Section Subnav
Adds a widget and template function for displaying subnavigation based on the current navigation state.
5(3 reviews)
·60 active installs·Updated 14 years agoAs of April 2026, Section Subnav is a WordPress menu plugin with 60 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.
5/53 reviews
60active installs
4.0K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
This is a simple plugin that was born out of working on several projects with sectional navigations. For example, consider the following common navigation tree structure:
- Home
- Item
- About Us
- Sub-item #1
- Sub-item #2
- Item
- Item
Then, whenever on the “About Us” page or any of its sub-items, it would output that peice of the navigation:
- About Us
- Sub-item #1
- Sub-item #2
This is particularly useful for websites that have a top horizontal navigation which shows top-level items and want to show a vertical subnavigation in the sidebar.
This plugin works by parsing the output of the wp_nav_menu function as XML and analyzing the CSS class hooks (current-menu-ancestor, current-menu-item, and current-menu-parent). Because it uses PHP’s SimpleXML library it therefore require…
Ratings & Reviews
53 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 3.2.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
0.9
- Initial release.
Contributors
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