Plugin info

Total downloads: 136,623
Active installs: 10,000
Total reviews: 43
Average rating: 4.2
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 5 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 11/28/2025 (33 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 4/28/2011 (14 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 33 days ago • 43 reviews

65/100

Is WP-ShowHide abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 33 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: f

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Description

By default the content is hidden and user will have to click on the “Show Content” link to toggle it. Similar to what Engadget is doing for their press releases. Example usage: [showhide type="pressrelease"]Press Release goes in here.[/showhide]

Usage

  1. By default, content within the showhide shortcode will be hidden.
  2. Example: [showhide]Press release content goes in here.[/showhide]
  3. Default Values: [showhide type="pressrelease" more_text="Show Press Release (%s More Words)" less_text="Hide Press Release (%s Less Words)" hidden="yes"]

  4. You can have multiple showhide content within a post or a page, just by having a new type.

  5. Example: [showhide type="links" more_text="Show Links (%s More Words)" less_text="Hide Links (%s Less Words)"]Links will go in here.[/showhide]

  6. If you want to set the default visibility to display.

  7. Example: [showhide hidden="no"]Press release content goes in here.[/showhide]

  8. You can style the content via CSS that is generated by the plugin. Here is a sample of the generated HTML. Note that pressrelease is the default type.

  

  1. With the example above, here are the following styles you can use in your CSS:
.sh-link A { }  
.sh-content { }  
.pressrelease-link { }  
.pressrelease-link.sh-hide A { }  
.pressrelease-link.sh-show A { }  
.pressrelease-content { }  
.pressrelease-content.sh-hide { }  
.pressrelease-content.sh-show { }

Development

https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-showhide

Translations

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-showhide/i18n/

Credits

Donations

I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.

Installation

No installation instructions available

Frequently Asked Questions

N/A

Review feed

Dave Smith
7/3/2025

Works great with WP 6.8.1

Shows and hides text just like it says it does! Thank you!

Screenshots

  1. Show More - Press Release

    Show More - Press Release

  2. Hide More - Press Release

    Hide More - Press Release

  3. Editor - Short Code

    Editor - Short Code

Changelog

Version 1.06

  • FIXED: esc_html() for more text to prevent XSS

Version 1.05

  • FIXED: esc_attr type attributes to prevent XSS

Version 1.04

  • NEW: Added aria-hidden and aria-expanded to elements

Version 1.03

  • NEW: Added .sh-link and .sh-content as a standard class name on top of the type specific class name.
  • NEW: Added do_shortcode() to allow shortcode to be parsed within ShowHide

Version 1.02

  • FIXED: Some theme uses .hide as display: none and hence I have changed .show to .sh-show and .hide to .sh-hide to advoid conflicts.

Version 1.01

  • NEW: Added additional show or hide class to the link and content depending on the visiblity of the content to allow more precise CSS styling.

Version 1.00 (01-05-2011)

  • FIXED: Initial Release