whatleycc

This plugin is meant to help you create “dynamic” menu items. This is ideal for situations where you want to have custom pages that appear at certain times of the year or seasonal pages that need to change out every few months. Requires you use the built in Appearance->Menu to setup your menu links and not simply default the menu to all pages on your site. There are 2 types of dynamic menu items created, each work in conjunction with the other.
Default :: This only requires a starting month to work. What this does is assumes that all items within this section will be displayed without any gaps. These ideal for seasons and will be displayed if there are no other dynamic posts.
Set Dates :: This is ideal for things like holdiays or specials that you may only want to display for a set period of time (e.g., 1 day or a few weeks only, not the whole month). These are displayed first and if none are active, the active Default page of the period is selected instead.

Dynamic Menu Item

Create dynamic menu items which allows you to schedule pages to go live on the menu. Ideal for sites that need seasonal content use specials/holidays.

wildoperation

Adds a ‘Manage Patterns’ child menu item under the WordPress ‘Appearance’ menu.
This plugin doesn’t provide functionality for managing Patterns. Instead, it provides a shortcut to WordPress’ built-in Pattern management.
No settings. Just enable the plugin, and the menu item will be added.

Add Manage Patterns Menu


Why this function is not core makes no sense to me.Nice easy access to an important part of the wp environment.


Works as designed

Adds a 'Manage Patterns' child menu item under the WordPress 'Appearance' menu.

Dynamic Menu Item vs Add Manage Patterns Menu