Widget Menuizer

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Widget Menuizer makes it possible to embed sidebars within your site’s menus. That’s right: anything you can do with a widget can now be done inside your menus. This makes the menu system much more powerful, as it allows for easy creation of sophisticated “mega dropdowns” and other menu fanciness without completely overhauling the menu management system into something unfamiliar. Upon activation, when you visit the menu management screen under Appearance > Menus, you’ll see a new option under the familiar Pages, Posts, Links, Categories and Tags list: Sidebars. This list consists of all the sidebar regions that exist in your currently-active theme. Simply check the box to add a sidebar into your menu the same way you would for any other menu item. Once in your menu, you’ll see a new option, “Container Element,” which lets you control which HTML tag is wrapped around the sidebars that are output into the menu. Because it’s possible to put menu widgets inside sidebars, you may see a warning notice if the sidebar region you’ve put in your menu contains a menu widget. This is because you may have inadvertantly created a recursion: if the menu contained in your sidebar is the same menu your sidebar is placed in, you’ll have an infinite loop that will do bad, bad things. So be careful.