Expand hidden content without page refresh. SEO-friendly, crawlable by search engines and easy to use.
As of April 2026, Read More Without Refresh is a WordPress seo plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 54 reviews. It has been downloaded 233K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 8% this week. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
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Say goodbye to the cumbersome page reloads that disrupt seamless content exploration. With our plugin, readers can now effortlessly access more of your valuable content without any interruptions and boost your SEO!
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FunFakt: I find my Text with “read more” and click on it.
The “more” Text appears – the link is still “read more”
I click on it – the “more” Text is gone – the link is “read less”
Tried to get this to work with WPBakery text block and does nothing. Actually removes the extended text from the website.
First, the plugin is deprived from ease of use, finding the shortcode is a hell. on its settings in dashboard there is basically nothing really useful than background and text color.
be sure that it will break your site if your php version is up to date. It just has this stiff nature of using it because not all users know they can come back here to search the plugin and a barely visible shortcode amongst multiple information. No useful documentary at all so whats the fun if its so had to get it to work and yet still breaks a site?
I get the point of the plugin, just fix it and its litheness will definitely attract users.
At first, I did not get it to work, until I found out I had to hit the save button in settings first, even if I did not make any changes. After that, worked like a charm.
It might be a good idea, to put these step-by-step instructions on the description/instructions page.
Support was also quick to respond.
Thanks!
Annie
I added the shortcode (using Classic editor) to hide / unhide text in my post and it broke my sidebar, it pushed it to the bottom of the page. There are not many options in the free version to tinker with it, so I can’t do anything to fix it. Pity because it works well for the purpose it’s created, but I can’t have a broken post layout.
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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