Bamboo MCR

<p>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.</p>
<p>Usage</p>
<p>Insert the required shortcodes into your content as follows:</p>
<p>2 column layout:</p>
<pre><code> [column-half-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-half-1]
 [column-half-2]
 Second column of content
 [/column-half-2]
</code></pre>
<p>3 column layout:</p>
<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>
<p>4 Column layout:</p>
<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>
<p>If you want content to span multiple columns you can combine the shortcodes to create a column spans multiple spaces, for example:</p>
<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>
<p>If you need to embed a set of columns within a column, you can do so by adding ‘inner-‘ to the shortcode as follows:</p>
<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>
<p>You can also change the background colour of a colour by adding an attribute to the shortcode as follows:</p>
<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.

Andrey Ovcharov

<p>You need to display your articles in magazine or newspaper style. Use this plugin. You don’t have<br />
to change your theme files or add styles – just use “table” splitter.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>fully automatic splitter;</li>
<li>create columns in table or div’s;</li>
<li>tag-aware;</li>
<li>splits long paragraphs and unordered lists;</li>
<li>keeps text with headers;</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>The plugin requires DOM API (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php) and Tidy (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.tidy.php)</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>Wrap block of text with <code>[auto_columns]...[/auto_columns]</code> shortcode. It will produce markup like</p>
<pre><code><div class="auto-columns-container columns-2">
<div class="auto-columns-column column-1 first-column">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</div>
<div class="auto-columns-column column-2 last-column">Nam tincidunt gravida dui, at bibendum nisl lacinia nec.</div>
<div class="auto-columns-clear"></div>
</div>
</code></pre>
<p>In your theme use <code>do_shortcode</code> function:</p>
<pre><code><?php echo do_shortcode('[auto_columns]' . $content . '[/auto_columns]'); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>You will have to define width for <code>.auto-columns-column</code> class in your theme, of course.</p>


WP Auto Columns

Wrap block of text with shortcode. It will be split into columns. Automagically.

Bamboo Columns vs WP Auto Columns