Best nav menu plugins for WordPress
The most popular nav menu plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Menu Image, Icons made easy leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of User Menus (80K+) and Nav Menu Roles (70K+). All 39 plugins tagged “nav menu” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 nav menu plugins
- 1.
Menu Image, Icons made easyThe most installed nav menu plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 123 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 2.
User Menus80K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 1,282 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
Nav Menu Roles70K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 219 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 4.
Side Menu Lite7K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 12 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.Nav Menu Images
6K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 37 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 6.
LuckyWP ACF Menu Field5K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 20 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 7.
Floating Button4K+ active installs. Rated 3.0 from 15 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.Gecka Submenu
2K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 16 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 9.
Easy Sidebar Menu Widget2K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 141 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 10.Add Descendants As Submenu Items
2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 20 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
All 39 plugins tagged “nav menu”

Menu Image, Icons made easy
Down in the last 7 days:1#408by Rui Guerreiro1 year ago
Adds an image or icon in the menu items. You can choose the position of the image (after, before, above, below) or even hide the menu item title.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.5(123)
- Downloads
- 231/day

User Menus
#542by Daniel Iser1 month ago
Show/hide menu items to logged in users, logged out users or specific user roles. Display logged in user details in menu. Add a logout link to menu.
- Installs
- 80K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1.3K)
- Downloads
- 103/day

Nav Menu Roles
Down in the last 7 days:1#608by HelgaTheViking10 days ago
Hide custom menu items based on user roles.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.9(219)
- Downloads
- 781/day

Side Menu Lite
Down in the last 7 days:12#2,617by Wow-Company2 months ago
Create a sticky vertical sidebar menu that enhances navigation and highlights important links on your website.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.0(12)
- Downloads
- 38/day
Nav Menu Images
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,879by Milan Dinić9 years ago
Display image as a menu item content.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.2(37)
- Downloads
- 18/day

LuckyWP ACF Menu Field
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,123by LuckyWP1 year ago
Add navigation menu field type to Advanced Custom Fields
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 40/day

Floating Button
Up in the last 7 days:4#3,360by Wow-Company2 months ago
Floating Buttons let you easily create sticky, fixed, and floating action buttons
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 3.0(15)
- Downloads
- 30/day
Gecka Submenu
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,286by Gecka9 years ago
Submenu autopopulates any nav menu page item with its children and allows to put menus, or portion of menus, anywhere in your site.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.1(16)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Easy Sidebar Menu Widget
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,351by Jeffrey Carandang9 years ago
Add WordPress Dropdown Menu Widget easily! Upgrade your sidebar menus to responsive dropdown widget now!
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(141)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Add Descendants As Submenu Items
Down in the last 7 days:93#4,660by Alex Mills4 years ago
Automatically all of a nav menu item's descendants as submenu items. Designed for pages but will work with any hierarchical post type or taxonomy …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Privilege Menu
Down in the last 7 days:3#5,497by FuzzGuard7 years ago
This plugin allows you to display menu items based on if a user is logged in, logged out or based on the role you have given the user.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Bop Search Box Item Type For Nav Menus
Up in the last 7 days:7#6,237by joe_bopper9 years ago
Adds search box as a choice of item in navigation menus admin area.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(23)
- Downloads
- 11/day

MAS Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:31#7,413by MadrasThemes7 months ago
MAS Elementor is a free plugin. It is the addon for Elementor Plugin
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Advanced Menu Manager Pro
Down in the last 7 days:92#9,520by Dotstore3 months ago
Create and manage menus of any size of your content-heavy wordpress blogs and websites. Simplified search and new comprehensive layout.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.7(22)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Dynamic Latest Post in Nav Menu
Up in the last 7 days:33#10,356by hijiri11 years ago
Add the link to dynamic latest post page, and the Archive page to Nav Menu.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Custom Adminbar Menus
Down in the last 7 days:26#10,587by Linesh Jose7 years ago
This is a simple plugin for adding custom navigation menus to your WordPress Adminbar.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.8(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day

sTRASHo
Down in the last 7 days:14#12,057by Boris Kuzmanov11 years ago
sTRASHo is a smart and easy way to delete your menu items.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Material UI Menu Icons
Down in the last 7 days:4#13,647by Joseph G.6 years ago
Adds beautiful icons to your WordPress menu items. More menu item options are coming soon!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Easy Login Logout
Down in the last 7 days:29#14,903by Ashraful Sarkar Naiem4 years ago
Easy Login Logout Menus is the perfect plugin for websites which have login user or logout user.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Speed Up
Down in the last 7 days:5#20,667by Simone Nigro3 months ago
The menu reduces speed of Wordpress. This plugin offers a caching solution that reduces this effects on performance.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Bright Addons for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:3,406#20,951by nayem073 days ago
53 free Elementor widgets, a nav menu with mega menus, a form builder and a header and footer builder. Every widget loads only where used.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Recent Post to WP Nav Menu
Down in the last 7 days:278#22,232by ankitr909 years ago
A WordPress plugin to include the latest post link for a post type to the nav menu.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Menu Section Titles
Down in the last 7 days:154#22,280by Zach Wills12 years ago
Add the ability to create menu items that aren't a link.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Move Nav-Menu
Down in the last 7 days:160#25,153by tormorten11 years ago
Moves the WordPress nav-menu item in admin to a new top level page. Out of "Appearance".
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LSX Mega Menus
#25,432by Ash Shaw3 years ago
Go from mundane to mega with the LSX Mega Menus Extension extension. Create beautiful full-width menu dropdowns that contain dynamic content such as i …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Magic Liquidizer Responsive Navigationbar
#27,524by Elvin D9 years ago
A Responsive Web Design (RWD) plugin that makes your existing Navigation Bar / Nav Menu become an instant responsive or mobile compatible.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Menu Tamer
Up in the last 7 days:50#29,549by Avendi Media14 years ago
Adds collapse/expand links to menu items to de-clutter the nav menu interface
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Highlight Sitewide Notice, Text, Button Menu
Up in the last 7 days:525#30,507by QuantumCloud1 month ago
Highlight Sitewide Notice, Highlight text, or Highlight WordPress Menu as Button Menu.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Menu Item Extended URL
Up in the last 7 days:165#30,952by Pavel Revenkov9 years ago
Allows to add additional parameters and/or fragment identifier (hashtag) to the menu item URL.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Country Specific Menu Items
Down in the last 7 days:231#32,228by Ryan Stutzman9 years ago
Control the visibility of individual menu items based on a user's country.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Sidebar Menu Items
#35,134by mottodesignstudio5 years ago
Use sidebars / widget areas within your menus. Simple and flexible way for making mega menu dropdowns!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Improved Nav Menu
#35,408by neOceane14 years ago
Improved Nav Menu allows user to switch the link of a menu item. And many other cool stuffs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dropdown Navigation Menus
Up in the last 7 days:10,479#37,378by shazdeh15 years ago
A widget to create dropdown menus powered by jQuery Superfish.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ultimate Member
#40,538by WP Delighter10 years ago
Adds the Ultimate Member nav menu into the admin bar for easier navigation. Also, provides Ultimate Member links in Appearance > Menu section.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Titanium Nav Menu Roles & Visibility Rules
Up in the last 7 days:1,949#45,891by Admin Plugins1 month ago
Turn your WordPress menu into smart navigation. Show the right links to the right people.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day

WP Better Sub Menus
Down in the last 7 days:7,771#47,139by adrianifero2 months ago
Collapse and expand nested menu items on Appearance → Menus. Built for sites with long, deep menus.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Navcrate Menu Manager
Down in the last 7 days:2,619#57,526by Sagar Pansuriya2 months ago
Bulk-manage menu items inside the built-in WordPress menu editor: multi-select delete, open-in-new-tab, and move or copy items between menus.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Redirect to Category Latest Post
#63,748by emma23347 years ago
Redirect category menu item to the latest post in it.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
HamburgerX SVG Toggle for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:19,676#73,397by Francisco Naranjo4 months ago
Animated SVG hamburger widget for Elementor. Toggles Off-Canvas, Nav Menu, Mega Menu or any custom element — no intermediate trigger required.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day