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By Felipe Behrens, 10 years ago. Last reply by Andrew Misplon, 10 years ago.
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Hi Does anyone know a plug in that can expand and collapse text on a page? I tried using collapse-o-matic, but it doesn’t seem to work as it should. The down arrow seems to be static and wont hide the text. The code I’m using is:

[Code]
[expand title=”Read More”] Hello World [/expand]
[Code]

I’m putting this in the text exactly as the plug in instructions tell me to do it.
Can anyone explain how the plug in is supposed to work?

Thank you

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  1. 10 years, 10 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi. You could try: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-showhide/. Under General Usage he covers a few examples:
    https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-showhide, also see this page here: https://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2011/04/28/wp-showhide-1-00/.

    For splitting posts on your blog page it’s best to use the more tag, here are the details on using that tag to split content:

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

    Let me know how that goes.

  2. 10 years, 10 months ago Felipe Behrens

    Thank you Andrew. That plug in seems to work.

  3. 10 years, 10 months ago Felipe Behrens

    The More Tag doesn’t seem to work though. I can add it to the text in the visual editor, but nothing shows up on the page. Is there a reason why?

  4. 10 years, 10 months ago Felipe Behrens

    HI Andrew. I seem to be having a problem with the WP show hide. if I have two show hides in one page, the second show hide still seems to be linked to the first one.

    take a look:

    http://www.felipebehrensadventures.com/kayak-gear/

    do you have any idea how to fix this? thanks.

  5. 10 years, 10 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Felipe

    You’ll need to change the type for each show/hide on a page. For example:

    [showhide type="trak"]
Text for Trak goes here.
[/showhide]

    [showhide type="ikelos"]
Text for Ikelos goes here.
[/showhide]

    Hope that helps.

  6. 10 years, 10 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Earlier you mentioned:

    The More Tag doesn’t seem to work though. I can add it to the text in the visual editor, but nothing shows up on the page. Is there a reason why?

    Are you referring to the traditional more tag?
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

    If so, that’s not applicable on a single post. You add the more tag to a post, then on your blog page the content will be split with a “Continue Reading” button. Perhaps check out the above link for examples on that.

  7. 10 years, 10 months ago Felipe Behrens

    Ok. Thanks Andrew. That works. thanks!

  8. 10 years, 10 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Super, glad to hear that helped.

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