Title: WP Tab Widget
Author: MyThemeShop
Published: <strong>March 24, 2014</strong>
Last modified: January 26, 2022

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://ps.w.org/wp-tab-widget/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=979939)

# WP Tab Widget

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

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-tab-widget.1.2.11.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-tab-widget/)

## Description

We know you always loved those tab widgets which have that lazy loading effect in
them. We at [MyThemeShop](http://mythemeshop.com/) understand your need, and have
developed a unique, cleanly coded, premium tab plugin. We are now distributing it
for FREE to give back to the WordPress community. We have been given so much by 
the WordPress, it’s the time to pay back.

**WP Tab plugin** is the only plugin you need to get the perfect tabs on your blog.
We have made it AJAXified, so the content loads only when demanded, and thus it 
makes the plugin incredibly lightweight. It loads before you could even blink your
eye. If you’re a website owner, you always want your visitors to stay longer on 
your website. With WP Tab plugin, you could do it in a simple way. Install the plugin,
configure the widget and let your visitors find the best content on your website
in the sidebar without struggling to actually search for it.

#### Live demos:

See WP Tab Widget in action on our demo pages:
 [http://demo.mythemeshop.com/truepixel/](http://demo.mythemeshop.com/truepixel/)

#### Why WP Tab from 󠀁[MyThemeShop](http://mythemeshop.com/)󠁿:

 * It’s the only free plugin which offers so many features
 * It loads the content by demand
 * Choose between, Popular, Recent, Comments, Tags tab
 * In-built Pagination System
 * Fully Responsive
 * Control the order of the tabs
 * Change the number of tabs to show
 * Control the number of posts to show
 * Super light weight
 * In-built cache system, once a tab is loaded, it stays in the memory
 * Cool effects
 * Easy to modify the CSS to better fit your theme style
 * Choose between 3 unique styles of small, big or no thumbnails
 * Show/Hide post date
 * Show/Hide number of comments
 * Show/Hide post excerpt
 * Position it anywhere where a widget is configured in your theme.

#### Support

All support for this plugin is provided through our forums. If you have not registered
yet, you can do so here for **FREE** 
 https://mythemeshop.com/#signup

If after checking our Free WordPress video tutorials here:
 https://mythemeshop.
com/wordpress-101/ & https://community.mythemeshop.com/tutorials/category/2-free-
video-tutorials/

you are still stuck, please feel free to open a new thread, and a member of our 
support team will be happy to help.

Support link:
 https://community.mythemeshop.com/forum/11-free-plugin-support/

#### Help to make it better

MyThemeShop is a premium WordPress theme provider and we develop premium plugins
in our free time and distribute them for free to give back to the community. Though
we take a lot of care while developing anything, we might have missed something 
useful/important. Please help us make it better by submitting the bug/suggestions/
feedback on GitHub.

GitHub link: [https://github.com/MyThemeShopTeam/WP-Tab-Widget](https://github.com/MyThemeShopTeam/WP-Tab-Widget)

#### Feedback

If you like this plugin, then please leave us a good rating and review.
 Consider
following us on [Google+](https://plus.google.com/+Mythemeshop/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/MyThemeShopTeam),
and [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/MyThemeShop)

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * WP Tab Widget Settings
 * [[
 * WP Tab Widget

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload the `wp-tab-widget` folder to the to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. You can see **WP Tab Widget by MyThemeShop** widget in widgets section.
 4. Add it in sidebar and footer and configure as you want.
 5. Enjoy!

## FAQ

### Plugin is not working

Please disable all plugins and check if shortcode plugin is working properly. Then
you can enable all plugins one by one to find out which plugin is conflicting with
plugin.

### Plugins is consuming too much resources

The pageview is incremented on the database everytime a user visits a page but this
can start getting quite expensive on high-traffic websites. We’ve added the filter`
wpt_sampling_rate` which you can use to lower the sampling rate from the default**
100%**. Note that setting this value too low will result to innacurate pageviews.

    ```
    <?php

    function wpt_my_sampling_rate( $rate ) {
        // Reduce the percentage of pageviews recorded to 80%.
        return 80;
    }
    add_filter( 'wpt_sampling_rate', 'wpt_my_sampling_rate' );
    ```

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f0d51b97ee7ee49d1f46c983000d102115b8787b5f2989fc088908a17b735583?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[slows down the site extremely and aggressive ads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slows-down-the-site-extremely-and-aggressive-ads/)󠁿

 [eckiebd](https://profiles.wordpress.org/eckiebd/) June 22, 2020 1 reply

it does not support custom post types, loading each pageview slows everything down
on the site and even if i understand the need to monetize things, the permanent 
displayed begging for a subscription in the admin panel goes beyond acceptable.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/aedff7b05b7f5ec75fc7ec62550f0412c4d5dc0eaed40dce591df74c8d9806f4?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Only shows posts, slow](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-shows-posts-slow/)󠁿

 [hallcp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hallcp/) September 27, 2019

Tab content is strictly limited to displaying posts. Not flexible at all. If you
system is at all slow, the tab behavior will be completely unacceptable.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c63ea2cbae3a74f6e9a66dce94061c72ec31ea52e5817b9ebc5bdc5b46eb1121?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Fantastic tabs!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-tabs/)󠁿

 [magicbydzn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/magicbydzn/) February 26, 2019

This tabs do exactly what I was looking for. I’m using this tabs few months, did’t
had any problem. Fantastic tabs with simple and very nice functionality.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5eaa86ccb15ea1c528e7ea7ef7756119411cd9ec6c25dbd6c52909b8b017272c?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works as expected, but too intrusive with ads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-as-expected-but-too-intrusive-with-ads/)󠁿

 [presscode](https://profiles.wordpress.org/saschinger/) January 4, 2019

The plugin does its job and I understand, that plugin-developement should be monetized.
If I need pro-features, I will discover the pro-version on my own. But advertising
pro-version and begging for reviews is a no-go, even if the standard-feature-set
is working fine, like here.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b671e13f5ef85299dd040c887f2405e6adbfb96fa7797877286aa9118901190c?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Very good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-good-3400/)󠁿

 [ganymod](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ganymod/) October 1, 2018

the plugin is very good – I have the pro version and I am satisfied with it. I recommend
it!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b32a643c599dcb24f60d5e5548efe79d636764bc94524dab99d29a30412fa5ed?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn’t Work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-1949/)󠁿

 [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stevewest15/) August 11, 2018 1 reply

Simply get “Unable to load tab content” and appears others are getting this error
as well with no reply from developer in the support forum

 [ Read all 34 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-tab-widget/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Tab Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

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

“WP Tab Widget” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-tab-widget/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “WP Tab Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-tab-widget)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.2.11 [Oct 31, 2020]

 * Fixed PHP notices when saving widget
 * Removed an option to show ‘Powered by’ credit in the frontend

#### 1.2.10 [June 30, 2018]

 * Changed admin notices
 * Fixed deprecated notice

#### 1.2.9 [June 29, 2018]

 * Updated admin notices

#### 1.2.8 (Apr 20, 2018)

 * Fixed compatibility with PHP 7
 * Checked compatibility with WordPress v4.9.5
 * Improved Code

#### 1.2.7 (Feb 03, 2017)

 * Added new wpt_sampling_rate filter. See the FAQ section on how this works.

#### 1.2.6 (Jan 28, 2017)

 * Updated view counter function

#### 1.2.5 (Apr 06, 2016)

 * Added missing Pro version image

#### 1.2.4 (Mar 27, 2016)

 * Replaced “comm” CSS class with “comments-number” on comment count in Recent tab
 * Added “Show Some Love” option

#### 1.2.3 (Mar 22, 2016)

 * Fixed issue where tab content couldn’t be loaded on servers with non UTF8 character
   encoding
 * List only comments from default comment type in Comments tab
 * Prevent conflict with Pro version
 * Added Notification & Banner for Pro Version

#### 1.2.2 (Aug 21, 2015)

 * Changed text domain to make plugin compatible with WordPress Language Packs

#### 1.2.1 (Aug 19, 2015)

 * Switched to PHP 5 style constructor method for the widget class

#### 1.2 (Oct 15, 2014)

 * Added Title Length option
 * Fixed post view count compatibility with themes

#### 1.1 (Oct 1, 2014)

 * Popular posts will be decided by number of views
 * Added loading effect
 * Fixed small bugs
 * Performance improvement

#### 1.0 (Mar 24, 2014)

 * Plugin released

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.11**
 *  Last updated **4 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.9.13**
 *  PHP version ** 7.2 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/),
   [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/), [Greek](https://el.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/),
   [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/), [Portuguese (Brazil)](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/),
   [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/), and [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-tab-widget)
 * Tags
 * [ajax tabs](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax-tabs/)[tab widget](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tab-widget/)
   [tabs](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tabs/)[tabs widget](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tabs-widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.3 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  24 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-tab-widget/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  3 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-tab-widget/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  2 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-tab-widget/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  1 2-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-tab-widget/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  3 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-tab-widget/reviews/?filter=1)

[Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-tab-widget/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

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

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-tab-widget/)