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PDF Menu Linker is a small admin-only plugin that makes it easy to add and manage PDF links in navigation menus.
It adds a dedicated PDFs panel to Appearance → Menus, and a Replace PDF control on PDF menu items, so you can swap files without recreating menu items or touching URLs manually.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>PDFs panel on the Menus screen – Select a PDF from the Media Library and add it directly to any navigation menu.</li>
<li>Automatic link text and title – Link Text and Link Title fields default from the PDF filename (without the extension), and can be edited before adding.</li>
<li>One-click Add to Menu – Creates a standard custom menu item that opens the PDF in a new tab, using WordPress core menu APIs.</li>
<li>Replace PDF on existing items – For custom links that point to a <code>.pdf</code>, a Replace PDF button appears next to the URL field so you can change the file without changing labels.</li>
<li>Native WordPress UX – Uses WordPress’ Media Library, menu editor, styling, permissions, and nonces. No custom tables or front‑end changes.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
<li>A user role with permission to manage menus (typically users who can <code>edit_theme_options</code>).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Add a new PDF menu item</h4>
<ol>
<li>In the WordPress admin, go to Appearance → Menus.</li>
<li>Ensure a menu is selected (or create one and save it).</li>
<li>In the Add menu items column, open the PDFs panel.</li>
<li>Click Select PDF and choose a file from the Media Library (PDFs only).</li>
<li>Optionally adjust Link Text and Link Title.</li>
<li>Click Add to Menu.</li>
<li>A new Custom Link pointing at the PDF will appear at the bottom of the menu structure and will open in a new tab on the front end.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Replace the PDF for an existing menu item</h4>
<ol>
<li>In Appearance → Menus, locate a Custom Link whose URL ends with <code>.pdf</code>.</li>
<li>Expand the menu item.</li>
<li>Click Replace PDF next to the URL field.</li>
<li>Choose a new PDF from the Media Library and confirm.</li>
<li>The URL field updates to the new PDF, while Navigation Label and Title Attribute remain unchanged.</li>
</ol>

PDF Menu Linker

Quickly add and manage PDF links in WordPress navigation menus via a dedicated PDFs panel.

Brandon

Now with shortcodes and post/custom-post-type support, as well as a comprehensive admin interface for setting plugin defaults
WordPress Access Control is a plugin designed to integrate into membership sites where certain pages, posts and custom post types should only be available to members of the site. The plugin offers fine tuned features for this purpose, including the ability to set site wide defaults and override these on a per-page basis.
You can easily set a page to be accessible only by members of your site, or even a specific role. You can also set pages to be accessible only to non-members of your site, useful for registration pages.
By default, you can add Members only pages to your menus, and users who cannot access them (non-members) won’t be able to see them. This applys to the children of a menu item as well, making it easy to build a separate menu for your members.
Additionally, you have the ability to customize search pages, completely hiding posts/pages from search results if a user can’t access them, showing search results without an excerpt, or showing search results normally.
New Features in 4.0
Enhanced theme compatiblity! We now have a much smaller impact on sites due to a new way of implementing our nav walker code. This should significantly improve compatability with third party themes.
New Features in 3.1
<ul>
<li>You can add member only versions of each menu on your site (Only when using WordPress menus)</li>
<li>You can make certain widgets only visible to members or non-members.</li>
</ul>
Translators: The POT file is included with the plugin and all text output uses gettext functions. Alternatively, you may download the POT file from http://brandonwamboldt.ca/files/wordpress-access-control.pot.
Documentation: The plugin includes comprehensive documentation file accessible via the plugin directory

WordPress Access Control

Yeah..thats good plugin. solve my issue with menu access



Better plugin...for me

Restrict pages, posts, custom post types, menus and widgets to members, nonmembers or specific roles and still add to navigation

PDF Menu Linker vs WordPress Access Control