WordPress CSS Accordion Menu With Sliding Notes In 3 Easy Steps
This is a CSS accordion menu tutorial that explains how to implement the accordion effect in your WordPress page or post using CSS and the Sliding Notes plugin.
Sliding Notes 1.6 – “W3C Tribute”
Here is yet another update to Sliding Notes. Besides various code improvements, it establishes conformity to the W3C XHTML 1.0 standard (important for sites that show the valid XHTML badge).
Sliding Notes 1.5.0 “Accordion Virtuoso”
A brand new release of Sliding Notes is out. Code name: “Accordion Virtuoso”.
Main novelty: The addition of an awesome feature which enables emulation of accordion-style behavior like this one over here.
Go get it at wordpress.org, it sure is worth upgrading. 
Sliding Notes 1.4.1 Released
A minor update of Sliding Notes is out.
The release provides a workaround for a weird cross-browser issue on some themes, like the one reported by Magnus.
Download it as usually at wordpress.org.
Sliding Notes HowTo’s – Adding An Image To The Button
The other day I posted about the side-effect when the slider title is formated directly, therewith effectively inserting HTML tags into it. Instead I suggested using CSS to format the title.
CSS also comes in handy for adding an image» to the slider button.
This is how it is done:
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Sliding Notes Self Aid – Overcoming Theme Footer Defects
Recently, I’ve posted about a theme defect in PassionDuo and other DailyBlogTips’ themes, and identified their failure to trigger the wp_footer action as the real cause of malfunction of plugins that depend on it, like Sliding Notes.
As it turns out, there’s a number of other themes out there which apparently have the same defect. Read more >>
Sliding Notes 1.4 – Shadowchaser Release
I’m announcing a new release of my Sliding Notes plugin. It resolves a CSS conflict with Shadowbox JS , another popular WordPress plugin (hence the release name). At the same time, with this release I’m relieving the user from housekeeping the CSS parts that are vital to Sliding Notes function, but unrelated to its visual appearance.
PassionDuo Theme Defect – And How To Fix It
Recently, I’ve been investigating a strange effect with Sliding Notes: On one site, the notes just did not open when clicked.
A view at the HTML of the aforementioned site revealed that the whole plugin-generated footer section – that is, the JavaScript supplied by the plugin – wasn’t there! Whew! How’s that?
I digged a bit and tracked the cause of the trouble down to a misbehavior in the “PassionDuo” theme, a theme by DailyBlogTips. Read more >>
Sliding Notes Lessons – Beware of HTML Tags In Title
Since I published Sliding Notes, I’ve repeatedly seen people formatting their slider button title italic, and thereby effectively inserting HTML tags into it, like so
[slider title=”some title“]…[/slider]
resulting in: some title»
This is not a practice I’d recommend. Read more >>
Sliding Notes 1.3 – Hot New “Presidential Oath” Release
I haven’t posted anything to my blog in the last week, and I had a good reason: I’ve been preparing a brand new release of Sliding Notes.
Since I published Sliding Notes the first time, I repeatedly had the chance to witness and help with its integration into existing, real world designs. One essential insight I gained from this was that Sliding Notes are being used (or their usage envisioned) in a much wider variety of contexts, than I initially imagined: In the side bar, the content, floating with the text, or stacked, initially collapsed or expanded…
As a result of that experience, and just in time for Obama’s upcoming Presidential Oath of Office, I’m releasing a brand new version of the plug-in, packed with features that greatly ease the integration into existing website styles and concepts, as well as the combination of different usage patterns on the same site. Read more >>
