Title: Optimized Dropdown Menus
Author: Maor Chasen
Published: <strong>11 maart 2012</strong>
Last modified: 21 april 2014

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Deze plugin **is niet getest met de laatste 3 grotere versies van WordPress**. Mogelijk
wordt het niet meer onderhouden of ondersteund. Ook kunnen er compatibiliteitsproblemen
ontstaan wanneer het wordt gebruikt met recentere versies van WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/optimized-dropdown-menus.svg)

# Optimized Dropdown Menus

 Door [Maor Chasen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maor/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/optimized-dropdown-menus.1.2.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/optimized-dropdown-menus/#description)
 * [Beoordelingen](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/optimized-dropdown-menus/#reviews)
 *  [Installatie](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/optimized-dropdown-menus/#installation)
 * [Ontwikkeling](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/optimized-dropdown-menus/#developers)

 [Ondersteuning](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/optimized-dropdown-menus/)

## Beschrijving

By using Optimized Dropdown Menus Widget, you’ll be able to create dropdown menus
that are searchable or “spiderable” by search engine bots.

#### So how does it work?

Basically, it works like this:

The menu’s markup code is being printed as an ordinary nested menu. e.g.

    ```
    <ul>
        <li><a href="http://example.com/page">Some Random Page</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://example.com/page-another">Another Page</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://example.com/yao">Yet Another One</a></li>
    </ul>
    ```

Since most browsers support JavaScript, using the widget, the markup would be translated
into something like this

    ```
    <select>
        <option value="http://example.com/page">Some Random Page</option>
        ...
        <option value="http://example.com/page">Something else</option>
    </select>
    ```

The tricky part here is, that search engines do not usually interpret JavaScript,
all they will be able to scan is the nested menu. That way they will reach out for
those pages, and most probably will crawl those pages as well.

ODM also supports a range of per-widget settings:

 * Control whether links will be open in new window or in the same window
 * Choose to use HTML5/XHTML markup for the menu

#### Features set for the next versions

Soon there will be an option for developers to use the same functionality via the
code. e.g.

#### Translations

Currently, these translations are available:

 * Spanish (es_ES) – in courtesy of [Ognjen Djuraskovic](http://firstsiteguide.com/)
 * Serbian (sr_RS) – in courtesy of [Ognjen Djuraskovic](http://firstsiteguide.com/)

## Schermafbeeldingen

 * [[
 * Widget Settings
 * [[
 * How it looks on the front-end

## Installatie

Install Optimized Dropdown Menus in 3 easy steps

 1. Upload the plugin folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the widget (“Optimized Dropdown Menu”) to any
    sidebar you wish

## FAQ

  How do I add a menu?

First you should set up a menu before you attempt to use the widget. In order to
do that, go to Appearance > Menus and create a new menu. When you’re finished creating
and saving the new menu, go back to Appearance > Widgets and select the appropriate
menu.

## Beoordelingen

Er zijn geen beoordelingen voor deze plugin.

## Bijdragers & ontwikkelaars

“Optimized Dropdown Menus” is open source software. De volgende personen hebben 
bijgedragen aan deze plugin.

Bijdragers

 *   [ Maor Chasen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maor/)

[Vertaal “Optimized Dropdown Menus” in je eigen taal.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/optimized-dropdown-menus)

### Interesse in ontwikkeling?

[Bekijk de code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/optimized-dropdown-menus/),
haal de [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/optimized-dropdown-menus/)
op, of abonneer je op het [ontwikkellog](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/optimized-dropdown-menus/)
via [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/optimized-dropdown-menus/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2.2

 * New! Added support for opening links in new window. Proposed by Kari S.

#### 1.2.1

 * Added new es_ES, sr_RS translations. Thank you, [Ognjen Djuraskovic](http://firstsiteguide.com/)!

#### 1.2

 * Optimized Dropdown Menus is now translation-ready

#### 1.1

 * Fixed bug where the menu was rendered, but the “Go” button was not responding.
   props Graham W.
 * Codebase improved, now wrapped in a class

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Versie **1.2.2**
 *  Laatst geüpdatet **12 jaar geleden**
 *  Actieve installaties **70+**
 *  WordPress versie ** 3.0 of nieuwer **
 *  Getest t/m **3.7.41**
 *  Taal
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimized-dropdown-menus/)
 * Tags
 * [menu](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/menu/)[seo](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)
   [widget](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)[widget-only](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget-only/)
 *  [Geavanceerde weergave](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/optimized-dropdown-menus/advanced/)

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## Bijdragers

 *   [ Maor Chasen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maor/)

## Ondersteuning

Iets te melden? Hulp nodig?

 [Het supportforum bekijken](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/optimized-dropdown-menus/)

## Doneren

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 [ Doneer aan deze plugin ](http://maorchasen.com/plugins/optimized-dropdown-menus/)