Category Posts in Custom Menu
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.
4.8(43 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Category Posts in Custom Menu is a WordPress menu plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 43 reviews. It has been downloaded 104K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.4+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Downloads are up 9% this week. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.
4.8/543 reviews
2.0K+active installs
104K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
The default custom menu in WordPress only allows adding a link that leads to a list of posts and pages belonging to a taxonomy (category, tag, etc). If you want to list the posts and pages themselves and if you want WordPress to do this automatically for you, then I hope you will find this plugin useful.
Also works for custom taxonomies and custom post types
NEW: CPCM V3 now provides support for Full Site Editing with the Gutenberg Block Editor
WARNING: Coming from version 1.x? There are breaking changes, read the changelog before upgrading.
Using it
Enable the plugin and go to either Appearance > Menus or Appearance > Customize or Appearance > Editor. Add a category (or other taxonomy like tag or custom) to the menu. Next, you can choose if you would like to replace the category…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Unusable after update
by nikischin·1 year ago
Working version removed from archive. Super annoying.
Beware ! Version 1.4.0 breaks the menu
by weblwp·2 years ago·2 replies
I suspect version 1.4.0 with the “Split Free and Premium version” makes it unusable (without notice).
Thank You. This plugin is exactly what I was looking for!
by samuelashbrook·3 years ago
This plugin is incredibly useful!
Life saver!!
by philipsacht·4 years ago
For reasons I cannot understand, WordPress doesn’t have the possibility to display a list of Posts determined by Post Category into a Menu/navigation area.
THIS PLUGIN DOES JUST THAT!
Thank you so much for your effort – I hope you continuously will update this plugin for all the people wanting this very simple, but important function!
Funziona benissimo
by FabriSS·6 years ago
Funziona benissimo con la versione 5.2.4 di wordpress e anche con installazione MultiSite
Download Trends
Today: 13Yesterday: 11This week: 86Period total: 7K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.0
58.9%
v1.2
23.0%
v1.3
14.5%
Other
3.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.0.5
Verified compatibility with WordPress 6.9
Contributors
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