Title: ‘Write post’ – split ‘Post’ textarea into 2 columns?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# ‘Write post’ – split ‘Post’ textarea into 2 columns?

 *  [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-post-split-post-textarea-into-2-columns/)
 * Kaf has written some nice code to split a post into two columns:
 * <?php $content = split(“<!–nextcolumn–>”, $post->post_content); ?>
 *  [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68137?replies=9](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68137?replies=9)
 * To use this, I add <!–nextcolumn–> into the post where I want the next column
   to start.
 * Would it be possible to create a customised ‘Write Post’ page, that actually 
   displayed these columns in 2 distinct text areas? (For the benefit of a client.)
 * Pages with one column would revert to the default editing layout of course.
 * I’m more of a hack&paster than a coder but would be interested to hear your thoughts
   on tackling the above 🙂

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 *  Thread Starter [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-post-split-post-textarea-into-2-columns/#post-372868)
 * Well I just tried editing the Write Post page, and splitting the content using`
   <?php echo apply_filters('the_content', $content[0]); ?>` etc…
 * I did end up with content in the 2 text areas – but each of them just displayed`
   <br>` and nothing else…
 * Hmmm…
 *  Thread Starter [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-post-split-post-textarea-into-2-columns/#post-373103)
 * Kaf?
 *  Thread Starter [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-post-split-post-textarea-into-2-columns/#post-373124)
 * I’m still dearly in need of this feature, and willing to reward anyone who knows
   how to do this… please?
 *  Thread Starter [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-post-split-post-textarea-into-2-columns/#post-373126)
 * Anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-post-split-post-textarea-into-2-columns/#post-373153)
 * What if I paid someone?

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