Expandable Menus

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

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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2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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 6 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Al_ambique

   8.1y ago

   This very simple yet very useful plugin still works after all these years (WP 4.9!). I can’t understand why this is not a built-in feature of WordPress 🙁

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2. ★★★★★ FGU Nord / Lars

   9.8y ago

   This plugin solves a problem that should be build into WP When you have many menu-items in appearance > menusyou really need to be able to Expand and collapse menu items …. and this plugin will do the trick … but hasn’t been updatet for 4 years … and there is a bug But a friendly WP-user ( @dannyunitel ) did find the bug and made an “easy to do” fix …. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-fixes-ive-made/ and with his changes it works 🙂 // Lars PS. I hope that @maxaud will update his plugin some day soon 🙂 Thanks @dannyunitel

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3. ★★★★★ triggame

   10.3y ago

   Works as promised. Thank you!!!! Styling needs a little love.

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4. ★★★★★ sbrenner

   10.8y ago

   If you have ever tried to drag a newly added page across a slew of other pages in your menu page to get to the proper location, you will definitely appreciate a way to collapse the menus and save a bunch of time. One thing I discovered on my server is that after a certain number of menu items, wordpress stopped adding a new page to the end. Turns out there is a php problem with passing these parameters. If you create a file named “.user.ini” that has the following contents: max_input_vars = 3000; And place that file in your public_html folder, the problem is solved.

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5. ★★★★★ taggie

   11.2y ago

   With a large custom menu adding pages in the menus section has been painful. Wonderful to be able to add pages and rearrange things with ease. I don’t know how I missed this plugin before (possibly the name doesn’t help – expanded is the norm, I was looking to collapse) but I’m so glad it still works with 4.3. I agree with the first review – am surprised it’s not a native feature, each time I’ve updated WP I’ve looked to see if it has been added.

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6. ★★★★★ Sanguinarius

   11.9y ago

   I was looking all over for a solution to my growing length of menu items in Appearance > Menus. I finally found exactly what I was looking for! I installed it the other day and boy, it’s been very convenient and a time-saver! I just double-click next to the menu (nest too) to expand or collapse it. I can keep sections I’m not working on collapsed and the ones I am, expanded. It makes working with my Menu a pleasure now, rather than a dread. It stores the expandable/collapsible section info in a cookie, I believe so the ones you want open will stay open and the ones you want closed will stay closed the next time you go to your Admin.

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7. ★★★★★ sackerly

   12.2y ago

   This plugin has been stable and incredibly helpful over the years – can’t believe more people haven’t reviewed it!

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8. ★★★★★ russelm

   13.3y ago

   This could be just what I need. Thanks

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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. 2026-05-01 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-04-30 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-04-29 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2026-04-28 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-04-27 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in tier
6. 2026-04-24 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2026-04-22 200+ → 100+ down after 586 days in tier
8. 2024-09-13 300+ → 200+ down 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).

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Expandable Menus: 100+ active installs, 4.9★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/expandable-menus