Collapse Magic (CLAPS)

Collapse Magic provides an easy way to display (collapsible) read-more text on a page. This plugin is an alternative to other plugins like collapse-o-matic and can be used as a direct replacement without the need for any changes to page content.

Features

• Easy to implement
• Configurable expand and collapse labels
• Configurable up and down arrows
• Adjustable visible text height in the collapsed state
• Adjustable fade-out text visible in the collapsed state
• Unfortunately this plugin does not support Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

Background

Collapse Magic provides an easy way to display (collapsible) read-more text on a page. Also, display a few lines of text and add read-more or expand text.

This plugin was developed when a cross-site scripting vulnerability was identified in collapse-o-matic. This plugin can be used as a direct replacement to collapse-o-matic. There is no need for any on-page changes to be made for the plugin to be used as a replacement.

Set-up

• Install the plugin
• Set any parameters from the admin Settings menu.
• Place text between [magic_expand][/magic_expand] tags or between [expand][/expand] for the toggle to work.
• Include alternate ‘read-more’ text if this is required in the shortcode as [magic_expand title=”NEW READ-MORE TEXT”].
• Use alternate ‘read-less’ text if this is required in the shortcode as [magic_expand swaptitle=”NEW READ-LESS TEXT”].
• Toggle button to set the default location of the expand / collapse label to above or below the section.
• Single click disable button to switch off the shortcodes and show the full text.

Shortcode Parameters

• Read-more / expand label – ‘title’. Example [magic_expand title=”–more–“].
• Read-less / collapse label – ‘swaptitle’. Example [magic_expand title=”–more–” swaptitle=”–less–“].
• Position of the expand label – ‘pos’. Example [magic_expand pos=”above”] or [magic_expand pos=”below”]

Credits

This plugin was inspired by the approach used by:
– Nelson Miller: How To Expand And Collapse Text In Divi: the jQuery code was modified for this plugin.