Title: Mult columnar layout?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Mult columnar layout?

 *  Resolved [The Hack Repair Guy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tvcnet/)
 * (@tvcnet)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mult-columnar-layout/)
 * I would like to see an option whereby I can set a “responsive” multi-row and 
   columnar layouts without having to hand code a table respectively, like:
 * x x x
    x x x
 * or
 * x x
    x x x x
 * etc.
 * Thanks!
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 *  Plugin Author [Arunas Liuiza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ideag/)
 * (@ideag)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mult-columnar-layout/#post-6529524)
 * Hi and thanks for the suggestion!
 * We added it to our [list ](https://github.com/ideag/content-cards/issues/52)of
   potential future enhancements. That said, I am concerned that this would be a
   very theme specific feature – different themes approach such layouts in a different
   way and introducing yet another chunk of css just to accommodate our grid view
   would not make sense, if theme already has some grid system (Bootstrap, Zurb,
   Prue, etc.) in place. Maybe it would make more sense to users to define custom
   css classes for cards via shortcode/plugin settings and/or a filter. We’ll have
   to think carefully about this one.
 *  Plugin Author [Stanislav Khromov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khromov/)
 * (@khromov)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mult-columnar-layout/#post-6529552)
 * Hey there Jim,
 * Could you talk more about the use case for this? Something like a “related articles”-
   type display?
 * It would be pretty simple to write a shortcode that wraps multiple calls to the`[
   contentcards]` shortcode for a multi-column layout.
 * We have a pull request open for adding a custom class name to each content card
   via a filter as well:
    [https://github.com/ideag/content-cards/pull/56](https://github.com/ideag/content-cards/pull/56)
 *  Thread Starter [The Hack Repair Guy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tvcnet/)
 * (@tvcnet)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mult-columnar-layout/#post-6529553)
 * well, here is a demo:
    [http://pharm.tvsecure.net/what-we-do/](http://pharm.tvsecure.net/what-we-do/)
 * As you can see it’s just two cards one on top of the other, but that’s really
   too simplistic.
 * This would look really cool if the cards were about 1/2 the size, with two per
   row.
 * Of course responsive for mobile is key here.
 * (sure I could expend a bit of time doing the hand coding of the CSS myself, but
   it seems to me that you could implement a responsive multi column option just
   as easily–greatly increasing the coolness factor of this plugin).
 *  Thread Starter [The Hack Repair Guy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tvcnet/)
 * (@tvcnet)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mult-columnar-layout/#post-6529556)
 * A picture example, not using your plugin, at another popular website. This may
   help to show what I’m getting at…
 * [https://goo.gl/z4FQcF](https://goo.gl/z4FQcF)
 *  Plugin Author [Arunas Liuiza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ideag/)
 * (@ideag)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mult-columnar-layout/#post-6529632)
 * Hi Jim,
 * As I mentioned before, implementing a responsive grid inside plugin CSS would
   be quite redundant. If you are using a responsive theme, you already have a responsive
   grid implemented there, and adding another grid would just increase CSS bloat.
   One of our goals is to keep as light touch as possible, without adding any more
   css/javascript/etc than is strictly necessary.
 * As Stanislav mentioned above, we are adding a filter (and, probably a shortcode
   attribute, too) to allow people to add custom classes to Content Card containers.
   This will allow our users to leverage grid systems that are already in place 
   in their themes. For example, if you use Bootstrap based theme, using a shortcode
   like this `[contentcards url="http://example.com" class="col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-
   lg-3"]` will allow you to arrange content cards in a responsive grid fashion.
 * If your theme uses some other CSS framework, names of the classes would be different,
   but the general principle would still apply. I think this approach will allow
   our users to use Content Cards in grid view, while not increasing CSS bloat of
   our plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [The Hack Repair Guy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tvcnet/)
 * (@tvcnet)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mult-columnar-layout/#post-6529642)
 * Thanks!

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