Zen Cart IncrediMenu

IncrediMenu turns one ordinary EZ-Page header entry into a responsive, accessible, multi-column dropdown containing Zen Cart's top-level categories.

It is designed for stores whose category-tabs row has become too long or whose traditional dropdown wastes vertical page space. Categories fill down a limited number of rows and then continue into additional columns, using wider desktop real estate instead of creating an excessively tall menu.

Key behavior

• Compatible with Zen Cart 2.1.0 - 2.2.2 and PHP 8.2 - 8.5.
• Uses an EZ-Page as a placement marker; no PHP is placed in EZ-Page content.
• The EZ-Page title becomes the dropdown label.
• EZ-Page Header Yes/No controls visibility.
• EZ-Page Header Sort Order controls the dropdown's exact position among other EZ-Page links.
• EZ-Page Footer status and Footer sort order can independently place the same menu in the footer.
• Sidebox is intentionally unavailable; the placeholder is automatically suppressed from the EZ-Pages sidebox.
• Reads enabled top-level categories directly from Zen Cart in the current language.
• Uses category sort order followed by category name.
• Distributes categories down columns, then across the available desktop width.
• Keeps every category name on one line and truncates long names at a configurable character limit without shortening the accessible name.
• Lets the storeowner choose whole-word truncation or an exact hard character cut.
• Adapts to a one-column, scrollable mobile panel.
• Supports keyboard activation, Escape-to-close, focus management and outside-click closing.
• Includes optional desktop hover plus click operation.
• Works through the plugin's universal template-default layer; Bootstrap or Responsive Classic is not required.
• Does not modify Zen Cart core files or the EZ-Pages database schema.
• Clean uninstall removes plugin settings but preserves the storeowner's EZ-Page.
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How the EZ-Page works

The EZ-Page contains "View All" setting will write a savvy all categories page. Easy page record:

Title: Shop categories / Categories etc whatever you wish

Header: Yes

Header sort order: what ever sort number you wish

Content: leave blank

When Zen Cart builds the EZ-Pages header bar, each link includes its EZ-Page ID. IncrediMenu detects only the configured ID and renders the category dropdown in that record's position. Every other EZ-Page continues to render normally.



Plugin version 1.0.14 supports Zen Cart 2.0.1, 2.1.x and 2.2.x within each release's PHP requirements.

Digital download. Installation sold separately. General support included. Maximum seven downloads per purchase.