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Categories2menu

by Egidio Docile · Admin & Utilities

Generates a menu based on existing Woocommerce categories.

Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.

⚠ Few reviews

Health

B 73/100

Few reviews

Active installs

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not reported yet

Momentum

-32%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “categories”, “menu” and “woocommerce” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

How scoring works →
73 Health · B
Maintenance 75/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

73 health vs 56 average across 5,896 Admin & Utilities plugins

Details

Version
1.0.1
Last updated
9mo ago
Added
2021-12-14 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
6.9.11
Requires PHP
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Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

80 / 100

Well optimized

Most to gain: Rating quality

Update recency 84/100

Updated 270 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11, the current branch or newer

Rating quality 51/100

5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 84/100

3 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-32% vs prior 30d
131 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 165 · peaks are release surges

541 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #49,700 to #68,000, alongside the other plugins with fewer than 10 installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

731 Nov 2026

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

1

releases in the last 12 months

9mo ago

latest release · v1.0.1 · 4 Feb 2026

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.1 · 4 Feb 20261.0 · 14 Dec 2021

Estimated active installs

wp.org publishes an install count once a plugin has enough of them. This one has none yet.

not reported
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wp.org reports no install count for this plugin yet.

Install history since 4 Oct 2022

<101 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ clark1982
    4.9y ago

    Finalmente un plugin che genera in automatico il menù dalle categorie presenti sul sito. Permette anche di escludure alcune categorie. Fantastico

    Read on wp.org ↗

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

3 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Generates a menu based on existing Woocommerce categories."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce.
  • ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 58 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text All 3 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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).

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Categories2menu: no active install count reported, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/categories2menu

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