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How to: Show/Hide any div box with jQuery in WordPress
If you take a look at my current sidebar (right) and see the heading Google Search you’ll notice that when you click it the Google Search box show’s into view.
Let me show you how this is done.
First make sure that your WordPress site is calling jQuery, buy pluggin this code into our header.php file above the <?php wp_head(); ?> text:
<?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>
Then anywhere above the </head >, plug this code in:
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
// hides the slickbox as soon as the DOM is ready
jQuery('#toggle-search').hide();
// toggles the slickbox on clicking the noted link
jQuery('a#slick-slidetoggle').click(function() {
jQuery('#toggle-search').slideToggle(400);
return false;
});
});
</script>
That’s simple, huh. Okay now lets write the Search code:
<h2><a href="#" id="slick-slidetoggle">Google Search</a></h2>
<div id="toggle-search" style="padding:10px;">
<form method="get" id="search" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
<div>
<input type="text" value="Enter Keyword" onclick="this.value='';" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="text" name="search-button" id="search-button" value="<?php _e('Search') ?>" />
</div>
</form>
</div>
That’s it.
You should head over the the newly redesigned site of Matt Mullenweg, the inventor of WordPress! His site is all new for the Spring season, and he has been tounting many of us with quick screen shots at WordCamp Las Vegas & WordCamp Denver. But finally, and I guess a little delayed, the new theme has launched.
I like it! What do you think?
So I have been really busy, and haven’t been able to put up a new post since I got back from WordCamp Denver.
WordCult Screenshot
I have finished about 80% of the theme which is based off my current theme located on my personal blog site: TheFrosty. TheFrosty is using version 0.1 of the theme, which has many faults and bugs. I have fixed many of them, and probably added a few others.
In version 0.2 I’ve added a new jQuery “featured posts” loader and the option for sticky posts. I have also fixed a lot of CSS errors, it should W3C comply :).
Also in the newer version I have tried to add more to the admin panel, in ways of options.
If you would like to download this theme and test it out before I release it to the community please let me know. I would love to get some feedback or ideas on what you’ve got to say. Just use the contact form or send me a message on Twitter.
Once you’ve got the theme..
Let me know what you think! Leave you comments and feedback. I am also trying to get a forum up on the site as well.
Thanks!
Frosty
Update for 0.2:
I’ve updated my personal site: TheFrosty to the latest version of WordCult (0.2). I’ve already found some small bugs and CSS fixes that need to be taken care of. Also I don’t think that the Adsense display is working correctly.
If you’ve noticed any issues please contact me or leave a comment.
Update for 0.2.1:
The new version, 0.2.1 brings in some integration from Justin Tadlocks Widgets Reloaded plugin. It’s fully integrated into the theme. So you’ll notice some widgets disappear and be replaced by others. If you need to get them back Justin makes a plugin that will “release” the old widgets on your new theme install.
Update: 0.3
Get the newest version of WordCult, download Version 0.3 from this page.
Well hello to everyone, hope you are going to have a great weekend! I am heading to Denver Colorado tonight for the first WordCamp. I have decided to help out some here a bit, and I will be using my web cam to broadcast live inside the Denver Art Museum. Plus I am video recording with my HDD camera, so that someone can put all the video together in the end and publish it to WordPress TV
Morning Update:
Looks like there is not a good location to broadcast live from the morning session. Will have to wait till the afternoon.
Afternoon Update:
Got in the technical meet late, didn’t get a very good seat against the wall in the corner. So the angle of broadcast would not work so good. Also uStream isn’t picking up my web cam 🙁
I beleive you can view the rest of WordCamp Denver (Blogger Trac) at http://bitwirelive.com
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ket
February 8, 2009 at 2:25 am
Man I like this trick and will add it to my theme. Thanks for sharing.
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Willie P
June 17, 2011 at 5:39 pm
I agree, this is a great little trick and will be implementing it on one of my blogs pretty quick here.
Thanks!
John MacMenamin
February 17, 2009 at 9:14 am
Great Tip I’m using it (Adapted) in a theme.
Thanks again
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Jimmy
February 17, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Is it possible to hide multi Div boxs with jQuery? and If so how?
frosty
February 18, 2009 at 1:00 pm
There sure is Jimmy,
All you need to do is reuse the code, and change the #id to the new div box #id.
since we already have:
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
// hides the slickbox as soon as the DOM is ready
jQuery(‘#toggle-search’).hide();
// toggles the slickbox on clicking the noted link
jQuery(‘a#slick-slidetoggle’).click(function() {
jQuery(‘#toggle-search’).slideToggle(400);
return false;
});
});
We just need to add in:
jQuery(‘#toggle-search’).hide();
jQuery(‘#toggle-tags’).hide(); //option to hide the ID before the page loads
And:
jQuery(‘a#slick-slidetoggle’).click(function() {
jQuery(‘#toggle-search’).slideToggle(400);
return false;
jQuery(‘a#slick-slidetoggle-tag’).click(function() {
jQuery(‘#toggle-tags’).slideToggle(400);
return false;
That’s it for the function. Just make sure you create a div box with the id of
#toggle-tagsEdhuan
August 1, 2009 at 11:30 pm
You missed out the ” }); ” . Thought I might point it out to save others from some frustration. Thanks for pointing out how to add multiple boxes.
🙂
jQuery(document).ready(function() { // hides the slickbox as soon as the DOM is ready jQuery('#toggle-topic1').hide(); jQuery('#toggle-topic2').hide(); // toggles the slickbox on clicking the noted link jQuery('a#slick-slidetoggle1').click(function() { jQuery('#toggle-topic1').slideToggle(400); return false; }); jQuery('a#slick-slidetoggle2').click(function() { jQuery('#toggle-topic2').slideToggle(400); return false; }); });hamid
March 14, 2009 at 4:17 am
Thanks a lot for that,
but there something confusing me, i set it up like u said exactly and it works very fine, but it’s not working inside the categories in wordpress when im using the permalinks?
do you know why is that?
Austin Passy
March 14, 2009 at 3:34 pm
I’m not sure I understand what your talking about. Do you have an example?
Mark
March 15, 2009 at 2:29 am
Nice script – I’ll add it to my blog as well. Many thanks.
J.lE
March 23, 2009 at 7:09 am
nice plugin, will try it.
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RaiulBaztepo
March 28, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language 😉
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo
Bill
April 23, 2009 at 4:13 am
Thanks for the info! It still amazes me everything you can do with JQuery.
Craig
September 1, 2009 at 7:45 pm
This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
One question though. Is it possible to hide the box permanently by maybe setting a cookie, or checking if user is logged in?
Austin
September 2, 2009 at 5:45 pm
There is, you’d have to look into the jQuery cookie tutorial for how to do this.
aron
September 7, 2009 at 1:47 am
Hi Austin
Can we use inside a loop?
Austin
September 7, 2009 at 6:12 pm
yes.
dave
September 13, 2009 at 2:57 am
many thanks for this.
is there a way to set the div to “show” on load, and “hide” on click?
thx in advance.
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jonesy
September 24, 2009 at 6:41 am
hey austin,
this was so nice – one question, i’m not getting this to work with multiple divs on the same click – i want to hide both divs at once, not with two buttons. do you know why this may not work:
// toggles the slickbox on clicking the noted link
jQuery(‘a#slick-slidetoggle’).click(function() {
jQuery(‘#div_a’).slideToggle(400);
jQuery(‘#div_b’).sideToggle(400);
return false;
});
});
GT
August 15, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Hey there Jonesy,
This is something I’m trying to implement as well; I want to have the more insane parts of my ranting hidden by default, and one button at the top of the post that says “Bring the Crazy”.
The key is the diff between ID and CLASS… you can have multiple things with class “craziness”, but you can only have one thing with ID craziness.
It’s still easy to do though – and no doubt in the last eight months (wrote GT, spotting the date) you’ve already found out how.
I’ll shut up now.
Cheerio
GT
Mike
October 27, 2009 at 10:43 am
Hi,
Thanks for the great tutorial, and adaptaion for multiple show/hide DIVs, it works great!!
There seems to bit a little problem with the jQuery and Firefox (3.5), whereby if the expandable DIV is at the very bottom of the page, the page flickers (quite harshly) when you hide the DIV (when it is expanded), as the page resizes to become smaller. Can’t see evidence of this problem in Opera or Safari 4.
I guess it’s a problem with Firefox’s capabilities, but is there a way around this problem?
Blake
May 17, 2010 at 10:32 am
Very cool tutorial. Will give it a shot on my site.
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Andy
June 24, 2010 at 9:20 am
Hi
Ive got the code working, but if I use it on two or three elements they all work, i.e. open and close, when one of the links is clicked.
Im wanting to create this into a shortcode in WP and would like to know how to get them to work independently without listing each separately.
How do i get them to loop and work individually?
Thanks in advance
Gimei
July 14, 2010 at 6:25 am
Thx for this. I will try out now. I have to show/hide a calendar at side of a site. Hope this will help me 🙂
Carports
August 11, 2010 at 11:13 pm
I’m glad to this is usable in the loop.
Bill
August 19, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Hi,
Great tip! Much smaller than other solutions!
But what if I want to query some posts in WordPress and don’t want to have to add a bunch of functions for every post, I just want to be able to hide and show every post. You know what I mean?
Would be great if you could help me with that!
Thanks!
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Adrian
December 18, 2010 at 2:33 pm
fixed ok thnx
F.
January 31, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Awesome. Thanks.
Nick
February 17, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Is there a way to make this code work with buttons? I can get it to work just fine with a basic link, but I’d like to create a button that toggles…
Thanks!
donya
April 8, 2011 at 10:50 am
Love this! But, what I’d like to do is show/hide the div containing the comments on each of my WordPress posts, on the index.php page, which contains multiple posts. Is there a way to modify the jQuery so that it hides each set of comments? Right now when I try to implement it, each botton (at the bottom of each post) closes just the first set of comments, rather than for the specific post.
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June 4, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Have you ever accomplished that fully without errors?
Giorgos
June 8, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Thanks a lot! Exactly what I was looking for!!
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July 12, 2011 at 3:06 am
i need this codes but does this work for all themes?
peng
August 21, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Thx a lot! I searched in Google for show/hide js script for WP and this is the only one that works perfectly in FF IE and safari…very good job Austin, thumb up!
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September 16, 2011 at 7:34 am
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Adriana
October 31, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Hi Austin,
Thanks for posting this, it works like a charm and it’s (almost) exactly what I need.
If you don’t mind me asking, how could I make it slide from the bottom to the top?
Thanks a lot for your time!
Andy Nathan
November 4, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Will this work on any theme? or atleast any standard theme?