Tabs, toggles, accordions, and all that jazz. Bells and whistles done right.
As of April 2026, Whistles is a WordPress tabs plugin with 400 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 19 reviews. It has been downloaded 19K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Tabs Responsive – With WooCommerce….
Whistles was not born as “just another tabs plugin”. It was born out of the idea that we need to get rid of all other plugins like this and start from scratch.
It seems to me that tabs plugins have been clunky and extremely hard to use over the years. Whistles seeks to rectify this by making it easy to manage tabs, toggles, accordions, and other things that need to be embedded into a page.
Whistles is a plugin that creates a new content type called “whistle” and a new taxonomy called “whistle group”. The plugin allows you to create individual whistles and organize them into whistle groups however you see fit. Then, it allows you to embed whistle groups into posts using the [whistles] shortcode or…
| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
'public' => false. This should keep them from showing up in things like automatically-generated sitemaps.Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.