Lýsing
When creating a menu under the „Appearance -> Menus“ tab it allows you to double click to expand and collapse a menu tree.
This is particularly useful for large menus or menus with many different sub trees that take up screen space.
Minimized menus will be saved as a cookie so when you return they should be minimized again.
Requirements
- Javascript is required.
- A browser that supports the :after CSS selector is required to show the minimized indicators (IE7 and IE8 may not show them).
Future releases:
- Images to show collapsed menus rather than just a blue marker.
- Double-click visual feedback.
- your ideas!
Skjámyndir
The edit menu screen with a couple menus collapsed.
Uppsetning
Drop into either your /mu-plugins/ directory, or your plugins directory and activate it.
- Upload the
expandable-menusdirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory, or the/wp-content/mu-plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress (if placed in the the
/wp-content/plugins/directory) - Create a menu with some children elements and double click the parent.
SOS
- None yet
- Why isn’t this working?
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- Have you tried double clicking? A lot of people dont understand you have to double click to minimize as there wasn’t initially an indicator telling you to do so.
Umsagnir
3. október, 2018
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 🙁
18. janúar, 2017
2 replies
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
3. september, 2016
Works as promised. Thank you!!!!
Styling needs a little love.
3. september, 2016
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.
3. september, 2016
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.
Þátttakendur & höfundar
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Höfundar
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Breytingarsaga
1.0
- First Release.
1.1
- Fixed icon alignment issue.
2.0
- Revamped javascript.
- Supports over 200 menus now.
- Different indicators on hover and when minimized
- Saves minimized menus in a cookie so you don’t have to minimize every time the page is loaded.
2.1
- Addresses a javascript error, see support forum.