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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.