WP-dTree

Looking for a modern alternative?

WP-dTree has a modern successor: Content Trees.

Content Trees offers native WordPress blocks with live previews, keyboard and screen-reader support, and on-demand post loading. It can run alongside WP-dTree, allowing you to replace your navigation trees gradually.

Existing widgets and settings are not migrated automatically, and some legacy features are not yet supported. Content Trees requires WordPress 6.3 or later; see its listing for current features and requirements.

WP-dTree remains supported for security and compatibility fixes. New feature development is focused on Content Trees.

WP-dTree features

This plugin provides collapsible navigation trees for archives, categories, pages, links, custom taxonomies and menus. Use the widgets in a widget area or the template functions documented below. Archive trees can group posts by year and month.

Requires WordPress 6.0.1 or later and PHP 7.4 or later.

Additional Info

The original ‘WP-dTree’ was created by Christopher Hwang in ~2005. By 2007 Mr. Hwang seemed to have dropped of the internet for good so Ulf Benjaminsson forked the plugin in and named it ‘WP-dTree 3.0’ (note to self: having a release number in the title was stupid).

The fork was focused on performance improvements – mainly caching – but soon expanded to add a lot of new features and modernizations; compatibility with WP 2.7 through WP 3.3, widgets, out-of-the-box Scriptaculous support, link trees, feed icons and more.

For version 4.0 the entire plugin has been rewritten from scratch by Ulf, bringing it in line with the much matured WP 3.x API.

*WP-dTree (3.0 and up) is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 Ulf Benjaminsson (email: hello at my full name dot com)

*WP-dTree (3.x and lower) Copyright (C) 2006 Christopher Hwang (email: chris at silpstream dot com).

*dTree-JavaScript is Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Geir Landrö

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