Have you ever been annoyed by being not able to insert a new item as submenu parent or to delete menu items without opening the menu item panel? A free and easy to use plugin saving you time working in WordPress.
Your benefits
- You can delete menu items in a 1-click process instead of opening the menu item panel.
- You can move the menu items in 1-click process without opening the panel.
- You see via icons on the left sidebar if a page, post, category etc. is already used in the current menu.
- You see the used menu items by hovering over the items in the left sidebar.
- You have the possibility to do quick inserts of menu items, where you can place them at the position you like.
- You can modify the behavior of inserting/moving elements downwards.
- It shows you additionally the original name of a menu item on the outer level like in the opened panel.
- Saves you a lot of time by reducing clicks not needed to work with the menu items in the backend.
- It´s free and easy to use.
Different behaviors
Inserting/moving menu items downwards is enriched by two new behaviors. Moving/inserting rightwards, upwards is the same as provided by WordPress.
Leftwards moving/inserting is a special case. The leftwards functionality is nearly the same as provided by WordPress expect the scenario when
the menu item becomes a menu parent and create a submenu by moving one step left.
The different behaviors can be seen in the
Screenshots section.
Same-level behavior
When choosing this behavior menu items will be inserted/moved after submenus. The default behavior provided by WordPress inserts/moves the menu item into the submenu.
If you move/insert a menu item and the next menu item is the parent of a submenu it will stay on the same level, but the position is after the submenu.
Take-children elements behavior
When choosing this behavior menu items will become new submenu parents when inserted/moved if they would become the parent of the submenu children elements.
This is true for downwards/leftwards moving/inserting.
Quick insert multiple menu items
It can be very handy to insert multiple menu items to a specific menu element to create a submenu.
Compatible
The plugin is compatible with a multisite setup.
Quick and easy installation:
- Upload the folder
simplify-menu-usage
to your plugin directory
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- That´s it!