Bellows Accordion Menu Plugin

Bellows is an awesome accordion menu for WordPress. It works with the WordPress menu system to allow you to build beautiful accordion menus for your site.

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Get started: Bellows Quick Start Guide

Feature Overview

• Fully functional accordion menu
• Multiple submenu levels
• 3 included skin presets
• Multi- or single-folding
• Expand current submenu automatically option
• Shortcode integration – add an accodion menu to yoru site anywhere you can add shortcodes
• Widget integration – add an accordion menu to your widgetized theme areas

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/bellows-accordion-menu directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. Use the Appearance > Bellows Menu screen to configure the plugin and generate the shortcode to add the menu to your site (or use a widget or PHP code)

1.4.3

• Security: Fix XSS vulnerability – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored cross-site scripting via shortcode

1.4.2

• Requirement Update: Minimum PHP version to 7.4 (current support through 8.1)
• Feature: [Pro] New Orderby option for Autopopulated Terms Menu: Meta Term Order (supports WooCommerce custom Product Category ordering)
• Enhancement: Current submenus expanded by default rather than animating open on page load
• Fix: Walker start_el arguments default type to stdClass instead of array
• Fix: [Pro] Duplicate Autopopulation corner case
• Fix: Undefined variable corner case

1.4.1

• Fix: Resolve undefined $default variable notice in Customizer

1.4

• Feature: [Pro] Menu Section functionality (display just a section of a menu, based on a root, which can be dynamically determined)
• Feature: Add aria-label to submenu toggle buttons
• Feature: Add filters for submenu toggle icons and content
• Fix: Radio toggle alignment in Customizer settings
• Fix: Checkbox settings in Customizer
• Fix: [Pro] Responsive & Mobile tab contents not displaying in pro
• Fix: [Pro] Pass ‘counts’ attribute to bellows_terms shortcode
• Fix: Properly echo toggle when menu is also echoed rather than returned

1.3

• Feature: Current Associated Term Highlighting (highlight as current terms in the menu associated with the current page)
• Feature: Collapse on mobile option (toggle to reveal mobile menu)
• Feature: [Pro] Tree mode (toggles on left edge, aligned to text), including Tree skin
• Feature: [Pro] Vertical and Horizontal padding settings for top level and submenu items
• Feature: [Pro] Configurable Submenu Indent setting
• Feature: [Pro] Configurable Submenu Slide Speed setting
• Feature: [Pro] Include Parent setting for Autopopulated Posts menus
• Feature: [Pro] Exclude Posts option for Autopopulated Posts menus
• Feature: [Pro] Exclude Terms option for Autopopulated Terms menus
• Feature: Current item priority functionality – determine which item should be opened if multiple items are current.
• Enhancement: Improve keyboard accessibility
• Enhancement: Styling support for when using SVG replacement icons
• Enhancement: Configurable admin capability constant
• Enhancement: RTL improvements
• Update: jQuery 3 compatibility (replace deprecated functions)
• Update: PHP 7.4 compatibility
• Fix: Make term population work with arbitrary roots when using child_of
• Fix: Walker UberMenu check to pull ID properly

1.2.1

Lite:

• Enhancement: Improved RTL support
• Fix: Active state added to items with no submenus when default submenu state set to open

Pro:

• Feature: Added bellows_auto_terms_query_args filter
• Feature: Added bellows_auto_posts_query_args filter
• Feature: Added bellows_auto_post_title filter
• Feature: Added bellows_auto_term_title filter

1.2

Lite:

• Feature: Added Force Override Filters setting to combat themes and plugins that try to filter menu output
• Enhancement: Added bellows_menu_item_data filter
• Enhancement: If skin is disabled, and submenu dividers enabled, force the divider border
• Enhancement: Added bellows_link_attributes filter

Pro:

• Feature: Added Depth/Level limit setting for Terms Autopopulator
• Feature: Added option to set submenu default state to open or closed globally
• Feature: Added option to set submenu default state to open or closed on individual menu items

1.1

Lite:

• Exposed open and close submenu functions to external API
• Force parent submenus of current item open even if missing current classes

Pro:

• Submenu item padding Customizer setting
• Submenu font size Customizer setting
• When link is disabled, it will act as a toggle for submenu
• Add current menu item classes properly to terms in automatic terms taxonomy items

1.0

• Initial release