Title: Sidebar Widget Collapser
Author: jaredbangs
Published: <strong>Kevardhu 7, 2008</strong>
Last modified: Gwynngala 18, 2009

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Sidebar Widget Collapser

 By [jaredbangs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jaredbangs/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sidebar-widget-collapser.1.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-widget-collapser/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-widget-collapser/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-widget-collapser/#installation)
 * [Development](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-widget-collapser/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sidebar-widget-collapser/)

## Description

This plugin adds a script that will dynamically add the collapse and expand links
to your sidebar widgets, as you can see in action on [my blog](http://freepressblog.org/).

### Version log

 * 1.0
    - Initial upload

### Future versions

TBD

## Installation

Standard plugin install procedure: copy files then activate. Check the options page
to customize for your theme’s particular widget setup, since some themes use different
markup for their widgets.

The default options for this plugin make some initial assumptions about the structure
of your sidebar. You may override these in the options page.

Specifically, the default settings assume that
 * Your sidebar is (or is wrapped
in) an element with the id of “sidebar” * That sidebar element contains an unordered
list (UL) that will contain all your sidebar widgets * The list items (LI) in that
list are your widgets, as identified with a class name containing the text “widget”*
And, finally that these widget list items contain a title, which is a direct child
element (usually H2 or H3, but not required to be) with the class of “widgettitle”

## FAQ

None yet.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Sidebar Widget Collapser” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ jaredbangs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jaredbangs/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sidebar-widget-collapser/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/sidebar-widget-collapser/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/sidebar-widget-collapser/)
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## Meta

 *  Version **1.4**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-widget-collapser/)
 * Tags
 * [javascript](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/javascript/)[sidebar](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)
   [widget](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-widget-collapser/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ jaredbangs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jaredbangs/)

## Support

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