10 Best Gecka Submenu Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Gecka Submenu has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Gecka Submenu
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Category Posts in Custom Menu
Closest match4.8 (43) 2,000+ active installsDynamic menus: List all posts from a category in your menu. Also works for tags, custom taxonomies as well as pages and custom post types.
Shares the submenu tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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4.0 (25) 2,000+ active installsDynamic menus: Add a page to your menu and then let WordPress automatically add the child pages.
Shares the submenu tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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4.6 (49) 4,000+ active installsJC Submenu plugin allows you to automatically populate your navigation menus with custom post_types, taxonomies, or child pages.
Shares the submenu tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since August 17, 2020.
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4.2 (42) 6,000+ active installsCreate child themes with the click of a button.
Shares the child tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since January 30, 2018.
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4.0 (39) 5,000+ active installsProvides a secure connection between your SureFeedback parent and client sites, syncing identities for WordPress-based commenting.
Shares the child tag on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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5.0 (20) 2,000+ active installsAutomatically all of a nav menu item's descendants as submenu items. Designed for pages but will work with any hierarchical post type or taxonomy …
Shares the nav menu tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since September 6, 2022.
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4.2 (37) 6,000+ active installsDisplay image as a menu item content.
Shares the nav menu tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.7 (23) 1,000+ active installsAdds search box as a choice of item in navigation menus admin area.
Shares the nav menu tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.8 (141) 2,000+ active installsAdd WordPress Dropdown Menu Widget easily! Upgrade your sidebar menus to responsive dropdown widget now!
Shares the nav menu tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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5.0 (20) 5,000+ active installsAdd navigation menu field type to Advanced Custom Fields
Shares the nav menu tag on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, no update since June 10, 2025.
Switching from Gecka Submenu: common questions
What is the best alternative to Gecka Submenu?
Category Posts in Custom Menu is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 2,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Gecka Submenu alternative has the most users?
Child Themify, with 6,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Gecka Submenu alternative is rated highest?
Easy Sidebar Menu Widget, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 141 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Gecka Submenu alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Gecka Submenu score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Gecka Submenu on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Category Posts in Custom Menu is the closest match to Gecka Submenu by the data we track, and Child Themify has the widest reach with 6,000+ active installs. Auto Submenu shipped the most recent release, on August 28, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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