[Plugin: WP UI – Tabs, Accordions, Sliders] How about adding the tabs in theme files?

Hi Bharath, sorry for the late reply, there is something wrong with this forum’s feed and now we have got a forum there.

Yes you can use the tabs in your sidebar, though the header.php can be bit over complicated.

Sidebar

Shortcodes are already enabled on the sidebar Widgets, by wp-ui. If that somehow doesn’t work, append this to the theme’s function.php.

add_filter( 'widget_text', do_shortcode' );

Now you can use the shortcodes in the text widget ??

Header.php

You can use the tabs shortcode as and where applicable, with echo do_shortcode().

// shortcode with all the arguments.
$tabstart = '[wptabs style="ui-lightness"]';

echo do_shortcode( $tabstart );

// the title, content, and closing shortcodes follow.

But that procedure looks rather repelling, right? I am thinking about including some functions to make this simple.

Please let me know,
Kavin

Hello Kavin ,

Thanks for your kind help !

sorry for the late reply, there is something wrong with this forum’s feed and now we have got a forum there.

You did a right thing shifting from phpBB to Vanillaforums. BTW, There were some of my posts at your old forums which were not published (The forum was Moderation based).. So I started posting here ??

Yes you can use the tabs in your sidebar, though the header.php can be bit over complicated.

I have already tried the tabs in ‘text’ widgets and successfully able to publish. I failed to use the code in header.php .Any how I will follow the echo do_shortcode() in header.php and will update you

Thanks again !

Hai Bharath,

First stuff first –
If you would like to show only the posts, you can ditch the header.php and take on index.php. You can create like 4-5 custom loops and add them to tabs.

Also i recommend that you take a look at the file “wp-ui-dev.js” under plugins/wp-ui/js/, if you are comfortable with the code . Implementing the tabs are down right simple. ??

Thanks for the kind words. Yep, i decided to switch to vanilla, main reason it being simple and straight forward.
I am sorry about the lost forum posts. I had the forum backup with the vanilla import tool, but it ignored some posts, no idea why, for that i made sure there were no posts under moderation. Sorry for the inconvenience.