{"id":91178,"date":"2012-08-03T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=91178"},"modified":"2012-08-03T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T20:23:03","slug":"wordpress-dashboard-columns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-dashboard-columns\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Give Your WordPress Dashboard a Single Column Layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91179\" title=\"columns-big\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/columns-big.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"703\" height=\"469\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Note: This post has been updated. Previously it showed how to achieve a single column by inserting code in your functions.php file. I had forgotten that WordPress lets you easily control the number of columns in the backend.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By default in WordPress, the info blocks in your dashboard come laid out in two columns.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the dashboard with the default double-column layout.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91184\" title=\"two-column-dashboard1\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/two-column-dashboard1.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"695\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But you can change that layout to a single column as in this image with a few clicks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91185\" title=\"one-column-dashboard1\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/one-column-dashboard1.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"696\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How to Do It<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. First go to the &#8220;Screen Options&#8221; panel in your Admin section. (You should see an option for it in the upper right-hand corner of your screen.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91600\" title=\"screen-options\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/screen-options.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"695\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Once on the Screen Options panel, then choose however many columns you would like (1-4).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91601\" title=\"screen-options-choose-layout\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/screen-options-choose-layout.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"695\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Photo:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-19291364\/stock-photo-washington-dc-architectural-detail-of-columns-and-marble-steps.-critical-focus-on-middle-column.\" target=\"_blank\">Washington DC Architectural detail of columns and marble steps<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick little trick turns your double-columned dashboard into a single column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":91188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[93],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-91178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-dashboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216589,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91178\/revisions\/216589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91178"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=91178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}