Custom Menu Wizard Widget

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% 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; the previous band took 13 months to cross, which places it about 67% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ lausianne

   3.2y ago

   The plugin fails with PHP 8 (breaking site), and there have been no updates for 5 years … This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by lausianne.

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2. ★★★★★ ugotta

   6.3y ago

   Is the author still maintaining plug-ins? Although no mistakes were found. Compared with other custom menu plug-ins, this is the most powerful menu plug-in I have ever seen. I didn’t understand the usage method for a long time, and almost missed it. In short, it is very powerful. I hope the plug-in author can update and adapt to the WP version

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3. ★★★★★ fpcing

   7.6y ago

   很好用，希望有一个中文版本，I hope it could transla to chinese ,thanks

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4. ★★★★★ matthias.wagner

   7.9y ago

   does what it should 😉

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5. ★★★★★ CyberCobre

   8.0y ago

   Does exactly what it should, how it should, leaving customizing the look to the webmaster. Very, very useful. You can place it anywhere you need a menu in your content, plus customize menus using the widget. Extremely versatile.

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6. ★★★★★ jjbbrr

   8.1y ago

   This is a powerful plugin with excellent configurability. I searched for a long time to find a plugin that could do exactly what I wanted and this is the only one that fit the bill! It has a long range of options but the guide on the WordPress.org page is very comprehensive and covered the settings I was looking for so it was very easy to setup.

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7. ★★★★★ mlipenk

   8.5y ago

   I have a large site with lengthy, often tiered menus. With some digging, this solved my basic problem of not always automatically displaying each and every sibling, or conversely parents and grandparents, at a particular level in the menu. Highly flexible, but also a bit overwhelming. However, the developer is quick to offer help if the documentation doesn’t make sense for you. Many, many thanks to people willing to take the time to develop plugins like this.Sadly, this plugin only works with PHP 7. It will give your site the whitescreen of death if using PHP 8. PHP 7 is end of life and no longer receives security updates, so by virtue Custom Menu Wizard Widget is end of life too. It was a good run for an exceedingly useful plugin! This topic was modified 7 months ago by mlipenk.

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8. ★★★★★ Christina

   8.7y ago

   I love this plugin! I have a variety of child menu items and they are not necessarily child pages. This plugin with a widget allows me to show just the child menu items of the current parent, and if there are no children, it won’t output — it’s perfect. I just donated in the hopes that the developer will update the plugin so it is fresh and more people use it. Here’s my settings: I am getting the current parent title by using the following php: //* Get the menu parent id //* http://pateason.com/wordpress-menu-top-most-parent-id/ function get_menu_parent_id( $menu_name ){ if( ! isset( $menu_name ) ) : return "No menu name provided in arguments"; endif; $menu_slug = $menu_name; $locations = get_nav_menu_locations(); $menu_id = $locations[$menu_slug]; $post_id = get_the_ID(); $menu_items = wp_get_nav_menu_items($menu_id); $parent_item_id = wp_filter_object_list($menu_items,array('object_id'=>$post_id),'and','menu_item_parent'); $parent_item_id = array_shift( $parent_item_id ); function check_for_parent( $parent_item_id, $menu_items ){ $parent_post_id = wp_filter_object_list( $menu_items, array( 'ID' => $parent_item_id ), 'and', 'object_id' ); $parent_item_id = wp_filter_object_list($menu_items,array('ID'=>$parent_item_id),'and','menu_item_parent'); $parent_item_id = array_shift( $parent_item_id ); if( $parent_item_id == '0' ) : $parent_post_id = array_shift($parent_post_id); return $parent_post_id; else: return check_for_parent( $parent_item_id, $menu_items ); endif; } //check_for_parent(); if( !empty( $parent_item_id ) ) : return check_for_parent($parent_item_id,$menu_items); else: return $post_id; endif; } //get Menu label by ID post or parentID from get_menu_parent_ID(); //https://stackoverflow.com/a/26591562/1004312 function get_menu_parent_by_id( $post_id, $menu ) { $menu_title = ''; $nav = wp_get_nav_menu_items( $menu ); foreach ( $nav as $item ) : if ( $post_id == $item->object_id ) : $menu_title = $item->post_title; break; endif; endforeach; return ( $menu_title !== '' ) ? $menu_title : get_the_title( $post_id ); } //* allow shortcode in widget title add_filter( 'widget_title', 'do_shortcode' ); //* menu parent title shortcode function child_theme_parent_menu_title() { $menu_location = 'primary'; $menu_parent_id = get_menu_parent_id( $menu_location ); return get_menu_parent_by_id( $menu_parent_id, $menu_location ); } add_shortcode( 'parent-menu-title', 'child_theme_parent_menu_title' ); This topic was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Christina.

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1 open vulnerability affects the current version (3.3.1). 0 of 1 disclosed are patched.

1. Open Medium · 6.4 Custom Menu Wizard Widget <= 3.3.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2026-09-12 CVE-2026-83532 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.3.1 No patch available

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 58 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Plus 34 more locales with partial translations.

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-06-24 3K+ → 2K+ down after 388 days in tier
2. 2025-06-01 4K+ → 3K+ down after 297 days in tier
3. 2024-08-08 5K+ → 4K+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2024-08-06 4K+ → 5K+ up after 3 days in tier
5. 2024-08-03 5K+ → 4K+ down after 239 days in tier
6. 2023-12-08 6K+ → 5K+ down after 2 days in tier
7. 2023-12-06 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2023-12-05 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier

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Custom Menu Wizard Widget: 2K+ active installs, 4.7★ (49 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/custom-menu-wizard