Dropdown Menus

Older reviewers found it easy to set up and exactly what they needed, while the most recent one says it stopped working entirely and takes the rest of the site down with it.

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

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1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ 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.

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

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 12 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ mykronesis

   9.8y ago

   THIS PLUGIN NO LONGER WORKS AT ALL. i KEPT FORGETTING THAT I HAD IT IN MY FAVORITES AND IT KEPT GETTING INSTALLED.. DUH, ON MY PART.. HOWEVER. IT SHUTS EVERYTHING ELSE DOWN AND THEN I SPEND TONS OF TIME TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WENT WRONG AND SAME AS BEFORE, IT’S THIS PLUGIN, SO YES, I HAVE FINALLY TOOK IT OFF MY FAVORITES. JUST BEWARE IF YOUR SITE GOES CAPLOOEY AND YOU HAVE THIS PLUGIN.. 99% SURE THAT IS WHAT IT IS.

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2. ★★★★★ Genypix

   13.2y ago

   Worked great, exactly what I needed, thanks alot. Works great if you made your own menu without a plugin

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3. ★★★★★ muranyia

   13.4y ago

   When I switch on effects, the menu doesn’t work. I guess it’s a JQuery version problem. I still like the plugin, though.

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4. ★★★★★ Steven Vachon

   13.7y ago

   But there are a couple of issues: "current-menu-item" class is converted to selected="selected" too soon. It should take place after the "nav_menu_css_class" filter. Here’s why. "items_wrap" (from wp_nav_menu) is a useless option now that you’ve overridden it. If there is no way around this, what about adding an items_wrap2 or similar to preserve functionality? Thanks!

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5. ★★★★★ Jon Evans

   14.0y ago

   I never imagined this would be as easy as it was. In my case I’m using a specific mobile theme and a switcher plugin. Four simple steps: 1. Upload dropdown-menus.php file in /dropdown/ folder of Mobile theme 2. Add code to mobile theme’s function.php to ‘include’ the plugin (not sure if this is necessary): if ( ! function_exists( 'dropdown_menu' ) ) include( 'dropdown/dropdown-menus.php' ); 3. Add dropdown_menu function call code to header.php, e.g. below logo, see plugin description. Something like: $ddargs = array( 'dropdown_title' => '[Main Menu]', // text to show when on page not in menu 'indent_string' => '- ', // text to show before 'indented' sub-menu item, repeated 'indent_after' => '' // text to show for sub-menu, NOT repeated ); dropdown_menu( $ddargs ); 4. Style CSS: e.g. Add css to Mobile theme’s style.css .menu-top-menu-container { padding:5px; background-color: #e2e2e2; } Thanks!

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

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-11-04 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-11-03 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-11-02 400+ → 300+ down after 356 days in tier
4. 2024-11-11 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in tier
5. 2024-11-08 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
6. 2024-11-06 500+ → 400+ down after 4 days in tier
7. 2024-11-02 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-11-01 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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Dropdown Menus: 300+ active installs, 4.4★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/dropdown-menus