Joe Ponzio

The New Nine Menus Manager adds a section to the ‘Appearance -> Menus’ section of your dashboard so you can quickly and easily create and delete menu locations on the fly.
Why? Because we’re tired of jumping back and forth between our functions file and the dashboard. Because we’re tired of writing <code>register_nav_menu</code> over and over again every time we start a new site.
And because there seems to be a disconnect here – just about every site needs to have a navigation menu, there are no configuration options for <code>register_nav_menu</code>, and it just seems to make sense to be able to create and delete menu locations in the dashboard.
This plugin was built by <a href="http://www.newnine.com/" title="New Nine Media & Advertising" rel="nofollow ugc">New Nine Media & Advertising</a>.
Single Site & Network Compatible
The New Nine Menus Manager works on both individual sites and WordPress Networks.
MU Compatible
The plugin is also Must Use compatible for both single sites and network installations.

New Nine Menus Manager

Register new menu locations right from the menu screen. Never write register_nav_menu again and keep your functions file clean!

STOP! Before using this older version of the plugin, check out <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/font-awesome-4-menus/" rel="ugc">the new Font Awesome 4 Menus for WordPress</a>!
Seriously… 
Seriously – we’re not supporting this anymore. If you’re starting fresh, use our new plugin (above). If you’re upgrading, make sure you make note of the differences between the old i class codes and the new ones. Any issues that were found in this plugin have been addressed in the new version, and we’ve added a ton of new functionality too!
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/font-awesome-4-menus/" rel="ugc">Go to the new Font Awesome 4 Menus for WordPress</a>
Back to the old plugin notes…
Add Font Awesome icons to your WordPress menus without touching a single line of code! With this plugin, just add icon-(icon name) as a class to your menu and the plugin will put that icon into your menu before the text!
With Font Awesome Menus, you have access to the old Font Awesome 3.2 library throughout your site. With the included shortcode, you can also add icons to pages, posts, custom post types, widgets – anywhere you want them!
In your menus…
Want to add a home icon to the “home” link on your menu? Just add:
<pre><code>icon-home
</code></pre>
as a class in your menu and the icon will be inserted before the text.
In your posts/pages
Want that home icon to show up in a post or page or custom post type? Use the shortcode:
<pre><code>[icon name=icon-home]
</code></pre>
and voila!
In your theme
Because Font Awesome is available throughout your site, use it in other parts of your theme too! Want that home icon hardcoded into your footer? Here you go:
<pre><code>
</code></pre>
It’s all there, baby
You can also use any and all of the code options and styles on the Font Awesome website. See more examples at <a href="http://fontawesome.io/examples/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://fontawesome.io/examples/</a>

Font Awesome Menus

STOP! Before using this plugin, check out our new Font Awesome 4 Menus for WordPress!

New Nine Menus Manager vs Font Awesome Menus