Best WordPress jQuery Accordion Plugins
As we see an increase of eCommerce sites developed on WordPress platform, the extension plug-ins especially the jQuery accordion plugins are gaining popularity. Accordion is a web control that allows you to provide multiple panes and display them one at a time. This can be viewed as multiple collapsible panels out of which only one can be expanded at a time. Many WordPress plugins are using jQuery accordion for the ease it offers to the developers as well as the user. In this article I will be listing the best jQuery Accordion plugins designed for WordPress.
Best WordPress jQuery Accordion Plugins
Jquery Accordion Slideshow –
This is a basic slideshow plugin for WordPress with accordion effect which is created using the famous JQuery JavaScript. With this word press plugin you can easily create a horizontal accordion slideshow. You have an option to select the duration of slide play and the timeout between the slides and trigger option.
Easy Accordion Pro –
This is one of the simplest Accordion plugin for WordPress. Once the accordion is enabled on your WordPress site you can use it by its short codes. You have an option to create accordions from general post, custom post and even custom taxonomy. This super simple plugin offers unlimited accordions and colors, supports multiple browsers and is responsive for all devices.
SlideDeck Lite –
This is a light weight slider plugin that lets you create responsive content slider for your WordPress plugin. With just few clicks you can easily create content slider from a variety of sources such as YouTube, WordPress posts, Pinterest, Flickr. The paid version of SlideDeck Lite allows content from many content sources.
CSS3 Accordions For WordPress –
CSS3 is a pure WordPress accordion plugin based on pure CSS and HTML. With this, you can put content of any format (such as images, lists, HTML code etc) inside the expandable section of accordion. This fully loaded plugin comes with features such as intuitive admin panel, unlimited color versions, unlimited data rows or columns, configurable dimensions and many more.
Slidorion –
Slidorion is an image slider and an accordion. It allows a beautiful platform to display images along with additional information in the form of variable length description. Some of its benefits include auto play of images, choice of the first slide, added effects such as fading, sliding, overlapping, pausing of the player on just a hover etc. Since all the Slidorions are stored as separate entities, you can create as many slidorions as you want.
Dynamic Accordion Banner Rotator –
The whole idea of creating this plugin so easy and simple was to let the programmers adapt it to any kind of project they wanted to develop involving rotator. Created in 2011, this plugin has evolved itself with latest version supporting various browsers (IE7, IE8, IE9, Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox). This wonderful plugin also lets you animate any kind of content in accordion, display dozens of color points and provides unlimited number of rotator options.
As we see an increase in eCommerce sites designed on WordPress, I strongly recommend these accordion plugins for the simplicity they offer to the developer as well as the user.
From the above stated plugins Easy Accordion Pro and SlideDeck Lite are my prime recommendations to use in an e-commerce website.
WordPress is a great choice for e-commerce development and with these plugins its going to be lot more easier.
Great collection. Thanks for sharing. I was going through the Jquery plugins and I found these the best for e-commerce development.
Great compilation. Today, e-commerce industry is touching its heights and including these plugins will surely going to help in the course of development.
If you are going for e-commerce development with WordPress as a platform then you should definitely incorporate these plugins in your project as they will be of great advantage.
Hey Justin, thanks for sharing this valuable knowledge.
Seems like good collection but I have to check them myself. Well, thanks for sharing.
You have created a very nice collection. SlideDeck Lite and Slidorion are the best among these.
These accordions are really nice and are the major role players in coming time.
This is very good bunch of plugins that you have presented. These will be of great help if one is going for an e-commerce store.