How many columns are there in a one-column WordPress theme?
Update, 16 December, 2009
Just doing a few tests to see if Blogsome posts can be styled differently from each other or whether they have to all look the same. The good news is that with just a few simple tweaks (easy if you know basic CSS) big changes can be made.
The bad news? Well, I coulda chosen softer colours for testing purposes. For the time being, this post will have to look like a throwback to 1992. Ho-hum…
WordPress is one of the world’s most popular blogging platforms. Little wonder, then, that a few unscrupulous web sites try to exploit that popularity in a bid to spread malware and viruses.
The safest thing, of course, is to only download WordPress — and the themes that go with it — from the official WordPress site. To be honest, you don’t usually find better themes anywhere else; and if you do, you shouldn’t be surprised to find spammy backlinks lurking in the code, ready to embarrass both you and your readers.
It’s a shame, therefore, that the Great WordPress itself doesn’t have a more intelligent search facility.
I did a search just a few minutes ago for one-column WordPress themes. Here are some of the results. Click the ultra-fuzzy low-res images below to see them bigger and ever so slightly better.
For the benefit of anyone who either can’t or really doesn’t fancy peering at the screenshots, the results included the following themes (remember, I was only looking for one-column themes):
- Techozoic Fluid
- Blog Design Studio NewBlue
- Namib
- alibi
- codescheme_blue
- slight
All the above were described as having two (or, in one case, ‘2 or 3′) columns.
Oh, there was one other theme on the first page of results:
AquaBlock — a quick loading 3 column theme.
Give me strength!
