New Nine Menus Manager

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 register_nav_menu 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 register_nav_menu, and it just seems to make sense to be able to create and delete menu locations in the dashboard.

This plugin was built by New Nine Media & Advertising.

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.

Use the WordPress installer; or, download and unzip the files.

For Standard Plugin Installation

Put the folder n9m-menus-manager into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

For Must Use (MU) Installation

If you don’t have a folder called mu-plugins in wp-content, create it.

Put the file n9m-menus-manager.php into the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory.

No Bloat Code

This plugin doesn’t add any JavaScript to your site and only makes one small option in your database.

1. 

   Menus Manager is added to the 'Appearance -> Menus' section of your dashboard. From here, you can create a new menu, view your current menus and ids for use in wp_nav_menu, and delete menus you don't use.

2. 

   You can hide the Menus Manager using the Screen Options twirldown menu. This is great so that you (or your clients) don't accidentally delete menus.