WP Auto Columns

You need to display your articles in magazine or newspaper style. Use this plugin. You don’t have
to change your theme files or add styles – just use “table” splitter.

Features

• fully automatic splitter;
• create columns in table or div’s;
• tag-aware;
• splits long paragraphs and unordered lists;
• keeps text with headers;

Requirements

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)

Usage

Wrap block of text with [auto_columns]...[/auto_columns] shortcode. It will produce markup like

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Nam tincidunt gravida dui, at bibendum nisl lacinia nec.

In your theme use do_shortcode function:

You will have to define width for .auto-columns-column class in your theme, of course.

1. Login to admin panel of your WP blog and go to Plugins → Add New
2. Enter wp-auto-columns and click on Search button
3. Click on link Install bellow plugin name WP Auto Columns
4. Activate plugin by clicking on link Activate

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   Example of splitted text

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   Example of shortcode markup

1.0.6

• Added parameter style="table|div" to define desired split style.

1.0.5

• Added processing of “height” attribute for IMG tags
• Fixed behaviour of
  tags
• Settings page for height measurement fine tuning

1.0.4

• Added editor toolbar button

1.0.3

• Small fix in activation handler

1.0.2

• IMG tags are filtered
• Added check for installed DOM API on activation
• Added Russian translation

1.0.1

• Fixed <ol> behavior

1.0.0

• First public release