Mega menu

Thirty categories do not fit in one column. Two fields on a menu entry, and they spread out.

A single-column submenu suits five entries. A store with departments has thirty, and stacking them produces a list that runs off the screen.

Turning it on

Appearance → Menus, open a top-level entry, and tick Open as a mega menu. Two more fields appear:

Columns — from two to six.
Image ID (optional) — an attachment ID; the image sits to the right of the panel. Find it in Media: the number at the end of the URL when you open an image.

Only top-level entries offer these: a mega menu opened from a submenu would have nowhere to go.

What does not change

The menu stays an ordinary WordPress menu — same entries, same editing screen, same translation plugins. Nothing is stored anywhere but in the entry’s own metadata, and deactivating the plugin gives you plain submenus back without losing a single entry.

On a phone

The panel becomes a normal nested list. A four-column grid on a 375 px screen would be unreadable.

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