Title: Daniel's DropDowns
Author: Daniel J. Summers
Published: <strong>October 9, 2007</strong>
Last modified: January 1, 2010

---

Search plugins

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/daniels-dropdowns.svg)

# Daniel's DropDowns

 By [Daniel J. Summers](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielsummers/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/daniels-dropdowns.zip)

 * [Details](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/daniels-dropdowns/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/daniels-dropdowns/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/daniels-dropdowns/#installation)
 * [Development](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/daniels-dropdowns/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/daniels-dropdowns/)

## Description

Daniel’s DropDowns extends the standard WordPress category and archive template

tags. It provides a category dropdown that uses the standard WordPress link tags
for its targets, so it will work with the standard permalinks, or any form of “pretty”
permalinks. The archive dropdown is a lot simpler, as that template tag will create
option entries with the proper links.

Dropdowns can also include buttons or links to activate the current selection,
 
or (as of version 2) be rendered as auto-navigating select boxes. Also, as of version
2, you can specify the text that will appear in the link or on the button.

NOTE FOR 1.0 USERS – As of version 2, the CSS parameters have been removed, as
 
each item can be uniquely identified without it, and will use the CSS of the theme
if none is specified. There are notes in the plug-in that explain how to write CSS
to address these elements, and also explain the (now 2) parameters for each tag.

NEW FOR 2.0.1 – There is now a “Select Category” option in the category
 dropdown,
and it is the default. This allows the auto-navigation to work properly for the 
first category in the list.

NEW FOR 2.1 – The “Select Category” option was not correctly displayed in the
 2.5-
series, due to an extra space in the category dropdown output.

## Installation

Upload “daniels_dropdowns.php” to your wp-content/plugins directory. It can
 then
be activated through the WordPress Plugin Administration page, and the desired template
tag(s) added to your theme as desired. The tags and their parameters are detailed
in the documentation at the top of the plugin.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Daniel's DropDowns” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Daniel J. Summers ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielsummers/)

[Translate “Daniel's DropDowns” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/daniels-dropdowns)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/daniels-dropdowns/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/daniels-dropdowns/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/daniels-dropdowns/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/daniels-dropdowns/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **2.1**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.9.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/daniels-dropdowns/)
 * Tags
 * [archives](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/archives/)[categories](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)
   [dropdowns](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dropdowns/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/daniels-dropdowns/advanced/)

## Ratings

No reviews have been submitted yet.

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/daniels-dropdowns/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/daniels-dropdowns/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Daniel J. Summers ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielsummers/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/daniels-dropdowns/)