Wordpress: Multiple Content Columns

I’ve been working on a Wordpress site for a client with one of our developers Tom Hartnell. The design of this particular site was that some pages would need content displayed over multiple columns. This content had to be updatable by the client, as such it could not be hard coded into the template files.

We had a look around and we found a potential solution on this blog post.

We played around with this for a while but found that, whilst it was a good solution, it wasn’t quite suitable for our needs. What we needed was a solution which allowed us to have any number of columns and for each column to contain completely different content. The solution in the post demanded that each column start with the same HTML tag (H2 in the example). We decided to rewrite the function described above, based on the same principals, but updated and improved so it would fit our needs.

To see what the end result is, you can see a demo page.

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