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

by Dotstore · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 20 other plugins · 58.6K+ installs across the portfolio →

Create and manage menus of any size of your content-heavy wordpress blogs and websites. Simplified search and new comprehensive layout.

How scoring works →
82 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

82 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

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

94 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 76/100
Listing tuning 100/100

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-52% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

257

now · peak 752

25230d downloads · Aug 26

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

Advanced Menu Manage · #9514 you User Menus · #538 Nav Menu Roles · #602 LuckyWP ACF Menu Fie · #3074

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.7Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

630per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

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.

v3.1 59%
v3.2 24%
v3.0 18%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈460

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2017-03-17 · 1,428 observations

400Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. A declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Details

Version
3.2.0
Last updated
1mo ago
Added
2016-04-15 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.2

Recent review vibe

read from the latest 12 reviews to 2024-08-22
Deteriorating Broken updatesPraiseFeature requestsPerformanceOnboardingPricing

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.

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. skunkworks
    2.0y 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
    2.9y 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
    3.8y ago

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

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  4. dima77777
    4.4y 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
    4.6y 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
    5.4y 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
    5.5y 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
    5.7y 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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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

7 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2024-12-11 CVE-2024-54381 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.1.1 Patched in 3.1.2
  2. 2023-11-02 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.0.6 Patched in 3.0.7
  3. 2023-11-02 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 3.0.6 Patched in 3.0.7
  4. 2023-07-18 CVE-2023-33999 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects 3.0.1 - 3.0.5 Patched in 3.0.6
  5. 2022-03-04 CVE-2022-4974 Missing Authorization Affects all versions No patch available
  6. 2021-07-12 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 2.9.6 Patched in 3.0
  7. 2021-07-12 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.0.6 Patched in 3.0.7

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

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

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Dutch (Belgium) 8%

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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