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Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) · Version history

Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) changelog and version history

Latest version
1.4.8
Jul 3, 2026 (4 months ago)
Releases
63
since 2019
In the last year
4
about one every 2 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.0.8
PHP 7.0 or later

Releases each year

  • 20198 releases
  • 202026 releases
  • 202123 releases
  • 20221 release
  • 20231 release
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.4.8Latest

    • Fix: Resolved a dashboard fatal error introduced in 1.4.7 when opening the main settings page after updating from an older version.
    • Fix: Restored the main presets dashboard screen for updated installations.
    • Fix: Avoided menu walker warnings on newer WordPress/PHP environments when a menu item object does not include an ID.
    • Maintenance: Reduced the readme tag list to meet the WordPress.org five-tag limit.

  2. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.4.7

    • Fix: Removed remaining FREE-version runtime restrictions for built-in preset, import, duplicate, online library, taxonomy assignment, post-level preset, menu item option, header style, and hover style functionality.

  3. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.4.6

    • Fix: Removed trialware-style locked PRO preset actions and license registration flows from the FREE package.
    • Fix: Added stricter nonce and capability checks for preview, preset style saving, import/export-related actions, and dashboard settings.
    • Fix: Improved validation and sanitization for preview images, customizer data, taxonomy menu metadata, compiled CSS, and saved settings.
    • Fix: Improved escaping for debug output, textarea fields, icon modal HTML, and global settings tabs.
    • Fix: Replaced front-end request-level output buffering with wp_body_open based auto-integration output.

  4. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.4.5

    • Fix: Improved compatibility with WordPress 7.0 and newer debug behavior.
    • Fix: Moved translation loading and nav menu registration to safe WordPress hooks.
    • Fix: Replaced deprecated PHP string sanitization in virtual pages.
    • Fix: Sanitized nonce and request data handling in admin actions.
    • Fix: Escaped admin output, URLs, JSON attributes, and menu walker fields.
    • Fix: Returned an error response for failed nonce checks in AJAX settings saves.
    • Fix: Preserved Crane theme integration logic while moving translated labels to a safe hook.
    • Docs: Documented generated asset source, build steps, and external services.

20231 release

  1. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.4.3

    • Fix: Minimalistic menu bug with submenu gap on iOS.
    • Fix: Bug with Expanding sidebar right side on MacOS/iOS in Chrome browser.

20221 release

  1. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.4.2

    • Fix: Show desktop version of $gm_main_menu_actions_button_first & $gm_main_menu_actions_button_last even if there are no action buttons.
    • Fix: Fixed fadeout animation for close dropdown event that before missed in 2.x version.
    • Fix: Fixed bug when background for dropdowns couldn’t be set under “Appearance > Menus > Groovy menu item options > Background image for next level dropdown”.
    • Fix: Fixed a look of popup of featured image beside dropdowns.
    • Fix: Broken view of menu in preset preview has been fixed.

202123 releases

  1. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.4.1.1

    • HotFix: Additional menu Dropdown appearance style.

  2. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.4.1

    • Add: Option for additional menu that allow to show submenu on click or hover.
    • Add: Added option to set own font for additional menu.
    • Add: Added compatibility with Bricks page builder.
    • Fix: Error Message deprecated $render_slug on PHP 8+

  3. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.4.0

    • Improve: The plugin has been highly optimized, the size of the main frontend.js file has been reduced by more than 3 times.
    • Fix: Fixed display of mobile hamburger in some cases.

  4. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.10.2

  5. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.10.1

  6. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.10

    • Add: Added the ability to display the “X” icon for closing the menu for the mobile version, without using the “Animated Hamburger menu” setting.
    • Add: New feature for displaying the close icon “X” of the menu for the desktop version of Minimalistic style.
    • Add: New setting for vertical positioning of menu items in the desktop Minimalistic style “Menu list alignment”.
    • Add: New setting for mobile positioning of menu items in the horizontal plane “Menu items horizontal Align”.
    • Fix: Now in the desktop the Minimalistic style submenu matches the width of the setting in “General > Submenu > Submenu width”.

  7. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.9

    • Fix: Fixed logic for choosing one active menu integration under the integrations section.
    • Fix: Determinated and fixed a bug with incorrect working of background image on iOS devices with active option “background-size: cover”.
    • Fix: Fixed bug with some sub-menu opening on iPad.

  8. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.8

    • Add: Added new options for submenu opening as “On click” that allow opening submenus only at click on the caret.
    • Add: New options for “Shadow settings” for choice shadow styles and colors.
    • Fix: “Menu shadow” and “Submenu shadow” settings now also work for vertical menu types.
    • Fix: Bug when the vertical submenu of the third level was higher than other submenus.
    • Fix: Fixed a bug that prevented Visual Composer from loading the front-end builder for menu_block.

  9. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.7

    • Add: For Actions in the Custom Code section, a new feature “visibility” has been added, which sets the rule for displaying “custom” on mobile, desktop or both versions.
    • Add: Now it is possible to separately specify the color of Hover and Active menu items.
    • Add: Added “Fixed” option for Badges position.
    • Fix: Bug with two “X” icons in mobile when Fullwidth with “Animated hamburger” together with enabled “Allow Float” toggle.

  10. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.6.1

    • Fix: Fixed a bug with closing dropdowns that have a contact form inside (phase 2 – fixed for mobile).

  11. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.6

    • Add: New option for menu items in Appearance > Menus > Groovy menu item options. “Prevent dropdown auto close on “mouse leave” event”. Useful if menu item has a contact form widget in the dropdown.
    • Add: New option “Hide menu item and its content on mobile”, which can be set in Appearance > Menus > Groovy menu item options.
    • Fix: Fixed some styles for Additional Menu.

  12. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.5

    • Fix: Fixed some styles for Fullscreen Minimalistic menu type, when the “Organize fullscreen menu items into columns” toggle enabled.
    • Fix: A non-breaking space is now inserted for menu items whose title is hidden with a dash “-“.

  13. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.4

    • Add: New option “Mega menu item line height” and “Submenu item line height”.
    • Fix: Now it is not possible to use “Automatic integration” together with “Theme Locations integration” at the same time.

  14. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.3

    • Add: New option “Show hamburger menu only” for Minimalistic menu type.
    • Add: New feature “Organize fullscreen menu items into columns” when Minimalistic menu type “Fullscreen menu” is enabled.
    • Fix: Fixed bug with the incorrect position of the menu, when the search and mini-basket icons are disabled.
    • Fix: Drawer auto-closing now works by click on the anchor links in minimalistic style.
    • Fix: The incorrect appearance of added custom code in preview mode.

  15. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.2

    • Add: Added a setting to enable the preloader “General settings > Enable preloader of the menu”.
    • Fix: Submenu caret size for second and lower levels

  16. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.1.1

  17. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.1

    • Improve: Added work with “Bulk Select” WordPress 5.8 feature located under Appearance > Menus.
    • Fix: Handle locations in “Menu setting” and “Manage locations” under Appearance > Menus.

  18. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.0.1

    • Add: Setting that allows disabling the mobile menu.
    • Add: Setting that allows disabling the desktop menu.
    • Fix: Fixed some minor bugs.

  19. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.3.0

    • Add: Added new feature the Export/Import for Menu Blocks. (Phase 1).
    • Add: Added “Replace” button allows to replace icon pack under “Global setting > Icon pack” tab.
    • Add: Added ability to set a background image for a “Drawer” in “Minimalistic” type of menu.
    • Add: Added ability to select places for search icons and Woocommerce mini-cart in Minimalistic type of menu.
    • Add: Added the ability to integrate a menu using a special Groovy helper plugin, in cases where integration through a child theme is not possible, e.g.Genesis Framework based themes.
    • Add: Added settings to control time delay of appearing in/out between dropdowns and submenus.
    • Add: New feature “Animated Hamburger icon” for Minimalistic type of menu.
    • Add: New option “Show text beside hamburger icon” for Mobile and Minimalistic menu type.
    • Add: Setting “Tracking anchor links” for “Scrollbar & Onepage” preset section.
    • Add: Setting “Full height sidebar menu” for Minimalistic type of menu.
    • Add: New option “Enable inline critical CSS” that is placed under Dashboard > Global settings > at “Tools” tab.
    • Add: Added font settings for Additional menu items text under “Styles > Typography > Additional menu items text”.
    • Add: Added padding setting for custom toolbar under “Styles > Toolbar > Toolbar padding”.
    • Improve: “General > Toolbar menu” section renamed to “General > Additional menu”. Now you can insert additional nav menus in different places in the header.
    • Improve: NPM modules have been updated.
    • Improve: Improved work of “Animated Hamburger icon”.
    • Improve: Moved all font settings to “Styles > Typography” section.
    • Fix: Deleting font files if icon pack has been removed (under Dashboard > Global setting > Icon packs).
    • Fix: Checking the existence of font files during Icon Pack loading and considering that when creating a CSS file.
    • Fix: Bug with uploading ZIP with non-standard icon fonts from Icomoon.io has been fixed.

  20. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.16

    • Improve: Possibility of correct interpretation of special characters (“\n”, “\r”, “\t”, “\f”, “\b”) for outputting custom content added in “Groovy Menu > Custom code”.
    • Add: Added three new Actions:
    • Custom mobile menu open trigger: gm_custom_mobile_hamburger
    • Before hamburger icon: gm_before_mobile_hamburger
    • After hamburger icon: gm_after_mobile_hamburger You can insert custom shortcodes or raw HTML in these areas. Read more in Manual.
    • Add: Added additional link color settings if “Top level menu background color when submenu (s) are opened” is enabled.
    • Add: Scroll speed setting for “Internal submenus scrollbar”.
    • Fix: Fixed visual lags with enabled setting “Animate from bottom” when the dropdown container is greater than the screen height.
    • Fix: Fixed style issues with additional Toolbar menu, which appeared when working with Divi Builder.
    • Fix: For mega menu menus with large height size fixed a bug with calculating the page height on initial load.
    • Fix: Fixed bug when for top-level menu were assigned the “Mega Menu” and “Mega menu background image” the image was displayed even if the “Mega Menu” setting was already disabled for this menu item.

  21. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.15

    • Improve: Submenu appearance style for minimalistic menu type.
    • Add: New feature that allows to add an additional menu to the toolbar. Placed in section of “General > Toolbar Menu”.
    • Add: New setting “Align toolbar to the center”.

  22. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.14

    • Improve: Hamburger behavior and settings.
    • Add: New hover style “Fade in” to submenu hover style.
    • Add: New settings “Prevent auto closing of the mobile menu”. Is prevent automatically closing of the mobile menu when scrolling, resizing the page or tapping outside the menu area.
    • Fix: Prevent opening a menu item with a dropdown link at first click for mobile menu.
    • Fix: Small fix of the animation for “Minimalistic menu open type > Slide menu and container”.

  23. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.13

202026 releases

  1. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.12

  2. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.11

  3. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.10

  4. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.9

  5. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.8

  6. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.7

  7. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.6

  8. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.5

  9. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.4

  10. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.3

  11. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.2

  12. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.1

  13. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.2.0

  14. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.12

  15. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.11

  16. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.10

  17. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.9

  18. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.8

  19. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.7

  20. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.6

  21. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.5

  22. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.4

  23. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.3

  24. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.2

  25. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.1

  26. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.1.0

20198 releases

  1. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.0.9

  2. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.0.8

  3. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.0.7

  4. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.0.6

  5. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.0.5

  6. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.0.4

  7. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.0.3

  8. Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) 1.0.1

Questions about Groovy Menu Plugin (Free)’s releases

What is the latest version of Groovy Menu Plugin (Free)?

1.4.8, released on Jul 3, 2026 (4 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.0.8 and needs PHP 7.0 or later.

How often is Groovy Menu Plugin (Free) updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 2 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from July 2019.

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