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.

mhawksey

<p>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></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Key features</strong></p>
<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>
<p>See the ‘screenshot’ for a summary of the features.</p>
<p>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></p>
<p><strong>Thanks to</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>


Make PDF Newspaper

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

WP Auto Columns vs Make PDF Newspaper