Comments on: Widgets Mass-Collapse

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:32:53 +0000

Note: The discussion with Toodles continues on the Widget Voodoo homepage.

By: jimisaacs

jimisaacs — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:56:36 +0000

All these plugins need is an admin page.

It doesn’t need to be a “collapsible widget plugin”, just a collapsible element plugin.

A collapsible elements only needs a handle element, and a content element to hide.
This can be applied to anything with similar markup, for example, widgets AND posts.

This is done very easily with CSS selectors.
The answer of doing it with a plugin, is simply giving three selector options in the admin.
- The collapsible class
- The handle sub class/id
- The content sub class/id

Options can go further if one of us decides to combine all our methods into one to become something like the shadowbox plugin.
Maybe it can use any supported javascript library.

I use jQuery in mine, but you might not.

As I’ve said in my post, I’m not doing anything further now, got other fish to fry, but anyone who does I would like to see it.

Toodles

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:44:50 +0000

Daniel, thanks. As I’ve assumed, they all “cook with water” – very similar principles of operation (though implemented with varying code).

By: Daniel Nautré

Daniel Nautré — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:18:00 +0000

I just stumbled upon another plugin today: Collapsible Widget You might be interested.

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:23:38 +0000

Daniel, thanks for the hint.

From what I’ve read on their page, I can tell at its core their solution principle is not radically different from mine. (This is only natural, because, as it stands, that’s the only way it can be done with WordPress at all.) However, I guess it’ll be the solution details that make up the spice, and I sure will be curious to receive your feedback.

By: Daniel Nautré

Daniel Nautré — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:44:05 +0000

I few days ago, I installed a plugin which adds this functionnality to the sidebar widgets:

Sidebar Widget Collapser

To make it work, I had to make some mods on my theme, to make sur the plugin recognizes the widgets.

I’m looking forward for your solution.

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:29:16 +0000

Thanks, saintneko! I’ll be preparing a public release of the solution, so you can just use it.

Alas, it won’t be easy to achieve selective auto-collapsing of widgets, though I have an idea that might work. I’ll give it a try and see how it works out.

By: saintneko

saintneko — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:25:56 +0000

Wow, I was actually hoping for the title-only thing so I could have some control over what I forced upon the user I mainly want to have things like recent comments / posts / twitter hidden until people explore.

Wow you rock!