Title: Custom Post Templates
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom Post Templates

 *  Resolved [cableghost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cableghost/)
 * (@cableghost)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cusotom-post-templates/)
 * I have a 3-column theme, which I would like to add a customized 2-col post template
   for posts. I have tried CSS, etc., but cannot seem to get it to work.
 * Should I remove the left sidebar in single.php, the right sidebar shifts, but
   no CSS content adjustments work.
 * Below is the site and the files…thank you in advance for any input.
 * Site example: [http://9001sites.com/test/](http://9001sites.com/test/)
 * Files:
    functions.php: [http://pastebin.com/fqVfa2c2](http://pastebin.com/fqVfa2c2)
   single.php: [http://pastebin.com/p8DMgf8f](http://pastebin.com/p8DMgf8f) sidebar-
   right: [http://pastebin.com/Zfp6hpRw](http://pastebin.com/Zfp6hpRw)

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cusotom-post-templates/#post-1825938)
 * Here are some tips to get you started:
    - Make a copy of single.php. Call it twocolumn.php.
    - Insert the ‘Template Name: twocolumn’ comment to make it into a template.
    - Remove the line that gets the left sidebar: `<?php get_sidebars('left'); ?
      >`
    - Change screen.css to modify the widths of various classes. There may be a 
      lot of places to change – I probably didn’t find them all. Start by changing
      line 111 from `.span-14 {width:550px;}` to `.span-14 {width:740px;}`. You 
      may find other places that must be changed.
    - In style.css at line 24, the background is set for div id=#contentwrap as 
      the image at images/contentwrap-background.png. That image has the two vertical
      dashed lines in it. You will need to change the div id in twocolumn.php to
      something else, set up CSS for it, and create a new background image for it.
 * Hope that takes care of most of it.
 *  Thread Starter [cableghost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cableghost/)
 * (@cableghost)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cusotom-post-templates/#post-1825946)
 * [@vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/) thank you…I had not 
   considered modifying screen.css.
 * That got me closer, though the modification seems to now push the right sidebar
   beyond the 950 width, and therefore wraps it after the post. Decreasing span-
   14 width don’t work.
 * See the test post: [http://9001sites.com/test/?p=65](http://9001sites.com/test/?p=65)
 * -Scott
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cusotom-post-templates/#post-1825947)
 * You need to add a float: left; to your span-14-single. You should look for all
   the places there is a span-14 and add a span-14-single to the list.
 *  Thread Starter [cableghost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cableghost/)
 * (@cableghost)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cusotom-post-templates/#post-1825949)
 * That was it, thank you!

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