Advanced Menu Manager Pro – Built for Content-heavy WordPress Sites to Add, Filter, Lock, and Edit Menus Easily

Early reviewers loved how much easier it made big menus, but the newest ones say the free version is buggy, does little on its own, and wants to phone home before it'll run.

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

41 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 10 listed. 31 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 24% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 66% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ skunkworks

   2.2y ago

   Plugin refused to “Activate” (with the author) despite being Activated in WordPress just fine. A free plugin shouldn’t need to activate with it’s developer in any way shape or form just to run in a free mode. Couldn’t do anything at all with the plugin except for uninstall it.

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2. ★★★★★ dawidt

   3.1y ago

   Free version doing almost nothing more than WordPress built-in menu feature. Bugged, also critical one. This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by dawidt.

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3. ★★★★★ Patrick

   3.9y ago

   Been looking for something like for a while, makes handling a large menu so much easier!

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4. ★★★★★ dima77777

   4.5y ago

   This looks like an alpha version of plugin. Idea is good, but a lot of bugs and it just did not work. I wanted to add pages by author or by category and it was loading, loading and actually did nothing. You should find better developers and QA.

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5. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   4.8y ago

   I have hundreds of pages that I needed to make a menu with. The WordPress inbuilt functionality is quite terrible. This plugin did make that job a little easier. However, it could have been much, much better. The daunting task ahead of me was selecting many, many pages for the menu. The main page and most of its children were thankfully right next to each other in the plugin’s selection structure. All I had to was click each and every page to add it to my menu, one by one. No easy shortcuts for this plugin! The plugin got the job done-ish in a fraction of the time it would have with just the WordPress functionality. You may have noticed the “Most of its Children” part. Yes, the alphabetical listing of child pages sometimes just left off some of the pages around below the letter T. A quirk of the search? No! I wasn’t even searching. When bulk adding to the menu, sometimes I’d have pages that started with W, sometimes not. Also, adding more pages to these menus after the initial selection was impossible. I tried every button I could and never figured it out. Just go to the WordPress menu system to do those updates for T-Z pages. While you’re there, use the WordPress Menu drag and drop interface for rearranging the pages into the parent and child structure. Not only does the plugin not bring those relationships into your menu, the plugin sometimes messes up the settings for parent and child relationships in the menu after you save.

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6. ★★★★★ nigelfish

   5.6y ago

   The free version saved me hours of work, and its very easy to use! I have hundreds of pages and the standard WP search is pretty useless, but the search on this plugin is great. Being able to hide existing menu items is especially useful. What would be an improvement would be to use the plugin to be able to manage pages. I have redesigned my entire site and have lots of old published pages, being able to view published pages that are not an existing menu item, and then be able to make them draft or delete would be a great tool!

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7. ★★★★★ oechai

   5.6y ago

   So the plugin is very useful for me, as i need to custom arrange the sequence of the menu, and this plugin really helps!

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8. ★★★★★ spsdelsureste

   5.9y ago

   Even in free mode, the company gives you technical support of very good quality, the plugin works very well and with technical service. highly recommended, the premium is worth purchasing.

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1 open vulnerability affects the current version (3.2.0). 6 of 7 disclosed are patched.

1. Patched Medium · 4.3 Advance Menu Manager <= 3.1.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Change ↗
   2024-12-11 CVE-2024-54381 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.1.1 Patched in 3.1.2
2. Patched Medium · 4.3 Advance Menu Manager <= 3.0.6 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2023-11-02 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.0.6 Patched in 3.0.7
3. Patched Medium · 4.3 Advance Menu Manager <= 3.0.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2023-11-02 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 3.0.6 Patched in 3.0.7
4. Patched Medium · 6.1 Freemius SDK <= 2.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get ↗
   2023-07-18 CVE-2023-33999 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects 3.0.1 - 3.0.5 Patched in 3.0.6
5. Open Medium · 6.3 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks ↗
   2022-03-04 CVE-2022-4974 Missing Authorization Affects all versions No patch available
6. Patched High · 8.8 Advanced Menu Manager <= 2.9.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Menu Edition ↗
   2021-07-12 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 2.9.6 Patched in 3.0
7. Patched Medium · 5.4 Advanced Menu Manager <= 3.0.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Menu Creation/Deletion ↗
   2021-07-12 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.0.6 Patched in 3.0.7

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-06-29 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
2. 2026-06-27 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2026-06-24 500+ → 400+ down after 30 days in tier
4. 2026-05-25 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2026-05-23 500+ → 400+ down after 235 days in tier
6. 2025-09-30 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-09-29 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2025-09-28 600+ → 500+ down after 4 days in tier

Competes with

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Advanced Menu Manager Pro – Built for Content-heavy WordPress Sites to Add, Filter, Lock, and Edit Menus Easily: 400+ active installs, 3.7★ (22 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/advance-menu-manager