Jacob Martella

<p>The <a href="https://crosswindsframework.com/downloads/crosswinds-blocks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Crosswinds Blocks plugin</a> adds in even more functionality to help you take your website to the next level.</p>
<p>The core of the plugin is the block library that adds in simple but powerful blocks that you can use in your posts and pages. There are blocks that add in post navigation and related posts sections for your blog pages. You can also add in social sharing sections so people can share your content with their friends and followers.</p>
<p>There are also accordion and tab sections that allow you to present a lot of information in a contained space. And there are very simple blocks that make tricky things, like breadcrumbs and the copyright date for your footer, super easy.</p>
<p>And for those who want to scratch their design, it comes with a grid block to help you create complex designs as well as tools for using flex box on all group and column blocks. Oh, and it helps you a lot with the responsiveness for all of your designs, so your website will look great no matter what device it’s viewed on.</p>
<p>As you’ll see, it’s a very simple plugin but it can add a whole lot to your website, even if you don’t use one of the Crosswinds Framework themes.</p>
<h4>Add Simple, But Powerful Blocks to Your Arsenal</h4>
<p><strong>Showcase a Specific Post, Page or Other Content</strong><br />
Want to showcase a specific blog post, page or other post type item on any page? You can with the single content block. This block allows you to select a specific piece of content and then customize how it looks on the page, just like you can with the query loop block. It’s a great way to highlight something people need to read.</p>
<p><strong>Add Breadcrumbs to Your Pages</strong><br />
Breadcrumbs are a valuable tool for helping people navigate through your website. They lead the way back to your homepage, which can help people from getting lost. And they can add SEO benefits as well. The breadcrumbs block in Crosswinds Blocks allows you to easily display breadcrumbs on any template while reaping those SEO benefits.</p>
<p><strong>Add Maps, Marquees or Skills Sliders to Any Page</strong><br />
Want to add a Google Map to your contact page? Want to display a marquee on the homepage? Do you have a portfolio website and want to display your skills in a slider format? No problem! The Crosswinds Blocks plugin comes with those blocks ready to be used wherever you want.</p>
<h4>Design and Create Better Pages</h4>
<p>The WordPress site editor really gets you roughly 90 percent of the way to being able to design amazing websites right from the editor. But that 10 percent is annoying, especially when it includes responsive design issues and lack of control over things like grids. Crosswinds Blocks give you that last 10 percent so that you can design and build better pages for yourself or your clients.</p>
<p><strong>A Grid Block That Makes It Easy to Create Amazing Layouts</strong><br />
One of the biggest design benefits of using the plugin is the grid block. In addition to giving you a grid section where you can control the number of columns and the spacing between columns and rows, you can also control the number of rows and columns a grid item spans. And you can control everything for desktop, tablet and mobile screen sizes. It’s the perfect way to create beautiful and complex designs on any page.</p>
<p><strong>Use Accordions and Tabs to Better Present Information</strong><br />
Some pages need to present a lot of information in a small amount of real estate. Crosswinds Blocks helps you with that. The plugin adds in easy-to-use accordion and tabs blocks so that you can add all of the information to the page but keep it simple and easy for a user to read.</p>
<p><strong>Use Flex Box Tools on Query Loops, Groups and Columns</strong><br />
Finally, flex box is an amazing thing. And while WordPress gives you some of those tools in the editor, it doesn’t give you everything. But Crosswinds Blocks does. You’ll be able to use flex box and all of its options for query loops, groups and column blocks right out of the box.</p>
<h4>Add More to Your Single Post Template</h4>
<p>The single post template is an important part of any website, especially if you rely a lot on your blog. And the Crosswinds Blocks plugin can help you add more functionality to your post template. From post navigation to related posts and helping people share your content, you can really make your blog post pages come alive.</p>
<p><strong>Add in More Customizable Post Navigation</strong><br />
When you have people on your website, you want to keep them there. And one way to do that when they are reading a blog post is to have post navigation to the next and previous posts around the current post. Crosswinds Blocks makes that super easy for you to add to your blog post template with next and previous post blocks. Just add them to the template, customize how they look just like you would in the query loop block and you’re all set. Now you can have people read more of your content and keep them on your website.</p>
<p><strong>Encourage More Reading with Related Posts</strong><br />
Another way you can keep people reading your content is by sharing related posts that might be interesting to them. And the plugin makes it super easy for you to do that. The related posts block allows you to choose how many related posts show up and how they look. You can customize them just like you would in the query loop block. So keep readers on your website reading your amazing content.</p>
<p><strong>Help People Share Your Content</strong><br />
One key in helping get your website seen by others is by readers sharing your content on their social media profiles. And Crosswinds Blocks can help you out with that. There’s a social share content block that allows you to display share links for all of the major social media companies so your readers can share your posts and pages with just one click.</p>
<h4>Blocks</h4>
<p>Currently there are over 15 blocks you can add to your templates, template parts, posts and pages. These blocks range from a simple marquee to post navigation to more complex sections like accordions and tabs.</p>
<p><strong>Accordions</strong><br />
The accordions block allows you to add an accordion section to your content. This can be really useful for frequently asked questions or any other section of content where you have a lot of information to share but don’t want to take up too much space on the page.</p>
<p><strong>Advanced Custom Fields Field Block</strong><br />
The ACF Field block allows you to display the value of a basic ACF field in your content. This block does not work for fields like the gallery, repeater or options.</p>
<p><strong>Author Social Icons</strong><br />
Add links to the social media profiles, website and/or email of the author of posts and other content.</p>
<p><strong>Basic Grid</strong><br />
The basic grid block allows you to create a simple grid of items. This can be really helpful in showing off a list of features for a product or service or a list of services that you offer. And you can control how many columns are shown at mobile, tablet and desktop screen sizes.</p>
<p><strong>Comments Number</strong><br />
Display the number of comments that a post has.</p>
<p><strong>Copyright</strong><br />
The copyright block allows you to display a copyright date and text on your page (most likely in the footer). And you won’t have to worry about updating the date every year.</p>
<p><strong>Marquee</strong><br />
The marquee block allows you to show a section of horizontally scrolling text in your content. This can help call attention to something you want — like a sale. It’s not recommended that you use this block a whole lot on your site, but it can be helpful when used right.</p>
<p><strong>Post Navigation</strong><br />
The Next Post and Previous Post blocks allow you to customize how your post navigation looks beyond the default WordPress blocks. The Next Post block will show the next chronological post so that a reader can read another post. The Previous Post block will show the previous chronological post. And you’ll be able to customize how those posts will look, just like you can inside a query block.</p>
<p><strong>Post Type Search Results</strong><br />
The Post Type Search Results block allows you to display custom queries and post templates on your search page template based on the post type that’s being searched.</p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><br />
The Related Posts Block allows you to display a number of related posts so that a reader can continue to read more of your block posts. It’s a great way to increase the amount of time someone spends on your website.</p>
<p><strong>Search Filters</strong><br />
The Search Filters blocks allow you to create custom search filters for every post type on your website and gives you the ability to create search functionality that helps your users.</p>
<p><strong>Single Content</strong><br />
The Single Content block allows you to display a specific post, page or other post type on the page. You can customize how it looks similar to how you can customize the posts in the query loop block.</p>
<p><strong>Skills Slider</strong><br />
The Skills Slider block allows you to display a visual representation of how well you know certain skills, such as web development, editing, shooting video, etc.</p>
<p><strong>Social Share Content</strong><br />
The Social Share Content block allows you to show an area on a post, page or other custom post type so that a user can share that content to a social network with a click of the button.</p>
<p><strong>Tabs</strong><br />
The Tabs block allows you to create a tabbed section in your content. You can align the tabs either horizontally across the top or vertically along the left side. This can be another great way to present a lot of information but not take up too much space on the page.</p>
<h4>Custom Post Types</h4>
<p>Currently Crosswinds Blocks comes with one custom post type that you can enable or disable.</p>
<ul>
<li>Projects</li>
<li>Videos</li>
<li>Resources</li>
<li>Guides</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom Taxonomies</h4>
<p>Currently Crosswinds Blocks comes with custom taxonomies that you can enable or disable.</p>
<ul>
<li>Project Tag</li>
<li>Project Category</li>
<li>Resource Tag</li>
<li>Resource Category</li>
<li>Guide Tag</li>
<li>Guide Category</li>
</ul>
<h4>Check Out the Crosswinds Framework Themes</h4>
<p>Want to get the most out of Crosswinds Blocks? Checkout the Crosswinds Framework themes! From a portfolio to an online store to a newspaper website and even a blank canvas to create anything you want, the Crosswinds Framework will help you create a great website.</p>
<p><a href="https://crosswindsframework.com/themes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn More About the Crosswinds Framework</a></p>
<h4>Disclosures</h4>
<p>The Google Maps block uses the Google Maps API when it generates the map on page load. You can <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps" rel="nofollow ugc">find out more about the Maps API service here</a>. You can <a href="https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">view Google Maps’ Terms of Service here</a>.</p>


Crosswinds Blocks

Take your website to the next level with the Crosswinds Blocks plugin!

philbuchanan

<p>Accordion Shortcodes is a simple plugin that adds a few shortcodes for adding accordion drop-downs to your pages.</p>
<p>The accordions should blend seamlessly with your theme. However, you may want to edit your theme’s main stylesheet in order to add some custom styling (see below for sample CSS).</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Adds two shortcodes for adding accordions to your site</li>
<li>Supports multiple accordions with individual settings on a single page</li>
<li>Two buttons in the TinyMCE editor make it easy to add and configure the accordion shortcodes</li>
<li>Responsive</li>
<li>No default CSS added</li>
<li>Only adds JavaScript on pages that use the shortcodes</li>
<li>Support for item IDs and direct links</li>
<li>Accessible (for users requiring tabbed keyboard navigation control)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Optional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Open the first accordion item by default</li>
<li>Open all 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</li>
<li>Set the HTML tag for the title element</li>
<li>Change the semantic structure of your accordions (advanced)</li>
</ul>
<h4>The Shortcodes</h4>
<p>The two shortcodes that are added are:</p>
<pre><code>[accordion]...[/accordion]
</code></pre>
<p>and</p>
<pre><code>[accordion-item title=""]...[/accordion-item]
</code></pre>
<h4>Basic Usage Example</h4>
<pre><code>[accordion]
[accordion-item title="Title of accordion item"]Drop-down content goes here.[/accordion-item]
[accordion-item title="Second accordion item"]Drop-down content goes here.[/accordion-item]
[/accordion]
</code></pre>
<p>This will output the following HTML:</p>
<pre><code><div class="accordion">
    <h3 class="accordion-title">Title of accordion item</h3>
    <div class="accordion-content">
        Drop-down content goes here.
    </div>
    <h3 class="accordion-title">Second accordion item</h3>
    <div class="accordion-content">
        Drop-down content goes here.
    </div>
</div>
</code></pre>
<h4>Sample CSS</h4>
<p>Here is some sample CSS to get you started if you want to customize the look and feel of the accordion.</p>
<pre><code>/* Accordion Styles */
.accordion {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #dbdbdb;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
}
.accordion-title {
    border-top: 1px solid #dbdbdb;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 20px 0;
    cursor: pointer;
}
.accordion-title:hover {}
.accordion-title:first-child {border: none;}
.accordion-title.open {cursor: default;}
.accordion-content {padding-bottom: 20px;}
</code></pre>
<h4>Opening an Accordion Via ID</h4>
<p>You can optionally add a unique ID to each of your accordion items and then use that ID in the URL to open that item by default. For example, say you have the following accordions:</p>
<pre><code>[accordion]
[accordion-item id="item-1" title="Title of accordion item"]Drop-down content goes here.[/accordion-item]
[accordion-item id="item-2" title="Second accordion item"]Drop-down content goes here.[/accordion-item]
[accordion-item id="item-3" title="A Third accordion"]Drop-down content goes here.[/accordion-item]
[/accordion]
</code></pre>
<p>You could use this URL to open the third item by default:</p>
<pre><code>http://yourdomain.com/your/path/#item-3
</code></pre>
<p>All you need to do is ensure that the part after the <code>#</code> in the URL matches the ID set on the accordion item.</p>
<h4>Advanced Accordion Settings</h4>
<p>There are a few advanced settings you can add to the opening accordion shortcode. The full shortcode, with all the default settings looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>[accordion autoclose="true" openfirst="false" openall="false" clicktoclose="false"]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>autoclose</strong>: Sets whether accordion items close automatically when you open the next item. Set <code>autoclose="true/false"</code> on the opening accordion shortcode like this: <code>[accordion autoclose="false"]</code>. Default is <code>true</code>.</p>
<p><strong>openfirst</strong>: Sets whether the first accordion item is open by default. This setting will be overridden if <strong>openall</strong> is set to true. Set <code>openfirst="true/false"</code> on the opening accordion shortcode like this: <code>[accordion openfirst="true"]</code>. Default is <code>false</code>.</p>
<p><strong>openall</strong>: Sets whether all accordion items are open by default. It is recommended that this setting be used with <strong>clicktoclose</strong>. Set <code>openall="true/false"</code> on the opening accordion shortcode like this: <code>[accordion openall="true"]</code>. Default is <code>false</code>.</p>
<p><strong>clicktoclose</strong>: Sets whether clicking an open title closes it. Set <code>clicktoclose="true/false"</code> on the opening accordion shortcode like this: <code>[accordion clicktoclose="true"]</code>. Default is <code>false</code>.</p>
<p><strong>scroll</strong>: Sets whether to scroll to the title when it’s clicked open. This is useful if you have a lot of content within your accordion items. Set <code>scroll="true/false"</code> on the opening accordion shortcode like this: <code>[accordion scroll="true"]</code>. Default is <code>false</code>. You may also specify an integer for a pixel offset if you’d like the page to scroll further (useful when the site uses a fixed position header navigation). NOTE: Only use pixel offset integers of > 0. If you do not want a scroll offset, but still want scrolling, simply use <code>scroll="true"</code>.</p>
<p><strong>class</strong>: Sets a custom CSS class for the accordion group or individual accordion items. Set <code>class="your-class-name"</code> on the opening accordion or accordion-item shortcode like this: <code>[accordion class="your-class-name"]</code> or <code>[accordion-item class="your-class-name"]</code>. Added a class to the accordion-item will add the class to the title HTML tag.</p>
<p><strong>tag</strong>: Set the global HTML tag to use for all accordion titles. Set <code>tag="h2"</code> on the opening accordion shortcode like this: <code>[accordion tag="h2"]</code>. Default is <code>h3</code>.</p>
<p><strong>semantics</strong>: You can change the entire semantic structure of the accordions to use a definition list (dl, dt, dd) by setting <code>semantics="dl"</code> on the opening accordion shortcode like this: <code>[accordion semantics="dl"]</code>. By default the accordion will use <code>div</code> tags for the wrapper and content containers. If you set this option to <code>dl</code>, it is recommended that you do not also use the <code>tag</code> option. This feature is not selectable from the accordion button dialog box and must be added manually.</p>
<h4>Advanced Accordion Item Settings</h4>
<p><strong>state</strong>: Sets the initial state of the accordion item to <code>open</code> or <code>closed</code>. Set <code>state=open</code> or <code>state=closed</code> on the opening accordion item shortcode like this: <code>[accordion-item state=open]</code>. This setting will override all other accordion settings except when linking to an accordion item via ID.</p>
<p><strong>tag</strong>: You can also set the HTML tag for the titles of each accordion item individually by adding <code>tag="tagname"</code> to each <code>[accordion-item]</code> shortcode. Make sure to <strong>not</strong> include the angle brackets around the tag name. Example: to use <code><h2></code> instead of the default <code><h3></code> tag: <code>[accordion-item title="Item title" tag="h2"]Item content[/accordion-item]</code>. Using a tag attribute on an individual accordion item will override the global setting. The list of valid tags is: h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, div.</p>
<p><strong>usebutons</strong>: You can now optionally wrap each accordion item title in a <code><button></code> tag by adding <code>usebuttons="true"</code> to the main <code>[accordion]</code> shortcode. Please note that your theme may apply undesirable styles to <code><button></code> tags by default. You may need to add more custom styles to override your themes default styles. Using this setting will produce this HTML output:</p>
<pre><code><div class="accordion">
    <h3 class="accordion-title">
        <button>
            Title of accordion item
        </button>
    </h3>
    <div class="accordion-content">
        Drop-down content goes here.
    </div>
    <h3 class="accordion-title">
        <button>
            Second accordion item
        </button>
    </h3>
    <div class="accordion-content">
        Drop-down content goes here.
    </div>
</div>
</code></pre>
<h4>Filtering Shortcodes</h4>
<p>You can filter the settings and content of the shortcodes by adding some simply code to the functions.php file of your theme.</p>
<p>For example, you could set the <code>openfirst</code> option for all accordions across the entire site using:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter('shortcode_atts_accordion', 'set_accordion_shortcode_defaults', 10, 3);
function set_accordion_shortcode_defaults($atts) {
    // Override the openfirst setting here
    $atts['openfirst'] = true;
    return $atts;
}
</code></pre>
<h4>Compatibility Mode</h4>
<p>If you have a theme that already includes the shortcodes <code>[accordion]</code> or <code>[accordion-item]</code> you can enable compatibility mode.</p>
<p>To enable compatibility mode add <code>define('AS_COMPATIBILITY', true);</code> to your wp-config.php file. This will add a prefix of ‘as-‘ to the two accordion shortcodes.</p>
<p>With compatibility mode enabled, make sure your shortcodes start with <code>as-</code> like this: <code>[as-accordion]...[/as-accordion]</code> and <code>[as-accordion-item]...[/as-accordion-item]</code>.</p>
<h4>Disable TinyMCE Buttons</h4>
<p>You can optionally disable the TinyMCE extension which will remove the buttons from the editor button bar. To disable the TinyMCE extension add <code>define('AS_TINYMCE', false);</code> to your wp-config.php file.</p>
<h4>Issues/Suggestions</h4>
<p>For bug reports or feature requests or if you’d like to contribute to the plugin you can check everything out on <a href="https://github.com/philbuchanan/Accordion-Shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>


Accordion Shortcodes

The only improvement that I can imagine is to automatically add 
cursor:pointer to the class accordion-title.

Otherwise people might not realize that they can click there.

Simple and does the job

I needed a replacement for the [toggle] shortcode in the Canvas theme by WooThemes and this does the job perfectly. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of [toggle], but I wasn't using those anyway.
Here is the css I used, based on the example johanneseva gave in his comment (Thanks!)
Mine creates a grey background for each accordion item.

.accordion-title {
	background-image: url(./images/shortcode-toggle-open.png);
	background-size: 20px 20px;
	background-position: right center;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	padding-right: 26px; /* so that title does not overlap icon */
}
.accordion-title.open {
	background-image: url(./images/shortcode-toggle-close.png);
}
.accordion h4.accordion-title {
	border-right: 5px solid #e4e8ec; /* so that icon is some distance from right border */
	background-color: #e4e8ec;
	padding-top: 10px;
	padding-left: 10px;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	cursor: pointer;
}
.accordion-content {
	border: 1px solid #ebebeb;
	background: #f9f9f9;
	padding: 10px 10px;
}

Excellent - Here's another css example

Shortcodes for creating responsive accordion drop-downs.

Crosswinds Blocks vs Accordion Shortcodes