Optimized Dropdown Menus is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 1 review, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Optimized Dropdown Menus is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Maor Chasen. With a rating of 5.0★ from 1 reviews.
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Optimized Dropdown Menus is a category-leading 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. 1 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
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Maor Chasen — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (1) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Optimized Dropdown Menus works
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By using Optimized Dropdown Menus Widget, you’ll be able to create dropdown menus that are searchable or “spiderable” by search engine bots.
So how does it work? Basically, it works like this:
The menu’s markup code is being printed as an ordinary nested menu. e.g.
<ul> <li><a href="http://example.com/page">Some Random Page</a></li> <li><a href="http://example.com/page-another">Another Page</a></li> <li><a href="http://example.com/yao">Yet Another One</a></li> </ul>
Since most browsers support JavaScript, using the widget, the markup would be translated into something like this
<select> <option value="http://example.com/page">Some Random Page</option> ... <option value="http://example.com/page">Something else</option> </select>
The tricky part here is, that search engines do not usually interpret JavaScript, all they will be able to scan is the nested menu. That way they will reach out for those pages, and most probably will crawl those pages as well.
ODM also supports a range of per-widget settings:
Control whether links will be open in new window or in the same window
Choose to use HTML5/XHTML markup for the menu
Features set for the next versions Soon there will be an option for developers to use the same functionality via the code. e.g.
Translations Currently, these translations are available:
Spanish (es_ES) – in courtesy of Ognjen Djuraskovic
Serbian (sr_RS) – in courtesy of Ognjen Djuraskovic
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Frequently asked questions
What is Optimized Dropdown Menus?
Optimized Dropdown Menus is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 1 merchant review, 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 Maor Chasen.