Create "spiderable" drop-down menus that every search engine will scan!
As of April 2026, Optimized Dropdown Menus is a WordPress seo plugin with 70 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
By using Optimized Dropdown Menus Widget, you’ll be able to create dropdown menus that are searchable or “spiderable” by search engine bots.
Basically, it works like this:
The menu’s markup code is being printed as an ordinary nested menu. e.g.
<ul>
<li><a href="http://example.com/page">Some Random Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://example.com/page-another">Another Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://example.com/yao">Yet Another One</a></li>
</ul>
Since most browsers support JavaScript, using the widget, the markup would be translated into something like this
<select>
<option value="http://example.com/page">Some Random Page</option>
...
&l…| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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