WP Better Sub Menus
WP Better Sub Menus improves the menu admin screen (nav-menus.php) by allowing you to Expand/Contract the menu items. Specially useful when your menu …
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Possibly abandoned • Last updated 1110 days ago • 1 reviews
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Description
WP Better Sub Menus improves the menu admin screen (nav-menus.php) by allowing you to Expand/Contract the menu items. Specially useful when your menu consist of a few dozens of items.
Other features include:
- Sticky sidebar for easier access to the links sidebar menu
- Scrollable sidebar.
- Colored menu items to indicate if a menu item has subitems inside
- Easy click & expand or click & contract.
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Installation
Upload the plugin to your blog, activate it and go to Appearance / Menus. You’ll see that now your menus are nested and contracted. Note: If you don’t have any submenus or nested menus, you’ll not going to notice any changes.
This plugin introduces only visual changes, your navigation functionality remains the same.
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Before: Sometimes you have so many items that it gets almost impossible to navigate.

After: The plugin contracts the items containing subitems plus making your sidebar sticky and scrollable

Easy Click & Contract: Just click the color bar for a menu item and it contracts to let you see the items below.
Changelog
1.0.5
- 10 leves of menu items, with gradient color to better identify each of them
- All items are collapsible, even the ones just drag and dropped, when editing a menu
1.0.4
- 10 levels of menu items, with gradient color to better identify each of them
- All items are collapsible, even the ones just drag and dropped, when editing a menu
1.0.3
- Screenshots & Description added
1.0.2
- Color bars & Stick menu features added