WordPress 101: Expanding Text Plugin
March 3, 2010
By: Eric Bramlett
Author's Website: http://www.ericbramlett.com/
I’ve started putting together a few WordPress tutorials and thought I would share. This is a fantastic plugin that allows you to show introductory text, and the user can expand the text (on the same page) if they want to read more. This way, you can keep your listings higher on the page for users that want to see those, and allow users that want to read more about an area or neighborhood to do so without leaving that page. Nevertheless, here it is:
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jeffreydouglass on March 3, 2010 8:08 pm
Eric, Thanks for the great video, looks like a really good tool. I could not find it on the wordpress plugin install menu, do you have the actual name of the plug-in?
Thanks again
Joshua Dorkin @ BiggerPockets on March 3, 2010 11:42 pm
I was about to ask for a link to the plugin, but I see that Jeffrey beat me to the punch. Can you please provide us with that. Thanks!
ericbramlett on March 4, 2010 5:48 am
Here you go, guys. Adding it to the post now:
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/expanding-t...
SacramentoBill on March 4, 2010 7:00 am
Where is the text? When search engines come to visit what do they see? Is it still part of this page, another page or invisible to search engines?
By the way, this was a nicely done demo of a useful tool. Do you have others? Or know where to find useful WordPress tools for real estate?
Thanks
ericbramlett on March 4, 2010 8:02 am
The text is still on page. Google indexes the text. Here's a cached version of one of my pages: http://budurl.com/r95x Click “text-only version” in the top right and you'll see it's all there.
This technique is good for the user experience, and doesn't hurt your crawl, so I love it.
Thanks for the kind words about the tutorial! I've started putting together a number of them on my channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/displet
atlantarealestate on March 5, 2010 4:00 am
Eric:
I don't need it, but I like it and thanks for sharing.
What do you use to display your IDX on your neighborhood pages?
Rob
ericbramlett on March 5, 2010 9:50 am
Hey Rob – I have a proprietary IDX w/ a # of WP plugins.
atlantarealestate on March 5, 2010 10:51 am
Roger that, thank you.
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peterfedric on March 12, 2010 11:16 pm
Excellent video dear. I want to download that plug in. Can you give me it's download link?? One for thing is there any plugin available who auto updates post in your blog if post is rss feed?? IF yes then please give me info of that plug in also.
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Colin on March 22, 2010 10:40 am
Hi, i have downloaded it but i cannot install it to wordpress as it is text, can someone advise how i install it please?
thanks
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