This plugin extends the category and archive lists by providing a dropdown (select) box that auto-navigates, or with a button or link to activate the …
As of April 2026, Daniel's DropDowns is a WordPress archives plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Disable Author Archives.
Daniel’s DropDowns extends the standard WordPress category and archive template
tags. It provides a category dropdown that uses the standard WordPress link
tags for its targets, so it will work with the standard permalinks, or any
form of “pretty” permalinks. The archive dropdown is a lot simpler, as that
template tag will create option entries with the proper links.
Dropdowns can also include buttons or links to activate the current selection,
or (as of version 2) be rendered as auto-navigating select boxes. Also, as of
version 2, you can specify the text that will appear in the link or on the
button.
NOTE FOR 1.0 USERS – As of version 2, the CSS parameters have been removed, as
each item can be uniquely identified without it, and will use the CSS of the
theme…
| WordPress | 2.0+ requiredTested up to 2.9.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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