Accordion Sliding Menu in Wordpress

Recently I and my team have been looking at a design that we have been working on which of course included implementing the design into Wordpress. This was a special project only because no matter how many backup links, bookmarks you can create, manage and hold on to there is always something that you will work on where you just can’t seem to find it. We have a huge list of links and resources that are always available in case we need to go back and re-study them to complete something unique. This happen to us on this project when it came to creating a Wordpress website design and development in need to use the Accordion Vertical Sliding menu.

Having to look for a new source, using Google and MSN we noticed that we haven’t found many places that incorporate this effect well into Wordpress. Specially when your client wants quite a few custom features in it. On our search and find mission, we went through quite a bit of date, trials, tutorials and others. We’ve played around with few ideas in our heads, within the HTML and PHP coding but no matter how we tried to wrap out head around, nothing seems to work just the way our client and our team would of liked.

Finally we stumbled going through the large Wordpress Extend directory of plug-ins to find this fantastic Wordpress plug-in that simply works! That’s right you heard us correctly, a simple download, install and activate plug-in for Wordpress that will generate an “accordion sliding like” menu and use your pages. It is called the Collapsing Pages. We also wanted to get our sub-pages included in this, as a multiple drop down / accordion menu. Amazing, the plug-in just did that for us too. Styling it was a little bit of a pain, but you can select custom code within its setting/preferences and implement proper styling within your CSS file that is imported into your web page under Wordpress.

It also works great because not only can you implement this little thing into your page or blog but it also comes with its own little Widget, place it, configure it and bam! a working accordion sliding menu in Wordpress sidebar.

That said off we went, installed the plug-in, activated the plug-in, configured and bam! like a charm it worked! We placed it and used the widget style of this plug-in to incorporate it into the functioning website as the location was the sidebar.

Our client was very happy with the results and I must say that we were as well. So check it out, download it and share it. Very nice and tons of credit to the creator for this, too bad its not as popular as it should be. I must say, quite a few people around the forums, blogs and else where are searching just for such working plug-in. Hopefully this will change and boost a little bit of its popularity, so everyone can enjoy and use it within their own blogs, designs and inspirations.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/collapsing-pages

Have a blast with it, for us this one did the job and delivered the results we wanted for our client. It works better than anything else out there we could scoop up and get to work. Plus on top of its setup and functionality, 100% browser compatible folks! of course might need little extra attention when we get into Internet Explorer 6 and below.

Enjoy, share your thoughts with us on this one.