I’ve had this domain for a few years and have mainly used it to make pages to share with friends. The main tool that I used was Homesite or just hand rolled a page (Lightroom has an excellent export function for photo webpages). I’ve used WordPress for a number of sites that I developed for my work but never set WP up on this domain.

As with any theme, you are going to want to make changes. The nice thing about WordPress 2.7 is that it can handle child themes. Using a Child Theme will help you localize and organize the changes that you make to your WordPress site theme. Sam didn’t include a child theme to his theme but I’m sure he will add this feature in his next rev. Using a Child theme will help when the Parent theme has an update, you would simply update/upgrade the files within the parent theme.

Let me show you the steps to create the Child Theme.

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Sam Burge is a developer in the UK who created a WordPress plug-in which allows one to make posts with multiple columns. wp post columns 2.0. This is a very useful plugin if you want to separate information into multiple columns (you could use html table tags, not recommended, use tables for data).

I did give Sam a nudge to develop version 2.0. His first version was just two columns and I wanted three. I did a modification and sent it to him, he liked it and generalized to any number of columns. It was a good exercise for me since I was able learn more details about WordPress.

The plug-in uses simple tags to create columns. Here are some examples:

[column width="40%" padding="5%"]Two Columns in a WordPress Post[/column]

[column width="30%" padding="5%"]Three Columns in a WordPress Post[/column][end_columns] [column width="20%" padding="5%"]Multiple Columns in a WordPress Post[/column][column width="20%" padding="0%"]Multiple Columns in a WordPress Post[/column]

Sam released his Simplistix theme a few days after my endeavor into multiple columns. Good timing! I really like the layout of the theme and he has some great features.

Get his theme here:
Simplistix theme.

Note: There is a bug within WordPress with the Visual Editor. The editor adds extra “p” tags when you save pages or posts with the visual editor. You might notice that the Visual Editor puts extra lines in your posts. Welcome to the p tag issue! Read about it here:Unwanted tags in HTML Idea: Trust me when I edit HTML