Three Boxes on Homepage

[n00dles101]

An easier option would be to create your main page.

Then create 3 child pages for each of the columns.

Add the following to your template functions.php file

Code:

function get_content($page){  
        $path = "data/pages";
        $thisfile = @file_get_contents('data/pages/'.$page.'.xml');
        $data = simplexml_load_string($thisfile);
        echo stripslashes(htmlspecialchars_decode($data->content, ENT_QUOTES));;
}

Then in your template just add 3 of the following in each of the columns, replacing $page with your sub-page names.

Code:

<?php get_content($page); ?>

That way the client just updates the 3 sub pages.

Edit: in version 3.1+ you can forget about the function and just use the inbuilt caching/indexing.

Code:

<?php getPageContent($page); ?>