Title: problem using child theme with column shortcodes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# problem using child theme with column shortcodes

 *  Resolved [magician51](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magician51/)
 * (@magician51)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-child-theme-with-column-shortcodes/)
 * Hi,
 * I tried the plugin and it worked fine with Twenty Eleven. I wanted to change 
   the style.css so that I could make the gap between the 2 columns as per the instructions.
 * For some reason the columns stopped working with the right column showing below
   the left column.
 * What am I doing wrong?
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/column-shortcodes/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/column-shortcodes/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Schutter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tschutter/)
 * (@tschutter)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-child-theme-with-column-shortcodes/#post-3296252)
 * Maybe your theme applies some padding to the columns which could make them larger
   then intended. Try lowering the margin variable from the provided css a little
   bit.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Schutter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tschutter/)
 * (@tschutter)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-child-theme-with-column-shortcodes/#post-3296253)
 * I think I have solved your issue in another topic, check out: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-shortcodes-needs-a-lot-of-work?replies=11](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-shortcodes-needs-a-lot-of-work?replies=11)

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 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [columns](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/columns/)

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Schutter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tschutter/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-child-theme-with-column-shortcodes/#post-3296253)
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