Sometimes what you want to fold away is not a paragraph but a whole section — images, a table, a list of specifications.
The Editor source lets you build normally inside the Expand block, then collapse the lot behind a button.
For every Expand setting in one place, see the Expand block guide.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — the Expand block is part of Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Expand, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- Nothing extra — you build the content inside the block as you would anywhere else.
Steps
- Add the Expand block to your page and click Design from Scratch.
- Type a Title if you want one above the box.
- Set Content Source to Editor.
- Click inside the Expand block and add whatever blocks you want hidden — paragraphs, images, tables, anything.
- Rename the labels in Text, for example Load More and Show Less.
- In Extra Options, set Max Height — how tall the box is before anyone clicks. Make it shorter than your content.
- Set the Text for the open and closed labels.
- Publish and click the toggle.
Max Height has to be smaller than your content. If the content already fits, there is nothing to collapse and the toggle does nothing useful — measured with a short paragraph in a 100 pixel box, where expanding actually made the box smaller.
How It Behaves
- Real blocks, really collapsed. Measured with two long paragraphs inside: the box went from 100 pixels closed to 665 open, and back again.
- Anything you can put on a page can go inside, because it is the ordinary block editor.
- The blocks stay editable in place — there is no separate screen to go to.
- Expand Direction and Toggle Alignment decide whether the button sits above or below the content, and where across the width.
Limitations
- Pro only.
- It is not pagination. Everything is on the page from the start; the button reveals it rather than fetching more.
- A very tall hidden section still costs the visitor the full page weight up front.
- Hidden content is still in the page’s HTML. This is a presentation choice, not a way to keep anything private or to make the page lighter.
Troubleshooting
The button does nothing
The blocks inside are shorter than Max Height. Lower the Max Height so there is something to reveal.
I cannot add blocks inside
Content Source is not set to Editor. The other sources use their own field or a pattern.
I wanted it to load posts as the visitor scrolls
This block reveals content already on the page. It does not fetch anything.
