Quick Wordpress tab question

February 13, 2012 12:15 PM

Wordpress quickie: I've just been handed the job of looking after a wordpress blog. One of the pages is set up with a single tab. I want to add another tab, how do I do it?

The code for the page looks like this:

[tabbed tabs="September"] [tab]

September, blah text of tab....

[/tab] [/tabbed]

I want to add a tab for "October", how? I've done a quick googling for "[tabbed" in the Wordpress documentation but I'm getting pointers to plugins. Don't know what plug-in is being used for this function....All i need is an example! Wordpress 3.2.1

posted by storybored to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

I'd start by logging in and going to the Plugins management page to see if any plugins are enabled.
posted by beyond_pink at 12:30 PM on February 13, 2012

This is most likely the result of the theme you're using or a plugin. Check the theme page in the admin and look for documentation links. Do the same for each non-obvious plugin.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 12:51 PM on February 13, 2012

Is it a shortcode specific to your theme?
posted by humph at 1:21 PM on February 13, 2012

[tabbed] and [tab] are both shortcodes added after the fact in WordPress by calling "add_shortcode( 'tabbed', ... )" somewhere. This is most likely either in functions.php in your active theme or in one of the plugins you are running, or, if your current theme is a child theme, in a parent theme. So I'd be going to look for the thing that calls that add_shortcode and consult the related (plugin or theme) documentation.

So you can download the site and look for that code in the .php files in wp-content/.

Based on what you shared, possibly it would be:

[tabbed tabs="September,October"] [tab]
   September, blah text of tab....
[/tab] [tab]
   October, blah text of tab....
[/tab][/tabbed]

But that's just a guess.
posted by artlung at 2:33 PM on February 13, 2012

I'd bet it's a theme short code rather than a plugin. Go to Appearance>Themes and see which one is activated, then look up the documentation for the theme. It sounds like some Elegant Themes that I've used.
posted by TallulahBankhead at 6:23 PM on February 14, 2012