Are multiple "editorial" columns possible?
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So far I’m confused on this multiple column ability that some of the themes say is available. I’ve activated Twenty Ten and then The Morning After themes, and I don’t see how you can post in multiple columns? All I see is added widget columns. I’m really looking for 2 column editorial and 1 column widget. Is there a free theme in a magazine style, which I’m looking to emulate, that’s available? Thx
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That’s because you can’t. What’s important is the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
There is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages.
A custom menu allows you to display Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages and custom links in your custom menu as well.
These are the how-to instructions:
1. You create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
2. You add the Categories you want to display and arrange them in the order you want.
3. Then you add and drop and drag the sub-categories below the appropriate Categories, and when you have everything arranged in the menu that you want you save the menu.
4. Go to the “theme location” module at upper left on the menu page. Select your custom menu name from the pull-down labeled “primary location.” Click the save button in that module.
5. Refresh your browser so that it isn’t possibly pulling a cached page, and view see your new menu with Parent pages and dropdowns to sub-pages.
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Have you tried Depo Masthead? I think that may do what you’re looking for, though I’m not sure whether it has a widget sidebar. Go here: http://theme.wordpress.com/ and then search for depo masthead.
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I looked at some of the depo masthead “who’s using this theme?” examples, and it looks as though you have three columns for posts and the widgets reside in the footer. If you can be flexible & go with three columns w/ your widgets in the footer, then depo masthead might work for you: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/depo-masthead/ (I thought it looked pretty cool in the example blogs, myself.)
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Inuit Types also gives you a magazine-like column layout for your posts, and it has a sidebar for widgets: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/inuit-types/
Inuit also has a special text widget area at the top under the header for an introduction to your blog.
Delicious Magazine is a premium theme that also displays posts in columns: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/delicious-magazine/
Delicious is $45. (Inuit is free.) -
Also Under the Influence and Hemingway.
But none of these themes gives you independent columns: a theme with two or three main columns will simply display you latest two or three posts.
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There are also some themes that let you have “featured” posts in a special widget area — perhaps this might be an option?
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