Category Posts in Custom Menu vs Term Management Tools

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. Also works for custom taxonomies and custom post types NEW: CPCM V3 now provides support for Full Site Editing with the Gutenberg Block Editor WARNING: Coming from version 1.x? There are breaking changes, read the changelog before upgrading. Using it 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. For each Category in your menu, you now have the following extra configuration options: Replace by posts in the category y/n; specify the (maximum) number of posts you want to show for this item (max 10); their ordering ascending or descending by Title, Date or Menu Order; 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 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( )

Please note this plugin requires at least PHP 7.1. If you need to reorganize your tags and categories, this plugin will make it easier for you. It adds three new options to the Bulk Actions dropdown on term management pages: Merge – combine two or more terms into one Set Parent – set the parent for one or more terms (for hierarchical taxonomies) Change Taxonomy – convert terms from one taxonomy to another It works with tags, categories and custom taxonomies. Usage Go to the taxonomy page containing terms you want to modify. For example, for categories go to WP-Admin → Posts → Categories. Select the terms you want to reorganize Find the Bulk Actions dropdown, and select the task you’d like done. Disco. WPML WPML-translated terms are partially supported. Currently only the “Change Taxonomy” task is WPML-aware. If a term with translations is moved to a new taxonomy, its translations are moved as well, and the translation relationships are preserved. Currently only the “Change Taxonomy” task is WPML-aware Work on the WPML component was sponsored by the Rainforest Alliance. Support Limited support is handled in the forum created for this purpose (see the support tab on wp.org). Find a problem? Fixes can be submitted on Github. Upgrading from a previous version Use the upgrade link in the Dashboard (Dashboard → Updates) to upgrade this plugin. Notes Initial version of this plugin was by scribu, with contributions from others. See full code history on Github.