Title: Expandable Menus Author: Maxaud Published: September 28, 2012 Last modified: February 23, 2013 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/expandable-menus/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=669410) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/expandable-menus_f4f4f4.svg) # Expandable Menus By [Maxaud](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maxaud/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/expandable-menus.2.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expandable-menus/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expandable-menus/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expandable-menus/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expandable-menus/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/expandable-menus/) ## Description 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! ## Screenshots * [[ * The edit menu screen with a couple menus collapsed. ## Installation Drop into either your /mu-plugins/ directory, or your plugins directory and activate it. 1. Upload the `expandable-menus` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory, or the `/wp-content/mu-plugins/` directory. 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress (if placed in the the`/ wp-content/plugins/` directory) 3. Create a menu with some children elements and double click the parent. ## FAQ None yet Why isn’t this working? * 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. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6a7c3dc7f573d18fba599605a8522130612b1ae5be7f9f8840c9c59592d83721? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Still works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-works-150/)󠁿 [Al_ambique](https://profiles.wordpress.org/auberlu/) October 3, 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 🙁 ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2630bb464d9d7773074058df1b65093c3cf5266ba15bf20c9ba6eea34085c7e7? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[It works – with a bug-fix](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-works-with-a-bug-fix/)󠁿 [FGU Nord / Lars](https://profiles.wordpress.org/medieskolen/) January 18, 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 ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/076c55155c3aeb47da1b98c6b4e07326969250773acd2e88b8878604f8e130bd? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works well!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-well-817/)󠁿 [triggame](https://profiles.wordpress.org/triggame/) September 3, 2016 Works as promised. Thank you!!!! Styling needs a little love. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/133f5cabb049685fd7e07caea1a4ff6dd3ece54ff948cf18bdaa8a8070e3e8d6? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works nicely](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-nicely-55/)󠁿 [sbrenner](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sbrenner/) September 3, 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. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e8a231798ac4f8237f507b0e163addea8189d77a2a9c907e5d06476e2d121ee? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Valuable function](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/valuable-function/)󠁿 [taggie](https://profiles.wordpress.org/taggie/) September 3, 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. [ Read all 13 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/expandable-menus/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Expandable Menus” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Maxaud ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maxaud/) [Translate “Expandable Menus” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/expandable-menus) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expandable-menus/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/expandable-menus/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/expandable-menus/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/expandable-menus/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 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. ## Meta * Version **2.1** * Last updated **13 years ago** * Active installations **200+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.6.1** * Tags * [admin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[expandable](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/expandable/) [menu](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/menu/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expandable-menus/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.9 out of 5 stars. * [ 11 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/expandable-menus/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/expandable-menus/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/expandable-menus/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/expandable-menus/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/expandable-menus/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/expandable-menus/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/expandable-menus/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Maxaud ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maxaud/) ## Support Got something to say? 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