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.
- Upload the
expandable-menus
directory 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.
Screenshots
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
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.