Title: Text Expander
Author: hedge
Published: <strong>October 5, 2010</strong>
Last modified: June 21, 2015

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# Text Expander

 By [hedge](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hedge/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/text-expander.0.4.zip)

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## Description

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](http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/expanding-text-plugin-for-wordpress)”
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

## Installation

Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory
of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Text Expander” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ hedge ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hedge/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-expander/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/text-expander/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/text-expander/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/text-expander/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## 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

#### 0.3

 * fixed bug where Expander-titles were mixed
 * fixed bug where Text Expander wasn’t working when jQuery hasn’t been already 
   loaded by another plugin

#### 0.2

 * added a media button in the post-editor to add expanding text more directly
 * add settings to customize the text prepending the expand-link

#### 0.1

 * initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.3**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **600+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.2.39**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/text-expander/)
 * Tags
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 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/text-expander/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ hedge ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hedge/)

## Support

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