In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a collapsible panel or sidebar and an expandable content area. jQuery will be assisting us to create this smooth and sleek behaviour. Once our panel is hidden, we will display a small button to reveal it again.
First, you might want to see the Collapsible Panel demo. Then proceed to the tutorial. Read more
The other day I needed to create a block (or widget) with tabs, so I started checking different jQuery based tab solutions but they were all very large for what I needed. Most of the jQuery based tabs I found had a lot of functionalities to fulfill everything you need, but they end up being quite large, bloated and complex. I wrote this small jQuery dependant code to create my own tabs widget and thought you could find it useful. Read more
Let’s talk about a simple technique to create folding or collapsible menus for the WordPress Pages widget. A while ago I was doing some coding for a IT Solutions site and they had a large ‘Services’ page with an introduction and 6 sections. They needed a parent page for the intro and 6 child pages and they didn’t wanted to show all the pages and subpages at once. I thought this would be an excellent job for jQuery and a collapsible or folding menu.
We’ll be creating here a folding menu using only jQuery, no CSS no special markup, and enqueueing the script with the recommended technique for WordPress. Keep reading to see the solution…
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