Two Column Index

One easy way to make the index a little more presentable, especially if the titles are very short, is to add more columns to it.  AZIndex allows an index to have up to four columns, but since we have long titles our index, we’ll stick to two columns:

  1. Go back to the Tools » AZIndex settings page and click the Edit link next to your index.
  2. Ignoring the other options for now, set the Number of columns field to “2″.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the settings page and click the Save Changes button.

Now go back to the blog page where your index is displayed and refresh the browser window to see your new, two column index.

Note that while the columns contain an equal number of items, they may not always be of equal length.  There is no easy way for the plugin to calculate how much column space the items will need — longer titles may spill over onto multiple lines, while others may not.  Multiple columns works best when all the items are approximately the same length.

Hint: while you are still playing with your index options, you can save time by having both the settings page and the index page open in separate browser windows or tabs and switching between the two.

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  • lovewp said:

    July 26, 2010 at 7:47 am

    Hi everybody,

    I agree with all of you: this is a very Great Plugin! Thanks to Mike .

    Now I need your help (Mike or anybody who could) .

    1- I create an author index on my site . It seem working very well . But how I can group items with the same heading under one main entry without selecting subheadings ? I mean each author name appear only once and when we click on it we’ll see all his post. Please take a look on my page

    2- I have another site (same server, same hosting) but the author index page on this site can’t be read (please click on this link for reading the error message)

    Many thanks in advance

    LW

  • lovewp said:

    July 26, 2010 at 7:57 am

    2- I have another site (same server, same hosting) but the author index page on this site can’t be read (please click on this link for reading the error message)
    Sorry ! I don’t know why the above link is not working .

  • Julie said:

    July 28, 2010 at 8:00 am

    GREAT plugin, thank you!!

    @curtis klope, thanks so much for the tweak, i was experiencing the same issue and was so not looking forward to diving into the code, so was thrilled to find a quick solution!

    i think it is a bug and your fix should be rolled into the next release…

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