Grid Columns

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 3.4 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Anonymous User

   7.9y ago

   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.

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2. ★★★★★ Reinar Svendsen

   10.9y ago

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

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3. ★★★★★ danfascia

   11.3y ago

   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.

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4. ★★★★★ Chris Borgman

   11.3y ago

   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.

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5. ★★★★★ brassblogs

   11.5y ago

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

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6. ★★★★★ TheOneTrueVlad

   11.7y ago

   All good, simple and efficient. Easy to use to make things look great.

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7. ★★★★★ Paul Shryock

   11.7y ago

   After installing this plugin, some of my theme’s CSS classes were somehow changed from 50% width to 100% width, which affects the layout of my website. I’ve tried deactivating and deleting the plugin, which did nothing to restore those classes. I’ve checked my styles.css and nothing there is changed. Kind of strange. I’d love to post this is a ticket on the ThemeHybrid forum, but I don’t want to pay to discuss a free plugin which negatively affected my website. Still worth 5 stars though. It’s a great plugin, I just wish I had tested it in a development environment before using on a live server. Lesson learned.

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8. ★★★★★ Ingmarc

   11.9y ago

   simple, great. does all it should, intelligent.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2023-05-25 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2023-05-24 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2023-05-22 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2023-05-21 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2023-05-20 2K+ → 1K+ down after 767 days in tier
6. 2021-04-13 3K+ → 2K+ down after 335 days in tier
7. 2020-05-13 4K+ → 3K+ down after 559 days in tier
8. 2018-11-01 5K+ → 4K+ down after 273 days in tier

Competes with

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Grid Columns: 1K+ active installs, 4.8★ (22 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/grid-columns