wizzud

This plugin enables a Custom Menu to “include” any other Custom Menu, so groups of items that get repeated across multiple menus can be defined just once and then included into any other menu at will.
If you have a set of menu items that you repeat across several menus, it can be a bit of a pain when 
one of that set needs updating and you have to go through all your menus changing each one.
This plugin allows you to define the subset of items as a separate menu, and then include that menu 
into any other menu. If you then need to maintain one of the items in the subset, you only need to update 
one menu, and the change automatically gets reflected in all the other menus that include that subset!
It’s as easy to use as adding a Post, Page, Category or Tag to your menu…
With the plugin activated, go to your Menus page in admin. 
As well as being able to add Posts, Categories, etc, to your menu, you should now see a metabox for 
Navigation Menus which has checkboxes for each of your defined Menus (if you don’t see the metabox, 
check your Screen Options settings at the top of the page). 
All you need to do is create your submenu (as you would any other menu), 
open the menu you want to insert the new submenu into, 
select the submenu from the Navigation Menus metabox, 
Add it, 
and position it. 
Save and you’re done!
The inserted Menu replaces the Navigation Menu item in the menu. You can insert multiple instances of the 
same submenu into one menu, and you can include a submenu into as many other menus as you need.
<h4>Perpetual Loops</h4>
The one thing that the plugin guards against is getting into a never-ending loop : it won’t prevent you 
setting one up (see FAQs as to why), but it will not output any submenu that has itself as an antecedent.
For example, you can set up menus such that Menu A includes Menu B, which includes Menu C. Fine, no problem. 
However, if you were to also add Menu B into Menu C as a Navigation Menu item, 
then no matter which menu you choose to output, you have a potential loop 
(… B, includes C, includes B, includes C, … and so on).
If WP_DEBUG is enabled, the plugin will print a warning wherever it has taken action to prevent a loop condition. 
This behaviour can be changed by hooking into a filter (see FAQs).
<h4>Frontend Only</h4>
The plugin only performs the menu replacement at the frontend of WordPress (ie. not on Admin pages). 
This behaviour can be changed by hooking into a filter (see FAQs), 
but please ensure that you do not enable it for the Menus admin page!

Menu In Menu

This is so useful and I was surprised that this didn't already exist in core. Thanks for building it!

Awesome! Should be in core WordPress

Place one Custom Menu inside another Custom Menu

HelgaTheViking

This plugin lets you hide custom menu items based on user roles. So if you have a link in the menu that you only want to show to logged in users, certain types of users, or even only to logged out users, this plugin is for you.
Nav Menu Roles is very flexible. In addition to standard user roles, you can customize the functionality by adding your own check boxes with custom labels using the <code>nav_menu_roles</code> filter and then using the <code>nav_menu_roles_item_visibility</code> filter to check against whatever criteria you need. You can check against any user meta values (like capabilities) and any custom attributes added by other plugins.
<h4>IMPORTANT NOTE</h4>
In WordPress menu items and pages are completely separate entities. Nav Menu Roles does not restrict access to content. Nav Menu Roles is only for showing/hiding nav menu items. If you wish to restrict content then you need to also be using a membership plugin.
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to Appearance > Menus</li>
<li>Set the “Display Mode” to either “logged in users”, “logged out users”, or “everyone”. “Everyone” is the default.</li>
<li>If you wish to customize by role, set the “Display Mode” to “Logged In Users” and under “Restrict menu item to a minimum role” check the boxes next to the desired roles. Keep in mind that the role doesn’t limit the item strictly to that role, but to everyone who has that role’s capability. For example: an item set to “Subscriber” will be visible by Subscribers and by admins. Think of this more as a minimum role required to see an item. </li>
</ol>
<h4>Support</h4>
Support is handled in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nav-menu-roles" rel="ugc">WordPress forums</a>. Please note that support is limited and does not cover any custom implementation of the plugin. Before posting, please read the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/nav-menu-roles/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a>. Also, please verify the problem with other plugins disabled and while using a default theme.
Please report any bugs, errors, warnings, code problems to <a href="https://github.com/helgatheviking/nav-menu-roles/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>

Nav Menu Roles

good plugins do one job well, this is a good plugin

works well

We've been using this plugin on a number of sites for several years and have found it to be 100% reliable. Being able to show or hide menu items based on roles is essential for some sites so this plugin has been a life-saver.
The author is still supporting the plugin and responds to support queries too.
Thanks Helga!

Reliable and essential plugin


This plugin is great, does exactly what it is supposed to do. Great job, thank you!


Easy to use, simply works!


I tried a few other plugins before getting to this one.  Before starting I had an idea of the UI I wanted, and none had it until this one.  This plugin has exactly the right about of UI to do what I need.


Exactly what I wanted

Hide custom menu items based on user roles.

Menu In Menu vs Nav Menu Roles