Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages for WordPress Plugin Directory
By rallisf1
Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages is a WordPress app, with a 3.0 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by rallisf1. With a rating of 3.0★ from 2 reviews.
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Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 2 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by rallisf1 — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.0★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (2) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages works
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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.
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.
How it works:
On each menu item that is either a category or a page you get an option to automatically append their children as a submenu
You get to decide how many children to show and how they’re gonna be ordered (Title or Date)
And that’s it, all you have to do is create content and never worry about your menu again.
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
Code hacks There is no settings page for the plugin but you can change a couple default behaviours from the code itself
Changing the default maximum children number when the field is empty $item->automatic_max = 5; just change the number at line 220
Bring only direct children of Pages and not all ascendants $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
Upcoming Features:
Due to lack of time i will implement the following features upon demand. Please post your requests in the forum.
Settings Page
Submenu items ordering
Support for custom post types and taxonomies
Credits:
I have used the menu walker created by zviryatko (https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/menu-image/trunk/menu-image.php)
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What is Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages?
Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.0-star rating from 2 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by rallisf1.