by Diana van de Laarschot
4 (25 reviews)
Auto Submenu
Dynamic menus: Add a page to your menu and then let WordPress automatically add the child pages.
Compatible with WP 6.9
v1.0.5
Current Version v1.0.5
Updated 1 month ago
Last Update on 03 Dec, 2025
Synced 14 hours ago
Last Synced on
Rank
#4,418
+8 this week
Active Installs
2K+
-34.3%
KW Avg Position
60
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Downloads
50.7K
+15 today
Support Resolved
0%
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Rating
80%
Review 4 out of 5
4
(25 reviews)
Next Milestone 3K
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- Version
- 1.0.5
- Last Updated
- Dec 03, 2025
- Requires WP
- 5.4+
- Tested Up To
- 6.9
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- Diana van de Laarschot
Support & Rating
- Rating
- ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4
- Reviews
- 25
- Support Threads
- 0
- Resolved
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Auto Submenu
Here's a walkthrough: Create a page with title "Page 1" Save the page Create a child page with title "Child Page 1" and parent "Page 1" Save the child page Go to Appearances > Menus (or via Appearance > Customize or Appearance > Editor, in WordPress 5.4 or higher) Add your page named "Page 1" Open the menu item and check "Automatically create submenu with child pages" Save the menu If you now look at your website, "Page 1" has a submenu with "Child Page 1" below it. Add additional child page and you will automatically see these additional child pages in the menu. Missing CSS classes The CSS class 'current-post-ancestor' is not applied correctly. This is a bug in WordPress that I have reported here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32918 This is not something I am able to fix in the plugin, it has to be fixed in WordPress. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Performance issues The plugin is potentially very expensive, especially when you have a lot of pages and child pages. The solution would be to cache the menu using transients, as reported here https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-problem-many-database-queries?replies=11#post-7829450 $my_cached_menu = get_transient( 'my_cached_menu'); if( $my_cached_menu === false ) { $my_cached_menu = wp_nav_menu( ... ); set_transient( "my_cached_menu_", $my_cached_menu, YEAR_IN_SECONDS ); } echo $my_cached_menu;
Problem: "I can't see what effect it has had. Nothing has changed (not that I can see) in the Appearance > Menu/Customize/Editor pages. It's just like before." If you are using a recent version of Auto Submenu and an updated version of WordPress, the problem can only occur due to your theme or other plugins conflicting with Auto Submenu. Please disable all themes and plugins except ASM; verify that the ASM fields show; enable other plugins and themes one by one to determine which plugin/theme conflicts with ASM. Note: A theme must either call wp_nav_menu() or apply_filters( 'wp_nav_menu_objects', ... ) for ASM to be triggered.
Automatically adding future dated child pages doesn’t work due to what appears to be a bug in the WordPress core. Future dated top-level pages don’t seem to get added to custom menus either.