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WordPress.org rating3.0 / 5 from 2 ratings
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WP PlugIndex currently records Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages version 1.0.0 as active, updated 8y ago and tested up to WordPress 4.8.
Overview
About this plugin
Ever wanted to be able to automatically have category and pages children automatically added to your menus? I’m sure I did and was disappointed to not find something that dead simple that works and doesn’t mess up with the theme or other plugins.
Now bear with me on this one as it is my first WP plugin for like a decade and the first ever to be shared so i kept it quite basic.
How it works:
On each menu item that is either a category or a page you get an option to automatically append their children as a submenu
You get to decide how many children to show and how they’re gonna be ordered (Title or Date)
And that’s it, all you have to do is create content and never worry about your menu again.
As promised, it doesn’t mess with the theme or other plugins, it just injects the children found in the corresponding place of the nav menu array when that is triggered in the frontend
Code hacks
There is no settings page for the plugin but you can change a couple default behaviours from the code itself
Changing the default maximum children number when the field is empty
$item->automatic_max = 5; just change the number at line 220
Bring only direct children of Pages and not all ascendants
$ordering[0], 'sort_order' => strtoupper( $ordering[1] ) ) ); just change 'child_of' to 'parent' at line 226
Upcoming Features:
Due to lack of time i will implement the following features upon demand. Please post your requests in the forum.
Settings Page
Submenu items ordering
Support for custom post types and taxonomies
Credits:
I have used the menu walker created by zviryatko (https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/menu-image/trunk/menu-image.php)
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Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
children
menu
pages
posts
submenu
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 4.8
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 4.8.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to4.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.1 · PHP not listed
Update activity13 Nov 20178y ago
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