Nav Menu Manager

Simplifies nav menu maintenance and functionality providing more control over nav menus with less coding.

Nav Menus

• Easily register nav menus via the WordPress admin
• Fail-safe code helps add a layer of protection to the theme
• Disable already registered nav menus that won’t be used on the site
• wp_nav_menu and shortcode generator for quick theme and content implementation
• Improved nav menu sidebar widget for better widgetized menus

Nav Menu Items

• Add a global active class for all active nav menu items
• Exclude default ID attributes from all nav menu items
• Custom fields on nav menu items for ID, query string and/or hash
• For collapse/expand functionality, install Nav Menu Collapse

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From Your WordPress Dashboard

1. Log into the WordPress admin
2. Go to Plugins > Add New
3. Search for Nav Menu Manager
4. Click Install Now for the “Nav Menu Manager” plugin
5. Click Activate

From WordPress.org

1. Download the plugin
2. Log into the WordPress admin
3. Go to Plugins > Add New
4. Click Upload Plugin
5. Click Browse and select the downloaded ZIP file
6. Click Install Now
7. Click Activate Plugin

Via File Transfer

1. Download the plugin
2. Extract the ZIP file
3. Upload the contents of the ZIP file to wp-content/plugins/
4. Log into the WordPress admin
5. Go to Plugins
6. Click Activate under “Nav Menu Manager”

What’s Next?

Once the plugin is active, simply visit Settings > Nav Menu Manager and enable the settings appropriate for this site.

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   Plugin settings

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   Code generator

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   Nav menu item custom fields

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   Improved nav menu widget

3.2.7.1

• Maintenance release

3.2.7

• Fixed: Repeatable nav menus issue

3.2.6

• Fixed: Plugin vulnderability
• Improved: Plugin security
• Verified: Functionality for WordPress 6.8

3.2.5

• Verified: Functionality for WordPress 6.7

3.2.4

• Verified: Functionality for WordPress 6.5

3.2.3

• Verified: Functionality for WordPress 6.2

3.2.2

• Updated: Third-party scripts
• Fixed: Repeatable field indexing issue
• Improved: Query arguments
• Improved: jQuery selectors
• Removed: PHP_INT_MAX fallback

3.2.1

• Improved: Asset generation

3.2.0

• Added: Form data validation

3.1.0

• Added: ID & CSS class(es) fields for nav menu item links
• Added: Support back to WordPress 5.0.*
• Improved: AJAX handling

3.0.3

• Added: AJAX capability checks
• Improved: AJAX buttons
• Improved: Knowledge base
• Improved: Option storage and retrieval
• Removed: Unneeded secondary tab functionality
• Removed: Deprecated jQuery functionality

3.0.2

• Added: Filter hook for active classes
• Added: Help tabs and knowledge base
• Improved: Admin URLs throughout

3.0.1

• Fixed: Missing nav menu widget args

3.0.0

• Improved: Complete plugin overhaul

Check changelog.txt for changes to earlier versions of the plugin.