Easily Make The Blog 2 Or 4 Columns
I’m starting a series on the Divi Blog module, and what better place to start than with an extremely easy and quick snippet that changes the Divi blog module into any number of columns you want! I’m really excited about this, because it’s so quick and easy even for beginners! Only 1 lines of CSS is needed to change the Divi blog module to any column number you need! We also add a space between the columns, which technically makes 2 lines of code, which still incredible! The best part is, we are putting them directly in the Divi Blog module!
Most of the other tutorials about this are very long and involve quite a lot of code, and most of them no longer work. So I enjoy making solutions that are truly simple and easy for you! If you enjoy that, then please subscribe because this is what I do every single week!
Make Divi Blog Module Into 2 Columns
Let’s start with changing the Divi Blog module column count to two. By default, the Blog module comes in at 3 columns when the layout is set to Grid, and 1 column when the layout is set to Fullwidth.
In order to keep this very, very simple, we need to set the Layout to Fullwidth.
Now go ahead and copy and paste the two lines of CSS below into the Blog module. You will need to go the Advanced tab and open the Custom CSS toggle. There you will see the Main Element, which is exactly where you should paste this snippet.
column-count: 2;
column-gap: 60px;
Boom! There you go! That was incredibly easy, right?
Make Divi Blog Module Into 4 Columns
Let’s try another one. You can change the count to anythign you want, but if you go too high the postt will get too small. Also note that you can’t use 3, since 3 is the default when the module is set to Grid. So let’s set the blog module column count to 4. Like before, make sure the layout is set to Fullwidth in the Design tab.
If you pasted the snippet before, just change the number to 4 instead of 2. If not, copy the CSS snippet below and paste it into the Blog module in the Advanced tab. Just open the Custom CSS toggle and you you will see the Main Element, which is where you should paste this snippet.
column-count: 4;
column-gap: 60px;
And there you go, you now changed the Divi blog module column count to 4 with this very easy method.
Change Blog Column Spacing
You may hvae noticed the line of CSS that says “column-gap” and were curous about that. Basically, this is the space between the columns. I set this at 60px because the blog module comes with a margin of 60px at the bottom of each post (in between the posts vertically) so I just wanted to match that. But you can change this number to anything you want!
Change The Divi Blog Module Column Count On Mobile
Make The Divi Blog Module Columns Responsive
Now it’s time to make this responsive! So the column count you chose for your blog module will probably not work very well on smaller screen sizes. Thanksfully this is a very easy fix. We could use CSS media queries. But hey, I like to keep it simple. Let’s just use Divi!
It is very easy. Go to the Blog module settings again to where you pasted the code in the Main Element. Hover over it and you will see the little “phone” icon. Click that! Now you will see three tabs, Desktop, Tablet, and Phone. By default, the code we pasted affects all three, so we need to change our code for each device. I’ll walk you through an example.
Desktop
Let’s say I have set my Divi blog moluduel to “4” columns. That’s what I want for Desktop, so this is good.
Tablet
Copy the snippet, and now click on the Tablet tab. Paste the two lines again. This time, change the column count to “2.”
Phone
Copy the snippet again, and now click on the Phone tab. Paste the two lines again. This time, change the column count to “1.”
You could also change the column gap to a smaller number like “20px;”
To see this in action, please watch the video!
Add Some Fancy Styling
In our screenshots above, we included some extra styling. In the follow snippet, we are going to style each one of the posts by adding spacing around them, a background color, and a border radius.
There is also a very important part of the tutorial. The last three lines here are essentail for making this whole tutorial work right. It is too technical to explain, but the video shows what would happen without it. Basically the columns in Divi start on the left and go down, then over and down, etc. So this CSS keeps the the blog posts from getting chopped off weird.
/*style the individual posts*/
.et_pb_posts .et_pb_post {
padding: 30px;
background: #f2f2f2;
border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
page-break-inside: avoid; /* Firefox */
break-inside: avoid; /* IE 10+ */
}That looks a great! Feel free to play around with this, and be on the lookout for more tutorials about the Divi blog module!
Simple & Nice Nelson! Less is more!
Hey Ramon,
Yes! 🙂 Always fun making it as simple as possible.
Hi Nelson,
This is a great tutorial. I always enjoy your tutorials. They are simple and presented in a clear way for everyone to understand. Thanks for taking the time to create them.
Kind regards,
Neil.
Hi Neil,
I appreciate your feedback. Thanks for the encouraging words, it makes my day when I can help people like this 🙂
Thank you Nelson for this awesome tip. Will give it a shot in my sites. This is indeed the simplest way to customize number of blog columns in Divi.
Hi Hadee,
Yes, give it a try, you will love how easy this is. Keeping the code in the module is always a plus too!
Hey Nelson! This is AWESOME! One quick question…what if you wanted to equalize the grid heights to accommodate for differing excerpt and title lengths?
Hi John,
Glad you like it! What you are asking is a very difficult thing to do, but the best answer I have seen is by Elegant Themes here: https://intercom.help/elegantthemes/en/articles/3371227-blog-module-equal-height-grid-boxes-with-javascript
Wow, that was so easy! Thank you!
Hi Bernadette,
You are welcome! I’m glad you found it easy!
I put in the code but why does the image on the top second column is being cut off ?
Just add the code in the post, it describe this. -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
page-break-inside: avoid; /* Firefox */
break-inside: avoid; /* IE 10+ */
Thank’s for these good advices. I use the layout in a test site for a list of members, in alpha sorting (via plugin Simple Custom Post Order) , with 12 items per page, with 3 rows of 4 columns, But I see that the items are to be read on each column from top to bottom and I would like them to be listed on each row from left to right. How is it possible? Luc
Hi Luc,
It seems that this method does not work well for multiple ROWs. So I’m afraid this may not be the best method for 12 items.
Thanks Nelson 😀
You’re welcome!
Dear,
thank you very much for your clear tutorial “how-to-change-the-number-of-columns-in-the-divi-blog-module”
Works great!
Still a question: why do I first see 4 and then 3 columns on one of my pages? (see: https://mijnreceptenbundel.nl/cocktails-2/cocktail-alc-vrij/)
or better, how can I adjust this?
thank you verry mutch
Hi Rita, this link is a 4040 error. Let me know if you want me to check an updated link.
I think it is now clearly visible
https://mijnreceptenbundel.nl/cocktails-2/cocktails-alc-vrij/
With multiple pages I sometimes see 3 or 2 columns instead of 4.
How can I solve that
see:
– https://mijnreceptenbundel.nl/aperitiefhapjes/hapjes-met-fruit/
– https://mijnreceptenbundel.nl/aperitiefhapjes/hapjes- with-cheese /
– https://mijnreceptenbundel.nl/cocktails-2/cocktails-alc-vrij/
– https://mijnreceptenbundel.nl/cocktails-2/dranken-alc-vrij/
– https://mijnreceptenbundel.nl /vegetarian/
Hi Rita,
I’m not sure, but I think it has to do with the way the module makes the items stack in columns top to bottom instead of left to right. It seems maybe it is related to the size of each post too, but I haven’t been able to narrow it down.
Dear Nelson,
I have already adjusted most of the titles and are now shorter, which makes the overview better. Yet I still have that some pages show 3 instead of 4 columns (pictures)
see: https://mijnreceptenbundel.nl/hoofdgerechten/schaap-lam/
Any chance there is a straightforward way to have this center the blog items. So for example, if I have a 4 column setup, per your code, but in instances where they is only 1 or 2 blog posts, to have those centered in the screen instead of off to the left?
Hi Daniel,
I don’t know but I definitely saw someone ask this a few weeks ago in a Facebook group and someone gave the answer. I just can’t think where it was, sorry!
Great tutorial, thanks alot, clean & simple!
Thanks David, glad you like it!
Thanks a lot for your posts Nelson!!!
Best Divi tutorials on the web!
Just a tip: This is needed to work properly so I would not say “add styling”….it is confusing..
-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
page-break-inside: avoid; /* Firefox */
break-inside: avoid; /*
Got it, I will update that to make it more clear, thanks!
Hi, how can i make the order from left to right instead of top to bottom.
My magazine are displaying in weird order
Hi Marlon,
I think this is because of the weird way they are made in Divi. They go by columns, down the first one, then down the second one, etc. Really annoying, so I guess this only works with one row.
Thank you Nelson, this is a real helpful and easy tutorial! The only part where I was little bit confused was when you added the styling to the site. I first didn’t realize the code wasn’t for the blog module but for the whole website. I then checked your video and got it. Maybe you could add where to put this in in your tutorial here.
Hi Carina,
Okay not sure what you mean, but I assume you are referring to the snippet that targets all blog posts. You could certainly add a custom class, I don’t say that on every post because I hope people know but it’s a valid point if that’s what you mean.
what if I want two columns on mobile and not one?
Then write 2 instead of 1 🙂 Might get kinda tight though!
Hi Nelson, Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I have found a lot of valuable stuff on your website, and must say it is one of the best resources on DIVI. So thanks a lot for that. I tried this code and it works great, except that the navigation for pagination on the bottom (older entries and newer entries) jumps into the second column instead of spanning both the columns. I am attaching a screenshot. Is there a way or CSS to make it span so that it is not in the middle of the page. I am using a… Read more »
I guess that is because it is technically thinking it is the “fullwidth” layout. Had not thought of that. Guess that is a drawback of this method.
Thanks for the update Nelson. Let me see if I can figure out a workaround for this.
Great idea, but didn’t work. Adding column-count:2 turned the 3 column blog into 6 rather than 2.
Hi Amy,
It sounds like you have it set to grid mode, change it to fullwidth for this to work as described.
Hi Nelson – I was having issues with this page:
https://dwnsandbox1.com/news/
After a few rounds with Elegant Themes Tech Support they suggested this article:
“Please use the following solution instead to change Blog columns:
https://www.peeayecreative.com/how-to-change-the-number-of-columns-in-the-divi-blog-module/”
Ta Da!
Coincidentally, I was reading a post from you earlier tonight about hiding/showing the hamburger menu.
Thanks for your clean and Elegant(!) solutions.
Thanks Mike, looks great, so glad you could benefit from this!