Title: WP Auto Columns
Author: Andrey Ovcharov
Published: <strong>05 March 2012</strong>
Last modified: 02 August 2012

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# WP Auto Columns

 De [Andrey Ovcharov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/spectraweb/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-auto-columns.1.0.6.zip)

 * [Details](https://lij.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-columns/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://lij.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-columns/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://lij.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-columns/#installation)
 * [Development](https://lij.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-columns/#developers)

 [Supòrto](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-auto-columns/)

## Description

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

#### Features

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

#### Requirements

The plugin requires DOM API (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php) and Tidy(
http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.tidy.php)

#### Usage

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

    ```
    <div class="auto-columns-container columns-2">
    <div class="auto-columns-column column-1 first-column">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</div>
    <div class="auto-columns-column column-2 last-column">Nam tincidunt gravida dui, at bibendum nisl lacinia nec.</div>
    <div class="auto-columns-clear"></div>
    </div>
    ```

In your theme use `do_shortcode` function:

    ```
    <?php echo do_shortcode('[auto_columns]' . $content . '[/auto_columns]'); ?>
    ```

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

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Example of splitted text
 * [[
 * Example of shortcode markup

## Installation

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

## FAQ-e

No questions yet

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“WP Auto Columns” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Andrey Ovcharov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/spectraweb/)

[Translate “WP Auto Columns” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-auto-columns)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-columns/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-auto-columns/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-auto-columns/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-auto-columns/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.6

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

#### 1.0.5

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

#### 1.0.4

 * Added editor toolbar button

#### 1.0.3

 * Small fix in activation handler

#### 1.0.2

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

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixed `<ol>` behavior

#### 1.0.0

 * First public release

## Mêta

 *  Version **1.0.6**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.1.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.3.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-columns/)
 * Tags
 * [column](https://lij.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/column/)[columns](https://lij.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/columns/)
   [layout](https://lij.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/layout/)[magazine](https://lij.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/magazine/)
   [newspaper](https://lij.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/newspaper/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://lij.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-columns/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Andrey Ovcharov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/spectraweb/)

## Supòrto

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