Best submenu plugins for WordPress
The most popular submenu plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. JC Submenu leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of Gecka Submenu (2K+) and Auto Submenu (2K+). All 15 plugins tagged “submenu” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 submenu plugins
- 1.
JC SubmenuThe most installed submenu plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 49 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 2.
Gecka Submenu2K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 16 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 3.
Auto Submenu2K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 25 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Category Posts in Custom Menu2K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 43 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Navception200+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 6.
DM Pojo Mobile Menu100+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 7.
Codepress Menu90+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.
- 8.
Enhanced Custom Menu70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
- 9.
Auto Generate Submenus50+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 10.
Menu Obfuscator40+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
All 15 plugins tagged “submenu”
JC Submenu
Down in the last 7 days:3#3,623by jcollings6 years ago
JC Submenu plugin allows you to automatically populate your navigation menus with custom post_types, taxonomies, or child pages.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.6(49)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Gecka Submenu
Down in the last 7 days:4#4,285by Gecka9 years ago
Submenu autopopulates any nav menu page item with its children and allows to put menus, or portion of menus, anywhere in your site.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.1(16)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Auto Submenu
Down in the last 7 days:1#4,334by Diana van de Laarschot2 months ago
Dynamic menus: Add a page to your menu and then let WordPress automatically add the child pages.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.0(25)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Category Posts in Custom Menu
Down in the last 7 days:13#4,771by Diana van de Laarschot2 months ago
Dynamic menus: List all posts from a category in your menu. Also works for tags, custom taxonomies as well as pages and custom post types.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(43)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Navception
Down in the last 7 days:104#12,487by Faison12 years ago
Embed WordPress Menus inside of other WordPress Menus!
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DM Pojo Mobile Menu
Up in the last 7 days:7#16,518by yonifre9 years ago
This plug-in was created to fix the mobile menu of Pojo templates to fit sub-menus in the usual way in Mobile.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Codepress Menu
Up in the last 7 days:3#16,847by David Mosterd13 years ago
Allows you to display a sub-menu, it's depth from there on and gives you control over the menu-item classes.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Enhanced Custom Menu
Down in the last 7 days:32#18,946by jessejd16 years ago
This plugin alters the custom menu auto-add function allowing subpages and delete menu item after un-publishing a page.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Auto Generate Submenus
Down in the last 7 days:28#21,046by Willy Bahuaud9 years ago
With this plugin, you can add an automatically generated submenu for each menu item.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Menu Obfuscator
Down in the last 7 days:22#22,597by Jose da Silva6 years ago
Menu Obfuscator is a simple plugin that provides a intuitive interface to hide specific areas or menus on your Wordpress admin, for each user individu …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
RVSubMenu
Down in the last 7 days:277#24,778by Richard Venancio15 years ago
This plugin used to get de sub menu refers the current item menu, and show this with a menu, for exemple a sub menu left.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- 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
Clean Menu
Down in the last 7 days:7,423#47,255by Tomek5 years ago
Hide the menus on the dashboard
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MenuNest
Down in the last 7 days:9,720#62,239by Harsh Prajapati7 days ago
Add menu items under any parent without dragging, bulk add from a pasted list, and back up, restore, import and export WordPress menus.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 17/day
Category Submenu Builder
Down in the last 7 days:2,804#70,289by codelith2 months ago
Build WordPress and WooCommerce category menus, submenus, mega menus, and category navigation with visual builder and sync tools.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day