Title: One Column Themes
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# One Column Themes

 *  [trinidadhunni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trinidadhunni/)
 * (@trinidadhunni)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/)
 * Is there themes where it just has one column, for the content and not thee side
   bars?

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 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600001)
 * I am biased but for my money Manji is the coolest by far:)
 *  Thread Starter [trinidadhunni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trinidadhunni/)
 * (@trinidadhunni)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600236)
 * Manji…? Can you elaborate more into this?
 *  [garryconn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garryconn/)
 * (@garryconn)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600239)
 * Trinidadhunni,
 * have you see this page:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_List/One_Column](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_List/One_Column)
 * It’s pretty extensive and its in the WordPress Docs section.
 *  Thread Starter [trinidadhunni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trinidadhunni/)
 * (@trinidadhunni)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600267)
 * No I have not seen this.
    It does have one column but it still has the headers
   and what not. I am looking for a one column that can be used in iFrames you know
   something simple?
 *  [garryconn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garryconn/)
 * (@garryconn)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600283)
 * Pick a one column theme that you like and then in the header.php file remove 
   this:
 *     ```
       <div id="header">
       <div id="headerimg">
       <h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
       <div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
       </div>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * Just remove that from the header.php file and it should work fine.
 *  Thread Starter [trinidadhunni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trinidadhunni/)
 * (@trinidadhunni)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600290)
 * There is no place to find iFrame capatible themes?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600291)
 * No. No serious designer is thinking about iframes, sorry.
 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600294)
 * Thousands of sites use iframes, and while it’s not my favorite technique, I doubt
   that no one is thinking about it. How would one know that anyway, mind-reader?
 * Lots of people put a 1-column iFrame as a method of showing a blog within your
   existing webpage. If you do what garryc said it won’t be too hard. Just take 
   an existing 1-col theme and hack out any header/footer stuff that shows up.
 * Otherwise maybe a designer will see this thread and create a simple one. There
   was just a site in Your WordPress (section of this forum) a few days ago that
   was created like this. If I can think of the link I will repost it here. Someone
   did their site just that way. It was kind of a political site.
 * good luck with your site
 *  Thread Starter [trinidadhunni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trinidadhunni/)
 * (@trinidadhunni)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600299)
 * *sigh* Well alright then. I had found one a year ago and well thy seemed to have
   closed down or something and I cannot find it again. And now it’s really really
   hard to find a theme/template that is iFrame based and such, as you said more
   and more people are basing thier site from WordPress and such. But I hope you
   do get the link and hopefully it will be helpful.
 * But thank you very much for both of your help.
 *  [garryconn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garryconn/)
 * (@garryconn)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600318)
 * There are tons of beautiful one column themes to choose from. and simply removing
   the header / footer info would work fine. I have to admit though, this can become
   confusing for search engines though. Where the pages that will get indexed are
   going to be pages that will get direct hit traffic direct from search engines…
   people won’t be able to navigate because there will be no references or a navigation
   menu.
 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600323)
 * Another option is, don’t use an iFrame and don’t display a theme at all — just
   write your WordPress blog, and use SpringWidgets to display the RSS feed of your
   WP blog on any HTML website,
 * [http://www.springwidgets.com/widgets/view/23](http://www.springwidgets.com/widgets/view/23)
 * The springwidget is kind of like a 1-column, no header, no frills theme. But 
   what it’s really like, is an RSS Reader or aggregator.
 * by the way this has nothin’ to do with wordpress widgets, just uses the same 
   word ‘widget’ to mean a block that you can display on a webpage
 *  [garryconn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garryconn/)
 * (@garryconn)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600362)
 * The major problem with that is the widget is written in JavaScript and it is 
   not machine readable, meaning search engines can not see it… so these HTML pages
   where he would display the widget would appear blank to search engines with zero
   content.
 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600368)
 * Good point garryconn, however his HTML pages will not appear blank to search 
   engines.
 * I think what you meant to say is the search engines might not see the blog content
   in the SpringWidgets. They will still index the rest of the HTML, outside the
   SpringWidget, normally. For example let’s imagine he has a company website, and
   the website in HTML describes the company, the staff, the mission statement at
   the top of the page, and in the footer. Search engines already know about that
   site. In the middle he has the SpringWidgets showing “Recent News” (which is 
   the blog). Only the Recent News is overlooked by search engines.
 *  [garryconn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garryconn/)
 * (@garryconn)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600372)
 * Yes you are right. I misunderstood. I thought it was being suggested to using
   with widget on a blank HTML page with no surrounding content.
 * <html>
    <head> <body> <java widget>
 * and that was all..
 * If there is content on these html pages… then that content may get indexed. But
   the important part (the posts) will not.
 * Overall the best thing I think that could be done would be to remove the header
   and footer of a one column theme. At least then.. the posts could get crawled
   by bots.
 * Ultimately, Moshu is right… this whole thing is a bad idea. I am just trying 
   to make the best case scenario out of it.
 * Even doing it the way I suggest will still confuse search engines.
 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-column-themes/#post-600373)
 * Well, that will be up to the user whether they are concerned about search engines
   indexing the blog posts. Not everyone cares about that.

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