Title: only one column
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# only one column

 *  Resolved [cmaurand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmaurand/)
 * (@cmaurand)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-one-column-2/)
 * Running version 4.1.9. Created a document gallery with 4 columns, but the documents
   appear vertically with document descriptions beside them rather than below them.
   This wasn’t the behavior in the video or the screenshots. I’m set to 4 columns
   with 6 documents which should get me 4 and 2 on separate rows. I’m getting 1 
   column with 6 rows.
 * Thanks in advance.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Dan Rossiter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrossiter/)
 * (@danrossiter)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-one-column-2/#post-6914772)
 * Hi cmaurand,
 * You’ve run into the fact that descriptions and multiple columns are by design
   mutually exclusive 🙂
 * Descriptions disable column functionality as they generally take up too much 
   horizontal space to make sense in anything more than a single column. You can
   either set `descriptions=false`, or if you really want columns and descriptions
   you can see a solution [here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/document-description-below-title).
 * -Dan
 * PS: If you’ve found this plugin useful, please take a moment to [rate it](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/document-gallery#postform).
   Thanks! 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [cmaurand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmaurand/)
 * (@cmaurand)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-one-column-2/#post-6914870)
 * Thank you for your reply.
    It’s not possible to have descriptions wrap within
   their span? Since this seems to be a design decision, could we hide the filename
   if we use the description? Having both is pretty ugly.
 * Otherwise, this is a great plugin. I’m working on a website for a non-profit 
   with stated goals of transparency and we’re using this gallery to post documents
   related to the board of trustees.
 * Thanks,
    Curtis

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