7 Best Tabs WordPress Plugins
Tabs allow you to break up your content into easy to read sections for your readers. If you have long posts that aren’t getting the traction you hoped for, maybe tabbing your content is the answer! To make creating tabs easier, developers have built many great plugins which can tab your content quickly and without hassle. We at WP Carers have put together a list of some of our favourites for you: 7 Best Tabs WordPress Plugins.
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1. WordPress Post Tabs – Tabs WordPress
WordPress Post Tabs is a tabs WordPress plugin that lets you choose whether or not to include navigation links to the next tab and decide what text should be on those links. This plugin makes CSS changes easy and comes with 3 themes included. Additional features include full mobile responsiveness, a visual editor button, navigation links, fade effect and nested tabs.
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2. Easy Responsive Tabs – WordPress Tabs Plugin
This plugin sets up a settings panel in your visual editor so that you can easily change the colour of every part of your tabs. However, changing the style on Easy Responsive Tabs is much more difficult. The plugin is Bootstrap 3 compatible and uses a tinyMCE editor icon. Additional features include easy CSS, the option for top or bottom tabs, a visual editor button, the option for left or right aligning tabs and a choice of which tab to open for viewers on page load.
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3. Tab Me – Tabs Plugin WordPress
Tab Me is a simple tabs plugin with no settings to configure and only manually inserted shortcodes. This plugin is like marmite, users will either love it or hate it! At the top of the open tab there’s a blue strip where you can change the stylesheet if you’re comfortable with CSS. The plugin is fully mobile responsive so you can be assured it will work well for viewers on all devices.
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4. Fancy Tabs – Tabs WordPress Plugin
This plugin allows you to divide your content into sections or tabs using manually inserted short codes. Despite this simplicity, Fancy Tabs also has CSS available from the WordPress plugin directory which lets you make a adjustments to the tab styles. This plugin is often compared to Tab Me and is incredibly similar, it also features the same high level of mobile responsiveness as it.
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5. Tabby Responsive Tabs – Tabs Plugin for WordPress
Tabby Responsive Tabs is a clean plugin with no settings or attributes to worry about. Like the previous two plugins on this list, all shortcodes must be entered manually when using this plugin. The plugin is very mobile responsive: on large screens the plugin creates a traditional tab look but on smaller screens it switches to accordion panels. Additional features include multiple sets of tabs per page, Semantic header, content markup, jQuery compatibility and optional add-ons.
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6. Tabs Shortcode – Tabs WordPress
This is another simple tabs plugin with manually inserted shortcodes and clean-looking tabs. Tabs Shortcode makes attributes available for you to give your tabs extra functionality. There’s no styling section included with the plugin but there’s a sample style sheet provided which you can apply yourself. Additional features include mobile responsiveness, collapsible tabs, options for tabs positioning and an option to use mouseover to switch tabs.
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7. Post UI Tabs – Tabs WordPress Plugin
Post UI Tabs is a great plugin which provides you with visual editor buttons to place shortcodes in your posts. The tabs on this plugin come in 24 different colours, with a preview available. Additional features include the option to define CSS, full mobile responsiveness, navigation links and jQuery integration.