patrickposner

Mike McAlister

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<p>Create stunning, content-rich dropdown, mobile, and mega menus using the WordPress block editor and full site editing. <a href="https://olliewp.com/menu-designer" rel="nofollow ugc">Ollie Menu Designer</a> lets you build beautiful dropdown menus and mobile navigation with images, buttons, call-to-actions, and any other blocks – giving you the same creative freedom you have when designing your pages.</p>
<p>Menu Designer puts you in complete control of how your menus look and function. Best of all, if you’re using the <a href="https://olliewp.com/download/" rel="nofollow ugc">free Ollie theme</a>, you’ll get access to a collection of beautifully pre-designed menu templates to help you get started quickly.</p>
<h4>Design Freedom</h4>
<p>Create dropdown menus and mobile menus that match your vision using any WordPress block you can imagine. Whether you need multi-column layouts, featured images and galleries, rich text with custom typography, or buttons and call-to-action elements, Menu Designer gives you complete creative control. You can even include recent posts, product grids, search bars, forms, custom HTML, and literally any other block to build exactly the navigation experience your site needs.</p>
<ul>
<li>Multi-column layouts with images, text, and buttons</li>
<li>Rich content like galleries, forms, and product grids</li>
<li>Complete creative control with any WordPress block</li>
</ul>
<h4>Mobile-First Options</h4>
<p>Your menus look great on every device with Ollie Menu Designer’s mobile-optimized approach. Design custom mobile menu experiences that replace default navigation with beautiful, touch-friendly interfaces. You have complete control over responsive behavior, including the ability to disable dropdowns on mobile with fallback URLs, set custom breakpoints, and ensure optimized performance across all devices.</p>
<ul>
<li>Fast, beautiful mobile menu designs with touch-friendly interactions</li>
<li>Choose from several pre-designed menu patterns</li>
<li>Optimized performance across all devices</li>
</ul>
<h4>Build faster with Ollie</h4>
<p>Get started instantly with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/ollie/" rel="ugc">free Ollie block theme</a>, which comes packed with beautiful pre-designed menu templates and patterns built specifically for Ollie Menu Designer. Instead of starting from scratch, you’ll have access to professionally-crafted mobile menus, dropdown designs, and mega menu layouts that seamlessly integrate with Ollie’s design system. Simply install the theme, browse the menu pattern library, and customize the designs to match your brand – no design experience required.</p>
<ul>
<li>Pre-designed menu templates and patterns included</li>
<li>Seamless integration with Ollie’s design system</li>
<li>Professional designs ready to customize for your brand</li>
</ul>
<h4>Adding Mobile Menus with Ollie Menu Designer</h4>
<p><strong>We’ve created a <a href="https://youtu.be/UXWOafpBn38?t=150" rel="nofollow ugc">full video tutorial</a> on creating mobile menus.</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Navigate to Appearance <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Editor <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Patterns and edit your Header template part</li>
<li>Click the Navigation block</li>
<li>In the Navigation block Settings tab, find the Mobile Menu panel</li>
<li>Click “Create a new one” or select from existing mobile menu templates</li>
<li>Choose from pre-designed Ollie patterns or build custom with blocks</li>
<li>Save your menu and select it in the Mobile Menu panel</li>
<li>Customize background colors and menu icon in the mobile menu settings</li>
</ol>
<h4>Adding Dropdowns and Mega Menus with Ollie Menu Designer</h4>
<p><strong>We’ve created a <a href="https://youtu.be/UXWOafpBn38?t=421" rel="nofollow ugc">full video tutorial</a> on creating drop down and mega menus.</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Navigate to Appearance <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Editor <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Patterns and edit your Header template part</li>
<li>Click Add Block and search for “Dropdown Menu”</li>
<li>Name your dropdown and position it in your navigation</li>
<li>In the Dropdown Menu block Settings tab, find the dropdown menu panel</li>
<li>Click “Create a new one” or select from existing dropdown menu templates</li>
<li>Choose from pre-designed Ollie patterns or build custom with blocks</li>
<li>Save your menu and select it in the dropdown menu panel</li>
<li>Configure additional customization settings</li>
</ol>
<h4>Adding Starter Patterns</h4>
<p>You can create custom starter patterns for menu templates to give users quick starting points for their menus. This is especially useful for theme developers who want to provide pre-designed menu layouts.</p>
<p><strong>How to Add Starter Patterns</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Create a <code>/patterns</code> folder in your theme or plugin directory</li>
<li>Add your pattern files (PHP format) to this folder</li>
<li>
<p>In each pattern file, ensure you include the following in your pattern header:</p>
<p>Block Types: core/template-part/menu</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>This ensures your pattern appears as an option when creating new menu template parts.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.5 or higher</li>
<li>A WordPress block theme like <a href="https://olliewp.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ollie</a> that supports the WordPress navigation block</li>
</ul>


Ollie Menu Designer


I believe this plugin should be integrated into core.


Great work!

Create custom dropdown & mobile menus using WordPress blocks. Design rich, responsive navigation with any block content in the block editor.

alordiel

<p>With this plugin you can create fully configurable dropdown field which select options would work as links and will redirect the user to the selected one. It was originally built for multisite for faster navigation between each sub-site, but currently it also supports custom links as options from the dropdown.</p>
<h4>There are three options:</h4>
<ul>
<li>manually configure the number of the options from the dropdown element – pick up a name of your option and the relevant url where the user will be redirected after choosing it;</li>
<li>get any list of all sites from WordPress Multisite network – this one picks the names of all your sites that are in the multisite network and adds them to the select element;</li>
<li>get the same list as previous one but only with the site where the current logged-in user is registered;</li>
</ul>
<h4>You can manage:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Your label for the name of the select option or leave it without label</li>
<li>Your first select option (‘Select branch’, ‘Select country’, ‘Choose Side’)</li>
<li>Sorting of your custom list (alphabetic sorting + reverse sorting (your last entries will become first in the dropdown))</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you have saved your settings you can see the result using this shortcode [dms] or use the widget.</p>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p>[dms] – Using this shortcode will generate the same dropdown as the one you have configured in the admin settings panel.</p>
<p>[dms_manual name=”” placeholder=”” target=”” options=””] – Use this one your own dropdown that has nothing to do with the settings you have set. The arguments of this shortcode are:<br />
* name – the label of the select option (leave empty for no label)<br />
* placeholder – the first option that is shown in the select menu (like: “–  Select –“)<br />
* target – could be “default” or “blank”. This is the target of the link – “blank” is to be open in new window<br />
* options – name-link pairs, should be placed as : “url1|name1, url2|name2, url3|name3”</p>
<p>An example:<br />
[dms_manual name=”Label” placeholder=”–Select–” target=”blank” options=”Trusted search engine|https://duckduckgo.com, Tracking search engine|https://google.bg”]</p>
<p>If you would more functionality, please contact me to check if I can implement it. Also thanks to everyone giving me hints how to improve this plugin.</p>
<h4>Filters in the code</h4>
<p>Here are some filters that you can use to modify the results from the code:<br />
* <code>dms_sites_arguments</code> – to control the attributes used in the function <code>get_sites()</code> when ‘Show all sites in the WMN’ option is selected.<br />
* <code>dms_multisite_pairs</code> – filter the results returned from <code>get_sites()</code>.<br />
* <code>dms_users_sites</code> – control the sites when ‘Show only the sites where the user is registered’ option is selected.</p>


Dropdown multisite selector

Gives you the resources to make select field with redirecting options to a given URLs.

Ollie Menu Designer vs Dropdown multisite selector