Zakeeya.com - Art & Photography blog sketchbook

Date: 2nd April 2009 at 9:20 pm | Filed under: portfolio | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , ,

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This simple, elegant blog was designed and built by 76 Creative (coded by me:¬)  for London based artist Zakeeya. It is powered by the Gallery Mangement feature of Admin 76, 76 Creative's custom Content Management System.

The Gallery Management system was originally intended for creating a series of galleries, rather than one huge one, so although being simple in appearance on the front end, the back end of this site still posed one or two challenges for me and allowed for improvements to be made to the CMS in the process.

Another thing I enjoyed about this site is doing a layout with a fluid width in CSS, most sites I have done are fixed width so it was interesting to change things up a bit.

I'm a big fan of simplistic / minimal websites where the content is the main focus.  Check it out:

www.zakeeya.com

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WP Background Tile Plugin

Date: 3rd February 2009 at 12:47 am | Filed under: plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , ,

The WP Background Tile Plugin for WordPress applies a tiled background image to your blog.  It is as simple as this:

  • Create a background image
  • Upload it
  • Apply it as the background via the WP Background Tile options page

Applying a repeat pattern to the background of a webpage is easily done using css:

body {background-image: url(example.jpg);}

However, if you're not into writing code, or don't know where to insert the css into your wordpress theme, then you will find this plugin much easier. It can also be an easy way of testing out lots of background images before deciding on one you are happy with.

INSTALLATION:

  1. Download the plugin from the link at the bottom of this page
  2. Upload the wp-background-tile folder to your wp-content/plugins folder.
  3. Activate the plugin from the Plugins page in WordPress.

USAGE:

  1. Upload your background image via 'Media => Add New' in Wordpress (or via FTP)
  2. Go to 'Settings => WP Background Tile' in WordPress
  3. Paste or type in the URL of your background image (explained in more detail below)
  4. Press 'Submit'

CREATING A BACKGROUND TILE:

A background tile is an image which is repeated in both directions over the background of a webpage. Look closely at the background of my site and you will notice the green background is not a matte colour, but a subtle texture. Right click on the background of my site and choose 'View Background Image' (Firefox) or 'Save Background As' (IE) and have a look at the image. You will notice that it is small (16 x 16 pixels), as you don't need much of the pattern to make it tile. Stripes and other geometric patterns can work well for a subtle effect.

Tip: Check out the free online Stripe Generator tool, it's a really easy way to create striped background tiles.

Background tiles can also be used for larger images such as a logo repeat. An example of this is www.mrdupes.com. To achieve this type of result using photoshop the 'offset' filter can be very useful.

GETTING THE URL OF A FILE YOU HAVE UPLOADED WITH WORDPRESS:

  1. Go to 'Posts => Add New'
  2. Click on the 'Add Media' button (a little star type icon next to 'Upload/Insert')
  3. Click on the 'Media Library' tab
  4. Click on the word 'Show' next to the file you want the url for
  5. Under 'Link URL' click on the button 'File URL'
  6. The file url should now be in the 'Link URL' text box so you can copy it.

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  • Comment by pressitfor.me
    Date: February 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 am

    WP Background Tile Plugin | Sam Burdge…

    The WP Background Tile Plugin for WordPress applies a tiled background image to your blog. It is as simple as this:

    * Create a background image
    * Upload it
    * Apply it as the background via the WP Background Tile options page

    Get the plug…

  • Comment by baron
    Date: February 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    hi. Thanks for plugin

    perfect.

    Regards

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    Date: February 4th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

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  • Comment by Satranç
    Date: February 4th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    Hi,
    This is a nice idea. Thanks for plugin.
    But I want to ask a question.
    Why did you create a table? Can we save tha background image as an option?
    Thanks.

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    Date: February 11th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

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  • Comment by beauty blog
    Date: February 19th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    can you make a plugin like this to show post in a magazine like layout.

    http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/08/04/two-column-horizontal-sequence-wordpress-post-order/

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 19th, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Hi beauty blog,

    I have a plugin which does exactly that! Here’s the link:

    http://www.samburdge.co.uk/wordpress/wp-post-columns-plugin-2

  • Comment by dogday
    Date: March 4th, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    I have this nice plugin running in my blog, but it isnt XHTML compliant, I think because of the ‘&’ signs used to pass varibles.

    Could you replace ‘&’ signs with ‘&’ to correct this?.

    I have tried, but my knoledge about php isnt enought to find where is called the function.

    Thanks in advance.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Hi dogday
    The plugin doesn’t use any & symbol, this error must be coming from your theme! Also, if your theme already uses a background image then the plugin may not work.
    Sam

  • Comment by technofunk
    Date: March 12th, 2009 at 12:33 am

    great plugin.

    one question; what if i dont want this tiled? just a single image. non repeating.

  • Comment by Charles
    Date: September 21st, 2009 at 12:15 am

    Hi,

    I tried it on my site (see comment header) and it tiled only the upper half of the page. I have WP 2.7.1. on that particular site.

    Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

    Thanks,
    Charles

  • Comment by KiraSherrine
    Date: October 23rd, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    Hi,

    what part would you input the tile file?

    Also my nav tags (about, contact, …)
    and Sidebar Tags (category, archives)
    are all jpegs … I am looking for ways to input it into the php but cannot find any help on that…any help?

    Kira

  • Comment by bpositive
    Date: November 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    Hi. Great Plugin :-)

    How do i get it to center a larger picture?

    Thanks

  • Comment by Jack
    Date: March 18th, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    Great plugin! I’m using it on two sites and it works like a champ! But on ONE of the sites, the background won’t display in IE8, while it works just fine on the other. Any ideas?
    (www.pdrjunction.com and http://www.hailreporter.com)

  • Comment by monk
    Date: May 4th, 2010 at 7:51 am

    hello

    nice plug in. i use over there ( http://www.monk.gr) and its work great.

    thanks

  • Comment by Carrie Burns
    Date: June 7th, 2010 at 4:19 pm

    Great plugin, but appears that Firefix/Netscape doesn’t like the background as a body style tag, while it works fine in Safari, hoping we can get it to work though.

  • Comment by echav
    Date: August 19th, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    Do you have an option for content background and not body background?
    Thanks

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WP Post Columns Plugin 2

Date: 20th January 2009 at 1:09 am | Filed under: development, plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , ,

The WP Post Columns Plugin for WordPress allows you to easily create columns within your wordpress posts and pages. It is ideal for sites with a magazine / newspaper style layout, or if you want text to appear on one side of the post with an image displayed opposite. It is much easier than creating html tables within posts and perfect for users with no coding experience. This plugin is a perfect solution for those using WordPress as a CMS.

As you can see from this example it is also possible to have text, before or after the columns, which spans the full width of the post.

Installation:

  1. Download the plugin file from the link at the bottom of this page and unzip.
  2. Upload the wp_post_columns.php file to your wp-content/plugins folder.
  3. Activate the plugin from the Plugins page in WordPress.

New Features:

  • Have as many columns as you wish
  • Column width and right padding can be set for each individual column

More examples:

Please visit the WP Post Columns 2.0 examples page for more examples of the column based layouts that can be achieved.

Usage:

When writing a wordpress post simply use the following shortcodes to create your columns:

shortcodes2

For example shortcodes you can copy and paste directly into a wordpress post please check the first comment on this post.

Additional Info:

The current version of the plugin is 2.0, it used to only support two columns, but now you can have as many as you like! The idea of adding the code for extra columns was inspired by RickHap who sent me his modified version of the plugin.

The only restriction is that the total width of all columns together does not exceed the width of your WordPress post.

If you have upgraded from an earlier version of the plugin be sure to read the 'Usage' notes again, as the way the columns are implemented has changed in order to incorporate the new features. The latest version no longer supports the original method. If you have been using the plugin since it's first release, or it is working fine for you there is probably no need for you to upgrade. Instructions for the earlier version of the plugin can be found here: WP Post Columns 1.2

The width and padding of each column can be set in any unit of measurement supported by CSS. Absolute units of measurement include: px, mm and relative units include: %, em. 'Padding' refers to the right padding of the column (i.e. the space between its right margin and the left margin of the next column). For this reason it is recommended that you don't apply padding to your final column (set its padding to 0).

The example shortcodes above had to be embedded into this post as an image, else they would be interpreted as column formatting by the plugin. For example shortcodes that you can copy and paste into your wordpress post please refer to the first comment on this post.

Don't forget to close each column before opening a new one. And don't forget use the 'end_columns' shortcode after your last column, or you might get some funky results!

Updates:

24/4/2008 - Minor update to version 1.1 - Added extra preg_replace code to remove implicit <p> tags inserted by wordpress

27/4/2008 - Minor update to version 1.2 - Added priority of 13 to add_filter to make compatible with 2.5.1 - preg_replace is called after shortcodes have been processed (priority 11)

19/1/2009 - Major update to version 2.0 - Added shortcodes support so that the column widths can be configured within each post. Added the potential to allow as many columns as required, so long as the overall width does not exceed the width of the available space.

9/2/2009 - Minor update to version 2.1 -added do_shortcode() function to allow nesting of other shortcodes within the columns

20/4/2009 - Minor update to version 2.2 - removed original 'curly bracket' shortcode functions from the plugin as a bug fix.

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  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 1:20 am

    More shortcode examples:

    2 column layout:

    [column width="47%" padding="6%"]
    Column 1 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="47%" padding="0"]
    Column 2 content goes here.
    [/column][end_columns]
  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 1:28 am

    3 column layout:

    [column width="30%" padding="5%"]
    Column 1 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="30%" padding="5%"]
    Column 2 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="30%" padding="0"]
    Column 3 content goes here.
    [/column][end_columns]
  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 1:28 am

    4 column layout:

    [column width="22%" padding="4%"]
    Column 1 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="22%" padding="4%"]
    Column 2 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="22%" padding="4%"]
    Column 3 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="22%" padding="0"]
    Column 4 content goes here.
    [/column][end_columns]
  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 1:29 am

    Copy and paste any of the above examples into a WordPress post or page, edit the text and hit preview!

  • Comment by pressitfor.me
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 2:17 am

    WP Post Columns Plugin version 2.0 - Sam Burdge…

    The WP Post Columns Plugin for WordPress allows you to easily create columns within your wordpress posts and pages. It is ideal for sites with a magazine / newspaper style layout, or if you want text to appear on one side of the post with an image disp…

  • Comment by RickHap
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    Great work on this plug-in! Beer is on me!

  • Comment by ovidiu
    Date: January 22nd, 2009 at 7:43 am

    great. using it on my site now, example here: http://pacura.ru/blog/site-server-optimization/

  • Comment by ovidiu
    Date: January 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 am

    unfortunately this plugin causes invalid xhtml because the column shortcodes can break tags apart that wordpress inserts into the_content :-(

    in other words, it breaks paragraphs :-(

    any solutions to this?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 22nd, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Hi Ovidiu,
    This is an example of how wordpress (particularly if using tinyMCE advanced) inserts extra html such as ‘p’ tags into the post. many people are complaining about this at the moment: http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=437

    Try bunching your column shortcodes up, without any line breaks, like so:

    [column width="47%" padding="6%"]Column 1 content goes here.[/column][column width="47%" padding="0"]Column 2 content goes here.[/column][end_columns]

    Sam

  • Comment by ovidiu
    Date: January 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 am

    thx, but its the other way around: actually I needed to do it like this:

    [column width="47%" padding="6%"]Column 1 content goes here.
    [/column][column width="47%" padding="0"]Column 2 content goes here.
    [/column][end_columns]

    to give tinymce space to insert its - aka p closure tag

  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 23rd, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Hi
    How can I use your plugin for a page like my homepage? Your fabulous plugin works very wel in my pages (articles,etc) but not on my homepage… :-(
    Tx for your help
    Pierre

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  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    Hi Pierre
    Maybe to do with your homepage template? can you send me a link please so i can have a look…
    Sam

  • Comment by Michelle
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 12:13 am

    I am having trouble with the plugin. (Possibly the same as Pierre?)

    1) I have a homepage that uses the_excerpt. The plugin appears to be overriding this and printing out the full article. (It doesn’t affect the list of headings which uses neither the_excerpt or the_content)
    2) It is also repeating posts on single pages (I haven’t added column shortcode to any posts yet). In the repeat it prints out the shortcode for captions etc. But it does not do this in the original i.e article one (caption) article repeat (caption shortcode)

    I’ve currently deactivated the plugin on the website. So, I can’t show you an example.

    Hopefully you can shed some light on this?

    Thanks.

  • Comment by albo
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 4:47 am

    Hi
    im testing this plug in but it doesnt work.
    i substitute the content where it says “content goes here ” but nothing happes it just looks like a normal post.it doesnt separate columns

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  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 8:41 am

    Thank you for your answer. Here is the link. The problem is that we use Qtranslate to translate our Website. But Q Translate can’t translate the Widget in this version of Wordpress. So the idea to preserve the three columns on the homepage is the creation of a template in the template with the three columns. We have 2 options :
    1) Create three columns in the template of the homepage and call for a content automatically
    2) Create a page with 3 columns and integrate it dynamycally in the homepage.
    In the 2 cases, I’m not skilled in PHP to integrate it dynamycally but if you can help me, it’s very kind of you.
    Best Regards
    Pierre

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    Hi Michelle
    As far as I can tell, shortcodes aren’t supported in the_excerpt. See this wp support topic:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/205246
    there is a suggested solution:
    add_filter(’the_excerpt’, ‘do_shortcode’);
    which i will put to the test, and see if there is a way to integrate this into the plugin.
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    Hi Pierre,
    Unfortunately I haven’t used Qtranslate, but I will get it and install it, and see why my plugin is not compatible with it.
    In WordPress under ‘Settings -> Reading’ you can set a static page as your homepage, this may solve your problem?
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    Hi albo
    The problem may be that your theme uses ‘the_excerpt’ on the home page. Have you tried the columns out on another page?
    Sam

  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    Hi Sam,
    How can I replace the 3 widget “bottom left -middle and -right by your colums. I need translate the texts… Tx
    Pierre

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  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 25th, 2009 at 9:20 am

    To complete this : Qtranslate seems to be incompatible with the Widgets of my theme. So I need a solution to give the same aspect with 3 columns and a translation… So the problem is’t an incompatibility between my theme, QTranslate and your plug-in but wel a problem to integrate your plug-in in my home page.
    Regards
    Pierre

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 25th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    Hi Pierre
    I’m guessing your homepage uses the_excerpt code (See Michelle’s comment). I am working on a solution to this at the moment…
    Sam

  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 25th, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    Hi Sam,
    We ‘ve not used the_exerpt code. The code under “Plus d’infos” is hardcoded on HTML…

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 26th, 2009 at 11:28 am

    Hi Pierre
    The plugin is for formatting WordPress posts and pages, it can’t be used to format hardcoded html.

  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    Hi Sam,
    I understand but my question is very simple: how can I put your plug in on my home page?
    Tx
    Regards
    Pierre

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  • Comment by Lan Lan
    Date: February 9th, 2009 at 2:40 am

    Hello Sam. Thanks so much for this useful plugin (I’ve been looking everywhere)!

    I was wondering if you could offer some tips as to how to set a default width and padding in the plugin for the different column configurations (2col, 3col, 4col) so that these won’t need to be typed each time? I am making a blog for someone else so I’m hoping to keep the shortcode as simple as possible (version 1.2 was actually really nice for that reason though I found your site too late and can’t reference the code there). Thank you so much for your help!

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  • Comment by ken
    Date: February 9th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    I am having trouble with nesting other shortcode within this plugins shortcode? Is there a reason for this?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 9th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    Hi Ken,

    Well spotted! I found this info from WordPress:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

    The shortcode parser correctly deals with nested shortcode macros, provided their handler functions support it by recursively calling do_shortcode():

    [tag-a]
    [tab-b]
    [tag-c]
    [/tag-b]
    [/tag-a]

    However the parser will fail if a shortcode macro is used to enclose another macro of the same name:

    [tag-a]
    [tag-a]
    [/tag-a]
    [/tag-a]

    I have made a minor change to the code and updated to version 2.1 (you can download it from the link above, or do an auto update via your plugins page in WordPress)

    Sam

  • Comment by Cat
    Date: February 11th, 2009 at 1:43 am

    how to avoid the short codes from showing up in the feeds?

    thanks in advance

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 11th, 2009 at 2:13 am

    Hi Cat
    The shortcodes don’t seem to be showing up in my feeds…
    http://www.samburdge.co.uk/category/plugins/feed

    What version of WP are you using? Do you use feedburner?

    Sam

  • Comment by Alain Delmont
    Date: February 14th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    Hi,

    I have been looking a long time for a plug in like this. I have problem when i use the plug in on pages, the text of the page shows up on top of the page You can see what i meen here : http://wp8.facilitech.fr/?page_id=7

    Hope it can work with this website.
    If you hae an idea of what the proble is that would be great

    Thanks in advance

    Alain

  • Comment by Cindy
    Date: February 14th, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    Hiya,

    I installed the plugin and it works great on the pages. However it breaks the rest of my blog by putting two columns and duplicating the content off the side of the page.

    It is this way for internet explorer and firefox.

    You can click my name to view my blog, but I deactivated the plugin because it made the blog unreadable.

    I really like the plugin and hopefully there is an easy solution!

  • Comment by Cindy
    Date: February 14th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    Btw, the problem is in the right side column under where it says, “recent posts”. Instead of following the rules and posting just a thumbnail, title and exceprt, it reposts the entire post in the column including all of the full size photos from the post.

    I hope you will have a solution.

    Thank you!

  • Comment by Cindy
    Date: February 14th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    Oh my gosh!!! I’m so sorry to spam. I do not mean to but I removed this line from the plugin code and now everything works ok. Please tell me if this will cause any problems. Again, my apologies.

    add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wp_post_columns’,13);

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 15th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Hi Alain
    I just looked at your page, the problem seems to be with your meta description tag. In your meta description I can see the code:
    <meta name=”description” content=”<p id=”top” />

    I suggest you edit the page in wordpress, go to the html view and remove the code: <p id=”top” />

    This should solve it. I don’t think it is the plugin which is causing the problem.

    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 15th, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    Hi Cindy

    I think this problem is due to an incompatibility with your theme. Specifically with the way recent posts are displayed in the sidebar.

    Removing the line:
    add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wp_post_columns’,13);
    from the plugin code should actually work for you. It won’t affect the plugin’s performance either.

    Sam

  • Comment by Alain Delmont
    Date: February 18th, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Hi Sam,

    What code can you see ? What should i take off. Sorry i am not at ease with cooding.

    Alain

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 18th, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    Hi Alain,
    Sorry I didn’t notice that the code didn’t show up in my previous comment. I have updated it.

    In your meta description I can see the code:
    <meta name=”description” content=”<p id=”top” />

    I suggest you edit the page in wordpress, go to the html view and remove the code: <p id=”top” />

    If you are using an SEO plugin it might be causing it.

    Sam

  • Comment by Joan
    Date: February 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Hi and thank you for this plugin. I am using it on a school site to publish staff photos in columns. It seems the second column is lower than the first but I don’t see the cause for it in the html code or css - any ideas how to fix it?

  • Comment by CatCat
    Date: February 20th, 2009 at 9:49 am

    hi I’ve try out your great plugin, it’s what I’m looking for ages.

    but the problem is breaks the “PHPlist 1.5″ plug in, I use that for people register to my Phplist.

    when your plug in is activate, the “PhPList” disapeared.

    any idea how to fix it?

    many thanks in advance.

  • Comment by Englinger
    Date: February 20th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    Great plugin but here’s my little problem by using your plugIn with the_excerpt: it doesn’t show an excerpt on the mainpage but the full article. You can see it on may site in the middle (right:-) column. The left column (”Wortberge”) uses the_content, shows another problem… Why? - Its a great little plugin and I think I only have to add a little code segment, but where and what??? Any idea? - No, I’m no programmer or php-specialist…

  • Comment by Joan
    Date: February 24th, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    Hi again, I solved my problem with columns not aligning correctly because of the p tags added by tinymce.
    I created a new template and added the code to remove p tags;
    Use this template for the pages using columns and they align correclty.
    Thanks again for this great plugin.

  • Comment by Stefan
    Date: February 25th, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    I’m using the K2 theme. I have the plugin activated and I copy paste the default code and the columns does not show up - what can possibly be wrong?
    Check out the page: http://stefanboman.se/hallbar/store/find-a-qrs-distributor/

  • Comment by mouli
    Date: February 26th, 2009 at 2:44 am

    Hi
    I was having the same problem as a few folk dealing with the extra break tags wordpress was adding between the columns causing the second column to be stepped down from the first.
    Open includes/formatting.php
    line 116
    change $br=1 to $br=0
    That worked for me :)

  • Comment by Euphoria
    Date: February 28th, 2009 at 10:57 am

    Hello, nice plugin. Is there any way you could make it working with Wordpress 2.7.x?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 28th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Hi Euphoria, It is working fine on 2.7

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 28th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Hi stefan
    Are you sure you have activated the plugin? perhaps your theme doesn’t support shortcodes, try it out by inserting the [gallery] shortcode using the Add Images tool in WP
    Sam

  • Comment by Dave
    Date: March 4th, 2009 at 8:11 am

    I took Cindy’s advise and removed the following line of code:
    add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wp_post_columns’,13);

    This fixed most of the problems.

    However, using two columns, the top line of the text in the right column is one line or so lower than the top line in the left column. No obvious line breaks, etc. Any ideas as to how to fix?

  • Comment by Reix
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 1:30 am

    well, this plugins works excellent.. but…
    i have this weird error with internet explorer..
    help me pleeease..
    i don’t know much about coding.. or english..

    http://chilepolitik.freehostia.com/blog/noticias-regionales/

  • Comment by dogday
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 9:28 am

    Hi! and thanks for your plugins. If I activate the columns plugin, it duplicates every post content.

    I mean: all the content and images of the post appears twice into the post content. Im using wordpress 2.7.1

    Any ideas?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    Hi Dave
    Are you using the tinyMCE plugin? It has been known to insert unwanted line-breaks in shortcodes…
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    Hi Reix
    Your page won’t load for me… what exactly is the problem?
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Hi dogday
    If you could send a link to a page where this error is occurring I will try to solve it for you.
    Sam

  • Comment by Reix
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    please try again.. i’m having some server issues..

    and the error happens only with internet explorer..

  • Comment by dogday
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Thanks a lot Sam!. Here is the link: http://www.dempalmada.com/wordpress/barra-libre-su-minuto-de-gloria/

    Anyway it occours every posts in my blog. Just activating the plugin all posts get its content duplicated.

  • Comment by dogday
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    Ok. It conficts with YARPP, a plugin to insert related posts after the post: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/
    or plugin home page: http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/

    I have deactivated yours, till finding a solution.

    If you want me to activate both to try to solve this just tell me.

    Thanks a lot anyway.

  • Comment by Ray
    Date: March 18th, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    Sam, thanks for the plugin, I’m trying to use it but I’m experiencing that when you have a lot of content on the post, when you click on “Publish” or edit the content and then click “Update Post”, everything disappears from inside the tinymce editor. The post is indeed updated and it appears on the site, but I can no longer access the post from editor. It’s just blank whenever I go to the edit page of that post.

    I’m not sure if it’s because it has too much content or not, but once I deactivate the plugin and then go back to the edit page, all the content is there again. meaning, it must be something with the plugin I believe. Have you experienced this? And would you have a fix?

    Please respond as soon as you can. I appreciate your help.

    Thank you

  • Comment by btreece
    Date: March 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    I’m using 2.7.1 and this plugin does not work at all for me. I can do everything that I need to do with it, however no columns actually show up regardless of how I try it.

    I’m figuring such a lack of effect must be theme related, which begs the question … how will you make this plugin work on all themes?

  • Comment by Eike
    Date: April 1st, 2009 at 11:17 am

    I like your plugin but it seems that it conflicts with Lightbox2 (http://www.stimuli.ca/lightbox/)
    When it is enabeled the pictures in my blog doesnt load anymore in a lightbox.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 2nd, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    Hi Eike
    You could try removing this line of code from the plugin file:
    add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wp_post_columns’,13);

    I haven’t had much time to work on plugins lately but an upgrade for wp post columns is in progress. Compatibility with other plugins is one of the main issues I am addressing in the upgrade.

    Sam

  • Comment by Eike
    Date: April 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 am

    Many thanks
    Seems to work
    Eike

  • Comment by ixley
    Date: April 10th, 2009 at 3:57 am

    nice plugin. Would be nice to have more custom control over class & id tags so we could control widths and padding via external style sheets rather than having to set them inline. The inline option is of course a nice option to have to override when necessary, but I prefer having the defaults set via stylesheet…

  • Comment by Ami @ Elizabeth Anne Designs
    Date: April 11th, 2009 at 4:01 am

    lovely plugin. having the same issue with YARPP. hopefully this can get worked out soon because i love both plugins. thanks for your hard work!

  • Comment by Pranav
    Date: April 14th, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Thanx a lot!needed this badly…am a newbee with php but am hardworkin, so if i could help you with any programmin pls lemme know.will do it for free…!

  • Comment by Scrib
    Date: April 15th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    Not sure but I think there is a problem in that your function wp_post_columns (which is called by add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wp_post_columns’,13)) echoes the content rather than returning it.

  • Comment by baron
    Date: April 20th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    Works great, thank you

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 20th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    The latest update to 2.2 should solve all your problems (well, problems related to the plugin anyway!). Unfortunately it no longer supports the very original column codes ({column} - from before the days of shortcodes), but for 99% of you that won’t apply.

  • Comment by Ami @ Elizabeth Anne Designs
    Date: April 29th, 2009 at 12:19 am

    works perfectly with YARPP now! thank you!!!

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  • Comment by Lance Laytner
    Date: May 14th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    When I add more than seven photos all my content disappears from display. It exists in the HTML, but does not show up on the actual post. This appears to be the same trouble that was described before the update to 2.2. If I disable wp post columns, the content returns so it definitely is something to do with the plugin. Any help you could give me would very much be appreciated.

  • Comment by Lance Laytner
    Date: May 14th, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    The above problem seems to only happen when the 2nd column starts immediately next to the first. If I have the 2nd column start a paragraph down, the error does not occur. Weird.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 14th, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    Hi Lance
    Do you have an example I can look at? send me a link in a comment, I won’t publish it ;)
    This sounds weird, are the widths of the columns set wide enough to accomodate the images? perhaps the combined widths of the columns exceed the overall post width as set in your theme? If you send me an example I may be able to solve it for you.

  • Comment by Jeni
    Date: May 15th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Hi, this plugin works for me using IE8 and Firefox 2.0. but it doesn’t work in IE7, the columns won’t show in the single post page. is it incombatible with IE7? what can I do?..thanks

  • Comment by Pardo Verduzco
    Date: May 17th, 2009 at 7:00 am

    Hi Samburdge, great solution, now im thinking how can i add to my proyect because im using custom fields and maybe need a version in php to separate my custom image in 1 column & the text content in the column 2…. this is posible??? Salute!

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 17th, 2009 at 11:41 am

    Hi Pardo
    You would have to code it into your theme if you are using custom fields. It shouldn’t be too hard to do.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 17th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    Hi Jeni
    Have you triedtesting different column widths / padding in IE7. If making the columns a bit narrower doesn’t work, send me an example page to look at and I will try to solve it for you.

  • Comment by joe
    Date: May 18th, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    Does anyone know if it is possible to but a border line between the columns and how I can do that if it is possible.

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    Date: May 26th, 2009 at 12:47 am

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  • Comment by ovidiu
    Date: May 26th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    somehow it stopped working. but I msut say I am just testing wp 2.8 beta 2, maybe that is the reason? have a look here, one can see the column tags, half of them are shown, but the text is still displayed right: http://pacura.ru/blog/site-server-optimization/

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 26th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    Hi Ovidiu
    That is weird as the columns are still working, but the shortcodes are also showing in the post… maybe the shortcodes API has changed for 2.8 ? You should report this to WP as it may be a bug with shortcodes in 2.8 beta

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 26th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    I have an installation of 2.8 that i will test it on too as it may be theme related?

  • Comment by ixley
    Date: May 29th, 2009 at 12:45 am

    Great plugin, but what’s with the hidden tag your code inserts?? After pulling my hair out thinking it was Wordpress/TinyMCE inserting the (unclosed) tag, I found it nestled in your PHP. Please take that out! Also, if it’s not too difficult, it would be great to have incremental counters to add unique classes or id tags to your columns!

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  • Comment by sri78
    Date: June 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    Problem with my bullets when making the 2 column post. The first column is numbered the second column is bullet. How can I fix this? Pls help.

  • Comment by Stian
    Date: June 4th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    Hi Sam,
    I seem to have some problems getting Post Columns to work together with xLanguage - a translation plugin that uses the code eg. blabla . Whenever I combine the two, Post Columns seems to override this code and the translation goes to h… any clues of how to resolve this?

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  • Comment by Jasper
    Date: June 7th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Tesing it on a local server now. It works (on a page), but somehow the right column starts a little below the left one. And of course that does not look nice..

  • Comment by greg
    Date: June 11th, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    It’s almost too easy! works a treat.

    thanks!

  • Comment by RickA
    Date: June 11th, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    I have used this plugin a lot but it doesn’t seem to working with WordPress 2.8

  • Comment by HELP!
    Date: June 12th, 2009 at 2:22 am

    Sam, please help! I just upgraded to 2.8 of WordPress and now the columns are no longer working! My whole site is ruined right now! If you go to my site and click on the “Rankings” tab, you will not see clean columns as before. Please look into this and patch it as quickly as possible, a million thanks!!!

  • Comment by riclos
    Date: June 12th, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Hi ,
    I ask you if is possible to modify plugin so I have 2 column and in automatic the post goes inside the two column , in my site the post are no longer than 3500 spaces so I need two column of 1750 spaces and justify text

  • Comment by dede
    Date: June 12th, 2009 at 11:33 am

    this plugins not working very good in wp 2.8. could u update the plugins? thx

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 12th, 2009 at 11:56 am

    Hi Guys
    With regards to the problems with WP 2.8, as far as I can tell this is a bug with 2.8’s handling of shortcodes, as documented here:

    http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10082

    As this is a bug with WP rather than the plugin it will most likely be solved with WP 2.8.1
    If I can come up with a solution in the meantime I will post it here.

    One possible solution is to try inserting a space between the two shortcodes.

    Sam

  • Comment by dede
    Date: June 12th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    thx for quick reply sam, and it works, to add a space between shortcode, thx again.

  • Comment by RickA
    Date: June 14th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    Shortcodes for other plugins such as Cforms and NextGen Gallary are working fine in WP 2.8.

    I hope you will find the problem and fix this. I have a number of broken pages and I have had to revert to a CSS column scheme.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 14th, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    Hi Rick

    The shortcodes bug is specifically this:

    [shortcode]hello world[/shortcode][shortcode]hello again[/shortcode] — doesn’t work

    [shortcode]hello world[/shortcode] [shortcode]hello again[/shortcode] — works

    notice the space between the two shortcodes in the second example.

    This is a new bug in version 2.8 which has already been reported to wordpress.
    Unfortunately there is not much I can do about it except to advise people to insert a space between their shortcodes as a quick fix for the problem.

    I’m sure that this bug will be squashed with the next release.

    This and other bugs have prevented me from updating my site to 2.8 so far.

    Sam

  • Comment by JGB
    Date: June 22nd, 2009 at 12:06 am

    Sam…

    This plugin works for me in WP 2.8, save for the second column being offset one line lower than the first. I am using only the HTML editor in WP, and have removed any line breaks between the shortcodes and text.

    The example page is here:

    http://westernhillsvetclinic.com/blogdev/

    and the code for the page (copied directly from the HTML editor) is here:

    http://pastebin.ca/1469319

    Any thoughts on a fix for this issue?

    Many thanks…

    JGB

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Hi JGB
    You were missing a forward slash in your second closing column tag: [/column] instead of [column]
    I updated your example on pastebin:
    http://pastebin.ca/1470409
    Let me know if that doesn’t solve it.
    Sam

  • Comment by Auriana Jensen
    Date: June 24th, 2009 at 4:24 am

    Hi Sam,
    Thanks for this great plugin.
    All looks good except the-

    [/column][column width="47%" padding="0
    at the beginning of he second column. I'm sue it's something simple just cant work out what.

    http://pastebin.ca/1472039

    Regards Auriana

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  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 26th, 2009 at 12:08 am

    Hi Auriana
    try adding a space like so: [/column] [column width=”47%”

    It is a new bug with wp 2.8

    Sam

  • Comment by Thomas
    Date: June 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pm

    hi sam,

    i get a fatal error on activation with wp 2.2 :(
    sadly, i trashed the earlier version of your plugin which worked just fine only to find out that you’ve now made it unavailable for download.

    in case you can’t fix this, i’d appreciate a dl link of the old version :)

    thomas

  • Comment by Jay
    Date: June 27th, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    how do you use this plugin on the index.php? Is it capable of working there since of course it is a static page?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 29th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    Hi Jay
    When you say index.php do you mean index.php of your theme? or the homepage of your site itself?

    Does the page contain wordpress content? if so you can use the post columns plugin as normal.

    If it is a static page with hard-coded content then you will need to edit the html and css of the page manually.

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  • Comment by jo
    Date: July 8th, 2009 at 8:46 am

    Great plugin!
    Thanks a lot!

  • Comment by Wardi
    Date: July 14th, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    Does anyone know if the plugin works with WP version 2.8.1? I’ve refrain from upgrading my wordpress because the plugin works so well in 2.7 (thanks for the great job!!!).

  • Comment by Sri
    Date: July 22nd, 2009 at 4:01 am

    Hi, the plugin works well however when I upgraded my WP the code [column width="47" padding="0"] is showing up in my published post? Any help please

  • Comment by serenine
    Date: July 22nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    Thank you for a very helpful plugin! Donation on the way..

    works in 2.8.

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  • Comment by magic
    Date: July 23rd, 2009 at 8:19 am

    Is there a way you can use colors… like text color and backgroundcolors?

  • Comment by George
    Date: July 25th, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    When adding column example 2 heres what happens when viewing:

    Test Test
    Test Test
    the column to right and any other columns are shifted down by one line how can I make them all even?

  • Comment by James Dunn
    Date: August 3rd, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    Thanks Sam for a great plug-in. It got me out of a real jam with a recent site I was building and I’ll probably use this numerous times in the future. I do have one “situation” I’m trying to overcome - it’s not a problem with the plug-in - but rather a formatting problem that I can’t seem to overcome. I have some info that I’m trying to put part of it in two columns - http://www.drugtreatmentaddictionhelp.com/ - under types of cases we handle, the first line runs full width and the next two lines need to be in two columns - but I’d like them to come directly under the first line. It seems to be putting an extra “return” in the format even though I’ve taken all line breaks out. I’m assuming that it probably has something to do with the formatting for the tag. Can I create an extra tag (maybe something like or so that I can format without any extra spacing above or below the lines? Sorry if this is outside of something you can help with - I’m just searching for a little help here.

    Thanks again for a great and useful plug-in.

  • Comment by James Dunn
    Date: August 5th, 2009 at 3:59 am

    Hey George. I had the same problem the first time I used this. Then, I realized that I had a “return” AFTER the start of the column. I removed the “return” and the two columns lined up wonderfully. The notes about spaces versus no-spaces are very important for the formatting when using this plug-in. But, it works beautifully and I’ve been extremely pleased with the results - as have my customers.

  • Comment by Cal
    Date: August 7th, 2009 at 5:44 am

    Thanks for the great plugin!

    I have a slight issue that I can’t seem to fix myself. The column function works great for my blog on Mozilla Firefox but not for Internet Explorer 7. Here’s a link to my blog - http://www.cfssearch.net - Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

    Cal

  • Comment by Mike
    Date: August 10th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    I had problems with the tags in my code. I had my column shortcodes on the same line, however that no longer parsed properly when I upgraded to wordpess 8, after fixing that the extra space was there.

    I wrote a bit of CSS just to hide the spaces

    div.post_column_1 + br {
    display:none;
    }

  • Comment by Ken
    Date: August 11th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    Sam,
    Thanks for offering this useful plugin. I used the shortcodes in a very straightforward way to get three columns, but the result at http://staddendesign.com/?page_id=18 gives me two columns instead of three. WP seems to be inserting a tag where it doesn’t belong. Can you help? Here’s my WP editor code:
    Portfolio
    [column width="33%" padding="5%"]L O G O T Y P E S

    [/column]
    [column width="33%" padding="5%"]B R O C H U R E S

    [/column]
    [column width="33%" padding="0"]N E W S L E T T E R S
    This should be the third column.
    [/column]
    [end_columns]

    This line should be full-width across the bottom of the page.

  • Comment by Ken
    Date: August 11th, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    I wrote “WP seems to be inserting a ⟨p⟩ tag” above but the editor stripped it out.

  • Comment by Cojo
    Date: August 13th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    Excellent plugin. Is there a way to get a vertical line between the columns? That is a line which seperates the columns from eachother? Best regards

  • Comment by V.C
    Date: August 14th, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    I’ve done it for my blog. It now look as a CMS :)

  • Comment by sonia
    Date: August 16th, 2009 at 12:14 am

    on wp 2.8.4 is not working :-(
    Although is enabled, When I’m trying to insert it on a page a)it does years to publish & b) I get the following message:”Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/citynews/public_html/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 972″.
    Note that my wp, is on my server and not to wp.com
    thank you

  • Comment by JerryR
    Date: August 20th, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Hi all,

    This plug-in is great. Very easy to use. I am experiencing a small bug. At the top of the 2nd column there is an extra tag being inserted. It happens on any page where I use the plug-in. Here is just one example: http://tw2blog.fabianross.com/case-studies/

    Above the heading “San Diego Canyonlands” there is the extra tag causing this right column to be pushed lower than the left column.

    Any thoughts on how to correct this?

    Thanks,

    Jerry

  • Comment by Ateljé Digital
    Date: August 23rd, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    @Ken
    Hi, could it be because of the width settings?
    width: 33%+33%+33%=99%
    padding: 5%+5%=10%
    99%+10%=109%

    Could be your third column doesn’t fit and therefore not seen.

    And, after the WP-upgrade, be sure to put a space between the tags.
    [/column] [column width="30%" padding="0"]

    NOT
    [/column][column width="30%" padding="0"]

    I had some job going through my pages :-)

  • Comment by serenine
    Date: August 28th, 2009 at 2:01 am

    Hello,

    I’m having the same issue as @George above with three columns. Suggestion by @James Dunn helped but the third column shifted. Any ideas? Thank you.

    P.S. I tried the wpautop plugin but I didn’t want to loose the formatting where needed within the same page.

  • Comment by serenine
    Date: August 29th, 2009 at 12:21 am

    Btw, I am using WP 2.8.4 + WP PC 2.0. Thank you.

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  • Comment by Kenny
    Date: August 31st, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Hi i put one column with a picture and the other column with texts. It turns out that the column with the picture is higher than the column with text. For example, the text is not in the same height level with the picture. It’s like the picture is slightly higher than the texts column. Can anyone help me to fix this?

  • Comment by mischa
    Date: September 8th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Use the code together with “Article Templates” and you can easily build quick pages with several layouts. Thanks for the code and keep on developing.

  • Comment by Nick
    Date: September 12th, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    Sam,

    First off, great program. However I have an issue on the second column its slight lower then the first column. Anyway to fix this issue? Seems like its a known issue from reading the comments, but I didnt know if their was a fix for it yet.

    Thanks

    Nick

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  • Comment by Thomas
    Date: September 18th, 2009 at 6:14 am

    Hi Sam,

    wonderful plugin. Thank you. I’d like to have only one thing a vertical divider between the cols. Any idea how to achieve it?

    Thanks
    Thomas

  • Comment by JP
    Date: September 25th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Hi Nick,

    I had the same problem, you have to be sure that you have a space between the tags.
    [/column] [column width="30" padding="0"]

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  • Comment by Virginie
    Date: October 17th, 2009 at 4:00 am

    Hi Sam,

    Love the plugin… My only prob? In WP 2.8.4 the shortcode tag is published with the post– why? It’s driving me nuts! Other than that, best plugin of its kind.

  • Comment by Bentforkz
    Date: October 22nd, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    I’m having an issue with this plugin validating.

    First question: Does this plugin validate?

    Second question: Why is there an open tag on line 59 of the “wp-post-columns.php” file?

  • Comment by Sandy
    Date: October 24th, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    I’ve been using this plugin on a client site and it has been working wonderfully. I just noticed this morning that site using it no nlonger has columns. I just recently upgraded my WordPress. Is this working with the latest version? Are there any plug-ins that may create problems? (although I haven’t added any new ones lately) Thanks

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  • Comment by Jeff
    Date: November 25th, 2009 at 5:13 am

    Great Plugin!

    I have worked through all of the little issues that come with how certain Themes are created. However I cannot figure out why when I insert 2 columns into a page, a large amount of blank space is added to the end of the content.

    http://ourstorkgotlost.com/about-2/nicufamilies/

    After the end of the content I have placed into both columns there is nothing showing in Visual or HTML editors.

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  • Comment by Jeff
    Date: November 30th, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    Found that after creating a page with 2 columns if i ended with:
    [/column] [end_columns] or
    [/column]
    [end columns]
    i was left with tons of blank space below the columns. If I end with:
    [/column][end_columns]
    i do not see the blank space, but I see the [end_columns] and the bottom of the 2nd column. I am able to add text below (outside) of the columns just fine, but still see the ending tag.

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    Date: December 2nd, 2009 at 8:45 pm

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  • Comment by Gozi
    Date: December 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    I seem to have a similar issue as Virginie’s. As of WP 2.8.4 the plug-in seems no longer to work and displays the shortcode txt instead. Is it theme-centric or a general issue?

  • Comment by Steevie
    Date: December 9th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    Anyone know why the columns are always misaligned at the top?

  • Comment by Julie
    Date: December 13th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    This is PERFECT! I have been trying to figure out how to put my resume neatly on my website. I had settled for saving it as a PDF, converting it to a jpg and putting it up as a picture.

    This is exactly what I needed! I already tested it and it works perfectly. I will be updating my resume shortly - thanks to you!

  • Comment by Echio
    Date: December 13th, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    Is it possible to have my post title in category in columns?? Because if it can then my webpage won’t stretch that much cause of all the post title in my categorys…

  • Comment by bedlam
    Date: December 14th, 2009 at 2:58 am

    for those having issues with the trailing [end_columns] tag…

    all you need to do is put a space between [/column] [end_columns]

  • Comment by alex
    Date: December 15th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    I encounter the same problem as Steevie (2 post above me)

    I think it has something to do with the latest Wordpress. I hav eused this plugin before on an older version. Up until today its fine. Now however on the curren Site iam working on the columns always misalign at the top. Please help!

    …by the way, other than that its a great plugin!!!!!!! thanx!

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  • Comment by greg
    Date: January 6th, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    I am attempting to get 2 columns on the front page of my site using rocketthemes refraction. I don’t want individual posts to have 2 columns I want all the posts to flow across two columns. I have spent days w/ a few different tutorials, http://www.cre8d-design.com/2008/03/how-to-organize-posts-into-two-side-by-side-columns-in-wordpress/ , http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=1288 , and http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/08/04/two-column-horizontal-sequence-wordpress-post-order/ and none of them seem to work w/ my theme. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

  • Comment by LHT
    Date: January 9th, 2010 at 12:47 am

    Just installed the plugin and I can’t get it to work. I’m using WP 2.9. I copied and pasted the code in the plugins readme file and added some text where indicated and the text just shows up vertically with a large space between what is supposed to be col 1 and col 2 text, not side by side.

  • Comment by J
    Date: January 14th, 2010 at 10:32 pm

    Tring on WP2.9 seems to work great in FF, Chrome and IE6 but no in IE8. Any suggestion would be appreciated!

  • Comment by KP
    Date: January 21st, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    Just installed this plugin myself on WP 2.9.1 - what would it take to make this “wp-touch iPhone theme” friendly? ie: is there a way to adjust this so not all three or four of the columns I want displayed cram together on ultra small displays? (for example, the option to set a minimum width for each column when using percents? or a min/max column values?

    anyways keep up the great work! :D

  • Comment by karen
    Date: February 1st, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    what a great plugin. I can’t wait to r=try it. I hope you’ll know that i mean the following in a truly respectful way. white type on black is a bear for many, myself included. it actually triggers migranes. but the tiny white type adds an extra level of cruelty. ;-) II hope you’ll think of changing it. I am hoping i can successfully paste your text into a word doc & turn it to black text on whaite. oIf not I may never be able to read instructions or comments. And this si such a GREAT plugin! I can’t wait to give it a whirl.

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  • Comment by Natalia
    Date: February 13th, 2010 at 8:26 am

    I´m so glad I found your plugin! I am working on a bilingual website and it is the perfect solution for displaying copy in different languages side by side. (here is an example: http://discoveringparaguay.com/home/about/)

    I´m wondering if there is a way to modify the code so I can place an image in between the columns and have both sides of copy wrap around the image. I don´t know much about coding, maybe there is an easy solution or maybe it is impossible. I figured I´d ask!
    Thanks for the awesome plugin!

  • Comment by Kevin
    Date: February 13th, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    great plugin! Do you know if there would be a way to outline the columns to provide even more separation? Or perhaps outline and include different background colors for each column? I know html can do this, but you’s saved me so much work I thought I’d ask :)

  • Comment by ian
    Date: February 24th, 2010 at 11:42 pm

    I’m trying to place an image to cover two columns at http://debrucellc.com/ (with the image over interim management) but I can’t seem to get it to work, any advice appreciated

  • Comment by Mark
    Date: February 26th, 2010 at 6:25 am

    Thanks for the great plugin! A little reading through the comments and I was able to resolve issues I ran into. Feature request, if you take them, add parameters to the [column ..] which allow us to add borders, set width|height of border, title of column, gradient color start|end for title. Thanks again for a great plugin!

  • Comment by durian
    Date: March 16th, 2010 at 7:42 pm

    not working for me

  • Comment by Karaengmonga
    Date: March 19th, 2010 at 7:29 am

    Thanks for creating the plugin,

    I have installed the plugin and work well in Firefox and Opera, but not in IE8. How I can fix the problem? Click my name to see my blog

    Thank

  • Comment by wim
    Date: March 19th, 2010 at 9:21 pm

    http://www.123webdesign.be/portfolio

    this works on IE but not on mozilla…

    Any help please ?

  • Comment by tierralatina.pl
    Date: March 23rd, 2010 at 7:04 am

    Me too, I have an issue with columns being always misaligned at the top. :(
    Any hints?

  • Comment by Johnathan
    Date: April 2nd, 2010 at 5:15 am

    I am having a little trouble with an interesting problem. I am using Page Tabs and Tabs Slides to decrease my page size and categorize a bunch of articles.

    See here for example: Http://www.vyralmusic.com/vyral-university/

    I am wondering if there is a way to have multiple redundancies of columns on a single post/page. I am trying to have Each tab have a 2 column layout like the “publishing” tab on my page. Is there a way to add this for each tab.?

  • Comment by Mark
    Date: April 8th, 2010 at 8:09 pm

    I am trying to break the static home page into 3 columns to place a grid of photos 3X3 with text below each photo. It all works except the top of the columns don’t line up, they are each about a double space lower than the previous one. They look great! if I could just get them to line up…
    Thanks. The problem can be seen on http://royaltreeworks.com/?page_id=131&preview=true. It is only published as private now so I don’t know if you can see it.

  • Comment by Mark
    Date: April 8th, 2010 at 10:32 pm

    Hi! I got it to work! and line up properly! I just had to move the [/column]up a line at the end of each column. Yippee! Thanks for the great plug-in. Will send beer.

  • Comment by matos-marta.com – test post
    Date: April 10th, 2010 at 8:04 pm

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  • Comment by mateusz
    Date: April 19th, 2010 at 7:27 pm

    Hello, i have this problem, i want to have space between one paragraph and other, i tried &nbsp and and and &nbsp and nothing works, i want to have something like this

    first line
    (space)
    (space)
    (space)
    second line

    thanks

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    Date: April 26th, 2010 at 7:38 am

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  • Comment by paul
    Date: May 3rd, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    I am testing here: http://www.darciefox.co.uk/testbox/services/wellbeing/

    the columns always seem to step down? - i have inputted through HTML & visual (Mac and safari) any ideas why?

  • Comment by Freakenstein
    Date: May 9th, 2010 at 8:09 pm

    oops, posted my comment in the wrong (old) topic,

    but here again, your plugin still works with WP3.0b2
    awesome

  • Comment by ThomasL
    Date: May 22nd, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    Hi,

    Really nice plugin - saved me a lot of time!

    I have one problem though: With Internet Explorer 8 the last sentence seems to have an extra space that none of the other browsers show.

    My code is:

    [column width="48%" padding="3%"]
    Lorem ipsum…


    Lorem ipsum…
     [/column] [end_columns]

    Any help would be highly appreciated!

    Cheers,
    Thomas

  • Comment by kaye
    Date: May 24th, 2010 at 7:59 am

    how do you add a background image to individual columns? Thanks in advance.

  • Comment by Alvin
    Date: May 26th, 2010 at 2:22 pm

    Hi Freakenstein

    how did you mange to get the vetical or horizontal lines ween columns

  • Comment by Alvin
    Date: May 26th, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    how did you mange to get the vetical or horizontal lines between columns?

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  • Comment by dave
    Date: June 2nd, 2010 at 9:34 pm

    I am trying to use this plugin on this page:

    http://kim.thewebgents.co.uk/?cat=20

    I have typed my post with the following info:

    [column width="80%]
    [smooth=id:5;]
    .
    [/column]
    [column width="20%]
    .
    .
    .
    HELLO
    [/column] [end_columns]

    The right hand column seems to be lost once the gallery loads. Can anyone help?

  • Comment by Jake
    Date: June 8th, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    Hey Sam,
    I know it’s been awhile since you’ve updated this page, but I was wondering if you can try to help me a little bit. I implemented your code into my website on the following page:

    http://www.awarenessribbonpin.com/?page_id=17

    As you can see, the last column refuses to align properly with the first two… I know this has been asked before, but none of the responses yielded any valuable fixes. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me with this (if you ever read it, hahaha)
    -Jake

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    Date: June 10th, 2010 at 7:17 am

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  • Comment by oddjob2991
    Date: June 11th, 2010 at 7:48 pm

    i have used the 3 column layout in a post, it works fine in all browsers accept internet explorer 8. ie8 displays the third column underneath the second column. i cannot work out why or how to fix this. please can anyone help?

  • Comment by Sanjeev Aggarwal
    Date: June 15th, 2010 at 1:20 am

    I am trying to use the 2 columns page http://www.smb-gr.com/?page_id=1229

    But the colums are not lining-up and also lot of blank space at the botton of each colums.

    Any help will be appreciated.

    SA

  • Comment by Sanjeev Aggarwal
    Date: June 15th, 2010 at 1:30 am

    I got both of them resolved.

    Thanks
    SA

  • Comment by Dave
    Date: June 19th, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    “[column width="47%" padding="6%"]Column 1 content goes here.[/column][column width="47%" padding="0"]Column 2 content goes here.[/column][end_columns]

    Sam”

    Works like a treat - Thanks!

  • Comment by eimai
    Date: June 28th, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    Hi! Using the 4 column code you so generously provided, is there a way to add a border to each column? Thanks!

  • Comment by Will
    Date: June 29th, 2010 at 10:29 am

    it causes validation errors http://validator.w3.org, I’m using Wordpress 2.8.5

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    Date: July 4th, 2010 at 10:00 am

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  • Comment by Jay Collier
    Date: July 9th, 2010 at 6:06 pm

    Still seeing extra p tags with WP 3.0 and WP Post Columns 2.2.

    If there is a solution in the comments, I must have missed it.

    Any help is appreciated.

  • Comment by Dustin Vogel
    Date: July 22nd, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    ok… html filtering.. another try.

    to fix the error just remove the html p tag from the plugin code

  • Comment by justin
    Date: July 30th, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    One thing to note is this plugin seems to require (on my install v2.2 wp3.0.1) that each shortcode be on its own line. This seems to be recent behavior. If it’s not on its own line the code simply appears in the page/post.

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  • Comment by Doug
    Date: August 5th, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    This plugin is a lifesaver! It makes creating beautiful pages so much easier.

    I do have a question though. I am trying to add an image in the top right corner that uses 2-columns. I did it and it works perfectly in Firefox and Safari, but the 3rd column drops down in IE. Here is the page: http://aaadesigner.com/?page_id=69

    What I did was added the image above the text in the second column and added a 1 pixel wide (same height) transparent image above the text in the 3rd column and it worked… but just not in IE.

    Any Suggestions???

    Thanks!

  • Comment by Top
    Date: August 7th, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    A perfect plugin

  • Comment by Ray
    Date: August 11th, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    Why don’t you turn this plug-in over to a developer so it can be improved and maintained by someone who gives a damn. THAT just makes sense dude!

  • Comment by DLR
    Date: August 18th, 2010 at 6:49 am

    It hasn’t worked right in a while, at least through 2.9.2 Think this one is dead :(

  • Comment by Jay
    Date: August 23rd, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    I have used this before with success but now in 3.0 it drops the second column down a line so the lines are out of sync, example her on my bata site. http://drclown.ubeop.com/ I need a solution for this asap, it would be much appreciated.

  • Comment by G&G Mag
    Date: August 24th, 2010 at 4:04 pm

    I was wondering how you get a border between two columns.. or a line down the middle inbetween two columns?? Please help.

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  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: September 24th, 2010 at 1:42 am

    This plugin is no longer updated or supported by me. It still works in version 3.1 and I am confident that it will work in future versions too.

    The problem with the column dropping down a line is due to a change in the way the wordpress shortcode api works from around WP2.9 onwards

    The solution:
    [column width="48%" padding="4%"]content
    content
    content[/column] [column width="48%" padding="0"]Content
    content
    content[/column]
    [end_columns]

    Notice the space between the columns instead of a line break. If you add a line break wordpress will treat it as a new paragraph and push it down a line.

    @Ray
    “Why don’t you turn this plug-in over to a developer so it can be improved and maintained by someone who gives a damn. THAT just makes sense dude!”

    Offer something for free and this is the thanks you get, this is a big part of the reason why none of my free wordpress plugins are updated or supported any more.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: September 24th, 2010 at 1:46 am

    @Doug

    IE always handles widths slightly strangely when using pixels as a measurement

    In all other browsers three 100px columns would fit into a 300px space, but for some reason in IE you would have to make one of the columns 99px, so that the total width of all three columns is at least one pixel smaller than the space it has to fit into.

    Hope that makes sense ;)

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: September 24th, 2010 at 1:50 am

    @DLR

    It’s not ‘Dead’ !!!

    You just have to change the way you insert the shortcode very slightly (as mentioned in my comment above).

    It’s beyond my control when wordpress changes the way it works, and there’s nothing i can change in the plugin code to account for this.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: September 24th, 2010 at 1:53 am

    One last note:

    If you are using pixel measurements for your columns please note that if you change your blog’s theme the width of your posts may change which could mess up your column layouts.

    If this happens it doesn’t mean that “the plugin is broken” it just means that you will have to reset your column widths to fit your new theme.

  • Comment by Walter
    Date: September 28th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    Thanks for the last tip about the spacing thing. Ignore people that don’t appreciate your hard work and letting thousands of people create more professional looking websites using your plugin for free. I’m sure everyone else here appreciates your work very much.

  • Comment by Ug
    Date: September 29th, 2010 at 3:04 am

    I have to agree with Walter. Ignore the whiny basement dwellers. I, like Walter, appreciate your work.

    Just started using WP POST COLUMNS and it is working well.

  • Comment by Patrik E
    Date: September 30th, 2010 at 5:46 am

    Works like a charm in WP 3.0.1!:) Probably thnxz to wutop remove combination with this

  • Comment by ovidiu
    Date: October 9th, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    just wondering why the generated columns all have a class called: post_column_1 ? makes it hard for me to style them differently :-(

    can this be fixed maybe?

  • Comment by Danko M.
    Date: October 18th, 2010 at 6:06 pm

    Why this plugin doesnt work, not just your but every column plugin what I found today on the internet. Can you help me with your plugin?

  • Comment by Danko M.
    Date: October 18th, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    And I see in page [end_columns]!!!

  • Comment by Craig
    Date: October 19th, 2010 at 4:51 pm

    Thanks for this plugin I used it here http://www.craighartzel.com

    Top man,

    Craig

  • Comment by Leila
    Date: October 23rd, 2010 at 1:19 am

    Hi is there a way of adding a background colour to the columns please?

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  • Comment by curlsdiva
    Date: November 9th, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Thanks so much for this marvellous plug-in. So useful and easy to use. I’m using it on WP 3.0

    I’d really like to have a dotted border between columns. I tried this (below) but it messed up the columns.

    .post_column_1{
    border-right-style:dotted;
    border-width:3px;
    border-color:#cc0000
    }

    I’d be very grateful if you could point me in the right direction how to do this. Thanks again.

  • Comment by Mike Cornelison
    Date: November 11th, 2010 at 5:57 am

    Tried Magazine Columns and WP Columnize, both would not work for me. (Perhaps it’s an issue with my Artisteer generated theme?) Thank goodness for your plugin, which is working perfectly!

    Only thing is, the [end_columns] is coming up as if it were regular text (not shortcode) on the page. Any idea why that may be? I didn’t see any mention of needing a [begin_columns]. Could it be that or something else?

  • Comment by Mike Cornelison
    Date: November 11th, 2010 at 5:59 am

    The example showed

    [/column][end_columns]

    on the same line, I tried separating it:

    [/column]
    [end_columns]

    and that removed [end_columns] from being visible on the page.

  • Comment by Alicia
    Date: November 11th, 2010 at 7:52 am

    Thanks! I’ve stumbled in this problem for couples of weeks.

  • Comment by PP
    Date: November 11th, 2010 at 7:00 pm

    Hi! I was trying your plugin and everything is ok, but for some reason the text doesn’t show spaces between paragraphs breaks! Its all together! I tried code and didn’t work. Any help?

  • Comment by Zoe
    Date: November 12th, 2010 at 11:15 pm

    Hi there,

    I’ve used this great plugin before without any problems. On a new install, all the code shows up, in addition to my content. Can you help?

    Thanks!

  • Comment by cnr909
    Date: November 16th, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    My columns are not aligned flush to the top? Anyone any ideas? Here is a link to my site, the columns are on the homepage at “www dot flexhk dot com”

    ..it looks as tho its an issue with my headers at the top of the columns but Iv tried taking them out and they still dont align. Feel free to email me on “conor909 at gmail dot com”

  • Comment by Jens
    Date: November 24th, 2010 at 8:32 pm

    Thanks for the nice plug-in.

    The only problem I have is that if i use the columns plug-in twice on the same page, I still have the problem with dropping down the line in the second column set.

    Any ideas on this?

  • Comment by 12 must-have plugins for your WordPress blog | Crambole
    Date: December 10th, 2010 at 9:08 am

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  • Comment by Chris M
    Date: January 2nd, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Love the plugin and I’m currently building my blog…The prob I have is how to align to top..if you notice on my blog the columns are misaligned at the top.Example: column one sits higher than column two and two higher than three..how do i fix this?

  • Comment by Phil
    Date: January 8th, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    Hello,

    I’m hoping someone can help me with this one…

    I recently changed my Wordpress theme to Semiologic 0.9.6 and can’t seem to get the columns to appear properly. This is a three column theme with two sidebars appearing on the right side. I had everything right with my old 3 column theme that had sidebars on the left and right.

    This is what I have now…

    [column]
    [column width="48%" padding="2%"]
    Column 1 video here.
    [/column]
    [column width="48%" padding="2%"]
    Column 2 text here.
    [/column]
    [end_columns]

    In column 1 the video overlaps column 2 text. I tried changing the widths/paddings but nothing changes or corrects the misalignment. I don’t want to make the video any smaller than what it is now, so I’m hoping there is something else I can do.

    Search Google for “Insider’s Guide to Direct PCTV | InternetTvDotCom” and you will see what’s on going.

    Thanks… Any Help is Greatly Appreciated!
    Philip

  • Comment by Phil
    Date: January 10th, 2011 at 12:16 am

    Hey Sam,

    Phil here… Please ignore my previous post. I should have read each one of your posts, as a result you solved my issue.

    Thanks!

  • Comment by peterkinvara
    Date: February 2nd, 2011 at 1:10 am

    Thanks for this nifty little plug-in; it solved the problem of lots of empty space when making long lists. I found I had to play around with it to get rid of the dropped height of the second column, but adding space between the end of the first and start of the second shortcode did the trick, as well as leaving out [end column]

  • Comment by Nico
    Date: February 2nd, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    Hey,

    thanks for plugin but I got a problem. I testet this plugin on 3 different pages but it doesnt work fine.

    If I use the normal code the column get a spaceline and the 3 Column get two spacelines.
    Anyone got the same problems?

    I do not know where the problem is.

    Thanks anyways,

    Best regards Nico

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  • Comment by Ingrid
    Date: February 18th, 2011 at 8:43 am

    I love this plug-in, and thank you for making it freely available. But I need help. I’m getting unexpected layout problems in IE8, on Windoz XP on this page: http://www.lenzlegal.com.au/glossary
    It works beautifully on any Mac, and on Virtual PC with Windoz 7, but … not on XP with IE8. The text in the first column doesn’t wrap into the column. Instead, it just appears on top of the other columns. Any thoughts on a solution? Would really appreciate help with this.
    Anyone?… thanks.
    Ingrid.

  • Comment by Dan
    Date: February 21st, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    I am trying to use the columns for my contact page and the first columns contents start at the top then the second is lower and when i tried a third it was even lower so they were cascading. Is there a simple solution to remedy this?
    here is my contact page (maybe i have figured it out by now?) http://tinyurl.com/4esjq63

  • Comment by Mae Cajun
    Date: February 25th, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    Hi, thanks for an excellent tool. It works even in Holland.

    Perhaps this bit of information may be of value to you. Please note that for the columnwidget to work properly in LiveWriter (and possibly other desktop editors) that the quotemarks as in width=”68%” and padding=”2%” have to be the quotemarks that are used in the code.

    If you use the keyboardquotes the tool may not work at all

  • Comment by Dan
    Date: March 10th, 2011 at 5:51 pm

    Is there any way to get rid of the space that is created above and below the columns?

  • Comment by gonkyouka
    Date: March 20th, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    this works with the latest version of wp but comment #3 code gives me this http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/gs83zxwv/Selection_053.png is there a way to align those as indicated in the red line?

  • Comment by Ray
    Date: March 20th, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    Thanks
    This is a fantastic plug in and works incredibly well with my theme.

    Appreciated

  • Comment by Mike
    Date: March 22nd, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    This un-updated plugin is the only working column plugin right now. Those that were updated 3 days ago (wpcolumn) and 20 days ago (easy column) were a huge waste of time.

  • Comment by Gary
    Date: March 29th, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    Does this plug-in use a cache? It works well but I am having problems since loading it, as one of my other plug-ins wont stop functioning even after it was removed. I have been told maybe yours has a cache that is effecting my page? Is this a possibility and if so how do i empty it?

    thanks,
    gary

  • Comment by John Dunne
    Date: April 13th, 2011 at 11:50 am

    Hi Sam, appreciate you are no longer supporting this plugin but thought I would chance my arm and ask a question. I have not yet found an alternate plugin the operates as well.

    What I am finding is the the get_excerpt is blank, so archive pages and plugins that call this function are empty.

    I have tried adding add_filter(’the_excerpt’, ‘do_shortcode’); into the functions.php but to no avail.

    Maybe this is a change to WP3.x that means your plugin will no longer work?

    Appreciate any support you may be able to offer.

    Cheers
    John

  • Comment by Benjamin
    Date: April 17th, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    How can I get columns to begin on the same line? The code I copied and pasted from the original WordPress plugin begins each column on the next line.

  • Comment by Joshua
    Date: April 23rd, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    Hi Sam
    Thank you very much for your time and effort.
    J

  • Comment by Chrisitan
    Date: May 3rd, 2011 at 6:56 pm

    Hi
    I have a problem with the plugin. When I make 3 columns each column starts a bit further down than the one left to it:
    http://www.weightlessemotions.com/contact
    It might have something to do with paragraphs but i tried everything, without luck. Does anybody have any ideas?

  • Comment by Eugeny
    Date: May 6th, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    Is there a way to apply the plugin for recent posts widget only?

  • Comment by Raymond
    Date: May 8th, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    Hey Sam. Was wondering if this plugin works with WordPress 3.1.2? This is the version I’m using. I’ll give it a try and will post back to let you know.

  • Comment by Raymond
    Date: May 8th, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    It works in WordPress 3.1.2! It’s rare for a WordPress plugin to still work properly when it hasn’t been updated for a current version of WordPress. Thanks for building this outstanding plugin. Wow…

  • Comment by Suthnautr
    Date: May 9th, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    FIX TO LOWER PARAGRAPHS WHEN USING H2 HEADINGS

    I had a problem right off with using H2 tags to head each column - the right column would drop down a line or so. The solution is nuts but it works.

    Not in the first column (where you would think it belongs) but in the SECOND column:

    [column width="45%" padding="0"]Customized Headline

    Yes! On the one that’s too far down tell it to add a paragraph break. No idea why it pulls the line UP instead of down but it works. I tried to push down the first paragraph and it jumped UP instead, so I figured it might work in the second and it did.

  • Comment by Mark H
    Date: June 12th, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    Awesome plugin! This was just what I needed!

    Thank You, Mark

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 17th, 2011 at 11:15 pm

    Great to see my little WP columns plugin has survived many WP updates and is still going strong. It’s simplicity is it’s strength I guess.

    Appologies for the lack of support guys, I’ve been busy! Most answers to most questions can be found in the huge trail of comments above though…

    Thanks very much to all the people who have taken the time to leave comments, suggestions and thankyou messages. I appreciate it very much :)

    Maybe a new version is due?? last update was in 2009…

  • Comment by Ovidiu
    Date: June 21st, 2011 at 9:32 am

    a new version would be great. there are a few little annoying bugs in this one… also see my above comment about adding classes for styling :-)

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 21st, 2011 at 9:55 am

    Hi Ovidiu,

    Yeah, new version is overdue for sure!!!

    Features I would add:
    Add your own css classes to columns
    Minimise inline css

    Improvements I would make:
    Improved documentation, to explain the exact formatting for the shortcodes.

    Most ‘bugs’ relate to wordpress’ handling of line-breaks and paragraphs within a post. The only workaround is to enter the shortcodes in a very specific way, like:

    [column width="47%" padding="6%"]Column 1 content goes here.[/column][column width="47%" padding="0"]Column 2 content goes here.[/column][end_columns]

    No line-breaks between the shortcodes, but must have a space between them.

    One of my main gripes with WP has always been that it tries to wrap everything in paragraph tags…

    Any other feature requests before I get started?

    Cheers,
    Sam

  • Comment by Ovidiu
    Date: June 21st, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    no other features that I can think of. just don’t bloat it too much. it dopes well what it does, and that is enough. if I’d wanted it all in one, I’d go with this plugin: jshortcodes.com but that one adds tons of stuff I’ll never use…

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Basic HTML Template (XHTML 1.0 Transitional)

Date: 18th January 2009 at 11:44 pm | Filed under: scripts | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: ,

When starting a fresh HTML site it is very useful to have a basic HTML template to use. This template should include:

  • Doctype declaration
  • Head and body tags
  • Title tags
  • Most commonly used meta tags
  • Include for a CSS style-sheet

Having an empty template document will save you time, and will ensure that you don't forget to include any of the most important features of the html page structure. This template should serve as a 'blank canvas' as it were, rather than starting with a completely blank document every time. Here is an example of my template for XHTML 1.0, which can also be downloaded from the link at the bottom of this article:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 
<head>
 
<title>HTML Template</title>
 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<style type="text/css">
@import url(style.css );
</style>
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
</body>
</html>

DOCTYPE:

The doctype declaration (DTD) is important as it tells the browser what type of HTML you are using, and therefore which conventions you will need to follow when coding the site's content. For more information on this check out this Recommended  list of DTDs to use in your Web document.

TITLE:

This is the title that appears at the top of the browser window, it is also the title that appears in the google listing for your page. It is good practice to have a different title for each page of your site. The title can be split into two parts:

  1. The name of your site
  2. A description of the page

resulting in something like:  UK Diving - The worlds largest internet resource for divers (Site name - Site description) or:  UK Diving - Contact Us (Site name - Page description).

STYLE-SHEET:

The stylesheet provides all the colour, layout and text-formatting styles for your html page, it is written in CSS (Cascading Style Sheet).  Please refer to this document on Cascading Style Sheets for more info about CSS. The style-sheet can actually be written entirely between the two style tags, but I prefer to include it as a separate document, as this can be easily included in every page of the site, and once it is stored in the users cache it will also save on page loading time. The style-sheet in my example template is called 'style.css'.

META TAGS:

I use three basic meta tags in my HTML template:

  1. Content type — This tells the browser which character set you are using. In my template I use UTF-8.
  2. Description — This is the description of your page that appears in search engine listings.
  3. Keywords — A list of key words and phrases that relate to your page,  seperated by commas. This is for search engine purposes too.

ABOUT WRITING XHTML 1.0:

Here are some of the rules of XHTML 1.0.

All nested tags must be closed in the reverse order in which they are opened:

<div><span>Hello</span></div> = Correct
<div><span>Hello</div></span> = Incorrect

All tags that don't have a closing tag must be treated as self-closing with a backslash:

<img src="test.jpg" /> = Correct
<img src="test.jpg"> = Incorrect
<br /> = Correct
<br> = Incorrect

All special characters must be encoded correctly:

& = incorrect
&amp; = correct

Please feel free to use my template as a basis for your HTML pages. You can also test your HTML markup for errors using the online W3 markup validator, or the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox.

DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE:


4 Responses to “Basic HTML Template (XHTML 1.0 Transitional)”

  • Comment by pressitfor.me
    Date: January 22nd, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    Basic HTML Template (XHTML 1.0 Transitional) | Sam Burdge…

    Having an empty template document will save you time, and will ensure that you don’t forget to include any of the most important features of the html page structure. This template should serve as a ‘blank canvas’ as it were, rather than starting wit…

  • Comment by whmcs templates
    Date: February 2nd, 2010 at 7:29 am

    Good post and nice design, is this a regular template?.

  • Comment by Amy
    Date: December 4th, 2010 at 5:05 am

    Thank You for the post. I am not real keen on black websites, however, this is very nice and professional looking. First one that I’ve seen with black background that I really like! Smooth and sophisticated, course you already know that!

  • Comment by Khulna Information
    Date: May 24th, 2011 at 4:49 am

    Excellent work… it is so much helpful to me..

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Style highlighted / selected text - CSS Tutorial

Date: 26th October 2008 at 12:56 pm | Filed under: scripts | Author: Sam Burdge

Ever wondered how to change the default style of highlighted or selected text in your html page? I have found that this is possible using CSS3, although IE has no support for this so it doesn't work at all in IE.

In this example the background is set to green and the text set to white. Drag over this text to highlight it.

Here's the CSS:

/* Safari */
::selection {
background: #000000;
color: #ffffff;
}
/* Firefox */
::-moz-selection {
background: #000000;
color: #ffffff;
}

::selection is supported by the latest versions of Opera and Firefox 2 and upwards. ::-moz-selection is supported by the latest versions of Safari.

1 Response to “Style highlighted / selected text - CSS Tutorial”

  • Comment by roy
    Date: July 2nd, 2009 at 11:13 am

    thank you very much looking for this for a while, had no idea what to look for to find it either, thanks!

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