I’m new to Magento and working on customizing the Modern template, as its close

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Asked: June 18, 20262026-06-18T22:23:02+00:00 2026-06-18T22:23:02+00:00

I’m new to Magento and working on customizing the Modern template, as its close

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I’m new to Magento and working on customizing the Modern template, as its close to my ultimate design. However I noticed that for some reason the 3rd column in the 3 column template was commented out:

/frontend/default/modern/template/page/3columns.phtml
[lines 43-55]

<div class="main-container col2-left-layout">
        <div class="main">
            <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('breadcrumbs') ?>
            <?php /*<div class="col-wrapper">*/ ?>
                <div class="col-main">
                    <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('global_messages') ?>
                    <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('content') ?>
                </div>
                <div class="col-left sidebar"><?php echo $this->getChildHtml('left') ?></div>
            </div>
            <?php /*<div class="col-right sidebar"><?php echo $this->getChildHtml('right') ?></div>*/ ?>
        <?php /*</div>*/ ?>
    </div>

I copied this to my own theme, and modified it as such:

/frontend/my_package/my_theme/template/page/3columns.phtml

<div class="main-container col3-layout"> <-------
        <div class="main">
            <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('breadcrumbs') ?>
           <div class="col-wrapper"> <-------
                <div class="col-main">
                    <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('global_messages') ?>
                    <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('content') ?>
                </div>
                <div cla/ss="col-left sidebar"><?php echo $this->getChildHtml('left') ?></div>
            </div>
            <div class="col-right sidebar"><?php echo $this->getChildHtml('right') ?></div> <-------
       </div> <-------
    </div>
    <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('footer') ?>
    <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('before_body_end') ?>
</div>

In the backend, I created a static block with just plain text, and tried adding it to “All Pages”, “Right Column”; but it does not show up. If I add it to “All Pages”, “Left Column” it does show up.

I’m guessing that the Right Column reference somehow isn’t in Magento correctly, but I don’t know where to even begin looking to fix that.