From time to time you need to change some things from the Wordpress default. One of the easiest hacks to do is creating double posts columns.

all you need is a bit PHP and some Css tweaking, here is the example:

CSS

.row {clear:both;}
.col1 {width:300px;float:left;padding:10px;}
.col2 {width:300px;float:right;padding:10px;}

* change the width of the columns according to what you need.

in your index.php (in the theme folder) look for the posts loop and before that paste this:

<?php $col = 1; ?>

after the loop begins add this:

<?php if ($col == 1) echo “<div class=\”row\”>”; ?>

now inside the loop, replace the loop main DIV with this code:

<div class=”post col<?php echo $col;?>” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>

and just before the end replace ENDWHILE with this:

<?php if ($col == 1) echo “</div>”; (($col==1) ? $col=2 : $col=1); endwhile; ?>

THAT’S IT.

here are the sources for this post:

http://netcovered.com/wordpress-posts-in-different-columns/

http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/2008/03/01/how-to-organize-posts-into-two-side-by-side-columns-in-wordpress/