Best navigation plugins for WordPress
The most popular navigation plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Breadcrumb NavXT leads with 800K+ active installs, ahead of WP-PageNavi (400K+) and Max Mega Menu (300K+). All 419 plugins tagged “navigation” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 navigation plugins
- 1.Breadcrumb NavXT
The most installed navigation plugin, with 800K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 132 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.WP-PageNavi
400K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 149 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Max Mega Menu300K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 883 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 4.
Page scroll to id100K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 225 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 5.
Menu Image, Icons made easy100K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 123 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 6.
LuckyWP Table of Contents90K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 884 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 7.
Float menu30K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 41 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.Exclude Pages
20K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 47 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 9.
Rich Table of Contents20K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 17 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 10.
WP-Paginate20K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 107 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
All 419 plugins tagged “navigation”
Breadcrumb NavXT
Down in the last 7 days:1#81by John Havlik2 months ago
Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor's path to their current location.
- Installs
- 800K+
- Rating
- 4.6(132)
- Downloads
- 3.1K/day
WP-PageNavi
#131by Lester Chan2 months ago
Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface.
- Installs
- 400K+
- Rating
- 4.7(149)
- Downloads
- 2.2K/day

Max Mega Menu
#166by megamenu6 days ago
An easy to use mega menu plugin. Written the WordPress way.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 4.8(883)
- Downloads
- 2.3K/day

Page scroll to id
#358by malihu5 months ago
Create links that scroll the page smoothly to any id within the document.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.9(225)
- Downloads
- 173/day

Menu Image, Icons made easy
#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

LuckyWP Table of Contents
#469by LuckyWP1 year ago
Creates SEO-friendly table of contents for your posts/pages. Works automatically or manually (via shortcode, Gutenberg block or widget).
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.9(884)
- Downloads
- 153/day

Float menu
#994by Wow-Company2 months ago
Easily create floating menus of varying complexity. Use its capabilities to place unique navigation on the site.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.4(41)
- Downloads
- 132/day
Exclude Pages
Up in the last 7 days:7#1,087by Simon Wheatley9 years ago
This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, uncheck this to exclude pages from the page navigation that users see on your site.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.9(47)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Rich Table of Contents
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,289by Croover.inc1 year ago
RTOC is a table of contents generation plugin from Japan that allows anyone to easily create a table of contents. Equipped with the functions of the c …
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.1(17)
- Downloads
- 48/day

WP-Paginate
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,370by maxfoundry5 months ago
WP-Paginate is a simple and flexible pagination plugin which provides users with better navigation on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.6(107)
- Downloads
- 89/day

Flexy Breadcrumb
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,429by PressTigers3 days ago
Flexy Breadcrumb is a lightweight, responsive, and SEO-optimized breadcrumb plugin that makes navigating page hierarchies effortless.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(20)
- Downloads
- 134/day
Menu Duplicator
#1,726by Jeremy Ross2 months ago
Effortlessly clone your WordPress menus with Menu Duplicator, the user-friendly plugin designed to streamline your website management process in just …
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 44/day

Breadcrumb Trail
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,747by Justin Tadlock9 years ago
A powerful script for adding breadcrumbs to your site that supports Schema.org HTML5-valid microdata.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(30)
- Downloads
- 27/day

ShiftNav
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,778by sevenspark1 year ago
Add a native-style, off-canvas, responsive mobile navigation menu to your site.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(68)
- Downloads
- 39/day
Oceanwp sticky header
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,006by קידום ובניית אתרים5 years ago
Easy Sticky header installation
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.1(24)
- Downloads
- 21/day

Bellows Accordion Menu
#2,022by sevenspark1 year ago
A flexible and robust accordion menu plugin
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(23)
- Downloads
- 37/day

Simple Side Tab
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,135by srumery25 days ago
Display a side tab that you can easily link to any page. Customize the tab text, font and colors. It's that simple. That's Simple Side Tab.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(22)
- Downloads
- 72/day
WP Realtime Sitemap
Down in the last 7 days:7#2,221by Rincewind9 years ago
A sitemap plugin to make it easier for your site to show all your pages, posts, archives, categories and tags in an easy to read format.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.6(25)
- Downloads
- 23/day

WP Mega Menu
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,431by Themeum5 years ago
WordPress Mega Menu is a responsive, highly customizable drag and drop menu builder plugin. Download free WordPress megamenu plugin.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.4(219)
- Downloads
- 29/day

Classic Menu Block
Down in the last 7 days:9#2,536by Jonny Harris2 years ago
A gutenberg block to use classic menus.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Posts List
Up in the last 7 days:6#2,577by wokamoto13 years ago
Adds a posts (or pages) list of your blog pages (or posts) by entering the shortcode [posts-list].
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Joli Table Of Contents
Up in the last 7 days:1#2,638by WPJoli26 days ago
Add a table of contents to posts and pages automatically. Easy onboarding wizard, themes with dark mode, and advanced customization.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.9(43)
- Downloads
- 154/day
Ollie Menu Designer
Down in the last 7 days:49#2,912by Mike McAlister2 months ago
Create custom dropdown & mobile menus using WordPress blocks. Design rich, responsive navigation with any block content in the block editor.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 105/day
Heroic Table of Contents
Down in the last 7 days:7#3,112by HeroThemes1 month ago
Heroic Table of Contents is the easiest way to add a table of contents to your site.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.7(10)
- Downloads
- 48/day

Collapsing Categories
Up in the last 7 days:1#3,400by robfelty8 months ago
Adds a widget which uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of posts for each category.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.1(57)
- Downloads
- 31/day

Different Menu in Different Pages
Down in the last 7 days:9#3,660by recorp1 year ago
Easily assign different menus to pages, posts, user roles, devices, and custom URLs using advanced conditional menu visibility rules.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.2(19)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Block Navigation
Down in the last 7 days:5#3,897by Alvaro4 years ago
Block Navigation sidebar panel for the new Block editor.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(33)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Expanding Archives
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,119by Ashley2 months ago
This plugin adds a new widget where you can view your old posts by expanding certain years and months.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.7(6)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Import Export Menu
Up in the last 7 days:4#4,130by yukyhendiawan1 month ago
Import, export, and manage WordPress menus: duplicate, per-item visibility, and safe site-to-site migration.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.4(10)
- Downloads
- 79/day
Quick remove menu item
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,174by hptheme9 years ago
Delete menu item & its sub items quickly
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(31)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Breadcrumb Block
Up in the last 7 days:4#4,211by Phi Phan2 months ago
A simple breadcrumb trail block that supports JSON-LD structured data and is compatible with Woocommerce
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(14)
- Downloads
- 33/day
Classic Menu in Navigation Block
Down in the last 7 days:14#4,236by WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas11 months ago
Extending WordPress Navigation block with functionality to display classic menus.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 83/day
WP Widget in Navigation
Down in the last 7 days:15#4,252by Yudiz Solutions Pvt. Ltd.8 months ago
Put your Widget in Navigation easily!
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 16/day

Auto Submenu
Down in the last 7 days:1#4,334by Diana van de Laarschot2 months ago
Dynamic menus: Add a page to your menu and then let WordPress automatically add the child pages.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.0(25)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Navigation menu as Dropdown Widget
Down in the last 7 days:6#4,395by Jeroen Peters2 months ago
WordPress plugin which provides a widget with a clickable dropdown of a WordPress navigation menu. It supports one level of parent-child menu's.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 22/day
WP-dTree
Down in the last 7 days:13#4,401by ulfben10 days ago
Legacy collapsible navigation trees for WordPress. For a modern alternative with native blocks, see Content Trees.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(25)
- Downloads
- 48/day
Menu Item Duplicator
Down in the last 7 days:12#4,420by mathieuhays2 months ago
Allow you to duplicate menu items and their sub-elements in Appearance > Menus
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.8(13)
- Downloads
- 17/day

Genesis Simple Menus
Up in the last 7 days:9#4,532by StudioPress5 months ago
With Genesis, Simple Menus allows you to select a WP menu for secondary navigation on posts, pages, categories, tags or custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(11)
- Downloads
- 18/day
Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,661by Atakan Au2 months ago
Allows you to automatically add hierarchic categories in WordPress Navigation Menus.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.6(13)
- Downloads
- 27/day
Catch Breadcrumb
Down in the last 7 days:12#4,824by Catch Themes5 months ago
Catch Breadcrumb lets you display Breadcrumb Navigation anywhere on your website elegantly.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Catch Sticky Menu
Down in the last 7 days:13#5,070by Catch Themes5 months ago
Catch Sticky Menu is a lightweight, simple yet feature-rich free WordPress plugin for sticky menu that allows you to lock the menu on your website.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(15)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Responsive Navigation Block
Down in the last 7 days:32#5,356by David Smith1 year ago
Complete control over your navigation menus based on screen size including styles and menu items.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Bulk menu creator
Up in the last 7 days:12#5,511by kubiq11 months ago
Create multiple menu items at once or quick delete menu item with or without all subitems
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Navigation Block with Mega Menu
Down in the last 7 days:10#5,584by jetmonsters1 month ago
Build better navigation menus with the WordPress mega menu blocks.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.5(13)
- Downloads
- 19/day

Menubar
Down in the last 7 days:6#6,195by Andrea Tarantini2 months ago
Single and multi-level menus for your WordPress site, styled with customizable menu templates.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 12/day
TW Pagination
Down in the last 7 days:3#6,215by tweetysha11 years ago
TW Pagination is a simple and flexible pagination plugin which provides users with better navigation on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Add menu separators to navigation
Up in the last 7 days:1#7,179by Mark Howells-Mead11 months ago
Allow separator (HR / line) and unlinked, text-only entries in WordPress' classic navigation menus.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Pagebar2
Down in the last 7 days:13#7,296by Lutz Schröer4 years ago
Pagebar adds a nice page bar to your blog posts, multipaged posts and paged comments.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 10/day

Gutenify Mega Menu
Up in the last 7 days:53#7,624by CodeYatri7 days ago
A powerful and customizable mega menu block for WordPress, supporting links, images, and rich block-based layouts.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 40/day
WP-CommentNavi
Down in the last 7 days:7#7,740by Lester Chan3 months ago
Adds a more advanced paging navigation for your comments to your WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day