Expandable Menus

February 23, 2013

Expandable Menus Plugin

Allows you to collapse and expand the WordPress admin theme menus (Appearance > Menus).

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!

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.

Screenshots

  1. The edit menu screen with a couple menus collapsed.

    The edit menu screen with a couple menus collapsed.

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.

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.

Details

  • Version: 2.1
  • Active installations: 300
  • WordPress Version: 3.0
  • Tested up to: 3.6.1

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