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How to make two columns on my theme & publishing later

  1. janoberg
    Member

    1) I have The Morning After theme and like it for a start. Now, I think that the reading along those loooong lines is not so good and I therefore want the front page AND all post sites to have not one but TWO columns.
    How do I change the format from one to two columns?

    2) I am posting a very comprehensive material - some 2500 pages - to this blog in the future. But I do not want anyone to be able to access it before all is there which may take months. How can I publish the articles one by one but prevent people from reading already now. Is there a "global" button to keep the whole blog private until I want to go public with it?

    3) If later on I want a more sophisticated theme, what do I gain by buying e.g. Minimum for 75$ compared with this?

    Many many thanks for your answers!

    KIndly

    Jan Oberg
    Sweden
    Blog url: http://yugoslaviawhatshouldhavebeendone.wordpress.com/

  2. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    1. Unfortunately, that level of customization is a bit beyond what you can do with WordPress.com, unless of course you pick a theme with more columns.

    2. You can make your blog private from Settings -> Privacy in your blog's Dashboard.

    3. It's necessarily about what you gain, more about the themes themselves, though in most cases the premium themes fo offer more customization options than the free themes: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sort/premium/

  3. janoberg
    Member

    Dear Maxmanx

    Perhaps I did not hear back from you on what I wrote to you second round (see below) because I did not write it here but did reply to your email. If so, that was my fault, sorry! However, I would really appreciate your answer to the two questions below:

    Why does Morning After come up when I use the two-columns filter and why is it written under details that it is - if you say it is beyond what that theme can do? I need two columns for my project and, so, I need to know how I find those which can have two columns - so many come up but I am getting confused because you say that Morning After (which is one of those coming up) cant do that. Enlighten me please!

    And then my question about why the log in link has disappeared from my Pilcrow theme?

    Really very very helpful if you can find the time to reply. Thanks! - Best - Jan

    Many thank for your quick reply, very helpful indeed.
    As far as I had understood from the filter function, the Morning After does have such a two-column function - it is written in the more info box under the themes collection, isn't it?
    If it anyhow cannot - how do I find those that I CAN make two columns on? I really need that - even it will be a premium site. Please advise me on that!

    One more problem - sorry: On my personal blog
    http://janoberg.wordpress.com/
    - I today updated my Pilcrow theme only to find out that the "meta" links - including log in - has disappeared.
    Is that a bug or should it not be there at the bottom of the right-hand column??

    Best and many thanks

    Jan

  4. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    It has two columns, as in one content column and a sidebar, but a second content column can't be added.

    The Meta section was a default widget, so it disappears when you add new widgets. You can add it back via the Appearance -> Widgets area of your blog's Dashboard.

  5. janoberg
    Member

    Many thanks for your precise and prompt reply.
    I guess that I have then to look for a three column theme...
    Best - Jan

  6. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    You're welcome!

  7. janoberg
    Member

    Dear Happiness Engineer
    Today I am not so happy :-(...
    I switched from Morning After to beautiful Minimum (bought it for USD 75, of course).
    Now - there must be a bug in the Header menu because I cannot get rid of the old header text: Yugoslavia - What Should Have Been Done. It seems to be an image but it stay there half-way out of its box, it is far too big for Minimum's header space and I have tried everything in the Header menu to get rid of it, take it down, upload another etc - but it stays there.
    Could you therefore please tell me either how to throw it away or go in if you can and take it away for me as I suspect it must be a bug - you hereby have my permission, of course. Your quick reply is greatly appreciated. Kindly, Jan Oberg

  8. mkoenig514
    Staff

    Hi Jan,

    It sounds like you are referring to your site title. That can be changed in your general settings at https://yugoslaviawhatshouldhavebeendone.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-general.php .

  9. janoberg
    Member

    Hi mKoenig - many thanks!

    Yep, that's what I am talking about - BUT the problem is that I HAVE been there and re-written the words but the "old" picture from when I had Morning After remains - NO MATTER WHAT. I'm afraid it is a bug...I can't get my cursor in as if it was a text, it only does the arrow and then when I mark the title it just remains when I try to delete it or drop it in my trash...it simply won't go away...
    That is why I asked whether you could go in a somehow kill that title image for me :-)
    Jan

  10. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    I'm not sure what you're referring to. It seems to be text to me, not an image.

    Can you please try clearing your browser's cache?

    http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050

  11. janoberg
    Member

    Dear Macmanx
    All your suggestions have been tried BEFORE I wrote to you. Please log in with
    janoberg
    ahimsa
    and go to appearance/header:

    http://yugoslaviawhatshouldhavebeendone.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header&step=1

    This cannot possibly be the way it should appear? And it is NOT a text, one can move it around as a picture but it cannot be deleted. If on my profile I call the something else, it does NOT come up there either. The title of the site is EMPTY/White.

    I am reasonably experienced in html code and in wordpress. I had checked these things also because I dont want to bother ou with the obvious. Now, could you please try to log in to my site as suggested above and try to delete once and for all that image/picture. It MUST BE a bug emerging when I changed from Morning After to Minimum and it should not have happened, I am afraid...Here in Europe it is now way after midnight and I sincerely hope to find the problem solved by you tomorrow morning. Many thanks! - Jan

  12. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    If you're referring to the uploaded header image there, it can be deleted from the Media section of your blog's Dashboard.

  13. janoberg
    Member

    That was not the problem either. But what I found out right now is that the LENGTH of the blog title seems to influence its appearance. The title was, I assume, too long and the rather big capital letters could not be accomodated in the title field under general and under header.
    That is now solved - it was NOT a header image problem...since there was no such image uploaded at all.
    Anyhow, thanks for your help! - Jan

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