Tabbed Navigation Widget

I have been installing and trying out new plugins at this blog. Some have worked out very well while others have not been anything to talk about.

So over the next few days I am going to go over the gems that I have found. Some you can’t live without and some are just a luxury.

However, the best out of the lot is the Accordion plugin. See the tabbed navigation in the sidebar for Categories/Archives/Tabs? Yes, that is accordion. It can display up to 6 tabs for plugins which use li tags. This is necessary as it encloses everything in ul list tags.

However, I have a tweak around that.

If your plugin/function does not produce a nested list like my Tag Cloud, then this is what you need to do.

Go to Design > Widgets
Make sure Accordion is added.

Then click Edit.

For each tab you can add a function like wp_categories(); and so on.

Now let’s assume you want to add the tag cloud function. This means you have to add li tags around it. However, the function only takes php code.

So what’s the magic code? It is:

?><li><? function here; ?></li><?

The logiic to that is you first close the php code with ?> add your li tag, open php code again and add your function. Close PHP code. Close li tags. Begin php code at the end.

In case you don’t get that, don’t worry. It still works

It is really a cool little tool! One which I have been searching for for ages so I am very glad someone finally came up with it.

Click Here to go to the Accordion Plugin Home Page

Tags: Accordion, Tabbed Interface, Widget