Question

I set a template and my default template is 2 columns and i have a page that i want to have a 1 column. How can I make that in wordpress? is it a code for the functions.php?

Please suggest and thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You have different options and you could choose the one you prefer 🙂

1. If your theme already supports a one-column page you should have on the right side of your edit page screen a box “Page attributes” with a select box named “Templates” when you could choose a different template (in default WordPress theme “TwentyTen” is it called “One column, no sidebar”).

2. If your theme doesn’t support a one-column page you could create a custom page template by yourself:

   • copy and rename “page.php” that you could find inside your theme
   • in the top comments add this line: * Template Name: The name you want for your template
   • at the bottom of page.php remove the line <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   • now you should have the new template in the side panel “Page attributes”.

3. If you don’t like the “new template + select box” way you could directly add a “IF” on your “page.php” to comment-out the get_sidebar() when needed, based on $post->ID or similar checks.

After this probably you’ll have to edit your .css (adjusting width) and new-page.php (like adding a class “one-column” to the div container) to fit the dimensions.