Category Posts in Custom Menu

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 62% 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. ★★★★★ nikischin

   2.2y ago

   Working version removed from archive. Super annoying.

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2. ★★★★★ weblwp

   3.1y ago

   I suspect version 1.4.0 with the “Split Free and Premium version” makes it unusable (without notice).

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3. ★★★★★ samuelashbrook

   4.0y ago

   This plugin is incredibly useful!

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4. ★★★★★ philipsacht

   4.8y ago

   For reasons I cannot understand, WordPress doesn’t have the possibility to display a list of Posts determined by Post Category into a Menu/navigation area. THIS PLUGIN DOES JUST THAT! Thank you so much for your effort – I hope you continuously will update this plugin for all the people wanting this very simple, but important function!

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5. ★★★★★ FabriSS

   6.8y ago

   Funziona benissimo con la versione 5.2.4 di wordpress e anche con installazione MultiSite

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6. ★★★★★ mocotoo

   9.1y ago

   Thank you, a simple way to do a menu with posts by category.

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7. ★★★★★ Cormac Bracken

   9.2y ago

   I’ve used this plugin for several years, and use it on probably 75% of sites that I build, mainly for small businesses where the business owner has limited technical skills. Usage: say you want a menu “Our Services”, with a sub-menu item for each service. You create a post category “our services”. Then in Appearance > Menus, you add “Our services” as a category, and check the additional box “Create submenu containing links to posts in this category”, as added by this plugin. Now add each service as a separate post. While on the post creation screen, you check the box for the category “our services”. You now have a menu where new items are added, as long as the author remembers to select the correct category while creating the post. The root menu item, “Our Services” also links to an archive-type page showing all the services (or more usually, their excerpt or first 55 words – depending on your settings and theme). The advantage of this is that the site owner can easily add further services later, without needing to manually add them into the menu. That’s important because it’s easy to mess up WordPress menus on the rather confusing editor screen.

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8. ★★★★★ aetherhiannon

   9.7y ago

   works great, no more manually adding posts to my menu categories!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.0.6 Verified compatibility with WordPress 7.0 3.0.6
2. — Version 3.0.5 Verified compatibility with WordPress 6.9 3.0.5
3. — Version 3.0.4 Verified compatibility with WordPress 6.8 3.0.4
4. — Version 3.0.3 Verified compatibility with WordPress 6.7 3.0.3
5. — Version 3.0.2 Verified compatibility with WordPress 6.6 3.0.2
6. — Version 3.0.0 Now provides support for Full Site Editing with the Gutenberg Block Editor. Dropped support for WordPress 4.x, plugin now requires WordPress 5.4 or higher. Verified compatibility with WordPress 6.5 3.0.0

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

Translated into 3 languages, 3 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-04-26 3K+ → 2K+ down after 8 days in tier
2. 2025-04-18 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-04-17 3K+ → 2K+ down after 669 days in tier
4. 2023-06-18 4K+ → 3K+ down

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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• Auto Submenu 2K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B
• WPB Floating Menu or Categories – Sticky Floating Side Menu & Categories with Icons 300+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Admin Menu Editor 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
• Max Mega Menu 300K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A

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Category Posts in Custom Menu: 2K+ active installs, 4.8★ (43 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/category-posts-in-custom-menu