18 | WP default theme in 3 columns

Posted by alchymyth | Wordpress | Saturday 2 January 2010

Part of my time, I am spending designing and troubleshooting wordpress themes.

3 column kubrick theme

This is my latest ‘hack’, turning the default theme that comes with every wordpress installation, into a 3 column version, with equal sized left and right sidebar columns, all dynamic and widget ready.

All functions of the default theme are fully preserved. You can still modify the header colours from within the dashboard.

All files and graphics zipped for download. A great start for learning to mod your own theme.

At last a ‘default’ wordpress theme that fills the width of my laptop’s monitor ;-)

Update: horizontal page navigation below the header included.

To activate it, edit header.php and  remove the commenting where indicated.

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3 Comments

alchymyth | June 23, 2010

Hi Sean,
thanks for the comment.

to keep the white border around the header, start off with a copy of the existing kubrickheader.jpg, and use this in your image editor (fireworks, photoshop, gimp, ?) to integrate your new header graphic into it.
this way you keep the size and the border with the white gradient.

enjoy blogging,
Michael

Sean Gadbois | June 23, 2010

First, let me say thank you, because this is the only 3 column Kubrick layout I have been able to find. My only question is how can I modify the header to be a custom graphic. I uploaded the custom header and renamed it kubrickheader.jpg but when I do this I lose the white border that normally lines the blue Kubrick default header. Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Sean

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