3 columns in twentyeleven WordPress theme
The twentyeleven wordpress theme is the default theme in the latest version of wordpress and probably the first theme you will dig around in to see how it works in WordPress.
Modifying the theme to have 3 columns on the front page is surprisingly easy and after creating a few files you can make your front page look rather different to the original them.
The layout I wanted was to be able to have the latest post as a full width chunk at the top of the page with 6 excerpts in columns see figure 1.
WordPress has the ability to use a file called home.php for its home page if it exsits in the root of your template folder. This is handy because we can then create a copy of the index.php file and edit that rather than modifying the index.php directly.
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