As monitor screen resolutions get wider, bloggers are expanding the width of their blogs to fill in more content, widgets and advertisements. A new trend of 4 column wordpress has started and bloggers are switching as 3 columns are failing to meet requirements of more clutter above the themesfold.
A premier web blogger statistics says that 8% users use 800×600 and 1% use 640×480 resolutions. Which means if my blog width crosses 800px width, 9% users need to use the horizontal scrolling to see the entire blog, which is a bad user experience. Though flexible widths can deal with this, with increasing columns this is not always possible and fixed width designs might not fit in lower resolution screens.
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Wordpress theme viewer (just click the link to change the theme) reveals few 4-column wordpress themes. The most downloaded theme there is RAW 3.0 as per their logs. Mashable has also compiled a list 20 great, hand-picked Wordpress themes with four columns.
