Embedded Menus Plugin

Embedded Menus is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to embed an automatically generated page menu inside a WordPress page. Two types of menu are available:

Sibling menu – All sibling pages of the current page, including the page itself
Child menu – All child pages of the current page

To give an example, imagine a page structure as follows:

About
- Peter
- Paul
Themes
Contact

On the ‘About’ page you can embed a sibling menu and you will get:

About
Themes
Contact

Or you can embed a child menu and you will get:

Peter
Paul

Remember that the embedded menus are automatically generated – any changes to the page hierarchy will be instantly reflected on your site.

Installation

Installation is just like any WordPress plugin:

Download Embedded Page Menus 1.0
Unzip
Upload to /wp-content/plugins on your server
Activate the plugin

Usage is very simple. Edit the post you wish to embed a menu inside and insert: [embed menu]

To embed a menu of all sibling pages. Or insert: [embed menu child] To embed a menu of all child pages. Embedded menus are presented as an ordered list wrapped inside a div element with a class of embedmenu. A default style is included with the plugin and can be changed to suit your own site.

Menu depth

You can specify an optional depth parameter to configure how many levels deep you want the menu to go. This is achieved by simply adding a number after the menu command:

This works the same for child and sibling menus, and a value of 0 indicates there is no limit (i.e. as many levels as needed will be displayed).

Less to version 1.4.3 are square brackets replaced by stars and without word ‘embed’ (e.g. ‘’ to ‘(.*?)*’).

Comments

Andy 14 February 2008 at 8:01 pm

Looks just what I’m after but the download link file is corrupted. Can you check please? PS: LOVE the WYSIWYG editor!

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alec 15 February 2008 at 5:59 am

Hello Andy,

I’m glad you like Foliopress WYSIWYG. Nice site. Hosting locally in Australia is certainly the best way to go.

Thanks for letting me know about the broken link. It’s due to a misfunctioning Drain Hole from John Godley. Alas, we have a lot more great plugins which have been waiting for half a year for release while we are waiting for Drain Hole to be fixed properly.

I am sure you will like the Embedded Menus plugin. You will now be able to download Embedded Menus with no problem. This is version 1. If you are finding Embedded Page Menus useful, let me know and I can send you version 2 which is in active beta. Version 1 is much simpler and straightforward to use so it’s a good place to start.

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Ale 28 June 2008 at 7:15 am

Hi, I’ve been looking all around the web for a way to list sibilings pages, this is just what I need! When I try to download the plugin, though, it tells me the archive is corrupted. Can you help me please? Thank you a lot!

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alec 28 June 2008 at 7:48 am

Hello Ale,

Give it another try now.

Let me know what you think.

PS. If you find, Embedded Page Menus useful (that you know what sibling pages are is a good start), you should think about buying our Embedded Page Menus Pro. We use it on all our websites.

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Ale 28 June 2008 at 12:21 pm

Thanks so much! It’s perfect. And thank you for the tip about the Pro version, as well. I’ll consider the possibility of purchasing it.

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Brent 20 February 2010 at 12:22 pm

Hi, I appreciate your plugins. But I cannot seem to get this particular one working. I add the shortcode like you say, but I don’t see any menu of child pages appear. Can you please explain in more detail how this works because I love the idea! I love it so much that I will manually code a menu like this if necessary but I would rather use your plugin if I can ever get it to work on my website. Thanks!

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Brent 20 February 2010 at 12:25 pm

Nevermind, I figured it out. Brackets do not apply anymore apparently. There is no need to display either of my comments here please. Thanks for the plugin!

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Matt 7 June 2012 at 8:51 am

Is not clear how to embed this.

I have tried menu child but it does not work.

Could you please explain again?

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Rich 1 November 2012 at 4:00 pm

Hi, Great plugin concept, but I cannot get it to work, either. Using the latest WordPress version 3.4.2 I used [embed menu] in the page body and it appears to do something (the shortcode is recognizes and not echoed to the screen) but there is no menu. Am I missing something or is it no longer compatible with this version? Thanks

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Martin 6 November 2012 at 5:15 pm

Hello Rich,

we haven’t updated this plugin for public used for a while, that’s one of the things we need to catch up on when we have some time.

The version linked in the post is pretty old, however it should work is you use it like menu, it doesn’t support the shortcode format.

Thanks, Martin

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Jeffrey 20 June 2013 at 10:47 pm

Is it possible to embed another menu then your navigation menu.. I have a custom social media menu but i can’t get it to embed this. Can you help me !?

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Brian 30 November 2013 at 1:19 pm

Is it possible to easily change to an unordered, un-bulleted list?

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Martin 2 December 2013 at 5:51 pm

Hello Brian,

you will need FV Embedded Page Menus Pro. Then you can use the element attribute of the shortcode:

[excerpt element="ul"]

Find the full documentation here: foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/embedded-page-menus-pro

Thanks, Martin

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Bruce Chenoweth 11 January 2014 at 1:42 am

EXACTLY what I was looking for, and it works perfectly first time for me, so long as I copy and paste the code exactly from the instructions ( menu child ). Thanks a bunch — am going to look at the Pro version now.

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Christine 27 February 2014 at 5:46 am

Hi!

I want to ask if it is possible to have the main navigation menu on this plugin. I tried using it but it shows all the posts I made. What I am trying to do is to create a vertical menu using this plugin.

Let me know if I need a PRO version to make this possible. Thanks!

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Alec 27 February 2014 at 5:07 pm

Hi Christine,

FV Embedded Menus Pro helps you make menus out of hierarchical sections of your site (i.e. pages).

Full documentation here: foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/embedded-page-menus-pro

We use FV Embedded Menus Pro in almost all our high end business websites. For a weblog you probably don’t need it.

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Alex Meusburger 14 May 2014 at 2:56 pm

Gentlemen One of my presents menus submenus that links to posts. When this occurs (or submenus are common links) the menu is not created. Could you check and fix?

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Alec 14 May 2014 at 6:34 pm

Hi Alex,

Thanks for your notes.

We are still actively developing the Pro version. If you’d like an up to date version and personal support, feel free to upgrade. If you solve your issue with the free plugin, we’d be happy to roll your changes in to the free version and credit you.

Thanks!

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Sourjya Sankar Sen 26 June 2014 at 6:32 am

Great plugin – exactly what I was looking for. Sadly, with Wordpress 3.9.1, while menu works just fine, menu child refuses to display anything. Any updates on this coming soon?

Thank you.

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Alec 26 June 2014 at 11:52 am

Hi Sourjya,

Thanks for your note.

We are only maintaining the pro version now, which continues to work brilliantly (we are actively using it ourselves in over twenty high end sites as well as dozens of normal sites).

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Alex 28 August 2014 at 12:39 am

When I pull in the menu using your script, the order of the links do not match the order I have them in the menu section of wordpress.

It’s in it own order than specified by WP. Any suggestions?

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Alec 28 August 2014 at 9:07 am

Hi Alex!

Are you using the standard version or pro?

Making the web work for you, Alec

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Alex 28 August 2014 at 7:14 pm

Standard I believe.

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Alec 28 August 2014 at 7:18 pm

Hi Alex,

At this point, we are only updating and supporting Embedded Page Menus Pro as that’s what we use ourselves (on dozens of high traffic sites).

If you add a fix though, we’d be happy to include it in Standard.

Thanks for trying FV Plugins!

Enjoy the long weeekend.

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