Richard

<p>This is a lightweight plugin to add a dynamic sub-menu to a WordPress menu.  It is known to work with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/nav-menu-roles/" rel="ugc">Nav Menu Roles</a>.<br />
Caution is indicated if trying to use it with a theme, menu plugin, or anything that makes significant changes to how the WordPress menu is handled. It can insert a<br />
single sub-menu using any public taxonomy, such as catagories, tags, as well as woocommerce product categories or tags.  A seperate sub-menu for bbPress forums is<br />
available.</p>
<h3>Setup</h3>
<p>The settings screen can be reached either via the settings link on the ‘Installed Plugins’ page, or via the ‘Dynamic Taxonomy’ option on the ‘Appearence’ menu.</p>
<p>The settings screen will enable you to control things like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Which menu the sub-menu is added to, default is the primary menu.</li>
<li>Which taxonomy is displayed, default is categories.</li>
<li>The title used for the sub-menu, default is ‘Articles’.</li>
<li>The position in the menu, default is to appear as the second menu item.</li>
<li>The maximum number of items on the submenu, default is 7.</li>
<li>Listing order of the sub-menu items, available is Term Name, Post Count (default), and Term ID.</li>
<li>Which terms to exclude from the list, default is none, works for Category only (for now).</li>
<li>Whether to include an item count on the sub-menu, default is yes.</li>
<li>Items can also be limited by the count, ie: nothing with a count of less then N.  Default is 0.</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin also allows you to show bbPress forums, although those options are limited to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Which menu to add the forum list to.</li>
<li>What position in the menu to take, default is the third menu item.</li>
<li>What text to use as the menu option, default is ‘Forums’.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>If you have an issue or question, the author can contacted on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dynamic-taxonomy-menu-items/" rel="ugc">WordPress support forum</a> or via <a href="https://github.com/RichardCoffee/dynamic-taxonomy-menu-items/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">opening an issue on GitHub</a>.</p>
<p>If you wish to contribute, development is done on <a href="https://github.com/RichardCoffee/dynamic-taxonomy-menu-items" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>


Dynamic Taxonomy Menu Items

Add a dynamic taxonomy list to your WordPress menus.

Diana van de Laarschot

<p>The default custom menu in WordPress only allows adding a link that leads to a list of posts and pages belonging to a taxonomy (category, tag, etc). If you want to list the posts and pages themselves and if you want WordPress to do this automatically for you, then I hope you will find this plugin useful.</p>
<p><strong>Also works for custom taxonomies and custom post types</strong><br />
<strong>NEW: CPCM V3 now provides support for Full Site Editing with the Gutenberg Block Editor</strong><br />
<strong>WARNING: Coming from version 1.x? There are breaking changes, read the changelog before upgrading.</strong></p>
<h4>Using it</h4>
<p>Enable the plugin and go to either Appearance > Menus or Appearance > Customize or Appearance > Editor. Add a category (or other taxonomy like tag or custom) to the menu. Next, you can choose if you would like to replace the category by the posts or pages themselves.</p>
<p>For each Category in your menu, you now have the following extra configuration options:</p>
<ul>
<li>Replace by posts in the category y/n; </li>
<li>specify the (maximum) number of posts you want to show for this item (max 10);</li>
<li>their ordering ascending or descending by Title, Date or Menu Order;</li>
<li>specify the title for the menu items. For this you can use %post_title, %post_author and other wildcards, see ‘Other Notes > Wildcards’. Default value: %post_title</li>
</ul>
<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>


Category Posts in Custom Menu

Dynamic menus: List all posts from a category in your menu. Also works for tags, custom taxonomies as well as pages and custom post types.

Dynamic Taxonomy Menu Items vs Category Posts in Custom Menu