Best nested plugins for WordPress
The most popular nested plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Nested Pages leads with 90K+ active installs, ahead of Nested Shortcodes (1K+) and Nested Ordered Lists (800+). All 10 plugins tagged “nested” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 nested plugins
- 1.
Nested PagesThe most installed nested plugin, with 90K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 126 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Nested Shortcodes1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 14 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
Nested Ordered Lists800+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 4.
Dynamic Shortcode40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 5.
Collapsible Pages Widget10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 6.
bbPress Threaded Replies10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 7.
Voce Submenu Items10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 8.
Change Comment Parent10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 9.
Simple Nested MenuFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago.
- 10.
Lista SofisticadaFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
All 10 plugins tagged “nested”
Nested Pages
Up in the last 7 days:1#474by Hook & Filter1 month ago
Nested Pages provides a drag and drop interface for managing pages & posts in the WordPress admin, while maintaining quick edit functionality.
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.7(126)
- Downloads
- 823/day
Nested Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:24#5,529by Outerbridge1 month ago
A small plugin which allows you to use nest shortcodes (i.e. a shortcode within an enclosing shortcode) by implementing a simple do_shortcode filter
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(14)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Nested Ordered Lists
Up in the last 7 days:17#7,613by cubecolour1 year ago
Add some hierarchy to your nested lists.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Dynamic Shortcode
#22,223by Amir JM6 years ago
A small plugin which allows you to use shortcodes as the attribute of other shortcode, shortcode inside shortcode, dynamic shortcode.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Collapsible Pages Widget
Down in the last 7 days:316#29,670by adamschoenemann10 years ago
Wordpress plugin that provides a widget that lists pages in a collapsible list
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbPress Threaded Replies
Down in the last 7 days:520#31,981by Jennifer M. Dodd14 years ago
Add threaded (nested) reply functionality to bbPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Voce Submenu Items
Down in the last 7 days:5,203#41,451by Jeff Stieler12 years ago
Nest menus as items to avoid giant navigation menus in your admin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Change Comment Parent
Up in the last 7 days:1,032#45,172by Dmitriy Amirov11 years ago
Simple plug-in for editing the parent comments to any user comments. Use it to edit the threaded structure comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Nested Menu
#70,418by Mostafa Shahiri7 years ago
The Simple Nested Menu is a fast and lightweight plugin that displays menu items in a nested sliding style.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lista Sofisticada
Down in the last 7 days:18,092#74,177by Rodrigo Diniz da Silva1 month ago
Crie listas com: título, itens, listas internas e links. Acrescentando {URL} após o texto, fará com que o item ou o título se transforme em um link.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day