Great plugin, especially for big blogs

  • I have an old WP blog with a ton of archives, tags, and categories.

    The accordion widget features allow for collapsing and expanding the widgets on the sidebar, and by default I keep them collapsed so that they don’t take up so much space.

    I have two suggestions for improvement:

    * right now you can only limit the accordion effect to widget areas (a whole sidebar) using the setting “Widget area IDs in which AW is effective (optional, comma delimited)”

    it would be great if you could limit the accordion effect to particular *widgets* by entering a list of *widget IDs* instead of a list of entire *widget area IDs*. this would make it completely customizable, so that you can pick and choose any widgets to apply the accordion effect.

    And:

    Right now, we get a class “hm-swe-accordion-head” added to the widget title with the accordion widget feature. It would be great if another class was added: “collapsed” when the widget is collapsed, and “expanded” when the widget is expanded. I know this is possible to do, and would be easy to add to the code that changes out the +/- icons.

    With these extra classes, people could write CSS to create different effects based on if the widget is expanded or collapsed. Or, more options could be added to the plugin that allow for the following: For example, say I want my widget title to be red if it is collapsed and green if it is expanded. With the right CSS classes on the widget titles, it would be easy to do.

    Or if I want a :hover effect that changes the color of the +/- icon if the when the user hovers over the widget title. Well, there would be four icons. One for each of:
    .widget-title.collapsed
    .widget-title.collapsed:hover
    .widget-title.expanded
    .widget-title.expanded:hover

    All in all though, minor issues. This is a great plugin; I’ve been looking for this FOR YEARS. A+++

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  • Plugin Author blogger323

    (@blogger323)

    Hi Thermador,

    Great thanks for your comment and detailed suggestions.

    For the first suggetion, I think you can do it by setting ‘Custom Widget Selectors’. Please try to set it like ‘#area1_id, #area2_id’. It will work for you. (I admit that I have to improve the documents…)

    Regarding the second suggestion, it sounds good. I will make it in the future release, hopefully the next one.

    Additionally, if you have many revisions in your huge blog, please check my another plugin, Thin Out Revisions. Hoping you will like it and give me another suggestion ??

    Plugin Author blogger323

    (@blogger323)

    I should have written as ‘#widget1_id, #widget2_id’ to avoid confusing expression…

    Thread Starter thermador

    (@thermador)

    Ah excellent, thank you. I tried the custom widget selectors but I didn’t read the documentation on your website to get the syntax right: https://en.hetarena.com/standard-widget-extensions Thank you for the help!

    Plugin Author blogger323

    (@blogger323)

    In SWE 1.7, hm-swe-expanded/hm-swe-collapsed classes are used to indicate widget status. Check it out!

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