philbuchanan

<p>Accordion Blocks is a simple plugin that adds a Gutenberg block for adding accordion drop-downs to your pages.</p>
<p>The accordions should blend seamlessly with your theme. However, you may want to add custom styles to your theme.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Adds a Gutenberg block for adding accordions to your site.</li>
<li>Supports multiple accordions with individual settings for each accordion item.</li>
<li>Fully responsive.</li>
<li>Support for item IDs and direct links.</li>
<li>Supports nesting accordions.</li>
<li>Accessible (for users requiring tabbed keyboard navigation control).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Optional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Open individual accordion items by default.</li>
<li>Disable auto closing of accordion items.</li>
<li>Manually close items by clicking the title again.</li>
<li>Scroll page to title when it’s clicked open (including setting a scroll offset position).</li>
<li>Set the HTML heading tag for the title element (h1–h6, button).</li>
<li>Set defaults to be applied to all new accordion items or reset a specific accordion item to the defaults.</li>
<li>Supports adding custom block styles using <code>wp.blocks.registerBlockStyle</code>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Output</h4>
<p>The plugin will ultimately output following HTML (simplified for this example):</p>
<pre><code><div class="wp-block-pb-accordion-item c-accordion__item js-accordion-item" data-initially-open="false" data-click-to-close="true" data-auto-close="true" data-scroll="false" data-scroll-offset="0">
    <h2 id="at-76840" class="c-accordion__title js-accordion-controller" tabindex="0" role="button" aria-controls="ac-76840" aria-expanded="false">
        Title with H2 tag
    </h2>
    <div id="ac-76840" class="c-accordion__content" style="display:none" aria-hidden="true">
        <p>Content</p>
    </div>
</div>
</code></pre>
<h4>Custom CSS</h4>
<p>You can use the following CSS classes to customize the look of the accordion.</p>
<pre><code>.c-accordion__item {} /* The accordion item container */
.c-accordion__item.is-open {} /* is-open is added to open accordion items */
.c-accordion__item.is-read {} /* is-read is added to accordion items that have been opened at least once */
.c-accordion__title {} /* An accordion item title */
.c-accordion__title--button {} /* An accordion item title that is using a `<button>` tag */
.c-accordion__title:hover {} /* To modify the style when hovering over an accordion item title */
.c-accordion__title:focus {} /* To modify the style when an accordion item title currently has broswer focus */
.c-accordion__content {} /* An accordion item content container */
</code></pre>


Accordion Blocks

Gutenberg block for creating responsive accordion drop-downs.

Matt Lowe

<p><a href="http://squelchdesign.com/wordpress-plugin-squelch-tabs-accordions-shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Squelch Tabs and Accordions Shortcodes</a> provides shortcodes for adding stylish Web 2.0 style accordions and tabs to your WordPress website: Horizontal accordions, vertical accordions and tabs.</p>
<p>After you have installed the plugin you can use simple shortcodes on any page or post to add tabs or accordions.</p>
<p>Tabs and accordions can help to improve your website in a number of ways:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Add interactivity</strong>: With collapsible accordions and tabs, you can make better use of the available space on the page.</li>
<li><strong>Add style</strong>: Tabs and accordions can help make your site look more professional and better polished than other sites.</li>
<li><strong>Save space</strong>: Tabs and accordions can save a lot of space on the page making your website look less cluttered.</li>
<li><strong>Separating content</strong>: Showing content only when required while the rest remains invisible dividing the content into parts.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to add more interactivity with <em>Tabs</em>, <em>Vertical</em> and <em>Horizontal Accordions</em> on your WordPress website, <strong>Squelch Tabs and Accordions Shortcodes</strong> is a good option.</p>
<p><a href="https://tastewp.com/new?pre-installed-plugin-slug=squelch-tabs-and-accordions-shortcodes&redirect=themes.php%3Fpage%3Dsquelch-tabs-and-accordions-shortcodes%2Fsquelch-tabs-and-accordions.php&ni=true" rel="nofollow ugc">You can demo the website on a playground website here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>A note on responsiveness:</strong></p>
<p>We receive a lot of questions as to whether this plugin is responsive. All widgets in this plugin are responsive <strong>excluding</strong> the horizontal accordion widget: It uses a different library to the other widgets, and that library is unfortunately not responsive. We may add a responsive horizontal slider in the future, but it is not available yet.</p>


Squelch Tabs and Accordions Shortcodes

I tested almost 10 tab plugins and this one suits me best. Even though it is very far from perfect, after the pain other developers put me through, I have to appreciate quality of this one.

- Very fast, no content jumping
- Content of tabs is within Wordpress posts thanks to properly done shortcodes, not like in most of plugins where 1 shortcode = 1 tab of content created in plugin's interface
- Starting theme is good and neutral enough to actually suffice for most of websites
- There is a multitude of other themes to be picked in plugin's settings

Now the bad:
- No built in responsiveness for horizontal tabs
- No Font Awesome icons for tab titles

Some additional thoughts:

Can't set things like font size, but it can easily be changed through CSS, so no problem for me. It's a bit misleading that settings are under Appearance menu and on installed plugins list there is no settings option for this plugin what at start led me to think there are no settings at all. I think that some preview of available themes would be nice, checking them one by one is quite a chore and I couldn't find any online source for these themes.

Best free tabs plugin

Shortcodes for creating accordions, horizontal accordions and tabs.

Accordion Blocks vs Squelch Tabs and Accordions Shortcodes