by Diana van de Laarschot 4 (25 reviews)

Auto Submenu

Name: Auto Submenu
Rating: 4.0 (25 reviews)
Author: Diana van de Laarschot

Dynamic menus: Add a page to your menu and then let WordPress automatically add the child pages.

Auto Submenu ranks #4,416 among WordPress.org plugins with 2,000+ active installations, is #691 of 8,568 in the Customization category, a 4/5 rating from 25 reviews, and was last updated Aug 28, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.0.7 Current Version v1.0.7

Updated 3 weeks ago Last Update on 28 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#691 of 8,568 in Customization Top 10% by installs Downloads -23.6% this week Actively maintained

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#4,416

+1 this week

Active Installs

2K+

-32.3%

KW Avg Position

84.3

0.5 better

Downloads

51.9K

+17 today

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80%

Review 4 out of 5

4 (25 reviews)

Next Milestone 3K

Total Progress 95.4%

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.0.7
Last Updated: Aug 28, 2026
Requires WP: 5.4+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Diana van de Laarschot

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4
Reviews: 25
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who use pages and menus and want submenus to update automatically. It solves the problem of manually maintaining child pages in menus by letting parent pages automatically display their child pages as submenu items.

Automatically adds child pages
Customizer support (Appearance > Customize)
Full Site Editing support
Gutenberg Block Editor support
Ascending order by Menu Order
Configurable nesting depth (max 3)
Custom child page titles
Wildcards for date/author/title

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.