How to remove the left column in Twenty Sixteen

Twenty Sixteen two columns

Twenty Sixteen three columns

The Twenty Sixteen WordPress theme is composed of three columns. In the left column, you have meta information like author, date, tags and categories.

If you want to remove the left column and have a two columns layout, you have to add the following code. Removing the left column has the effect of moving the meta information to the bottom of the page.

Removing the left column

Choose to customize your theme, then insert the following code, as suggested on the WordPress forum, in the additional css field.

How to move the meta information to the top of the page

If you want to move the meta information (author, date, …) to the top of the page, do the following:

1) open with the Appearance->Editor the file template-parts/content-single.php 

2) go to line 40 and delete the following line

3) go to line 13 and replace the following line

with

4) save

With a small width the meta information isn’t shown at full width, I’ll try to fix this (if you know how to do it, please write me!)

Be warned that this is not a clean method to change a theme, you should create a child theme, but I still don’t know how to do it. When upgrading the theme you’ll lose your changes.

The result of the modifications is shown below.

Twenty Sixteen two columns