Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 12% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ invokerkael

   11mo ago

   This plugin add hidden link: atakanau[.]wordpress[.]com in file code includes/class-auto-hierarchic-category-menu.php row 285. Please check and report this This topic was modified 9 months, 3 weeks ago by invokerkael.

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2. ★★★★★ lagiulsss

   1.1y ago

   I took me a bit to make it work the way I wanted with all the subcategories, but after that has been working very well. Don’t need to worry to edit the front-end menu if you change name or delete in back-end, it will automatically do it.

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3. ★★★★★ aaronlkh

   1.9y ago

   Had been spending a lot of time adding menu items manually from my hierarchical categories. Still not too late to save time from now on. And it works great with Otography theme. Thank you developer! This topic was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by aaronlkh.

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4. ★★★★★ Ringdal

   2.7y ago

   What a wonderful plugin. I am handicapped and my right arm is not working well, but I own over 50 websites and have built all of them myself. Working with wrong hand (I am right handed and damaged right arm in accident) i.e. left hand takes time. I love everything automatic which makes my life easier. That is why I loooove this plugin. 🙂 Million thanks to the developer(s).

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5. ★★★★★ mauriciogonzalez

   2.9y ago

   Simple plugin that covers a functionality missed in both in WP and WooCommerce.

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6. ★★★★★ Ivana

   3.0y ago

   If you have many product or post categories this plugin is a real gem! Easy to configure, and if any help needed Atakan is greatly supportive. Thank you, cheers

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7. ★★★★★ zebullon

   3.1y ago

   This plugin is the only one for include categories in menus. I put 4 stars out of 5 because it remains to clarify the documentation or to include a syntax generator directly on the wordpress site… Regards

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8. ★★★★★ rezat1994

   3.5y ago

   When we disable the woocommerce hierarchical option, the plugin still generates the category links as hierarchical mode. I think on line 248 of class-auto-hierarchic-category-menu.php file, the slug param must be passed as “$slug” and not “$slug.‘/’.$category->slug”

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.1.0 Added: Automatic detection and integration with the Lite Extension. Moved: WooCommerce Product Category support to the Lite Extension Updated: Admin notices and taxonomy information For the changelog of earlier versions, 2.1.0

3 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.4 Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu <= 2.0.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-06-19 CVE-2025-50048 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.0.9 Patched in 2.0.10
2. Medium · 6.4 Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu <= 2.0.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-01-30 CVE-2024-13466 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.0.7 Patched in 2.0.8
3. Medium · 6.4 Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu <= 2.0.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-09-30 CVE-2024-47365 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.0.5 Patched in 2.0.6

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 4 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-01-02 3K+ → 2K+ down after 414 days in tier
2. 2024-11-14 2K+ → 3K+ up after 46 days in tier
3. 2024-09-29 3K+ → 2K+ down after 6 days in tier
4. 2024-09-23 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2024-09-21 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-09-20 2K+ → 3K+ up after 275 days in tier
7. 2023-12-20 1K+ → 2K+ up after 271 days in tier
8. 2023-03-24 900+ → 1K+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Max Mega Menu 300K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Menu Image, Icons made easy 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B
• Float menu – awesome floating side menu 30K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• E Exclude Pages 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags D
• Flexy Breadcrumb 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
• M Menu Duplicator 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A

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Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu: 2K+ active installs, 4.6★ (13 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/automatically-hierarchic-categories-in-menu