Tailor Your Content
With Flexibility in Mind
All of us have different expectations when it comes to content. Tailor your messages in a way that will keep your audience engaged. Write beautiful content that folds and expands with a click of a button.
TooLooDR will help you do just that. With the help of this little tool, you can bring your writing ideas to life in a progressive, intuitive manner.
TooLooDR in 3 Sentences
TooLooDR is a writing and reading concept that aims to present one article in several forms and lengths by separating the content into multiple levels of detail.
Its structure guides the author to think in terms of complexity, lengthiness, and targeted audience for each level they create.
The goal of TooLooDR is to offer brevity for those who are in a hurry, but also provide more detail on demand for those who want more.
Check out this blog post to read more about the idea behind TooLooDR.
Check out the TooLooDR demo to see it in action.
Checkout out the author's recommendation on how to write a TooLooDR article.
How Does it Work?
The idea is simple! You structure your content in a way so parts of it could be taken out or added to it - without what's currently there losing its meaning.
Let's say that you have something to say, and for that, you need 1000 words. You could maybe say it in fewer words, but you're adamant to paint the whole picture. TooLooDR to the rescue!
Enclose the minimum between tags, enclose the additional information between tags, and finally - enclose all the details between tags.
Offer that minimum to those who always say TL;DR to a longer text, maybe they will return later for the whole thing. At the same time, have the full version available with the click of the mouse for those who want to read more.
Reach More People With Your Content
Some people like it really short, and they will sometimes pass on your content just because of its lengthiness.
Some people don’t care for stripped-down versions of everything they read. They want the details, the back story – the whole nine yards.
With the TooLooDR writing concept, you can appeal to both groups - even those in between. Who's to say you can't please everyone with your content?
<div id="article">[tl1]TooLooDR Text[/tl1]</div> <script> var myTooLooDR = new TooLooDR("#article", { defaultTooLooLevel: 2, buttonLabels: { show: true tooLoo1: 'tldr1', tooLoo2: 'tldr2', tooLoo3: 'tldr3', }, readingTime: { show: true, wordsPerMin: 200, labelSeparator: ' • ', showPercentage: true, percentageSeparator: ' • ', }, }); </script>
Easy to Integrate & Use
TooLooDR is ready to go in no time. If you are fine with the defaults, setting up TooLooDR is only two lines of code you need to include in your project.
If you'd like to use TooLooDR within WordPress, it's even easier! Simply install the plugin and start working on your TooLooDR text immediately!
The only thing you have to think about is how to structure your writing! Enclose different sections of your content in the little TooLooDR tags, eg. , and everything else is taken care of!
Whatever you choose, you can see all the ways you can use TooLooDR in the detailed documentation.
Check out out the TooLooDR demo to see it in action.
TooLooDR for WordPress
WordPress is the world's most popular web building software. It was only logical to build the integration for it. TooLooDR comes as a plugin that currently works with WordPress Classic Editor*.
You can get the plugin here. Download, install and fuel your writing!
Step-by-step instructions on how to install, configure and use TooLooDR for WordPress are available here. If you have any questions, please read the FAQ first.
A Price To Suit Everyone
TooLooDR, as a standalone Javascript library, is and always will be free and provided under the GPLv3 license. You are free to tinker with it, extend it, or use it as a basis for your own ideas. If you like what I've done, and you're in a position to do so, please consider donating a small amount.
TooLooDR, as a WordPress plugin, comes with a $12 price tag FREE. I wanted to make the concept as easy to use even for the non-technical people out there. By buying the plugin, you support the future development of the TooLooDR concept, and other ideas I work on in my spare time. If you choose to do so, thank you! You're awesome and you rock! 🤘
Download & Buy
Standalone TooLooDR.js library - FREE
Download the compressed, production TooLooDR 1.0.2 - 6.7kB
Download the uncompressed, development TooLooDR 1.0.2 - 19.3kB
TooLooDR WordPress Plugin - $12 - FREE
Go to the plugin GitHub repository
Check out the WordPress plugin section of the FAQ.
* Classic Editor for WordPress must be installed additionaly for Wordpress since version 5.0
** There is no time frame in which updates or new features will be released, it's at the discretion of the author
