Best children plugins for WordPress
The most popular children plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Add Descendants As Submenu Items leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of SB Children block (400+) and Category Parent Children Selector (100+). All 16 plugins tagged “children” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 children plugins
- 1.
Add Descendants As Submenu ItemsThe most installed children plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 20 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 2.
SB Children block400+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.
Category Parent Children Selector100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 4.
ZOOZA30+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
Child Page Tree20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 6.
NotFound.org 404 Page20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 7.
Name20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 8.
Amber Alert Nederland10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 9.
Name10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 10.
Rescue Children Banner10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
All 16 plugins tagged “children”
Add Descendants As Submenu Items
Down in the last 7 days:105#4,670by Alex Mills4 years ago
Automatically all of a nav menu item's descendants as submenu items. Designed for pages but will work with any hierarchical post type or taxonomy …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 14/day
SB Children block
Down in the last 7 days:2#9,898by bobbingwide1 year ago
List children of the current content as links.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Parent Children Selector
Down in the last 7 days:43#16,604by WenZe12 years ago
Helps you in selecting parent-children categories.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
ZOOZA
Down in the last 7 days:132#25,115by Martin@Zooza9 months ago
This plugin enables integration of Zooza widgets to your website. An existing Zooza account is required for this plugin to work.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Child Page Tree
Up in the last 7 days:38#25,276by Hans-Helge Buerger10 years ago
Display a page tree of all child pages of the current site
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
NotFound.org 404 Page
Down in the last 7 days:61#27,441by Kenny5 years ago
This is a Wordpress plugin that turns your 404 "page not found" error into a page devoted to helping find missing children.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Name
Down in the last 7 days:24#28,502by ChrisHurst12 years ago
Use the [children-excerpt] shortcode where you want to display the excerpts of the child pages.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Amber Alert Nederland
Up in the last 7 days:5,396#39,297by cogmios12 years ago
Amber Alert Nederland - laat enkele keren per jaar een missend of ontvoerd kind popup zien
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Name
Down in the last 7 days:4,973#42,478by ChrisHurst12 years ago
use the [children-content] shortcode where you want to display the content of the child pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rescue Children Banner
Up in the last 7 days:1,940#42,710by Ian Dunn11 years ago
Adds a "Rescue Children" banner to the top left or top right corner of your site, which links to Destiny Rescue's website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Automatic Submenu for Categories & Pages
Up in the last 7 days:1,552#43,793by rallisf19 years ago
Automatically append children posts and pages as submenu items in the frontend
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Express Posts
#46,084by Grant Mangham10 years ago
Express posts provides a widget to display either a subset of posts, the children of a page or its siblings.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Name
Down in the last 7 days:1,908#47,969by ChrisHurst12 years ago
use the [children-index] shortcode where you want a list of links to the child pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Allow2
Up in the last 7 days:5,531#50,412by allow28 years ago
Allow2 Parental Freedom Platform The Allow2 WordPress plugin is a simple plug and play drop in component that empowers your site to offer full parent …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kerk en IT Children
Down in the last 7 days:17,910#69,345by Kerk en IT4 months ago
This plugin provides links to subpages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day