Grid Columns

I use this plugin for my site. It has a good basic functionality that works for items like restaurant menus. My only beefs with this plugin are that there is no free support for the plugin, and the author doesn’t seem to respond to any queries on here. The plugin is not responsive, either, but thanks to a helpful plugin user who provided some code, this has been resolved. It would have been helpful for the plugin author to have included this, though. Finally, the author makes it a bit of a process to find the instructions for using the plugin. You have to log into your cPanel and dig through the files to get to the readme which showcases the instructions.

I still use this plugin with success. It just won’t get any easier than this.

This plugin is how things should be done, a great lightweight way to drop a versatile grid into any theme and to keep it when you change themes.

I wish that the TinyMCE button add-on by a different author was standard in this plugin as I often forget shortcodes over time and need to constantly look things up even though [column] is fairly memorable, the grid and span elements are not so.

It will give you columns but unfortunately and contrary to what the author says, the columns are NOT responsive and will only shrink, they will not stack for mobile devices.

You can look at the CSS file and see there are no media queries, conformation of not being Responsive.

You have to add something like this to your theme’s CSS file to get this to work for smaller devices:

@media (max-width: 800px) {
.column { width: 100%!important;}
}

Just don’t use more than 4 columns.

Works best to install this companion plugin.

This is just perfect. I can’t really elaborate on it – just simple and effective. Love it.