Why does Baskerville not display in columns
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I’ve been using WordPress with reasonable success for years. I have now started a new blog and want to use a layout with a landscape/horizontal pic at the top and two columns of text, with pics, below.
Baskerville looks OK but whenever I hit the “customise” button I come up with a ONE column page. Why on earth does it come up with one column when the example has three columns?
Is there a simple two-column free layout? And why on earth can WordPress not put put up the same (*&^%$#ing layout after I have selected a theme as the one in the example?
Thanks for any help
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Hi,
Baskerville looks OK but whenever I hit the “customise” button I come up with a ONE column page. Why on earth does it come up with one column when the example has three columns?
Two reasons:
1. The width of the site as it would appear outside the previewer at Customize, is decreased in the previewer by the presence of the admin menu at the left.2. The theme is responsive, having flexible width. How the site displays content depends in part upon the screen size of the device being used to view it. See the Responsive Design and Other Theme Layouts support page.
The fact that you’re seeing one column suggests that you’re using a device with a small screen to view it. On my PC monitor, with screen resolution 1280 X 1024, my test site with Baskerville 2 applied displays a two-column grid of posts on the front page in the previewer, and a three-column grid when viewed normally, outside the previewer.
Is there a simple two-column free layout?
Here’s the WordPress.com Themes Showcase, filtered for two-column layout themes: https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/two-columns. However, most WordPress.com themes are responsive, so the issue that you describe will also present with other themes activated.
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Thanks very much for the reply. I’m not the only person who finds things like responsive themes INCREDIBLY frustrating. It just seems obvious that if someone chose a two-column layout they would do so because they wanted a two-column layout!
I’ve had no issues with working on my old site for years; since trying to get the new site working I feel that there may be some people inside WordPress who insist on creating new “features” that some of us don’t want, just as we don’t want a 46 speed gearbox on our car or 529 characters on our keyboard. I find it impossible to design or visualise how a blog will work when I can’t see it on the screen of a standard size laptop.
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I find it impossible to design or visualise how a blog will work when I can’t see it on the screen of a standard size laptop.
There are many free tools that allow you to easily test a page at various screen resolutions. The site you test could be a WordPress.com demo, your own site, or any other site. Such tools allow you see what a page will look like on different types of devices and on a wide variety of specific screen sizes. The link in this paragraph is to a Google search result list that includes some such tools.
I’ve flagged the topic for staff attention. Staff will respond here, and may offer other suggestions.
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Hi there,
If you have a smaller computer screen that causes the Customizer preview to go to a single-column layout, the only way around that is to zoom out in your browser. How many columns display depends on the width of your screen, and the Customizer preview will always be narrower than your screen due to the presence of the Customizer sidebar.
All current WordPress.com themes are responsive, as that is the standard practice across the web, and there is no option to disable responsiveness of a theme.
It’s possible to break a theme’s responsiveness by adding custom CSS that overrides it, but we do not help with that type of change.
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