Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field

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2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Crossed into this band 5 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 61% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Gabor Lippert

   3.7y ago

   All in the title 🙂 Quick addition: as others feedbacked here many years ago, this plugin is a must-have to all developers actively working with ACF – it’s a shame it’s not showing up in the WP plugins earch for the sole reason it hasn’t been updated for a long time.

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2. ★★★★★ Nikola Dimitrijević

   8.0y ago

   It works with 4.9.8, but could use few more options This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Nikola Dimitrijević.

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3. ★★★★★ Sheenmo

   8.4y ago

   Worked perfectly. It took me 5 minutes to install, add menu and output it to a page.

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4. ★★★★★ Yuval

   8.4y ago

   Let’s don’t make any mistakes here – this addon is perfect and needs no changes, that’s why there is nothing to update here. Used it in many sites. Thank you!

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5. ★★★★★ Tracy Rotton

   8.9y ago

   This plugin might be old, but it still works perfectly and does exactly what I needed. No PHP errors, warnings, or notices, either. Running with ACF PRO 5.6.7 and WordPress 4.9.1.

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6. ★★★★★ Darius

   9.0y ago

   Does exactly what it should do

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7. ★★★★★ pitichampi

   9.1y ago

   It works exactly as I need 😉 Easy integration. Now my customer can create a custom menu for pages and select it directly (and dynamicaly) in the pages he needs 🙂 Just for those who could need it, here is the code for the menu (returning an object in my case) : $menu=’footer’; if(get_field(‘menu_footer’)){ $menu=get_field(‘menu_footer’)->slug; } echo wp_nav_menu([“menu” => $menu]);

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8. ★★★★★ Ben Pearson

   10.1y ago

   Thanks very much Faison.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.0.0 Added ACF v5 class. Updated code to follow coding standards Updated the ACF v4 class to use the updated code found in the ACF v5 Class 2.0.0
2. — Version 1.1.2 Fixed a silly mistake related to allowing Null for a Nav Menu Field. Basically, it was storing the string “null” when you don’t select a menu, that’s taken care of now. 1.1.2
3. — Version 1.1.1 I forgot to add a default value for the Menu Container field, so I added ‘div’ as the default value. If you upgraded from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 and had WP_DEBUG enabled, you would receive a warning about an unknown index. Since 1.1.1
4. — Version 1.1.0 Added a field which allows users to choose the containing element for the Menu’s ul. See wp_nav_menu’s container parameter 1.1.0
5. — Version 1.0.0 Initial Release. 1.0.0

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-06-11 9K+ → 8K+ down after 13 days in tier
2. 2026-05-29 8K+ → 9K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2026-05-27 9K+ → 8K+ down after 197 days in tier
4. 2025-11-11 10K+ → 9K+ down after 2007 days in tier
5. 2020-05-14 20K+ → 10K+ down after 422 days in tier
6. 2019-03-19 10K+ → 20K+ up after 1088 days in tier
7. 2016-03-26 8K+ → 10K+ up after 203 days in tier
8. 2015-09-05 6K+ → 8K+ up

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Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field: 8K+ active installs, 5.0★ (33 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/advanced-custom-fields-nav-menu-field