Title: adding a 3rd column Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # adding a 3rd column * [mi327](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mi327/) * (@mi327) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/) * I’ve been trying to make a third column, but am not sure how to start. What do I change in my index.php? in my layout.php? any recommendations? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/page/2/?output_format=md) * [prostoalex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prostoalex/) * (@prostoalex) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141509) * Check out the Trident template for WordPress that many of us start off from. [http://wordpress.org/support/5/11525](http://wordpress.org/support/5/11525) * [daviddecristoforo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daviddecristoforo/) * (@daviddecristoforo) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141530) * Let me help you. After several days of frustrating work, Podz saved my bacon ( and my marriage!) by sending me this: [http://www.pinksocks.co.uk/vesuvius.zip](http://www.pinksocks.co.uk/vesuvius.zip) For which I now owe him (her?) my next born… * DD * Thread Starter [mi327](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mi327/) * (@mi327) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141627) * I have tried the vesuvius.zip, but the third column floats on the bottom with the two sideboxes. I would like it to be all the way up. Is there any way to make it go all the way up to the top right? Where do I change this in my layouts. css? * [http://www.shortforstephen.com](http://www.shortforstephen.com) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141628) * I think your error is in index.php. * Check very carefully where your `` tags are – compare them to the vesuvius layout. * Thread Starter [mi327](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mi327/) * (@mi327) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141632) * I have carefully compared the tags they match up. Is there any other suggestion? * Thread Starter [mi327](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mi327/) * (@mi327) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141633) * should i insert my own div tags?, if so where? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141638) * This is tricky …. The validator says no div errors, and from what I can see, it looks okay, but obviously something is amiss…… * Can you post your index.php as either a .txt file to your website or into [http://paste.uni.cc](http://paste.uni.cc) so we can see the source ? it might help. (Please do not paste your index here) * Thread Starter [mi327](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mi327/) * (@mi327) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141641) * I’ve posted it there, I hope there’s a mistake in it * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141643) * [http://paste.uni.cc/6638](http://paste.uni.cc/6638) * try that ? * Thread Starter [mi327](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mi327/) * (@mi327) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141647) * This error comes up on the bottom, * Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/mi327/public_html/ wp-blog-header.php on line 469 * line 469 on wp-blog-header.php is * $post_id_list[] = $post->ID; * Thread Starter [mi327](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mi327/) * (@mi327) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141648) * does putting up the code twice do something? * Thread Starter [mi327](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mi327/) * (@mi327) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141649) * I mean in the index.php it was twice as long as before * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141658) * What I tried to do – and i didn’t look carefully enough – was put your code in the same order as the vesuvius code. You are changed things – they MUST be in the same order. * i will look again. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141661) * [http://paste.uni.cc/6639](http://paste.uni.cc/6639) * Thread Starter [mi327](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mi327/) * (@mi327) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/#post-141923) * I tried that revised one, so then I went through Vesuvius in the layout.css to make sure that that matches the same format. It does. Then, I got Vesuvius’s index.php and added my hacks so that my new index.php would be in the same format as the Vesuvius one. Here it is, but if you check it at [http://www.shortforstephen.com/test/index.php](http://www.shortforstephen.com/test/index.php) it doesn’t work I don’t get it. * [http://paste.uni.cc/6644](http://paste.uni.cc/6644) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘adding a 3rd column’ is closed to new replies. * 16 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [mi327](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mi327/) * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-3rd-column/page/2/#post-142164) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics