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!

voceplatforms

Jeff Stieler

csloisel

This plugin adds Menus themselves as an item you can put in other Menus as placeholders representing their contents.
When a Menu containing other Menus as items is rendered, the “submenu” item is expanded out into all of its items.

Voce Submenu Items

Nest menus as items to avoid giant navigation menus in your admin.

New Nine Menus Manager vs Voce Submenu Items