Title: WP-ShowHide Author: Lester Chan Published: April 28, 2011 Last modified: November 28, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-showhide/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=1206767) ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-showhide/assets/icon.svg?rev=978037) # WP-ShowHide By [Lester Chan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gamerz/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-showhide.1.06.zip) * [Details](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-showhide/#description) * [Reviews](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-showhide/#reviews) * [Development](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-showhide/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-showhide/) ## Description By default the content is hidden and user will have to click on the “Show Content” link to toggle it. Similar to what Engadget is doing for their press releases. Example usage: `[showhide type="pressrelease"]Press Release goes in here.[/showhide]` ### Usage 1. By default, content within the showhide shortcode will be hidden. 2. Example: `[showhide]Press release content goes in here.[/showhide]` 3. Default Values: `[showhide type="pressrelease" more_text="Show Press Release (% s More Words)" less_text="Hide Press Release (%s Less Words)" hidden="yes"]` 4. You can have multiple showhide content within a post or a page, just by having a new type. 5. Example: `[showhide type="links" more_text="Show Links (%s More Words)" less_text ="Hide Links (%s Less Words)"]Links will go in here.[/showhide]` 6. If you want to set the default visibility to display. 7. Example: `[showhide hidden="no"]Press release content goes in here.[/showhide]` 8. You can style the content via CSS that is generated by the plugin. Here is a sample of the generated HTML. Note that pressrelease is the default type. ``` ``` 1. With the example above, here are the following styles you can use in your CSS: ``` .sh-link A { } .sh-content { } .pressrelease-link { } .pressrelease-link.sh-hide A { } .pressrelease-link.sh-show A { } .pressrelease-content { } .pressrelease-content.sh-hide { } .pressrelease-content.sh-show { } ``` ### Development [https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-showhide](https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-showhide) ### Translations [http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-showhide/i18n/](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-showhide/i18n/) ### Credits * Plugin icon by [Freepik](http://www.freepik.com) from [Flaticon](http://www.flaticon.com) ### Donations I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations. ## Screenshots * [[ * Show More – Press Release * [[ * Hide More – Press Release * [[ * Editor – Short Code ## FAQ N/A ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3060dfb3ebc69b2721b61c6c9b257b572740c78d796374d7b750fbb49411dffe? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works great with WP 6.8.1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-with-wp-6-8-1/)󠁿 [Dave Smith](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sophoservices/) July 3, 2025 Shows and hides text just like it says it does! Thank you! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5112f2f6b6ebee0e8f4e64a6a8d7c9c0d9c36e41a96b96b2c8d0a4a8113d3b52? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Needs Update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needs-update-29/)󠁿 [vivatword](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vivatword/) April 13, 2025 Thanks for the free plugin and support. it doesn’t work woth the latest wp. the hided side can not be seen after click the show. it is only active when logged in to wp-admin. please update it. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/da4bab7747b735b8fb94a85a4711fa143a38a46f12bd45f431f2ce6102ec16d9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Needs documentation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needs-documentation-5/)󠁿 [delboy007](https://profiles.wordpress.org/delboy007/) February 9, 2022 I don’t understand why developers take the time to write a plugin and then don’t bother to provide detailed documentation. Looks like it might do what I want but I give up trying and notice a lot of support requests have not been replied to. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0f506eb13b5c750220d42b3746eb21ab8dbb832ec4e625b2c581f03e7f85643e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-29543/)󠁿 [Rollaz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rollaz/) January 30, 2021 Simple and working plugin. Tried several more, but they had issues with filter Im using on my page, this one worked like a charm. Additionally I would recommend to add an option to show hide button on the bottom of displayed text. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b9e6852002036e802ef36d83dae57bf39ce624a523869e293f723b5ba3d78c07? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[WP ShowHide is a great plugin,](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-showhide-is-a-great-plugin/)󠁿 [thetravelgal](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thetravelgal/) December 23, 2020 1 reply Love this plugin. Had a little panic that it wasn’t going to work with Wordpress 5.6 and php 7.4, but it does. Please keep maintaining this plugin! (I just sent my donation.) ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3956b3259e2b02d5d5dffd9286cb4c19b90899c1b3d149c223c12ddcc73888ea? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[great idea but doesn’t work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-idea-but-doesnt-work-6/)󠁿 [pentagramwookie](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pentagramwookie/) September 20, 2020 It’s a great idea and could be very useful but it doesn’t work on the current WP version. The site I was trying to use this on uses WP 5.5.1, with plugins Akismet, Feed Them Social, Feedzy, and Lightbox. I figure this plugin may be incompatible with one of those plugins or this current version of WP. The link doesn’t do anything when clicked and the wrong text is showing up. Even though I changed the shortcode to say ‘MORE INFO’ it still said Press Release along with the additional number text and a number next to it. I didn’t see settings anywhere for this plugin. [ Read all 42 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-showhide/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “WP-ShowHide” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Lester Chan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gamerz/) “WP-ShowHide” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-showhide/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “WP-ShowHide” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-showhide) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-showhide/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-showhide/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-showhide/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-showhide/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog ### Version 1.06 * FIXED: esc_html() for more text to prevent XSS ### Version 1.05 * FIXED: esc_attr type attributes to prevent XSS ### Version 1.04 * NEW: Added aria-hidden and aria-expanded to elements ### Version 1.03 * NEW: Added `.sh-link` and `.sh-content` as a standard class name on top of the type specific class name. * NEW: Added do_shortcode() to allow shortcode to be parsed within ShowHide ### Version 1.02 * FIXED: Some theme uses `.hide` as `display: none` and hence I have changed `. show` to `.sh-show` and `.hide` to `.sh-hide` to advoid conflicts. ### Version 1.01 * NEW: Added additional `show` or `hide` class to the link and content depending on the visiblity of the content to allow more precise CSS styling. ### Version 1.00 (01-05-2011) * FIXED: Initial Release ## Meta * Version **1.06** * Last updated **4 months ago** * Active installations **10,000+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.8.5** * Languages * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-showhide/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-showhide/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-showhide/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-showhide/), and [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-showhide/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-showhide) * Tags * [content](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content/)[hide](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hide/) [press release](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/press-release/)[show](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/show/) [visibility](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/visibility/) * [Advanced View](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-showhide/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.2 out of 5 stars. * [ 30 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-showhide/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 4 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-showhide/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-showhide/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 4 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-showhide/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 5 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-showhide/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-showhide/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-showhide/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Lester Chan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gamerz/) ## Support Got something to say? 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