Which has better reviews, Auto Submenu or Fixed Bottom Menu?

Fixed Bottom Menu has the higher average rating (5.0★ from 11 reviews) compared to Auto Submenu (4.0★ from 25 reviews). Both are tracked daily by AppRanks, so the figures here update each refresh cycle.

Should I choose Auto Submenu or Fixed Bottom Menu?

Fixed Bottom Menu holds the higher average rating (5.0★ vs 4.0★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.

Which is faster to set up, Auto Submenu or Fixed Bottom Menu?

Both apps are one-click installs from the WordPress Plugin Directory. Auto Submenu has the deeper published review base (25 vs 11), which often — though not always — accompanies better-tested setup docs. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly: read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Auto Submenu typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (25 reviews). Fixed Bottom Menu typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (11 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.

Can I migrate data between Auto Submenu and Fixed Bottom Menu?

Migration support varies by app and category. Auto Submenu and Fixed Bottom Menu both publish their export options on their marketplace listing pages (or in their support docs); some apps offer one-click import from competitors, others require CSV. The fastest check: search "import from Fixed Bottom Menu" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.

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Auto Submenu vs Fixed Bottom Menu — WordPress

Auto Submenu vs Fixed Bottom Menu

Name: Auto Submenu
Rating: 4 (25 reviews)

Side-by-side comparison · 24 data points

Auto Submenu

4.0·25reviews·2,000+installs

wordpress

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1. Listing metadata

Field-level data

	Auto Submenu	Fixed Bottom Menu
Tagline	—	—
Description	1999 / 5000 chars40% used	2419 / 5000 chars48% used
Screenshots	—	—
Languages
Platforms	WordPress	WordPress
Developer	Diana van de Laarschot	Katsushi Kawamori
Listed	—	—
Last updated	—	—

2. Categories & rankings

Shared categories on the same row · in-category position inline

Auto Submenu

Fixed Bottom Menu

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At a glance

4 metrics · auto-computed

Feature comparison between Auto Submenu and Fixed Bottom Menu
Metric	Auto Submenu	Fixed Bottom Menu
Rating	4.0 ★	★ 5.0 ★
Total reviews	★ 25	11
Active installs	2,000+	5,000+
Free plan	—	—

4. App details

Long-form description · keyword frequency

Auto Submenu

The default custom menu in WordPress only allows checking the “Automatically add new top-level pages” (Appearance > Menus) or adding a Navigation block with all pages and all child pages (Appearance > Editor). With Auto Submenu you get extra functionality to automatically include child pages into the menu. NEW: ASM now provides support for the Customizer via Appearance > Customize NEW: ASM now provides support for Full Site Editing with the Gutenberg Block Editor via Appearance > Editor Using it Enable the plugin and go to Appearance > Editor. For each Page in your menu, you now have the following extra configuration options: Add child pages as submenu y/n; child pages are ordered ascending by Menu Order; specify the (maximum) nesting depth of children you want to show (max 3); specify the title for the child pages. For this you can use %post_title, %post_author and other wildcards, see ‘Other Notes > Wildcards’. Default value: %post_title Via Appearance > Menus and Appearance > Customize you also get the following option: Check the “Automatically add new top-level and all its child pages to this menu (Auto Submenu)”-checkbox. If this option is checked, all top-level pages will automatically be added and will automatically have all child pages added as submenu. With the Free version you cannot control the nesting depth of the child pages, all subpages are added, regardless the depth of the page tree. Wildcards You can control the title of the menu items generated by the plug-in with the following wildcards: %post_title %post_author %post_date for the unformatted post date: 2012-11-10 18:14:23 %post_date() for a formatted post date with the following default formatting: November 10th, 2012 %post_date( ) for custom date formatting. Example: %post_date(l jS \of F Y, h:i:s A). See https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time for formatting options. %post_date_gmt %post_date_gmt() %post_date_gmt( )

Top keywords

post14×4.43%
date11×3.48%
pages11×3.48%
post date9×2.85%
child8×2.53%
child pages8×2.53%
appearance7×2.22%
menu6×1.90%
automatically5×1.58%
title5×1.58%
editor4×1.27%
following4×1.27%

Fixed Bottom Menu

Add a fixed menu. The basic menu is at the bottom, but it can also be displayed on the top, left, and right. Links Five link destinations can be specified. Provides filters for icons, URLs, and text for each link. Options Can specify the number of columns from 1 to 5. Can specify the font size with px, rem and em. Can specify the menu height with px, rem and em. Can specify the line height with px, rem and em. Can specify the padding with px, rem and em. Can specify their class to remove the overlap for headers and footers overlap. Can specify the color of text, buttons, and overlay. Can specify the upper limit of the display width. Can specify the stack order of css elemental. The above options filters are provided. Other filters Provide a filter to erase the menu. How it works Live Demo Fixed Bottom Menu Live Icons Dashicons can be specified. Customize Template files allow for flexible customization. The default template file is template/fixedbottommenu-template-html.php and template/fixedbottommenu-template-css.php. Using this as a reference, you can specify a separate template file using the filters below. /** ================================================== * Filter for template file of html. * */ add_filter( 'fixed_bottom_menu_generate_template_html_file', function () { $wp_uploads = wp_upload_dir(); $upload_dir = wp_normalize_path( $wp_uploads['basedir'] ); $upload_dir = untrailingslashit( $upload_dir ); return $upload_dir . '/tmp/fixedbottommenu-template-html.php'; }, 10, 1 ); /** ================================================== * Filter for template file of css. * */ add_filter( 'fixed_bottom_menu_generate_template_css_file', function () { $wp_uploads = wp_upload_dir(); $upload_dir = wp_normalize_path( $wp_uploads['basedir'] ); $upload_dir = untrailingslashit( $upload_dir ); return $upload_dir . '/tmp/fixedbottommenu-template-css.php'; }, 10, 1 ); CSS files can be set separately. Please see the filters below. /** ================================================== * Filter for CSS file. * */ add_filter( 'fixed_bottom_menu_css_url', function () { $wp_uploads = wp_upload_dir(); $upload_url = $wp_uploads['baseurl']; if ( is_ssl() ) { $upload_url = str_replace( 'http:', 'https:', $upload_url ); } $upload_url = untrailingslashit( $upload_url ); return $upload_url . '/tmp/fixedbottommenu.css'; }, 10, 1 );

Top keywords

upload17×5.01%
dir11×3.24%
upload dir11×3.24%

Auto Submenu vs Fixed Bottom Menu

Auto Submenu

1. Listing metadata

2. Categories & rankings

Fixed Bottom Menu

At a glance

AppRanks verdict

3. Activity in the last 90 days

Auto Submenu · 1 changes

Fixed Bottom Menu · 0 changes

4. App details

Frequently asked

Which has better reviews, Auto Submenu or Fixed Bottom Menu?

Should I choose Auto Submenu or Fixed Bottom Menu?

Which is faster to set up, Auto Submenu or Fixed Bottom Menu?

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Can I migrate data between Auto Submenu and Fixed Bottom Menu?

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