Bamboo MCR

This plugin provides several shortcodes for organising your content into multi-column layouts. It supports two, three and four column layouts and allows for content to span multiple columns if required.
Usage
Insert the required shortcodes into your content as follows:
2 column layout:
<pre><code> [column-half-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-half-1]
 [column-half-2]
 Second column of content
 [/column-half-2]
</code></pre>
3 column layout:
<pre><code> [column-third-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-third-1]
 [column-third-2]
 Second column of content
 [/column-third-2]
 [column-third-3]
 Third column of content
 [/column-third-3]
</code></pre>
4 Column layout:
<pre><code> [column-quarter-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-quarter-1]
 [column-quarter-2]
 Second column of content
 [/column-quarter-2]
 [column-quarter-3]
 Third column of content
 [/column-quarter-3]
 [column-quarter-4]
 Fourth column of content
 [/column-quarter-4]
</code></pre>
If you want content to span multiple columns you can combine the shortcodes to create a column spans multiple spaces, for example:
<pre><code> 1 Third / 2 Thirds

 [column-third-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-third-1]
 [column-third-2-3]
 Second column of content that spans the second and third columns
 [/column-third-2-3]

 1 Quarter / 2 Quarters / 1 Quarter

 [column-quarter-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-quarter-1]
 [column-quarter-2-3]
 Second column of content that spans the second and third columns
 [/column-quarter-2-3]
 [column-quarter-4]
 Third column of content that occupies the fourth quarter column
 [/column-quarter-4]
</code></pre>
If you need to embed a set of columns within a column, you can do so by adding ‘inner-‘ to the shortcode as follows:
<pre><code> [column-half-1]
 Some Text
 [inner-column-half-1]
 Some more text
 [/inner-column-half-1]
 [inner-column-half-2]
 Even more text
 [/inner-column-half-2]
 [/column half 1]
 [column-half-2]
 The final text
 [/column-half-2]
</code></pre>
You can also change the background colour of a colour by adding an attribute to the shortcode as follows:
<pre><code> [column-half-1 background="e8e8e8"]
</code></pre>

Bamboo Columns

This plugin provides several shortcodes for organising your content into multi-column layouts. It supports two, three and four column layouts.

TristanChambers

Columnizer is a jQuery based WordPress plugin that formats your content into columns. All you need to do is embrace your content in a single set of shortcodes denoting the number of columns you’d like. Like this:
<pre><code>[threecolumns]
Lorem ipsum...vitae nunc.
Curabitur fringilla...consectetur arcu.
Proin id...pretium eros.
etc...
[/threecolumns]
</code></pre>
The rest is taken care of for you. Just write out the number of columns (up to twelve) followed by the word ‘columns’ with no space (as above) and your column formatting needs will be satisfied most splendidly. Other column plugins need you to divvy up the content between sets of tags. Columnizer does it for you!
To customize the margins between columns edit columnizer.css. Alternatively you could override the rules in your own css file by adding an extra level of hierarchy. Something like this:
<pre><code>#main #columnizer .first div {
 margin-right: 8px; /*changed spacing to 8px*/
 margin-left: 0 !important;
}
#main #columnizer .last div {
 margin-left: 8px; /*changed spacing to 8px*/
 margin-right: 0 !important;
}
#main #columnizer .column div {
 margin-left: 8px; /*changed spacing to 8px*/
 margin-right: 8px; /*changed spacing to 8px*/
 border-left: 1px solid grey; /*new rule to add slick dividers*/
 border-right: 1px solid grey; /*new rule to add slick dividers*/
}
</code></pre>
WP Columnizer is based on the jQuery plugin “Columnizer” by Adam Wulf.

Columnizer

Wordpress Plugin to columnize content automatically

Bamboo Columns vs Columnizer