Make 2 column into 3 column

Probably easier just to pick a new 3 column theme.

This thread on turning Rin into a 3-column theme may interest you: https://www.brokenkode.com/board/viewtopic.php?id=10

Unfortunately, I am not impressed with any of the current 3 column themes and have fallen in love with Plain Vanilla.

The thread on turning Rin into a 3-column theme would only apply to that theme, correct?

If anyone here knows how to do it and would like to take on the challenge, please do so.

Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

The thread on turning Rin into a 3-column theme would only apply to that theme, correct?

Correct, but you should be able to apply the basic principles presented there to converting Plain Vanilla.

I was in the same boat as you. i started working on my blog, it still need lots of fix with the different browsers and alignment. you can view it at https://www.fusionrain.com/blog. i have not seen a beatifull 3-column layout yet. i think, blix would be a nice layout to make into three column layout.

Solarpunk

im in the same boat also anyupdates on this post? I like the blix but i wish it was a 3-column.

I’ve turned a plain two column into a three column, but won’t release it until all is right.

There are several 3 column efforts, quite a few customised ones also. If you want to do your own, it is simple and if you copy your sidebar.php, and then rename it sidebar2, then take away bits from one and put it into another, thats half the struggle done. You can at least claim, with all honesty, that you’ve created another sidebar. It does not work yet, but it is a start.

After that, you have a little bit of editing to do, and simply need to call up the new php file you’ve done in each of the themes php files that calls it up.

Then, using css, subtract a total of 120 or so pixels from both the original sidebar and the main content div and add that size to the sidebar 2 in the css.

Copy all the sidebar css bits and paste them into the css file, rename them all sidebar2 and alter the main sidebar2 div to float left, your other div and the content will go left – or the other way around.

You can copy and paste your way to three columns, but you will need to know a bit of css and html and to be able to know where a php line begins and ends.

I just added the lines below to include the extra sidebar

<div id="sidebarright">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebarright.php'); ?>
</div>

Best way to test this out is to have a test blog up and if you have ftp then odds are you’ll be able to just upload another wordpress and use that to experiment.

That way you won’t care if the blog or website falls apart.

If you’re interested, go to WordPress ‘strut your stuff’ section, and check my ongoing struggle to get a three column blog ready for release.

Vesuvius is a real flexible very basic 3 column – you can style it as you want.
https://www.transycan.net/blogtest/2005/05/12/vesuvius-for-15/
(you can even check it by using the theme switcher)

Ok ill try liverpool suggestion because i really like the blix theme….Itll take me awhile though because im still learning as i go…The Vesuvius is a option as well, from i can see wordpress is pretty flexible and im trying to make the switch from xoops so i have time cus my site isnt live right now, Ill dive in and let you know how it goes.

Tonyparra, see the answer by Moshu, It looks like a good three column blog and its stable.

You would learn easier if you looked at Vesuvius and would likely just be able to alter that to suit your own style.

Good find there Moshu, we will have a glut of these 3 column themes soon enough I suspect. The more the merrier.