Title: Auto populating
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Auto populating

 *  Resolved [wanderer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluegeek26/)
 * (@bluegeek26)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-populating/)
 * Hi,
 * Is it possible to auto populate the menu?
 * Such as if posts are created for a category, they automatically populate under
   the category parent.
 * If not, are there any workarounds that will work using Nextend Accordion Menu?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextend-accordion-menu/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextend-accordion-menu/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ramona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextend_ramona/)
 * (@nextend_ramona)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-populating/#post-7408408)
 * Hi [@bluegeek26](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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. [http://imgur.com/QmzQbLw](http://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.
 *  Thread Starter [wanderer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluegeek26/)
 * (@bluegeek26)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-populating/#post-7408414)
 * Hi [@nextend_ramona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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.
 *  Plugin Author [Ramona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextend_ramona/)
 * (@nextend_ramona)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-populating/#post-7408446)
 * Hi [@bluegeek26](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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!
 *  Thread Starter [wanderer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluegeek26/)
 * (@bluegeek26)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-populating/#post-7408458)
 * 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.
 *  [Maryann R](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stopha/)
 * (@stopha)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-populating/#post-8238701)
 * I would LOVE to have this option as well!

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## Tags

 * [autopopulate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/autopopulate/)
 * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/)
 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [nextend](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nextend/)
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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Maryann R](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stopha/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-populating/#post-8238701)
 * Status: resolved