Text Expander

Website-elements which are collapsable help avoiding visual noise these days and give control to the user, what they want to see. Dagon Design developed a WordPress-Plugin called “Expanding Text” which enables a blogger to make any part of a post collapsable. I wasn’t entirely convinced with it, so I forked my own plugin.

Improvements compared to Expanding Text

• You can freely choose a text to be shown in front of the expand-link (default is a double-arrow), which indicates whether the part is collapsed or expanded next
• the expand-part will expand via a jQuery-animation. This looks a lot better, than having the text just appear all of the sudden.
• You can add expanding text directly with a media-button in the article editor

Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.

0.4

• improved expander-function
• the collapse link and the element-before it can now be styled with CSS using .collapse-text and .collapse-pre

0.3

• fixed bug where Expander-titles were mixed
• fixed bug where Text Expander wasn’t working when jQuery hasn’t been already loaded by another plugin

0.2

• added a media button in the post-editor to add expanding text more directly
• add settings to customize the text prepending the expand-link

0.1

• initial release