WP Post Columns Plugin 2
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:
- Download the plugin file from the link at the bottom of this page and unzip.
- Upload the wp_post_columns.php file to your wp-content/plugins folder.
- 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:
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.
Download Plugin:
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]
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]
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]
Copy and paste any of the above examples into a WordPress post or page, edit the text and hit preview!
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…
Great work on this plug-in! Beer is on me!
great. using it on my site now, example here: http://pacura.ru/blog/site-server-optimization/
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?
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
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
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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Hi Pierre
Maybe to do with your homepage template? can you send me a link please so i can have a look…
Sam
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.
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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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
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
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
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
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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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
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
Hi Sam,
We ‘ve not used the_exerpt code. The code under “Plus d’infos” is hardcoded on HTML…
Hi Pierre
The plugin is for formatting WordPress posts and pages, it can’t be used to format hardcoded html.
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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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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I am having trouble with nesting other shortcode within this plugins shortcode? Is there a reason for this?
Hi Ken,
Well spotted! I found this info from WordPress:
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
how to avoid the short codes from showing up in the feeds?
thanks in advance
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
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
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!
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!
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);
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
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
Hi Sam,
What code can you see ? What should i take off. Sorry i am not at ease with cooding.
Alain
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
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?
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.
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…
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.
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/
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
Hello, nice plugin. Is there any way you could make it working with Wordpress 2.7.x?
Hi Euphoria, It is working fine on 2.7
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
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?
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/
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?
Hi Dave
Are you using the tinyMCE plugin? It has been known to insert unwanted line-breaks in shortcodes…
Sam
Hi Reix
Your page won’t load for me… what exactly is the problem?
Sam
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
please try again.. i’m having some server issues..
and the error happens only with internet explorer..
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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
Many thanks
Seems to work
Eike
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…
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!
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…!
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.
Works great, thank you
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.
works perfectly with YARPP now! thank you!!!
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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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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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Your WP Post Columns 2.0 plugin totally rocks! Love it!
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/
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
I have an installation of 2.8 that i will test it on too as it may be theme related?
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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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.
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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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..
It’s almost too easy! works a treat.
thanks!
I have used this plugin a lot but it doesn’t seem to working with WordPress 2.8
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!!!
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
this plugins not working very good in wp 2.8. could u update the plugins? thx
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
thx for quick reply sam, and it works, to add a space between shortcode, thx again.
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.
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
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
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
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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Hi Auriana
try adding a space like so: [/column] [column width=”47%”
It is a new bug with wp 2.8
Sam
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
how do you use this plugin on the index.php? Is it capable of working there since of course it is a static page?
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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Great plugin!
Thanks a lot!
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!!!).
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
Thank you for a very helpful plugin! Donation on the way..
works in 2.8.
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Is there a way you can use colors… like text color and backgroundcolors?
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?
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.
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.
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
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;
}
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.
I wrote “WP seems to be inserting a ⟨p⟩ tag” above but the editor stripped it out.
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
I’ve done it for my blog. It now look as a CMS
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
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
@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
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.
Btw, I am using WP 2.8.4 + WP PC 2.0. Thank you.
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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?
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.
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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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
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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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.
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?
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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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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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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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?
Anyone know why the columns are always misaligned at the top?
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!
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…
for those having issues with the trailing [end_columns] tag…
all you need to do is put a space between [/column] [end_columns]
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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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?
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.