Title: Expanding Widgets
Author: mattclements
Published: <strong>July 25, 2014</strong>
Last modified: August 9, 2015

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Expanding Widgets

 By [mattclements](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattclements/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/expanding-widgets.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expanding-widgets/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expanding-widgets/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expanding-widgets/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expanding-widgets/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/expanding-widgets/)

## Description

Expanding Widgets is a quick way to add multiple widgets, and show only one/multiple
widgets at a time. You can easily change “Allow Multiple Widgets Open” to allow 
multiple widgets to be displayed at a time.

### Features

 * Supports Shortcodes within Widgets
 * No Additional JS/CSS required
 * Unlimited number of widgets supported (change the `$_max_widgets` parameter within
   the main PHP file to change the number of widgets)

Sample CSS is below, which provides some basic styling.

 * [Sample CSS](https://gist.github.com/mattclements/21777cb96f767e8a198c)

## Installation

 1. Upload `expanding-widgets` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Expanding Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ mattclements ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattclements/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expanding-widgets/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/expanding-widgets/),
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by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/expanding-widgets/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial Version

#### 1.1

 * Support for WordPress 4.3

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 * Tag
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expanding-widgets/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ mattclements ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattclements/)

## Support

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