Auto populating

Hi @bluegeek26

When you create an Accordion menu from your WordPress menu and later you update this menu, the newly added menu points will automatically appear. (Except if you’ve selected only specific menu items to be shown. E.g. https://imgur.com/QmzQbLw in this case only the selected two menu points will be shown.)

So if you would like to show your newly added posts / pages in your menu, then you will need to add them to the WordPress menu that is selected at your Accordion menu.

Hi @nextend_ramona

Yeah that’s how I figured it. Manually adding new menu items to the WordPress menu assigned to Accordion menu, will definitely make the new added menu items appear in Accordion menu.

It’s still manually done, though.

Suppose I have a category called “Journal”.

And when creating new post in WP Dashboard > Posts, I simply assign the post to the “Journal” category.

A few non-accordion menu plugins out there (e.g., JC Submenu) are then able to auto populate the post under the category parent inside the sidebar widget.

I don’t need to go to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Menus to add each post to the WordPress menu.

Saving a lot of time.

Was wondering if that is possible here?

JC Submenu is also able to do that for child pages listed under a parent page, without having to add any child pages under the parent page in WP Dashboard > Appearance > Menus.

All that’s needed there is a checkmark for “JC Submenu – Automatically populate submenu” for the parent page — then it’ll autopopulate child pages in the sidebar widget.

The widget will instruct itself where to find the child pages.

No worries if it’s not a feature or outside the scope of this plugin.

I’m mainly just curious.

Hi @bluegeek26

Currently, our Accordion Menu is simply doing that much that it fetches the content (name, link) of an existing WordPress menu, and displays it.

However, your suggestion seems interesting, I just put it into our to do list, and hopefully we’ll be able to introduce it in one of our future versions!

Glad to make a useful suggestion.

You can take a look at that other plugin I mentioned to get an idea of how the autopopulating feature works. Its autopopulating feature works for both posts and pages.

If that feature worked for an ACCORDION menu plugin like yours, that’d be amazing. Thanks for being open to the idea! Best of luck.

I would LOVE to have this option as well!