Title: Two Column Content?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Two Column Content?

 *  [mediajunkie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediajunkie/)
 * (@mediajunkie)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-column-content/)
 * Is it possible to split the content of a post into two columns?
 * When I post especially long entries the content extends vertically down the page.
   I would like to make the content split into two columns.
 * If possible I would like to have this done like the <!–more–> quicktag.
 * For example, at a specific point in a long post I enter a quicktag called “split”
   and at that point a new column is started.
 * I’m not asking specifically for a plugin request, just someone to push me in 
   the right direction.

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 *  [slambert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slambert/)
 * (@slambert)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-column-content/#post-341767)
 * Try here: [http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/](http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/)
 * Not sure it will help, but might send you in a direction.
 *  Thread Starter [mediajunkie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediajunkie/)
 * (@mediajunkie)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-column-content/#post-342046)
 * Not really what I’m looking for. But thanks for giving it a shot.
 *  [slambert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slambert/)
 * (@slambert)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-column-content/#post-342115)
 * How about this, write div tags around what you want to appear in the second column.
 * `
    <div class="post-entry>This would be all the text in the 1st column <div class
   ="2nd-column>This would be all the text in the second column. You sould have 
   to write the div tag that surrounds this text into your post each time.</div>
   </div>
 * Of course you would have to modify the css to create a second column and position
   it correctly, but that should work.
 * I don’t know if this is over your head, but hopefully it can point you in a direction.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-column-content/#post-342116)
 * Well, I think the OP wants an “automatic” solution – so that it just happens 
   as heesh is typing….
 * It could probably be programmed – by someone who’s a real programmer, the which
   I am decidedly NOT….
 *  [Ming](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ming/)
 * (@ming)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-column-content/#post-342117)
 * If you wanted to use a `<!-- split -->` tag that’d be easy-ish. You’d need to
   assign your content to a variable using get_the_content(). Then just search and
   replace `<!-- split -->` with `</div> <div class="secondColumn">`. That’d close
   the first div you started before displaying the content and then start a second
   one. You’d use CSS to style the divs into columns.
 * In your post loop it’d look roughly like this:
 * `
    <?php $content = get_the_content(); ?> <?php $content = str_replace( '<!--
   strip -->', '</div> <div class="secondColumn">', $content); ?>
 * <div class="firstColumn">
    <?php echo $content; ?> </div>
 * Anyway, hope that’s clear. Haven’t tested at all but it should get you started.
 *  [lemaxim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemaxim/)
 * (@lemaxim)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-column-content/#post-342170)
 * I don’t mean to be a bother, but I’d like to *bump* this thread in the hopes 
   that somebody has come up with an automatic solution (or plugin) for this issue.
   Thanks.
 *  [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-column-content/#post-342186)
 * I’d love to see this plugin as well. I’ve used a similarly convoluted method,
   and it’s not good for clients!
 * I also think it’s very restrictive only having 1 column available, especially
   with multil column css layouts just around the corner

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 * [column](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/column/)
 * [quicktag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/quicktag/)
 * [split](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/split/)

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