Responsive Tabs is a fast, lightweight WordPress tabs plugin for organizing content into horizontal, vertical, or accordion tab sets — no coding knowledge needed. Create a tab set, add your tabs, and drop it into any page with the block editor or a shortcode.
Whether you're building an FAQ section, breaking up a long product description, or organizing a documentation page, Responsive Tabs turns a wall of text into clean, clickable sections your visitors will actually read.
Why Choose Responsive Tabs?
- No coding required — create a tab set and start adding tabs immediately
- Modern, dependency-free engine — no jQuery required, fast and lightweight
- Gutenberg block included — add tabs anywhere in the block editor, no shortcode-hunting
- Fully responsive — looks right on desktop, tablet, and mobile out of the box
- No advertisements — a clean admin experience, unlike many free plugins
- Preview before you publish — see exactly how a tab set will look before adding it to a page
Live Demo: See Responsive Tabs in action
Video Walkthrough:
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Features
- Add unlimited tabs within up to 3 tab sets (Pro removes this limit)
- Supports horizontal, vertical, and accordion tab layouts
- Modern, dependency-free rendering engine (no jQuery required)
- Native Gutenberg block — insert and configure a tab set directly in the block editor
- Shortcode support for any theme or page builder
- Shortcodes inside tab content render correctly (sliders, forms, galleries, etc.)
- Overflowing horizontal tabs collapse into a clean "More" menu automatically
- Set your own display order for tabs
- Preview any tab set before publishing it
- Full color customization — border, background, tab text, active text, and content text
- Vertical tabs automatically convert to an accordion on mobile screens
- WordPress user roles and capabilities support
- Multisite compatible
- No advertisements
Want More? Upgrade to Pro
The free version covers the essentials — for advanced features,
upgrade to Responsive Tabs Pro:
- Unlimited tab sets (free is limited to 3)
- 4 visual tab styles — Boxed, Underline/Line, Pill/Segmented, and Contained/Boxed
- Scrollable horizontal tabs — drag-to-scroll plus left/right arrow buttons
- Full tab management from the Gutenberg block — add, edit, reorder, and delete tabs without leaving the block editor
- Font Awesome icon picker — add an icon to any tab heading
- Link tabs — set a tab to open an external URL instead of showing content
- Additional custom CSS per tab set
- Duplicate/clone tab sets
- Selected tab via URL (e.g.
?selected_tab=2)
- Mass order updates
Get Support
This plugin installs like any other WordPress plugin:
- Upload the
responsive-horizontal-vertical-and-accordion-tabs folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install directly through the WordPress Plugins screen.
- Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" screen in WordPress.
- Go to Responsive Tabs in the admin menu to create your first tab set.
Usage
- Go to Responsive Tabs → Manage Tab Sets and click "Add New" to create a tab set.
- Add tabs to your tab set, set their order, and choose your color settings.
- Add the tab set to any page or post using either:
- The "Responsive Tabs" block in the block editor (Gutenberg), or
- The shortcode shown on the Manage Tab Sets screen