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>


Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages

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

Diana van de Laarschot

jamocreations

<p>The default custom menu in WordPress only allows checking the “Automatically add new top-level pages” (Appearance > Menus) or adding a Navigation block with all pages and all child pages (Appearance > Editor).</p>
<p>With Auto Submenu you get extra functionality to automatically include child pages into the menu.</p>
<p><strong>NEW: ASM now provides support for the Customizer via Appearance > Customize</strong><br />
<strong>NEW: ASM now provides support for Full Site Editing with the Gutenberg Block Editor via Appearance > Editor</strong></p>
<h3>Using it</h3>
<p>Enable the plugin and go to Appearance > Editor.</p>
<p>For each Page in your menu, you now have the following extra configuration options:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add child pages as submenu y/n; </li>
<li>child pages are ordered ascending by Menu Order;</li>
<li>specify the (maximum) nesting depth of children you want to show (max 3);</li>
<li>specify the title for the child pages. For this you can use %post_title, %post_author and other wildcards, see ‘Other Notes > Wildcards’. Default value: %post_title</li>
</ul>
<p>Via Appearance > Menus and Appearance > Customize you also get the following option:</p>
<ul>
<li>Check the “Automatically add new top-level and all its child pages to this menu (Auto Submenu)”-checkbox.</li>
<li>If this option is checked, all top-level pages will automatically be added and will automatically have all child pages added as submenu.</li>
</ul>
<p>With the Free version you cannot control the nesting depth of the child pages, all subpages are added, regardless the depth of the page tree.</p>
<h4>Wildcards</h4>
<p>You can control the title of the menu items generated by the plug-in with the following wildcards:</p>
<ul>
<li>%post_title</li>
<li>%post_author</li>
<li>%post_date for the unformatted post date: 2012-11-10 18:14:23</li>
<li>%post_date() for a formatted post date with the following default formatting: November 10th, 2012</li>
<li>%post_date(<your formatting here>) for custom date formatting. Example: %post_date(l jS \of F Y, h:i:s A). See <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time" rel="nofollow ugc">https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time</a> for formatting options.</li>
<li>%post_date_gmt</li>
<li>%post_date_gmt()</li>
<li>%post_date_gmt(<your formatting here>)</li>
</ul>


Auto Submenu

Good, saved me from a lot of work. Bookmarked



Perfect!

Dynamic menus: Add a page to your menu and then let WordPress automatically add the child pages.

Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages vs Auto Submenu