Can you have a one column for posts?

I was not playing any games. Anyway, all I want to do is have it so my tutorials can be on one column layouts with no sidebars.

Okay, so I’ll ask for a third time:

Posts display in two formats: as an index (a list of posts), and as a single post. Which of these (or both, perhaps?) do you want to display in a single-column layout?

Posts.

Posts.

I really am trying to help you, but this doesn’t answer my question.

I am sorry, but you’ll have to show some patience with me. I’m not very knowledgeable about this stuff.

Single posts. Is that correct?

Single posts. Is that correct?

Okay, now we’re in business!

You need to modify the “single.php” template file.

Thank you. In what way do I modify it?

You’re using TwentyTen (actually, a Child Theme, I hope), right?

Here are the template files in TwentyTen:
https://core.svn.www.ads-software.com/tags/3.1/wp-content/themes/twentyten/

And here is “single.php”
https://core.svn.www.ads-software.com/tags/3.1/wp-content/themes/twentyten/single.php

Modifying “single.php” to be a one-column layout is a two-step process:
1) Modify the markup
2) Modify the CSS

Markup: remove this line:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

This will remove the actual sidebar column, with all its content.

CSS: change the style of <div id="container"> for single blog posts (if you want your single column to use the entire content width).

Here is the CSS declaration for #container in TwentyTen’s style.css:
https://core.svn.www.ads-software.com/tags/3.1/wp-content/themes/twentyten/style.css

#container {
	float: left;
	margin: 0 -240px 0 0;
	width: 100%;
}

Simply remove the -240px margin-right:

#container {
	margin-right: 0;
}

That should get you most of the way there!

Wow, thanks Chip! Now will this mean that every post I write will be on a one column layout? Because what I originally wanted to do was have the template drop down in the page editor like it has for pages, so I could choose which posts I wanted as one column.

When viewed in the single-post view, yes.

Note that your blog posts index will still show the sidebar column.

But if I remove the sidebar code from the single.php file won’t that make every post I write a single column? That’s not what I want.

Are all of the single-column posts in one specific category?

Because what I originally wanted to do was have the template drop down in the page editor like it has for pages, so I could choose which posts I wanted as one column.

Posts don’t offer this functionality. There are other ways around this limitation, but they are considerably more involved.

You could give this Plugin a try:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/custom-post-template/

Well, my tutorials are in a category named Tutorials. But if I used the method esmi mentioned earlier then any posts I wanted to be single column that aren’t in the tutorial category won’t be single column.

I guess I’ll have to think of another way to do this, but thanks everyone for all your help.

I believe the Plugin I linked will let you do what you’re trying to accomplish…