Accordion the new wordpress ajax widget to enhance your sidebar functions
The biggest advantage of this plugin is that, it loads your wordpress site faster than before, it saves huge space, provides tabbed browsing inside your sidebar.
A widget which displays the output of other plugins, using the Accordion the jQuery plugin.
You can download the widget from here, and configuration and the installation instruction are packed in the zip file. This wordpress widget is very easy to configure.
This widget can take the output of up to six plugins. The plugins need to generate <li> items.
To install, upload the 'accordion' directory to the wp-content/plugins directory of your wordpress setup, then go to the wordpress admin panel, under 'Plugins' and activate the 'Accordion' plugin. To configure it further, go to Presentation -> widgets and drag the 'Accordion' widget onto one of your sidebars. Then click the little button on the widget to configure which plugins you'll use.
You'll notice a few controls:
Title - the title of the widget itself (optional).
Widget type - you may choose between using accordion or simple javascript tabs.
Before title and After title - These allow you to style the widget better by using style="" attributes. By default these tags are simply <h3> and </h3>. But you may use, for example: <h3 style="margin: 0; padding: 4px; background-color: blue; color: white"> for Before title.
List type - the type of list you want to be displayed: unordered (with dots) or ordered (with numbers). This is only in case your current theme requires it…
Plugin 1…6 - Click on these tabs to configure each plugin individually: each plugin has a function it calls and a title (which is displayed on its tab).
after configuring at least two plugins, it should be displayed in the sidebar you selected.
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