tepelstreel

The Category Column is mainly designed to give your blog a bit more of a newspaper behaviour. E.g. The plugin shows the latest posts from all categories with an offset of three posts (which are in the main column) on our homepage.
If there is a post thumbnail, it will be displayed above the headline of the post. No further text will appear. If there is no thumbnail, only the headline and the excerpt of the post will be shown. When the plugin can detect neither the thumbnail nor the excerpt of a post, it will display just the first couple of sentenses (or words) of a post.
The Category Column was tested up to WP 4.5. It should work with versions down to 2.9 but was never tested on those.

Category Column

The Category Column does simply, what the name says; it will show excerpts of the latest posts in your sidebar.

mhawksey

The ‘Make PDF Newspaper’ plugin replaces the <a href="http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/wordpress-plugins/make-tabbloid-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Make Tabbloid</a> to automatically create printer friendly ‘tabloid’ editions of your WordPress blog in an attractive 2 column magazine/newspaper format. Development of the original plugin stopped after HP removed API access to their service. The new plugin uses code developed for the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/" rel="nofollow ugc">Five Filters PDF Newspaper project</a>, which in itself pulls together code from a number of other open source projects including <a href="http://www.tcpdf.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">TCPDF</a>, <a href="http://htmlpurifier.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">HTML Purifier</a>, <a href="http://simplepie.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">SimplePie</a> and <a href="http://michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/" rel="nofollow ugc">SmartyPants</a>
The plugin includes a widget to let you control how you advertise your ‘tabloid edition’. You can also choose to display a thumbnail of your custom newsletter (powered by <a href="http://webthumb.bluga.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bluga.net Webthumb</a>) to let your readers see what they are missing.
Key features
<ul>
<li>Option to generate PDF from externally hosted versions of the Five Filters code</li>
<li>Option to generate PDF editions of selected categories or archives</li>
<li>PDF generation entirely self-hosted removing reliance on 3rd party services and making it suitable for Intranet installations of WordPress</li>
<li>Option to include QR codes for each post (and custom text for user intructions)</li>
<li>Customisable banner text and logo</li>
<li>Option to automatically footnote all the links which appear in a post (using tinyurl or bitly to shorten long links)</li>
<li>Integrated widget to display thumbnail of your publication</li>
<li>User controlled production of PDF (including secure urls to trigger pdf generation via cron services. See FAQ for more information) </li>
</ul>
See the ‘screenshot’ for a summary of the features.
For an example of its usage visit <a href="http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/</a>
Thanks to
This plugin is made possible by the hard work of <a href="http://www.keyvan.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Keyvan Minoukadeh</a> creator of <a href="http://fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/" rel="nofollow ugc">Five Filters PDF Newspaper</a> and Jonathan Lyon who nudged me on.

Make PDF Newspaper

'Make PDF Newspaper' uses Five Filters PDF Newspaper to create printer friendly 'tabloid' edition of your Wordpress blog.

Category Column vs Make PDF Newspaper