This plugin makes redirecting category menu item to the latest post in it easy by just clicking a checkbox in admin page.
Adding query ?latest to any category url, and it will redirect to the latest post in the category. As long as the redirection option is on, category menu items will be replace into links of latest posts.
Also, pull requests are welcome, check it out on GitHub.
[IMPORTANT] Make sure you have any kinds of walker extension code or pluins to customied menu fields in your wordpress, since the plugin doesn’t include this part. The easiest way is to install Menu Item Custom Fields by Dzikri Aziz.