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  1. Upload the provided amber-mega-menu.zip<\/code> file.<\/li>\n
  2. WordPress admin \u2192 Plugins \u2192 Add New \u2192 Upload Plugin \u2192 Activate.<\/li>\n
  3. Go to \"Mega Menus\" \u2192 Add new. Everything is edited on the plugin's own\nsettings screen (menu list + editor), not in the post editor.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n

    2.1.0<\/h4>\n\n
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    • WordPress.org review compliance: the free distribution no longer contains\nany locked or disabled functionality. Premium features (tabs, modal opening\nmode, cart trigger, advanced styling controls, frontend text overrides,\nAppearance \u2192 Menus integration) now live only in the separate premium\ndistribution and attach through hooks.<\/li>\n
    • Admin menu icon styles are now enqueued as a stylesheet.<\/li>\n
    • The settings sanitization filter no longer receives raw form input.<\/li>\n
    • Readme contributors updated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

      2.0.30<\/h4>\n\n
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      • Settings screen restyled to the shared Amber admin layout; live preview removed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n

        Build compact, searchable mega menus from product categories, taxonomies, or WordPress menus. Responsive and compatible with any theme.<\/p>\n\n

        What it does<\/h3>\n\n

        Builds a mega menu from either a WordPress menu or a category taxonomy\n(product_cat by default), with two layouts and full manual ordering.\nCreated by Amberweb \u2014 https:\/\/plugins.amberweb.lt<\/p>\n\n

        Page-builder edit modes show a compact, non-interactive menu preview. The full\noverlay remains disabled inside the editor to prevent theme or builder styles\nfrom distorting the editing canvas. The plugin uses standard WordPress\nshortcodes and works with themes, widgets, templates, block editors, and page\nbuilders that support shortcode output.<\/p>\n\n

        Layout 1 \u2014 \"Compact groups\": a searchable grid of parent categories. Each\ngroup initially shows six children; visitors can expand only the group they need.<\/p>\n\n

        Layout 2 \u2014 \"Compact explorer\": a left rail of parent categories; hovering (or focusing)\na parent expands a panel on the right showing its sub-categories and\nthird-level items. Only one branch is shown at a time. On mobile the rail becomes\nan accordion.<\/p>\n\n

        Both layouts include category search with highlighted matches and use a viewport-height panel with its\nown scrolling, so a large catalogue never creates a page-height menu.\nOn phones, the menu uses a nearly full-screen, internally scrolling panel with\na two-row title\/search toolbar and touch-sized, clearly indented hierarchy.\nSideways branches become a one-at-a-time accordion, while a search automatically\nexposes matching branches. Opening the menu does not focus search or open the keyboard.<\/p>\n\n

        Free and Pro<\/h3>\n\n

        This distribution is fully functional: unlimited mega menus, both layouts,\ndrag & drop ordering, custom labels, images, counts, hide-empty, search,\nshortcodes and basic appearance controls are all included.<\/p>\n\n

        An optional premium distribution (Amber Mega Menu Pro), sold separately on\nthe author's website, adds: Appearance \u2192 Menus integration, several menus as\ntabs inside one panel, a centered modal opening mode, a WooCommerce cart\ntrigger with live counter, advanced trigger\/typography\/spacing controls and\nper-menu frontend text customization. The premium code is not included in\nthis package and is not required for any feature listed above.<\/p>\n\n

        Configuration<\/h3>\n\n

        Settings box (right column):\n- Source: product\/other categories, or a WordPress menu.\n- Taxonomy \/ Menu selector.\n- Layout: Columns or Sideways, saved independently for this mega menu configuration.\n- Columns count (layout 1), levels to show (1\u20136 or unlimited).\n- Trigger button text, background and text colors.\n- Menu appearance controls: accent, panel and text colors. Every color has a\n default reset, and all styling can be reset together.\n- Open panels use a top-level overlay so sticky and floating site menus cannot cover them.\n- Show product counts, show category images.\n- Hide empty categories: categories with 0 products are left out of the front-end\n menu; a parent stays visible if any of its sub-categories contain products.\n (Applies to taxonomy sources, not WordPress menus.)\n- \"All categories\" link URL + text shown in the panel footer.<\/p>\n\n

        Structure box (main column):\n- Drag any item by its handle to reorder it.\n- Drop an item inside another item's indented area to make it a child\n (works for parents, children and third-level items).\n- \"Custom label\" overrides the category\/menu title for this menu only.\n- \"Hide\" removes the item (and its branch) from the front end.\n- New categories added later in WooCommerce appear automatically at the end\n of their natural parent; deleted ones disappear.<\/p>\n\n

        Save the post after changing the source so its items load into the structure box.<\/p>\n\n

        Usage<\/h3>\n\n

        Shortcode:\n [amber_mega_menu id=\"123\"]<\/p>\n\n

        Optional attributes (override this mega menu's saved settings for this placement only):\n layout=\"columns|sideways\" \u2014 omit this to use the layout saved for this mega menu\n trigger=\"All categories\"\n columns=\"4\"\n depth=\"3\"\n open=\"1\" \u2014 renders the panel always open with no trigger button\n (useful for a sidebar\/catalog page)<\/p>\n\n

        PHP (theme template):\n <\/p>\n\n

        You can also paste the shortcode into any compatible block, widget, template,\nor page builder.<\/p>\n\n

        Styling<\/h3>\n\n

        All colors are CSS variables on the .smm wrapper, so you can override them in\nyour theme or site custom CSS:<\/p>\n\n

        .smm { --smm-blue:#0878a8; --smm-text:#17324d; --smm-bg:#fff; --smm-line:#dbe6ed; }<\/p>","raw_excerpt":"Build compact, searchable mega menus from product categories, taxonomies, or WordPress menus. Responsive and compatible with any theme.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/399068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399068"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/amberwebplugins"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=399068"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=399068"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=399068"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=399068"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=399068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}