Text Expander
Allows you to define areas of text that expand/collapse when clicked.
5(2 reviews)
·600 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, Text Expander is a WordPress posts plugin with 600 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 21K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
5/52 reviews
600active installs
21K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
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
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.0.0+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
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
Contributors
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