Pat Friedl

ASMBrent,
Excellent looking site. However, I can’t see where the columns are starting at different heights. Typically, that can happen if you add line breaks/carriage returns between columns.

I also saw that the bullet lists look nice and are fitting into the columns easily. Looks good!

I’d have to add the shortcodes for 1/6 and 1/7 columns. While I can’t se the demand for 1/7 columns (those would be NARROW!) I have seen other themes and plugins that offer 1/6 columns. We’ll take a look at adding that in a future version.

I believe I know what the problem is, and I’ll have an update hopefully by the weekend – sorry, projects are taking up a lot of my time.

The problem I encountered with another plugin of mine was that it’s trying to load the wp-config.php file in the tinyMCE pop up window. This works on *most* sites, but on a select few like yours, it’s throwing an error that I can’t track down.

Long story short, I have a workaround and I’ll have an update really soon. Thanks for your patience!

It sounds like your php debugging may be a little tight. I have yet to run into those problems testing on BlueHost, IX Web Hosting, and WAMP running localhost. It may be a conflict with another plugin as well. Right now we’ve got 117K downloads and haven’t run into this issue.

Hmm, not sure why this would be happening. I’m working on an updated version that won’t use TinyMCE’s pop up, but WordPress’ ThickBox implementation. That shoujld fix a few problems.

What version of WP are you using and what theme is active?

Currently, there are only shortcodes for up to 1/5 columns. I don’t know of many plugins/themes that go beyond that, just for the fact that typically columns would be so narrow. I’ll definitely consider adding them in though!

Squinx,
Excellent looking site and I love the way you used the columns!

Ok, the ezcol-divider gets inserted after a run of columns in order to clear the column floats, otherwise you can end up with some undesireable results with content layout. I also use the :after pseudo class to insert a “.” after the last column with a clear:both style, but that seems to work differently from browser to browser. I’ll ensure that the next update (within a couple days) sets the height of the divider to “0px !important”.

In looking at your layout, I see that there’s a
under the 1/3 columns, and then there’s a <p></p> under the 1/4 columns. To be honest, I think the spacing is fine and found no issue with the look at all. However, if you want to remove the spacing, I’d look there and make sure that you don’t have any carriage returns that WordPress’ AutoP filter will convert to <p>’s.

Hope that helps!

Sorry about the confusion. Since this plugin generates the shortcodes and renders the CSS for the columns, it wasn’t built as a full WYSIWYG layout editor. However, that may be a feature down the road in say, a pro version.

While it can look a little messy in the visual editor, you can do a lot with the plugin as lightweight as it is. I’ve built some pretty complex layouts using it.

Thanks for the feedback – we’ll look at what we can do to add more of a wysiwyg feel to it.

Hey there. Sorry for the delay in responding – I was offline for a few days. I tried browsing toy our site, but I get an authentication required/login screen, so I can debug the problem.

What I suspect may be the problem is that you’re using some CSS like .wpcol h6 {…} and the plugin’s updated now to using a class .ezcol. There were no security risks to update with the latest plugin update, just making it easier to use, cleaned up the code, and updated the CSS to be responsive.

The problem is that WordPress will add <p> tags if you hit carriage return. The shortcodes should be as close to each other as possible to avoid any unwanted <p> tags in the content.

Hope that helps!

Ray,
Thanks for trying out the plugin. The columns are generally pretty vanilla out of the box, but you can add additional inline CSS or classes to each column. To do that, just add the class=”yourClassName” to the shortcode, or add style=”border-right:1px solid #000″ to the shortcode. If you do add borders to the columns, be sure to add a little padding as well since the columns are coded to maximize as much space as possible and therefore don’t have any padding set.

We are working on a pro version that’ll have multiple styles and even more options, so keep an eye out for that. Hope that helps!

Sorry about the trouble – can you give me a URL to test?

Yeah, sorry about that – haven’t had time to add a contact page or much content. Get me at pfriedl _at_ gmail.com.

Hmmm, that may be an issue with the tinyMCEpop up window. Could you email me directly? If you don’t mind, I’d like to login and reproduce the issue myself so I cam debug a little and see about a fix.

Next update, I’ll be using the ThickBox pop up instead of the tinyMCE window – much easier to handle that way.

Whoops, good catch. I’ll get that fixed and an update out ASAP!