks!

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