If you have ever visited a website where information is tossed at you in a chaotic mess with too much text and no clear structure, then you know how fast frustration causes people to leave.
Now, think about your own site. If visitors struggle to find what they need, they’re more likely to leave than dig through your cluttered content.
Instead of making visitors scroll endlessly or search through a wall of text, you can use tabs that will help you break content into sections. Think of them like chapters in a book: users click to jump straight to what matters while your page stays clean and focused.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to set up vertical tabs in WordPress within minutes. By the end, your pages will feel cleaner, your visitors will stay longer, and you’ll wonder how you ever managed without them. Let’s get started.
Add Vertical Tabs in WordPress
The Ultimate Blocks plugin provides a ‘Tabbed Content‘ block that supports both horizontal and vertical layouts. Follow these steps to add vertical tabs to your WordPress site.
Step 1: Install and Activate Ultimate Blocks
To install Ultimate Blocks, log in to your WordPress dashboard first. Then scroll to the Plugins section and select “Add New”. Next, search for “Ultimate Blocks” in the directory, click “Install Now”, and then activate it.
Step 2: Add the Tabbed Content Block
To insert vertical tabs, open your desired post or page in the WordPress editor, access the block inserter using the “+” button, search for “Tabbed Content”, and place the block into your content area.
Step 3: Enable Vertical Tabs
Click on the Tabbed Content block to open the Block Settings. Now, click the Styles tab and scroll down to the Tab Layout section. Find the Layout Display option from the layout section and switch your tabs from Horizontal to Vertical.
Step 4: Managing and Customizing Tabs
To add more tabs, click the (+) beneath the existing tab. You can rename tabs by clicking on the tab title and typing a new name. To organize and remove the tabs, simply hover over the tabs and utilize the move 
and remove 
icons to do the required task. To add content, click inside the corresponding tab section and enter text, images, or any other block-supported elements.
Now, if you want to customize the tabs, you need to access the General and Styles tabs from the block settings panel. From there, you’ll be able to change the tab types, add tab anchors, have icons, images, and secondary texts with the title (Pro), adjust colors for tabs, titles, and content, and customize border and dimensions.
Use the Preview button to check how the vertical tabs appear on the front end. Once you hit the Publish or Update button, this is the general view of the tabbed content you should find.
Conclusion
A cluttered page can make visitors leave before they even find what they’re looking for. Vertical tabs help create a more structured layout by keeping related content grouped in separate sections.
With tools like the Ultimate Blocks plugin, you don’t need coding expertise or hours of setup to achieve this. In just a few minutes, you can transform overwhelming walls of text into a simple layout that adapts beautifully to desktops, mobile, and other devices.
Now that you know how to add, manage, and customize vertical tabs, try them out on your site. Whether for FAQs, product comparisons, or guides, they make content more accessible and improve the overall experience. The best layout is one that works for your audience, so experiment with different settings and find what fits your needs. Start to work with them right now and turn chaos into order.
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