Automatically append children posts and pages as submenu items in the frontend

rallisf1

<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>How it works:</p>
<ul>
<li>On each menu item that is either a category or a page you get an option to automatically append their children as a submenu</li>
<li>You get to decide how many children to show and how they’re gonna be ordered (Title or Date)</li>
<li>And that’s it, all you have to do is create content and never worry about your menu again.</li>
<li>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</li>
</ul>
<h3>Code hacks</h3>
<p>There is no settings page for the plugin but you can change a couple default behaviours from the code itself</p>
<h4>Changing the default maximum children number when the field is empty</h4>
<pre><code>$item->automatic_max = 5; just change the number at line 220
</code></pre>
<h4>Bring only direct children of Pages and not all ascendants</h4>
<pre><code>$children = get_pages( array( 'child_of' => $item->object_id, 'number' => $item->automatic_max, 'sort_column' => 'post_'.$ordering[0], 'sort_order' => strtoupper( $ordering[1] ) ) ); just change 'child_of' to 'parent' at line 226
</code></pre>
<p>Upcoming Features:</p>
<p>Due to lack of time i will implement the following features upon demand. Please post your requests in the forum.</p>
<ul>
<li>Settings Page</li>
<li>Submenu items ordering</li>
<li>Support for custom post types and taxonomies</li>
</ul>
<p>Credits:</p>
<ul>
<li>I have used the menu walker created by zviryatko (https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/menu-image/trunk/menu-image.php)</li>
</ul>


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